Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-19
The North Carolina Bond Question
Reyerdy JOhnsOn's Decision
Case of Yellow Fever.
The Bones Of our Revolutionary Sires
Buried Again-Dana; Ofthe Sun,
Sued for Libel-Em-
bezZlement.
The Sea Gives Up its Dead-Change in
the Treasury Department-The
Vienna FailUres-Ring
COnspiraeiess

! New YORK, June Isl. E. Van Do
rer, son of Rev. l.. II. Van Doren, OF
! Boonton, New Jersey, who has been
missing some eight months, has turned
up. A letter has been received from
him, dated Rotterdam, in which he says
he left his home in Brooklyn for days
cunning. While ducking near Fire Is
land, his boat was capsized and his COM
panion drowned. Clinging to the bot
tom of the upturned boat, he drifted out
TO sea, and on the following morning,
when almost exhausted, he was picked
up by a Swedish bark bound for BuenOs
Ayres. When fifty-fOur days out the
Swede boarded a British bark bound
i from the Pacific for Rotterdam, and all
consenting, young Van DOren was trans
ferred and carried to Rotterdam, from
which place he proposes to sail immedi-
ately to meet his wife and child in
1 Brook IN, who have mOurned him for
dead several months.
The fire-underwriters to-day appoint
ed committee to confer with the au-
! thorities of Boston in relation to an in
creased water-supply and an improved
apparatus for that city, and referred to
the executive committee the subject of
the peril to underwriters in Atlanta.
This afternoon the planning and saw
ing-mill of Francis Mott, on West street
near Morton, was destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at fifty thousand
dollars.
/ Ex-senator William NJ. Graham was
indicted on the charge of having en-
bezzled four hundred thousand dollars of
the ,funds of Waikiki New York. na-
Gonal bank, and was arraigned to-day
and pleaded not guilty. He was re-
Randed to Ludlow street jail.
A jury in the case of Sharkey, on
trial for murder, was obtained to-day.
Mrs. Dunn, widow of the murdered
man, was among the visitors in the
court.
The Express says that by blunder the
proposed constitution for this State
| abOlishes the senate.
1t is authOritatively reported to-day
/ that one of the new ring indictments is
1 for conspiracy against Thomas COwan,
John IngersOll and Michael Norton, old
! courthouse commissioners, and that JO-
seph B. Young, ex-clerk Of the board Of
supervisors, is included among those
/ whose names are not made known.
The rumor is revived in Wall street
4 that Judge Richardson is about TO re-
sign the Secretary of the treasury of the
United States, in order to become a resi-
dent partner, at Paris, of a New York
and Paris banking house.
The shipment to-day of specie was
| six hundred and fifty thousand dollars
| ia silver bars. The government sold
/ five hundred thousand bonds to-day at
! lis. 40 To 1852.
| TheGerman mail brings some particu-
/ lars of the recent failure, at Vienna, OF
the well known banking house of Bran
| dies & Weikersheim, who suspended in
! tie early part of June with liabilities Of
| ~ million fiorins. The cause of this
| failure was the liberal advances to Turk
ish, Egyptian, and other railways in
| process of construction. The firm
offered to pay fifty per cent. cash, which
was not accepted, and the creditors con-
sented to a delay of twenty days for
another offer.
A defalcation of five hundred thou
sand forms in the credit anstalt, of
! Vienna, caused a1empOrary depression
on the bOurse.
The late grand jury in the court Of
over and terminer found an indictment
! for libel against Charles a. Dana, of the
| Sun, on complaint of VIM. II. Kemble,
who had him indicted in Philadelphia.
/ Dana claims to be able to prove his al
legations against Kemble.
i Ex- Sheriff Jas O'Brien has declined to
! go further with the investigation Of his
claims against the city, on the alleged
1 ground that even if the commission
should audit them Comptroller Greene
would object on the ground that the
commission was not legal, and refuse TO
paw even under mandamus.
The corners jury rendered verdict OF
suicide in the case Of Susan O'Neil, and
her husband, who was accused of throw
/ ing her from window, was discharged
| from custody.
Two hundred and forty MOrmOns from
England left to-day for Utah.
Judge Benedict ruled out the demurrer
made to the indictment of George +.
Dunning for embezzling one. hundred
and fifteen thousand dollars from the
| sub-treasury, on the ground that it was
! drawn under a repealed act Of congress.
The Judge held that both the act of 1898
and that OF 1866, which supercedes II,
| cover the offense, there being simply
difference in penalties.
James Ennis died yesterday frOm vel
| low fever, in tenement house, No. 10
! State street, Brooklyn.
The Vienna bankers reported to fail
| Yesterday were DiaskOvitZ q Co, whose
! liabilities are placed at ten million. no
/ rims. Assets not stated. 1t is believed
| that they have no business connections
| in America. These statements rest on
alleged private cable dispatches, ana
may be a reiteTation OF the failure
which occurred sometime ago.
Ex-Revenue Collector Sheridan Shook
was mulcted in the United States circuit
court of three thousand two hundred
and forty-One dollars for whisky With
drawn from bond by Simon Frank,
which proved to belong to Geo. H. Ran
dali
At meeting Of the North Carolina
special tax bondholders to-day an opin-
| ion from ReyeTdy johnson was read, to
the effect that the bonds are binding
upon the State, and that the holders can
enforce their collection and the interest
| through the United States courts. He
/ would undertake the case for a fee in
hand of five thousand dollars and an ad-
ditional twelve thousand If the suit ter
inmates successfully, either in the court
or by compromise. The meeting re-
solued That the bondholders present
| subscribe pro rata their share Of the ex-
4 penses, and to request lhose not III at
tendance to send in their assent and
subscriptions, that the sui.s may be be-
| gun as soon as possible.
| The bones Of the martyrs OF the prison.
ship, which were gathered up by the
| Tammany society in loOo and placed IN
a tomb on Hudson avenue, Brooklyn,
were removed last night to the new
| tomb in Washington park.
At Columbus, Ohio, two men who
persisted in keeping their saloons open
last Sunday, in violation of the Sunday
ordinance were yesterday fined fifty dol
lars and costs, and committed to jail un-
iii paid. Soon after the prominent
liquor men rallied and had both men
released on hlEbeaS corpus. The cases
come up for hearing to-day. AS these
are test eases, much interest IS felt ia the
decision. Saloon men say II the cases are
| decided against them they will obey the
SUNDAY ordinance without any further
trouble.
| The national association OF millers
4 was in session ct Toledo, Ohio, yester-
day. Many important question peril
nent to the handling Of grain snd man
ufacture of hour was discussed.