Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-11-03
CURRENT NEWS.
Noble Work Of MemphiaBs in st.
L5His-Tke Committee Dis
banded; and the Mems
bers Returning
Home.
Relief for Memphis at Various Points
Mexican NeWs-Indian Matters
Salt Lake Items.

TiltOn's Expulsion from Plymouth
Church-Charles Bradlaugh-
Accidents, Incidents,
Etc, Etc.
Dangerous Illness Of Mrs. Edwin 81
Stanton.
PHILADELPHIA, November 1.--Mrs
Edwin M. Stanton lies in a precariOus
condition at her residence in German
town.
Chinese Hegira.
SAN FRANCISCO, November 1.-About
five hundred Chinese left on the steamer
! Colorado for their native country to-day
Amongst them were twenty-sever
women recently imported.
Relief for Memphis odd Fellows.
TORONTO, ONT, November 1.-The
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
throughout Ontario are contributing
literally to aid their brethren in Mem.
phis.
Charles BradIaHRh.
BOSTON, November Charles Brad.
laugh was the guest of the Massachusetts
club at dinner to-day. Among those
present,were Vice-President Wilson and
Senator Summer.
WOrkmen Discharged.
BANGOR, Me, November 2.-Quite q
number of workmen in the iron-wOrks
in this city have been discharged on &C.
count of slack work, various other man.
ufacturers intend to reduce their work
ing forces.
Accidentally Killed.
| CAIRO, ILL, November 1.-Elijah
Francis, an old man in the employ OF
| the coal mining company, was killed at
MurphysborO, Illinois, this afternoon, by
his team running away and throwing
him out, breaking his neck. He leaves
a wife and family.
Naval Matters.
SAN FRANCISCO, November Rear
Admiral ParrOtt sailed for China to-day,
to take command of the Asiatic squad
ron. Major John L. Gamble, of this
city, chief of the supply department of
the Weston Union telegraph company,
has received the appointment of 9e1re-
tary to the admiral.
Rich Mine Developments.
SAN FRANCISCO, November Re
ports from Belmont, Nevada, tonight
say there is intense excitement in that
place over developments in Belmont
mine of ledge ten feet wide and two
hundred and seventy-five feet long. The
ore yields from one thousand dollars to
three thousand dollars per ton.
Theodore TIItOn.
NEW YORK, November Theodore
Tilton, in conversation with a reporter,
said that he regarded the statement that
he had been expelled from the member
ship of Plymouth church by the action
of last evening as defamatory and false.
Two points he wished all mankind to
understand: First, that he had never
spoken against Henry Ward Beecher;
and, second, that he had not been ex-
PEELED from Plymouth church.
salt Lake POIities-ReIief for Memphis
Police.
SALT LAKE, November IA petition
to congress is receiving signatures set
ting forth facts and abuses of Mormon
rule, and praying for the passage of laws
to give memorialists the protection of a
civil government, and that will bring
Utah in harmony with federal authority
and republican institutions. A mass
meeting was held here last night on this
subject.
TheIpolice of this city have contributed
toward the relief fund for the distressed
OF Memphis.
Memphians Returning Home.
ST. LOUIS, November 2.-The Mem
phis absentees who have been collect
ing funds here, for the sufferers in that
city, for the past week, abandoned their
organization last night, their
efforts in that direction being no longer
necessary, their collections have
amounted to nearly five thousand dol
lars, exclusive of the various articles
which will be raffled at concert to be
given tomorrow night under direction
of a number OF the first ladies of the
city, which is expected will yield q
handsome sum. Most of the absentees
here leave for home tomorrow.
The Indians.
WASHINGTON, November 1. - The
delegation of Otoe Indian chiefs who
have been here for several days, had an
other conference with the commissioner
of Indian affairs this evening. They have
agreed to sell half of their reservation,
comprising about eighty thousand acres
in Nebraska. The purchase of which
was provided for by the last congress,
and they intimated that they are willing
to sell the remainder and emigrate if
a suitable reservation is given them else
where.
a delegation of ArapahOe and Chey-
enne chiefs have arrived here to arrange
for a change of the lines of their reser-
walton, wishing TO surrender large tract
Of land and take another in the Indian
Territory. They had preliminary talk
to-day with the commissioner, which as
usual, consisted on their part of cere-
monial expression of their opinion of
the weather, and their satisfaction of
being allowed to visit the great father. |
Mexican News.
New ORLEANS, November 1.-Hon. |
Thomas H. Nelson, eX-United States |
IA mister to Mexico, and Mr.. William |
Barrow, their families, and large par
5y from the City of Mexico, arrived by |
the steamer Andear yesterday, from /
Vera Cruz. A number of prominent /
merchants called on Mr.. Nelson at the
St. Charles hotel last evening. He |
gives glowing account of the climate,
soil and mineral wealth of Mexico, and /
al thN1ldNiOI llOll Allt
chants exchange of the City of Mexico
10 the chamber of commerce of New
Orleans for a delegation to visit that
,ity, an excursion for this purpose hav-
ng been arranged by United States
John w. Foster, to leave here
ly the first steamer of Alexander & Sons
new line for Vera Cruz, about the fif-
zenith of November; thence by rail to
~ II Tnlu =
larty left by a special train for Louis
lille.
ChOeeaw Items.
CADDo, IND. TER, November L.
rhe CbOctaw legislative council has Just
adjourned after an exciting session OF
lbOut four weeks. In the treaty of 1866
congress agreed to give the ChOctaws
hree hundred thousand dollars for q
"trip of country known as the 'leased
listrict,n provided the Choctaws would
githin two years adopt into the nation
lud make citizens of about three thou
and negroes formerly slaves of the
yhOctaWs, and give forty acres Of land
o each individual. The time expired
Without action being taken, and from
'Ouncil to council the government has
the time. This money, with L
interest, now amounts to more than four
hundred thousand dollars, yet SO strong
5 their prejudice, or fear Of sectionizing
nd allotting their lands, that they have
gain refused to pass the act of adop-
ion. This is fiat refusal on the
art of the nation to do justice to
hese colored people who are attached
0 their homes and native land when
be government is willing to pay them
0 generously for that just act. 1t is
afe to say that each one of these men