Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-01
General sherman DenOunees the Scheme
to Release Santata and Tree
Spotted Fever Among Horses
on Ceney Island.
The freely Statue Fund-$S09,0 900 at
the Bottom Of the Mcdonald Extra
dItIOn-NeW York Weekly
Bank Statement.
Funeral OF the Late Mrs. NellsOn-Wh This.
Ky Frauds In New Orleans-MIss
Stebbins's Bethesda Fountain
in Central Park-Mis.
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! NEW YORK, May 3l.-A Washington
! dispatch says the report that General
Davis has allowed any portion of the
surrendered MOdocs to be armed and
sent in pursuit of Captain Jack is
wholly discredited by the secretary of
war, and army officers generally. Self
respect would prevent him from engag-
! ing murderers to do work assigned sol
diers. The announcement is also made
from Washington that the war depart
ment condemns the efforts ofthe interior
department to get Big Tree released.
! General Sherman is very plain in his
denunciation of the scheme.
| Spotted fever is what affects the COney
! Island railway cOmpany's horses.
Rev. MIR. Behrends, pastor of the Bap-
tist church, at Yonkers, New York, has
resigned. to accept call from the First
Baptist church, Cleveland, Ohio,
Whitelaw Reid acknowledges to SUBJ
scriptions through him to the Greeley
statue fund of ten thousand six hundred
and eighty-three dollars.
The steamship George Cromwell, from
this port for New Orleans on the seven
teenth instant, is nearly a week over
due.
An effort is making to effect a settle
ment with the creditors of the late bank
ing house of Bowles Brothers by pay
ment Of fifty per cent. of indebtedn ess
free of expense to creditors.
1t is said that 8 reward Of nearly three
hundred thousand dollars is dependent
on the extradation of mcdonnell, the al
legged bank of England forger, and in
whose behalf two writs of hd6eGS corpus
had been obtained.
The following is the bank statement:
Loans, decrease, S1S8, $50; specie, de-
crease, 81 l5O,6O0; legal tenders, increase,
81, ,574, 400; net deposits, decrease, ST.
625, 500; circulation, decrease, S47, 700.
Judge Sedgewick gave an important
decision on the coal contract case in the
general term to-day. II. c. Bowen and
others contracted with the Delaware
and Lackawanna coal company for a
supply of coal. After few tons were
delivered a strike took place at the
mines, delivery was interrupted, and
Bowen refused to pay for what he had
received. The company brought suit,
pleading the terms of the contract, and
that the storm disaster and strikes ex-
empted them from the strict fulfillment
Of the contract, and the referee decided
in their favor To-day the general term
reversed the decision of the superior
court, deciding that the strike set up by
the company was not such as meant in
the contract, having been brought on by
the plaintiffs themselves.
The funeral of Mrs. Nelson, daughter
Io4,
to-day from Grace church, Rev. DIR.
Patton, rector, officiating. There was a
very large attendance of relatives and
friends of the family.
A telegram from Boston states that
during the excitement attending the
fire yesterday package of eight Chi |
cago, Burlington and Quincy seven per !
cent. bonds new issue, numbered from |
205S to 2065, were lost or stolen. The |
negotiation of the bonds has been
stopped.
A Washington dispatch says that last
evening about eight o'clock, James Bu-
chanan, colored, while in dispute with
another party, accidentally shot his
wife, inflicting fatal wound. Buchan-
an was arrested.
A New Orleans correspondent, writing
about the whisky frauds in that CITY,
shows by facts and figures that whisky
which pays tax cannot be manufacture
ed in New Orleans at the present prices
without considerable loss, for the excel
lent reason that all the materials must
be brought from a distance, and pay
high rates of transportation. Neverthe-
less, whisky is extensively made there.
In two years there has been a falling off
of fifty-sIX thousand barrels in the re-
ceipts of western whisky at New Or
leans. Yet, there has been at the same
time an increase in the quantity sold in
the New Orleans market. Notwith-
standing which, the government collects
tax upon the manufacture of only about
eighteen thousand barrels, showing
that two out Of every three pay no tax.
The board of excise have classified Ii
censes into five grades. First-class ho-
tells and bar-rooms will pay two hundred
and fifty dollars a year; secOnd-class
hotels and restaurants, one hundred and
fifty dollars; saloons where liquor is sold
and drank on the premises, one hundred
dollars; where liquor is sold in quanti-
ties less than five gallons, such as drug
stores, sixty dollars; ale and beer sa-
looms, thirty dollars.
William A. Wait, cashier of the Glen
Falls bank, visited the district-attorney's
Office to-day, and identified the bonds
stolen from his bank. He then made
the necessary affidavit, so that Brady
may be indicted by the grand jury for
bringing stolen property in the county.
Seven years in the State prison is the
penalty, upon conviction.
Rev. r. s. Nevin, rector of st. Pauls
Episcopal church of Rome, is in this
city, and desires twenty-five thousand
dollars needed to complete the first
American and first Protestant church |
edifice in Rome. Americans in Rome |
have already contributed twenty thou |
sand, and thirty-eight thousand have |
been subscribed in this country.
Bethesda fountain, the latest glory of |
Central park, was publicly unveiled this |
afternoon in the presence of a very large |
number of citizens. This work of art |
was from mOulds designed and executed |
at Rome by Miss. Emma Stebbens, |
daughter of Henry G.. Stebbens, presi- |
dent of the board of park commissioners. !
The design of the fountain was suggest |
ed to Miss Stebbens by the passage in |
scripture describing the pool of Bethes- |
da.
The United States circuit court of Con-
necticut issued a subpoena for George |
Francis Train, to testify in credit mo-
bilier suits, but he sailed for Europe be-
fore the warrant could be served. He
goes to Stuttgardt to meet his wife and |
children.
The Brooklyn Eagle says Mr.. Beeeher |
and his friends have determined to take |
definite action on the whole matter of
the Bowen n-Tilton-Beecher scandal, and |
that at a meeting of the deacons of |
Plymouth church, Friday evening, it |
was resolved to proceed at once with the |
investigation. Mr.. Bowen is said now
to be in Indianapolis.
TELEGRAMS.