Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-09

stock in the BischOffsheim interest wa
voted for the following ticket
which secured its election: Samue
ID. Babcock, George H. Brown
Herman r. Baltzer, Samuel L. NJ. Bar
low, w. Butler Duncan, Giles Hotch
kiss, William T. Hart, Adrian Isden
Juel Taylor Johnston, Henry L. Ian.
sing, Edwin d. Morgan, Cortland Par
ker, Homer RamsdeH, Lucins Robin
son, Frederick Schirehardt, William NJ
| Shippen, Peter Fl. Watson. All excep
the following five of these are on ths
present directory: George II. Brown
| president of the New York, Boston anC
/ Montreal railroad. Giles Hotchkiss
ex-member Of congress from Bingham
| ton; William L. Hart, president of tht
Boston, Hartford and Erie railroad
Edwin Isden, Swiss banker, and I4uciu.
| Robinson, of Elmira, ex-eomptroller c
the State. No dividends were declared
| The annual statement of the Erie
railway company shows its funded deb
to be fifty-four million one hum
dred and fifty thousand dollars
| The capital stock is the same as last
year. The present floating debt is one
! hundred and seventy thousand dollars
the reduction since last July is four nil.
lion seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. A full report of the affairs Of
this company, including the earnings
| for the first six months OF the present
year, is deferred until the end of Au-
gust next.
The engagements of specie for to-
mOrrow's steamers are half a million
dollars in gold and a hundred and fifty
thousand in silver bars.
The eoroner's jury returned a verdict
to-day that Mary McCabe was killed by
her husband and son. Both were sent
to the ToOmbs.
The repairs TO the steamer Tigress hay-
ing been completed, the dry-doek was
loaded on Saturday and it was decided
to keep the vessel in the dock until sun
day. Early Sunday morning the dis
covery was made that there was over
three feet of water in the hold and ris-
ing rapidly. The authorities at the
yard are very reticent and will not give
any information about the affair. 1t is
said that, owing to the hurry and con-
fusion during the progress of the repairs,
some of the vessels seams were not
properly packed, thus causing the leak.
Aaron Freeman, a stockhOlder of the
Pacific mail steamship company, de-
mands that the present board unite with
him in a suit against A. B. StockweH.
the late president, to recover the value
of securities belonging to the company.
which he alleges were diverted from
their proper use. The matter was re-
ferred to a counsel Of the company.
Patrick McMullen, an employee of the
late bureau of elections, obtained per
emptOry nlG9l0Gnxs from Judge Larre-
mole, in the court of common pleas,
returnable before Judge Van Brunt,
compelling the board of estimate and
apportiOnment 20 make an appropria-
ton to cover the expenses o, that bu-
reau from December, 1871, to Septem-
Der, 1872, and thus deprive the comp
troller of his standing excuse for the
nonpayment of legal claims for services
rendered on return day, instead of MAX
ing the return that they had obeyed the
order. The board presented a number
OF excuses why it should not be COM
piled with. These excuses Judge Van
Brunt has Overruled, and to-day, in an
elaborate opinion, orders the board 20
show cause, on the fourteenth instant.
why they should not be sent to Ludlow
street Jail for contempt. Justice Dam
iels has required Comptroller Green to
show cause in the supreme court to-
morrow why he did not pay pay the
claims of the supervisors for May and
June.
Patrick Halleck, who robbed the lew
elry store of Charles Phelps and feioni-
ously assaulted the latter, was sentenced
to the State prison for five years.
Governor Dix refuses to sign the bill
for the construction of a rail-
road on Wall street.
JEFF Davis is still here, and don't con-
template leaving at present.
Young Walworth will leave the
Coombs prison, tomorrow, for Sing
Sing. His mother called to see him to-
day, aud at parting was considerably
Alfred E. Lagrave, who was ex-
tradited from France for burglary, but
On landing here, was arrested on civi
suits, was to-day discharged from civi
arrest by Judge Fancher, who direetef
the sheriff to hold Lagrave subject @
Indictment for burglary. s
The health inspector of Jersey CITY |
says the deaths there from supposed |
cholera were from cholera-m0rbus, !
while DR.. Hadden, who attended DIR. |
King, says the latter died of heart dis
Ease, the choleraie symptoms being the
Effects Of ether and cblOrOfOrm.