Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-22

A Medley OF Interesting Things from the
Great Babel The Rrle THEesti-
cation.
School War in Now Jersey-Henry
Ward Beecher On the Bloody
MOdOes-MereantIIe
Failures.
Prairie Fires and Fearful Storm
in Kamsas-TWrO Families
Killed.
Summary Dismissal Of a Libel Suit
$220,950 Of stolen United States
Bonds Recovered from
BidMell.

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| NEW YORK, April 21.-Henry Ward
Beeeher, in q sermon last night, invoked
the Father of all mercies to remember in
mercy the children of the forest, whose
pent-up wrongs had driven them to
| bloodshed and diabOlical murder.
| The publie-sehoOl war in Jersey City
| is becoming bitter, and the interference
| of the school board has been invoked. |
| The latest discovery is that a Catholic
pupil was sent home because he would
I not bow bis head at the recital Of the
| Protestant version of the Lords prayer,
| or ioin in singing ca 7Ss The Heart makes
| the Homer written for and used only in
| the schools.
A vessel has cleared from PhIladel
phia, which, il is believed, will be
| turned into gunboeti to aid in freeing
! Cuba from Spain.
The liabilities of the suspended firm Of
Barton & Allen are estimated at $780,
| 600; assets not stated, but supposed to be
considerable.
/ Butch Barclay, proprietor of a gamb-
| ling house in the BOwery, and Andrew
| Mcintyre and Jim Seller, dealers, have
been arrested on the charge of fatally
I D6allll1 1EISLueI llt-uOtlDduu1 mDOf
after losing two hundred dollars, refused
to pay for ten dollars worth Of checks,
alleging as a reason that they had
PLAYED the "skin" game. Mendelbaum
| belongs to a reputed fence family in this
city.
! 4 call has been issued for
meeting of producers and consumers, to
| be held in this city on the sixth of May,
to promote by cooperation the interests
| of both producers and consumers; also
| to consider what can be done to reduce
the cost of transportation by rail and
water, between the west and the sea.
board. The senate committee on trans
portation routes proposes to be present
in person OF by delegates.
During fight in Brooklyn last even
| ing between a squad of policemen and
/ a number of roWdies, Officer Spellman
was knocked insensible by blow from
club. Three of the rioters were
arrested.
The Indian peace commission did not
meet to-day. Mr.. Campbell, of st.
/ Louis, is the only member in the city.
Mr.. Bruno, chaiI man, telegraphs that
he is detained in PittsbIrg by the death
of his mother.
| At the Erie investigation to-day John
J. Cisco testified that he was present at
the meeting of directors which voted
thirty thousand dollars to Vanderbilt,
and having confidence in the statements
of the officers considered that The recent
dividend should have been declared.
4 The BesehOffscheim contract he regard
ed as unfavOrable to the company.
! Wheeler II. Peckham declared as en-
| tirely untrue the statements of Sherman
on Saturday that he (Peckham) had re-
! ceived money for AttOrney-General
Barlow, and that he divided ten thou
sand-dOllar fee with the attorney-gen-
eral. Samuel J. Tilden testified that
he never received any money from, nor
knew of any being paid by Fisk and
Gould for political purposes. S. L. Nj.
Barlow, at his sworn request, testified
that the earnings of the Erie road justi-
fed the dividend of February last, which
was paid out of the surplus earnings,
and that no part of the legal or other
current expenses was charged to
the construction account. G.. &.
Clark. treasurer of the New York
1 Central railroad, testified that he never
knew of money being paid by the Cen
I tral company for legislation. q. f.
! Morisine, late auditor of the Erie rail-
road, testified in opposition to the state
ments of S. L. NJ. Barlow, regarding
I the surplus earnings, and justifying the
declaring of the February dividend ON
| common stock. That the surplus earn
| ings of the road for the first six months
of the year 1872 were only eleven hum
! dred dollars. That was up to the first Of
July. He left on the thirtieth of Sep
! tember, and the earnings from the first
4 of July till then had decreased very
/ largely on account Of the coal strike and
/ other causes. He left the Erie office be-
cause the new board of directors wanted
/ him to give private information about
I she previous management OF the road,
and treated him as a spy more than au
ditor. Horace T. Clark was examined
but the testimony was unimpOrtant.
The French mail steamer Gamble was
wrecked March 25th off the Brazilian
coast. No lives lost.
The Bulls Head bank resumes busi-
ness Wednesday next.
The receiver of the Ocean national
bank to-day sold seven second mortgage
bonds of the Portage and Lake Superior
ship canal, of one thousand dollars each,
/ for five per cent. of their face value.
| The sale of the remainder of the bonds
was postponed.
| The suit of George B. Davis against
the New York Times, to recover fifty
/ thousand dollars for alleged libel, was
| tried to-day. Davis was put on the
stand, when the counsel fer the defense
objected to his testifying, ON the ground
that he is convicted felOn, and the
judge sustained the objection, thus end
ing the trial.
VIM. NJ. Fliess, of this city, has been
chosen president of the Kansas and Ne
braska railroad company.
The recovery OF nearly 4 quarter of a
million dollars United States money,
which had been obtained by Mcdonald,
alias Bidwell, and associates in the late
bank of England forgeries, was effected
to-day, the facts concerning which are
as follows: On the fifth of March last
! trunk, said to contain wearing apparel
old and in use, was delivered at the Of
fee of the North Atlantic express COM
pany, No. Margate street, Lon
don, by a person calling himself
c. Losing, of Tunbrdge Wells,
England, and addressed to Major
George Matthews, New York, to
! No. Il Broadway, New York, until
called for. The trunk was duly for
warded by the express company, and
reached New York by the steamship
| Cuba, which arrived March Goth, and
was kept in bond by the company, as
per instructions, until Saturday last,
when a woman calling herself Mrs.
George Matthews presented an order for
its delivery at the express, office, duly
signed, |" George Matthews" In
the meantime the counsel for the bank
of England had received some
information in regard to the trunk
which led to its detention by the COM
pany until to-day, when it was taken
possession of, under an order of the su-
preme court, by Nathaniel Jarvis, Esq,
receiver in the bank of England forgery
case, and on being opened and exam
ined was found TO contain quantity of
wearing apparel, old and in use, two
4 gold watches, several miscellaneous
articles, and three packages of United
States five-twenty and ten-forty bonds,
rolled up ia soiled linen, amounting in
all TO S220, $50. The bonds were found
TO be identical in class, amounts and
numbers with those, advertised by the
bank of England to have been obtained
I by the Bidwell forgeriesI; and in the
trunk were found cards and card-pIate,
with the name of George Bidweli, a va
riety Of memoranda, bills, ETC., showing
conclusively that it had been shipped BY
and belonged to him. Out Of $500. 600