Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-31


! of special interest to the general rrader
Resolutions were adopted declaring that
gymnastic exercises in the public schools
would tend largely to further the pllysi.
cal development and perfection II the
rising generation, ana that it was the
duty of the convention TO have them
introduced. After the appointment 81
committees. the convention adjourned
to take a drive through the city and su-
| burbs.
Why the JuIy PobIie DPbt Statement
| will NOT Look Favorable.
WASHINGTON, July 30.-The public
| debt statement to be issued on the first
of August will not report the full
amo Int of new fifties issued and FIVE
twenties redeemed, for the reason that all
the bonds redeemed have to pass
Though the books OF the register, audit
or, and comptroller before being credited
| to the treasurer of the United States,
| from whose books the debt statement is
taken. This necessarily takes a great
deal of time, and more than usually so
now, as many of the clerks are away on
their summer leave, thus reducing the
clerkfOrce, which when full is just suf-
ficient to transact the ordinary current
business, SO that although the syndicate
have received and paid for fifty millions
of new fives, but little more than thirty
millions can appear in the public debt
statement.
Another Sensational Reporter Puts His
Foot in IL.
ST. JOSEPH, MICH, July 30.-Tele-
grams, purpOrting to be from this place,
appear in yesterdays dispatches relat-
ing to the death of Charles Williams.
Williams had not been here for week,
and was permanently working on the
Big Rapids and Muskegan railroad, one
hundred and fifty miles north of here.
He was taken sick at Big Rapids, and
died at his hotel. His remains were
brought here for burial. The dispatch
states he was hardly given a christian
burial. He was buried by the Masons,
and the Methodist Episcopal church
was crowded, and an elaborate
and well-considered address was deliv-
cred by Rev. NJ. Crawford, the pastor.
He did not die of cholera, but cholera.
mOrbus, and was sick but forty-twO
hours. There is but one statement in
the whole dispatch that is at all true
the one stating that he left wife here.
Further than this no such dispatch was
ever sent from here. The health of the
place was never better than now, and
pleasure parties are the order OF the day.
Everybody here is wrathy at such a pal
pable misstatement.
The Quaker City Fathers-The st. Louis
Mutual.
ST. LOUIS, July 3O.-The members OF
the Philadelphia city council, and other
gentlemen who constitute the excursion
party, arrived here from Cincinnati this
afternoon, and left for the west by the
st. Louis, Kansas City and Northern
railroad tonight. They 90 direct to
Denver, where they will remain two
days, ard then proceed to Salt Lake
City, the Yosemite valley, and San
Francisco.
The State agents, from abroad, of the
st. Louis Mutual life insurance COM
pany, and what are known as the st.
Louis reform policy-holders compro-
missed to-day on ticket for new board
Of directors. The ticket embraces the
names of twenty-One prominent and
well-known citizens of st. Louis, and
includes nine members of the old board.
Destructive Fire I'm New York.
New YORK, July 30.-A fire was dis
covered in the fifth story of the govern
ment bonded warehouse on Greenwich
street, about half-past ten tonight.
Streams from the steam fire-engines
were Intellectual, and the fire spread rap
idly along and through the upper stories
some two hundred feet on Greenwich
street. The building extended through
some two hundred feet to Church street
Two additional alarms were sent out for
engines from up town. The flames
continued to increase, and at this hour,
half-past eleven, the mansard roof on the
Greenwich side of the building and the
two upper stairs have been burned. A
bakery adjoining was also burned. Sew
eral tenement houses were in imminent
danger, but the firemen have evidently
now obtained control of the fire, and
will undoubtedly keep it confined to the
government storehOuses. The building
was filled with valuable goods, and
those not destroyed by fire are undoubt-
edly ruined by water, and the loss will
be great. A heavy brick wall only pre-
vented the fire from working through to
Thames street, which is filled with
tenement houses crowded with poor
Irish families, among whom the utmost
CONSERVATION prevailed. The large
stone schOolhOuse of Trinity parish es-
time in twenty feet of the rear portion
OF the building. The warehouses are in
charge of w. h. Darling, government
appraiser. No fires had been used in
the building since last winter, and the
fire that occurred tonight is supposed
to have been caused by spontaneous
combustion.
Second Day of the Cleveland Club
Meeting.
CLEVELAND, July 30.-The second
day of the meeting Of the Cleveland club
opened with clear sky and cool atmos-
phere. Fully ten thousand people
were in attendance, and great interest
was manifested. Pool selling was active.
The first race was for horses that never
trotted better than 2:21, for a purse of
$500, $1,000 to the first, S1375 to the
second and 1926 to the third. There
were three entries, viz: Judge Fuller
ton, Camera and John w. Conley form
erly Beppo). Fullerton was the favorite
at 500 to $25 on the field.
In the first heat Conley was distanced,
Fullerton winning by a length and a
half, Camera second.
In the third heat Fullerton exhibited
magnificent trotting. On the first turn
he broke up badly, so that on the back
stretch he was fully half dozen lengths
behind Camera. At the third quarter
pole, however, he Tapped Camera, and
entering the home-stretch passed him,
winning the heat and the race. Sum-
mary: Judge Fullerton, 1, l, l; Ca
mer,a 2, 2, 2; John w. Conley, dis
tanced. Time, 2:2S4, 2:223, 2:253.
The second race, for horses that had
never trotted better than 2:45, for
purse Of S15O0-S750 for the first, 1915 for
the secoud, $225 for the third, and $50
for the fourth. This proved the most
exciting race of the meeting. Clemen-
tine was the favorite, but Little Long
fellow had hackers. The former won
the first heat, but was fifth in the second
and third, when foul-play being sus-
pected, the judges ordered Budd Doble
to drive Clementine, who won the next
heat. The drivers of Bertha and Long
fellow also changed by order of the
Judges, and the result showed the wis
dom of the change. The fifth
and the last heat was intensely exciting.
Clemenune and Bertha came up on the
home-stretch under whip and neck and
neck, the former winning by half
length, with Walter third and Longfel-
low fourth. The crowd was greatly ex-
cited and cheered and shouted wildly.
What was most remarkoble was that
Clementine won the race in 2:2S4.
Summary: Clementine, 1, 5, 5, l, l;
Walter, 2, 8, l, 0, 3; Little Longfsllow,
5. /, A, 5, S; Bertha, 4, 2, 2, 4, 2; Miss
Miller, 8, 4, 3, 0, 5; Vanity Fair, dis
tanced. Time, 2:SO, 2:29i, 2:32l, 2:S2i,
2:2Sl.
The last race of the day was running
race for a purse of S500--S300 to first,
$50 to second, and $50 to third, best
three in five. The race was closely con-
tested, but was won by Welch's S. f.
Mary l.. in three straight heats. Sum-