Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-07
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

Engllsn crop reports are IaNOraOle.
The celebrated trotter, Fearnaught,
died at Boston yesterday.
The city fathers Of Philadelphia were
'doing" Salt Lake, yesterday.
The Conservative State convention Of
Virginia was in session at Richmond
yesterday.
A Madrid dispatch says the Germans
have captured two insurgent frigates in
the hsrbor of Malaga.
The Spanish government eontem-
plates establishing penal colony on one
Of the Ladrone islands.
James Kelly, in New York last even-
ing, fatally stabbed his wife, who had
refused to live with him.
President Grant yesterday signed the
pOstal-treaty between the United States
and the japanese empire.
Sensation was the winner of the first,
and Glen entine of the second, race at
Buffalo, New York, yesterday.
Kansas adviees by telegraph yester-
dsy, are to the effect that the Cherokee
Indians are having terrible war among
themselves.
DR.. Banker, of New York, has been
placed under police surveillance, his wife
having died recently under suspicious
circumstances. s#T
In Spencer county, Kentucky, last
Sunday, Miss Ellen Stevens, about sew
enteen years of age, was struck by light
ming and fatally injured.
Alsopps Motley has been obliged by
his illness to decline the invitation Of
the queen Of Holland to take up his
residence in the royal palace.
NJ. Herve, editor of the Journal de
Paris, and NJ. About, fought duel yes
terday in Paris, in which the latter was
slightly wounded in the hand.
At New Orleans yesterday Martin
Mccormick was shot and Immediately
killed by John Jerret, in a difficulty
which grew out of an old feud.
Tom Bowling and True Blue, arrived
at Long Branch from Saratoga last
night to prepare forthe extra meeting at
Monmouth park, on the twentieth in
slant.
A statement made by the minister of
finance at Rome, shows great increase
in the number of vessels engaged in
commerce between Italy and the United
States.
Levy Bissel, a well-known inventor of
locomotive and other machinery, died
In New York Tuesday. He was a
brother to the late Governor Bissell, Of
Illinois.
Miller q Duprez's Touring mills, of
Louisville, were totally destroyed by fire
yesterday morning. Loss, twenty thou
sand dollars; insurance, fourteen thou
sand dollars. c
The German consul at Almen a,
Spain, claims fifty thousand dollars
damages Of the Spanish government
for inquiries to his residence during the
recent bombardment by the insurgents.
The International patent-right con-
gress is in session at Vienna. One
Of its first acts was TO resolve that the
common rights of inventors should be
guaranteed by the laws of all civilized
countries.
The Democratic State central commit
tee Of Massachusetts held a meeting at
Boston yesterday, and designated Sep
tember Sd as the time and Worcester the
place for holding the next regular State
convention.
The President yesterday assured Colo
Hot hughes, 1tcpuDllcstu canOlQaIe Tor
governor of Virginia, that he (Grant)
would use every means in his power to
secure the election Of the Republican
ticket in Virginia.
The lab0F-reform State convention,
held at Lowell, Massachusetts,, yesteT-
day, was slimly attended. Judge Robert
Cowley, of Lowell, was chosen chair
man. In the course of his address, he
said, after defining the policy to be pur-
sued touching the hours OF labor: ait
VIII become orf pleasure and our duty to
extend our maternal congratulations to
the farmers of the west, and tender To
them our best wishes for success in their
efforts TO procure cheap transportation. /"
A London telegram SAYS that the paI-
iiamentary election al Greenwich. to I'll
the seat rendered vacant by the death cf
Sir David SOlomens, resulted in a con-
servative triumph, Mr.. Board, London
distiller, being returned. This is the
8rst instance since 1852 of a conserva-
| tive candidate being elected for the bor-
ough, and the result is accepted as an
almost certain indication that the con-
servatives will return to power at the
approaching geneHal election with fair
working majority.