Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-06-05
FELEGRAPHIC BREyITlES.


The National brewers association is In
session at Boston.
The millers of the northwest are hold
ing a eonYention at 81. Louis.
The Anti-Secret society is holding a
convention at Syracuse, New York.
The new secretary of the treasury was
oath-of-offlced yesterday at Washing
ton.
Lawrence McEulty committed snlcide
by cutting his throat in st. Louis yes
terday.
DIR. George Mendenthall, well known
physician OF Cincinnati, died in that city
last night. NE
The New England Press association
held its annual meeting in Boston last
Wednesday.
A battle is imminent at Estella, in
Spain, where the Carlists are reported
in great force.
The personal effects Of the late Charles
Summer we're sold at auction in WASH
ington Wednesday,.
The Arkansas investigating commit
tee leave Washington for Little Rock
the last of this week.
No further returns ftom Oregon, but il
is considered certain that Graves and
Williams are elected.
She diocesan convention OF the Pro-
testant Episcopal church of Indiana is
in session at La Faye te.
Ellweod II. Thnrne has been elected
grand master of the State OF New York
by the Masonic grand lodge.
The Massachusetts senate yesterday
passed the bill abOlishing the State con-
stabulary over the governors veto.
The French assembly yesterday pass
ed the electoral bill TO its second reading
by majority of seventy-fiye votes.
The Omaha June races have been
postponed until further notice, owing TO
most of the horses being otherwise en-
gagged.
Governor Weston was inaugurated
governor of New Hampshire yesterday.
He is opposed to the temperance move
ment.
The chamber of commerce of New
York ty is in favor of liberal aud just
reciprocity treaty between the United
States and Canada.
A dispatch from San Francisco says
that Clsfiin and Woodruff start east in
a few days. They failed to taKe that
city by storm or create any marked sem
satiOn.
J. Helm, popular turfman, and own
er of the celebrated trotter, Sam Purdy,
dropptd d dead in San Francisco Tuesday
night. He was preparing for ajourney
east with his horse.
Messrs. Paschal, GrOussett and JOurde,
the communist leaders who escaped
from the penal colony of New Caledo-
mia with RlchefoTt and Paine, have ar
rived in New York.
The branch of the Mississippi Central
railway from Uurant to Koskiusko,
Mississippi, was opened for traffic last
Wednesday. Durant put on airs about
it, and celebrated the event right merri-
ly.
Only about three thousand dollars
have been raised in San francisco for
the Louisiana sufferers. The ladies
will inaugurate fair, TO continue until
they raise at lease twenty thousand dol
lars.
Both houses of the New Hampshire
legislature met in joint session Wednes-
day aud elected by ballot James A.
Weston governor for the ensuing year.
The vote Observation-Disclosures, ISL; Wes7
ton, Isl.
A Rome dispatch says the pope is
again i'll. The fever from which he was
lately suffering returned last night, and
It was very heavy. The physicians in
attendance are alarmed at the pOpe's
condition.
Wintermute, who killed General Nc
Cook at IanktOD, Dakota, last Septem-
ber, has been convicted of man-slaugh-
ter in the first degree, the highest degree
of homicide without having the death
penalty affixed.
The German malt liquor dealers of
New York city have pledged themselves
not 10 renew their Licenses, and have
raised funds TO resist in the courts any
action that may be taken by the excise
commissioners.
The mayor of MatamoTas, Mexico,
has ordered the prevention of the pass
age of cattle over the Rio Grande either
way. This order, if enforced, will prob
ably break up the cattle stealing on both
sides of the river.
Germany about the middle of June, at
Ems. A semi-ofiicial denial is given to
the reports that the candidature of the
Hohenzellorn prince for the crown of
Spain, is to lie revived.
The American and English Catholics
in Rome propose to give public recep-
ton TO the American pilgrims on their
arrival there, and TO make other de-
monstrations Of sympathy, but the pope
deprecates such display.
A fifty-thOusand-dollar suit for dama-
ges against the Brooklyn argus was dis
continued yesterday in New York, by
the proprietors of that paper retraeting
the Objectionable statements, and agree
ing to pay ali costs of suit.
The owners of the Durham collieries
in England are eJecting large numbers
Of their tenants who have been aud are
engaged in the strikes. Two hundred
and twenty-eight of these elected fam
lilies are camping about in the adjacent
fields.
Marx Scholem, a young man Of twen-
ty-four, accidentally walked overheard
from the barge Frank Busch, at Evans
vile, yesterday, and was drowned.
Scholem was a cousin to Nathan Marks,
so foulIy murdered at Narrows, Ken
lucky, last December.
a dispatch from Austin, Nevada,
says: "Last night a crowd of twenty
masked men entered the Jail at Belmont,
bound the sheriff and took out two pris-
oners, Mcintyre and Walker, and hang
ed them. 1t was not stated what the
men were accused Off
The temperance sympathizers of Ken
tucky yesterday held a convention at
Louisville, at which platform and
resolutions were adopted urging the
friends of the temperance movement in
that State to press local option elections
In their several precincts aud towns,
A Galveston News special from
Brownsville, Texas. says: ''It is stated
that the Mexican ministry have ordered
all ports Of entry on the Rio Grande, ex-
cept Matamoros, closed, but the collec-
tors of customs have postponed action
and written for further instructions"
A Washington dispatch announces
that Assistant-SecretaTy of the Treasury
Sawyer will tender his resignation 10
the President, inasmuch As he wishes to