Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-22
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITY.

The Nat,nnal dreenoackers or IOWA UOIo IN
convention at Burlington yesterday.
The American Sunday-schooi union cele-
brated its ffty-fourth anniversary IN Philadel-
phia yesterday.
1t was rumored in Portland, Maine, yes
terday, that another vessel in Russian COM
mission is on her way to America.
Eight hundred cattle were shipped from
Toronto last week for Liverpool. Twenty
eight cars left yesterday, ria Montreal.
Darwin E. Slack, Boston insurance agent,
is wanted for sharp practice of frauds upon
several New York and other insurance COM
panies.
The general assembly of the Cumberland
Presbyterian church met at Lebanon, Ten
nessee, yesterday, and will remain in session
all this week.
Many pretended Russian emigrants are
passing through Germany. 1t is believed
they are disguised seamen, on their way to
America to man cruisers.
The general assembly of the Presbyterians
of the south, In session at Knoxville, this
State, yesterday selected Louisville as the
next place of meeting.
Judge Rightor, of the sixth district court of
Louisiana, yesterday refused a mandamus to
compel the school board to admit colored
children to schools designated for the whites.
The Grand lodge of Knights of Honor, in
session at Nashville the past week, elected j..
H. Cummings, of Boston, supreme dictator,
and selected Boston as the place of meeting
next year.
The Social Science association, which has
been in session in Cincinnati the past two
days, is well attended, and its proceedings
thus far have been of the most interesting
character.
H. S. White, a prominent merchant of
Marshall county, West Virginia, made an
assignment Yesterday. Liabilities estimated
will probably reach forty to fifty thousand
dollars.
The pope will not 90 10 Monte Casino on
account of the number of pupils residing
there. The Jesuits are endeavoring to keep
the pope in Rome, but some other place at
| which he may pass the summer Is being
sought.
A posse of revenue men returned to Nash
vile yesterday from a ffteen-day raid in
Hickman, Perry. Hardin, Wayne, Giles and
Lawrence counties in this State. Nine illicit
distilleries were destroyed and several arrests
made. .....s
A dispatch from Halifax, Nova Scotia,
chronicles an accident at the old Sidney
| mines, yesterday morning, caused by the ex-
plosion of the gas. Six men have been taken
| out dead. among them Greenwich the cnier
overseer.
Dennis Donnelly, the Schuylkill Mollie
M CURE who was to have oeen hanged at
Pottsville, Pennsylvania, to-day, has been re-
spited by the governor for twenty days, in
order to allow the condemned more time to
prepare for death.
The st. Louis and Texas railway assocla-
ton, composed of representatives of the roads
between ST. Louis and Texas, met in st.
Louis yesterday for the bi-monthly confer
ence. 1t was agreed to make no changes In
the rates for freight carriage.
Harvard students have been recently dis
covered by the college authorizes having a
knowledge of the examinations papers be,
fore regularly issued, and two members OF
the junior class have been expelled and one
or two employees removed.
The Methodist conference in session at At
lanta considered the report on the publishing
house at Nashville all yesterday, and the
matter is still pending. The house will be
continued both as manufacturing and pub
fishing house, but under new restrictions.
While an iron girder of the elevated rail-
road was being hoisted In position, In New
York, yesterday morning, the cham gave way
and the girder fell to the ground, fatally in
juring William Berrlman and Thomas ken-
| nedy, and breaking the leg of j. IL. Robin
son.
The fortieth annual session OF the Grand
| lodge Of Odd-Fellows of Missouri was com
menced in st. Louis yesterday. The grand
| masters report shows membership OF 49,
| 057. There was large increase during the
year. The revenue of the order was $92,
| $50; the assets of the order amount to 1871,
| 1913 As.
| Five thousand refugees assembled in Con-
| stantinople yesterday, and sent deputation
| to the Porte asking for relief, and declaring
that their provisions had failed and sickness
| was increasing among them. The Porte
promised that rations would be henceforth
regularly distributed.
! The bark Carrie E. Long, from Matanzas
| reports that on her passage from Buenos
| Ayres to Matanzas, two hundred miles of
the Brazilian coast she picked up man ii
an exhausted condition on raft, who had beer
there ten days. A companion died after be-
ing on the raft four days, and was washed
| overheard and devoured by sharks.