Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-22
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Queenstown. June 20: Arrived-BalHc,
from New York.
Baltimore, June 20: The Democratic State
convention will be held August 9Th.
Mobile, Ala, June 10: Loss by last
nights FIRE, SIS, 600; insurance, S12S, 700.
The Hague, June 20: The chief instigator
OF the war against the Dutch in Aeheen is
dead.
Giimsby, Ont, June 20: Vandyke's car
riage-factory and Grant & Co.'S agricultural
works were burned. Grants loss, $40, 900;
Vandyke's, $4,000.
Constantinople, June 20: The grand vizie
of Khereddin rendered his resignation, and
the sultan replied that he might have to re-
move him but could not accept his resigna-
ton.
London, June 20: Sixty nine cases and
bales of various kinds of merL handise and
fourteen trunks have been recovered from
the wreck of the sunken steamer Pomme-
rama.
Ottawa, June 20: TIE government has de-
cided to reseind all permissions to American
troops TO visit Canada under arms, alleging
as reason therefor that the visit might lead
to future complications.
Ucana, June 20: The French ambassador
has communicated to the Austrian foreign
office the steps taken by the western powers
at Cairo. ead expressing the hope that Aus
itld HuulO join Nucm
New York, June 20: dispatch from
Hackensack, New Jersey, SAYS that Brisk
Franklin, negro, and husband of the cook in
the Holl family, Is IN the Haekensack jail,
and will be sent TO this city to-day.
London, June 20: A dispatch from Syd-
ney, Australia, announces that arrangements
have been completed for seulling-match
between Trickett and Laycock foY the cham
pionsbip Of the world, which is to take place
August 30th.
Cincinnati, Jaue 20: J. J. Kelly, an ex-
councilman, was to-day sentenced to Impris-
onment Ia the county Jail for three months
and to pay fine of one hundred dollars for
inducing man to cast an illegal vote at the
election here last fall.
Death OF a Venerable Lady.
On Saturday afternoon Mrs. Matthew G.
Perry, wife of the late Commodore Perry and
mother of Mrs. August Belmont, died at her
daughter s residence In Newport, Rhode ISL
and. She was a daughter of John Slidell,
who, IN the early part OF the century, was a
prominent citizen of New York, where she
was born in 1896. One of her brothers was
Alexander Shdell, the commander of the
United States brig S0mers, and another was
Ex-senator John Siidell, of Louisiana, who,
at the beginning OF the civil war, was taken
on his way to France as Confederate commits
sIoner with MS associate, MIR. MasOn, Of Nir-
GINA, from the Eaglish mail steamer Trent
by an American mau-of-waT and confined in
Fort Warren, IN Boston harbOr, until The Eng
lsa government interposed and compelled
Secretary Seward 10 surrender the prisoners.
Commodore Perry's brilliant exploits are
familiar to every we'll informed American,
while to his elder brother, Oliver Hazard Per-
~, belongs the credit of opening the ports of
Japan to the commerce of the world Mrs.
Perry's younger sister, Miss Anna Slidell,
married Rear-Admiral Christopher Raymond
Perry Rodgers, whose mother was a sister of
Commodore Perry, and whose father, Com
modore John Rodgers, was the first COM
mander under whom Commodore Perry
served as midshipman during the war of
1872. One Of Mrs. Perry's daughters is the
wife of Mr.. August Belmont, Of New York,
and another married Mr.. Geoaye Tiffany, of
Newport.