Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1865-11-29

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b. Gen. Scott proposes spending the
winter In New Orleans.
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re- Navigation for the season hasbeen
virtually suspended at Chicago.
~ The New York canals are to be
closed on the twelfth proximo.
IA The Fenian Sisterhood Of Buffalo
gave a grand bali in that city ON Tues
day evening.
~ a State Temperance Convention
eonvenes at indianapolis, Ind, on the
sixth proximo.
re- The cook Of the steamer Hero has
been convicted ofmurder at Halifax, and
sentenced 10 be hung.
nGL Il is stated that the Government
disapproves the action of the American
Consul in accepting the Shenandoah.
n-Near Potsdam, in Prussia, gunpow-
der is manufactured from Wood, on
something like the gun cotton principle.
s5- It is stated that only about fifty
thousand bales ofeotton have been raised
in Texas this year..
rsheboygan, Wis, has shipped one
hundred and eignty-five thousand bush
els Of wheat within a monthpast-
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Washington, Georgetown and other in I
dependent portions of the District Of
Columbia, in n municipality.
30 The New York Herald newspaper
building in New York win have twenty
five sleeping apartments for the reporters
and editors.
h5The steamers Santiago de Cuba
and Baltic left New York a few DAYS
since, on a race for San Francisco. A
race beginning in the Atlantic ocean and
ending in the Pacific is a novelty.
Rag A merchant who started in BUSH
ness in New York a few years ago with a
capital Of one hundred and sixty thou
sand dollars, was admitted to the Albany
almshouse last week as a pauper.
BIZ The Hamilton &C. W. Spectator
speaks Of the windows of that town being
broken by a set of scoundrels who fire
shot through them at night with a kind
Of weapon that sends the shot with the
velocity of a pistol, but makes no report.
RG-On of our exchanges from the far
West e~nHghtens its readers by informing
them that "Dr. Joseph Worcester,
author Of a large-sized dictionary, and
inventor Of Worcestershire sauce, is
dead.b
sD The Emperor Napoleon much
alarmed the courtiers in attendance by
taking OFF his gloves at the hospital, and
insisting upon giving his handle the very
patients who were the most sorely
stricken at the hotel Dieu.
B7FThe New York Herald's Washing
ton special says the Presidents conserva-
tive friends declare that ex-Speaker Col
fax's speech is in opposition to his policy,
and assert that the President fayors the
admission OF the Southern Representa-
lives to Congress without the test oath.
pE- An adroit rogue got a package
containing three thousand dollars. at a
St. Louis hotel on Monday, by present.
ing a forged check to the desk in the Of
fee. The package had been received
from another man, and deposited in the.
desk for safe keeping.
BSr After a spirited discussion the
Board OF Directors ofthe Brooklyn Acad-
envy Of Music, have resolved, by a vote
Of eleven to five, that the prejudice
against color was absurd, and that here
after the building should be open to coll
oTed people.
E8-In Russia g-overnesses are held in
such respect that they are led forth as
honored guests, taking precedence Of the
pupils whose education they are conduct
ing. 1t is a shameful truth that in Eng
land and this country their position is
dAHDA AAdAt Oh 1GllEE LAAl0A.
B Justice Cunningham united in the
holy bonds Of wedlock, at the office Of
the Chief of Police, St. Louis, Mr.. Geo.
Smith to 1Iiss Minnie Shaw. Minnie
under arrest for v~agrancy. Her
marriage giving her visible means OF
support, size was acquitted.
BLAST Saturday night a middle
lged man was dragged while on the cars
New York and Bridgeport, and
'obbed Of twelve hundred dollars in gold.
he had recently arrived from England.
md was ea route to Boston to meet his
wife. The money he had with him was
III he possessed.
nA striking curiosity has lately
,een discovered in the Nevada Territory
t is a mountain of rock salt. situated
sbout twenty miles from Meadow Valley. {
and only eighteen miles from the head
# navigation on the Colorado river. It
ises abruptly from the plain, about four :
hundred feet in height, a mountain of
'ure, sparkling, erystalized salt.
Z
rs Capt. John George Ryan, who a
arrested here and taken to Wash
under the belief that he was John r
/. Suratt, and but recently in eonfne- d
lent al Vicksburg, has at length been
eleased. The citizens Of Vicksburr got :
p a theatrical entertainment for his
eneft on Friday evening last. It was
ute successful.
nS-Allle. Dejozet had, from some quar- 4
ar in the horizon, obtained a windfau of
Tenty thousand dollars. She received d.
efore noon next day begging letters
.hich, had she granted all their prayers, y
.ould have taken twenty-five thousand n,
Baron de Rothschild said once.
lat if he were to comply with ali the =.
quests made him in begging letters, it Pc
ould cost him five million dollars a
HAA soldier, with some Of his COM
des, went into a clothing store on n
ourth street, between Morgan and ,
reen, st. Louis, on Thursday, and while
wing on some new paruonnta -bfs o1d nj