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

es ES~ Three persons have been rescued
ne during the bathing season from positions
~ Of danger while bathing from gentle
- mems machinesat Wish, ltastbournei
IN who respectfully rendered TO ther rescueI
e. the sums of five shillings, two shillings
n, and sixpence, and eightpence. The
Y. eight-penny gentleman could not have
h, entertained very exalted ideas o1 ms own
)r worth.
~ In the year eighteen hundred and forty
= one the quantity Of tobacco consumed III
le the United Kingdom was such as to av-
erage thirteen and three-fourth ounces
- per head of population. In the year
= eighteen hundred and fifty-One II had
y risen TO one pound and one-fourth ounce
y per head; in the year eighteen hundred
Il and siXty-One to one pound three ana a
! half ounces; in eighteen hundred ana SIX
y ty-three 10 one pound four and half
II ounces.
=. The Newcastle Chronicle reports sew
eral other stackyard fires in the north.
: At Barlow, near Winlaton, twenty stacks
:, in the yard Of a farmer, named Robson,
Il were consumed on the second, and on
e the same day Mr. John Thompson, of
D Burnopfield, had eleven stacks destroyed
lncendiarism is suspected in both eases.
fHas~ The French papers are quizzing
the Belgian5 on account of a musical
- festival which was lately held near
Maubeuga. Prizes were given TO one
: choral society pour sa belle tcRue, TO
, another for being the most numerous,
and TO third for having come from the
greatest distance. The only thing the
committee forgot to award was prize
for good music.
re- A letter from Bucharest says that
the abdication Of Prince COuZa t5 being
seriously contemplated by the noighbor-
ing Powers. Two candidates fo- the
sovereignty Of the Principsi!t.es are being
brought forward Prince Bi2esco "
Austyis, aai Gen. Flc-esco by Russia.
II on the first, waen the King Of tho
GeiXiaus was driving along the Ilue ttoJ7-
Brussels. the horses Of his carriage
stumbled and fell The accident put the
animals into such 9 fretful temper that
the King would not trust himself 70 them
again, but returned TO the palace on foot.
70 Turkey has been startled by the
f7IIuOr Of 2 great innovation perpetrated
by the Sultan. 1, Is said that he il hav-
ing his portrait painted by a French I
artist NJ Guillemet. Hitherto all repre- I
sentati0ns of tho human form have been /
deemed profaue by the true MahOme- I
Jans.
/ gG- The late Mayor Of ROchefort was /
greatly ridiculed by the local press on .
account Of a decree by which he forbade .
any one in the town 10 sell mushrooms. /
A new Mayor has now been appointed, /
/ who began his tenure Of office by an
Huling the decree Of his predecessor.
The Conlte CaU0ur, a Turin journal,
confidently announces that the problem
of perpetual motion has been solved by
". Loucre Rizzo, a mechanic of Stras-
burg, who, the same Journal asserts, has
invented a machine which finds it5 mC-
tive force within itself without any ex-
ternal aid.
pslg-The Memorial de Ia Loire an
nounces the early publication of vol
me containing the speeches of the Duke
de Persigny, his principal acts as minis
ter, and extracts from his book on the
Pyramids 1t is said that this selection
viii be preceded by political prefacs.
DTTThe waters Of the Seine, in conse-
quence Of the continued dry weather,
have fallen to the lowest possible point.
In Paris hundreds are engaged in eXplOr-
ing the bed of the river, where exposed,
with the view Of finding trinkets, kitchen
utensils, metal or other objects.
ES-There are now published in Bonn
hay three daily newspapers in English,
five weeklies, five fortnightlies, three
m0nthlies besides three daily journals in
the Gujarita tongue, Il score Of weeklies,
and numerous other periodicals in vari-
Gus other dialects.
BE- The riadcrDeSt having made itsap-
pearance in Lower Austria, the imperial
authorities at Salzbury have declared
that no cattle can be allowed 10 pass into
that province unless each animal has a
properly legalized certificate of health
RSa- Prussia is preparing to strengthen
her conquest; two thousand five hundred
men have been set TO work near DuppeI a,
and Sonderburg to render the position
more formidable than ever, and to finish
part of the new redoubts before the VIM
ter sets in.
Rs5~ A corporal of gendarmerie in the
department of the Sarthe, has been crea-
ted a chevalier Of the Legion of Honor for
informing against the Mayor Of Mon
treuil, who for years had brutally ill
treated his daughter.
~gsa At Hartlepool, Mr.. Thomas Ord,
a dairyman, who had lost a number Of
his cows by the plague, died on the thir-
tieth, almost brOkea-hearted, his death
no doubt having been accelerated by
his loss.
gSy- The Duke Of Cramont-C aderousse
has left the bulk of his fortune to his
friend, the Marquis Gallifet. There is n
legacy Of one hundred thousand francs 70
q well-knoWn actress.
ISa- The Shah of Persia has sent a
special agent TO Europe, for the purpose
Of studying the present system Of naval
construction in France, England, aud
Holland.
re- A railway ia 20 30 laid, under the
superintendenos Of the Scryia1 Govern I
ment, between Belgrade and AlcZinacZ,
near the Turkish toEtre5 Of Nissa.
a-TLe Emperor Of Morocco has per-
uittc1 Geographic wires to DC laid ~ his
dOmiDlJEs.
30 The discoverer OF nicotine, Chcva-
lier Gasparc Celi0N, died recently at Gre
mona.
Bss-Ab1-el-kader's journey homeward
has been interrupted by illness at Smyrna.
eaa-, The Englishmen, who have re-
sided long time in Italy and become
the new Parliament. Mr.. Waddington
offers himself TO the constituency Of
Gubbic, in Umbria, and Mr.. LOwley TO
one in Tuscany.
BS@ An caTthen vase has been found at
Ravenna containing nearly three hundred
gold pieces, bearing the efligies of Roman
emperors of the first century of the
Christian era. Their approximate value
is set down at twenty francs each.
EEa- N. Skogman, a Finnish lawyer,
is, ii is said, traversing the northern dis
trict of Sweden and Norway, trying to
get up a feeling amongst the people in
favor of joining Finland and becoming
subjects Of the Gar
reR. The poultry in the department of
the Haute Vienna lFrance) have suffered
severely from the prevailing epidemic.
Many farmers have lost a tenth OF their
stock, and Others have lost all