Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1865-11-28

q sofa HAS just uetn Dubilsiiea. II SHOWS
m population af 250, 600, an increase, in fl
eff years, of $1,000.
ar nG-Mrs. Bonner, a resident Of Fri
Pa, was so shocBingly burned, last weel
i' by the accidental turning over Of kerr
# sene lamp, that she died in great agony
: na Gen. Humphrey Marshall AZ
Of peared at the Attorney Generals ofiic
f at Washington, and filed his application
al for pardon.
E|Extensive fires prevailed on tn
lie ALechanics, west Of Altoona, during tn
= early part Of the present week. The e.
v feet by night was truly brilliant.
! E% A man in Georgia writes to
t Louisville paper rcontradictings statement
y recently made in letter from his town
signed Feyitas. He says there is no MAJ
+ of that name in the county.
, sa- MeElroys dry goods store. ol
Z Ninth, above Chestnut street, Philadel
! phia, was entered early on FriGay
morning, and robbed Of ten thousand dol
lars worth Of silk
HA The Washington Chronicle pub
fishes a defense Of General Baker, who
it declares, has done nothing not sane
toned by the War Department.
Ba- Mrs. Fanny Leroy, daughter Of 8
/ respectable citizen Of Detroit, committed
suicide recently by taking morphine
The old, old story Of weakness, shame
and deserGon.
EJ The steamer D. H. Mount which
cleared New York for Jacksonville. Fla,
just before the terrible October gale. has
not been heard from. She had over fifty
/ passengers.
B@~ A woman in New York had n
4 respectable gentleman arrested last week
Il because f0rcune-teller had told her that
a man Of his appearance had stolen her
iewelry.
H. The hod-carriers employed by a
contractor in Boston struck for two dol
lars and seventy-five cents per day on
I Thursday, and they were discharged and
/ their places filed with negroes.
R9-At recent coin sale in New York.
( a Washington cent brought five dollars,
+ New York cent twenty-five dollars. and
a God Preserve Carolina shilling eight
dollars and fifty cents.
eg- It is said the platforms Of the late
/ Republican Conventions were made
merely to carry the fal elections. Mr..
/ johnson viii probably see that the Re
/ publieans stand on their platforms.
4 r5- During the three months ending
! October thirry-iirst, the metropolitan
police made twenty-five thousand two
+ hundred and eighty-four arrests in the
cities Of New York and Brooklyn.
pS@So far as returns are now received
/ it appears thatten clergymen, Of various
+ denominations, were elected to the Mas
sachusetts House of Representatives at
. the recent election.
bE7 The law courts Of Lynn and Col
mar, France, have decided that the par
'ticle dc placed before ones name is not a
sign Of nobility, and that, therefore, any
one may use it, whether he is a noble or
not.
ES-An immense block Of iron build
ing-, weighing over fifty thousand tons,
has just been raised over two feet in Chi
cago, without the least injury to the
building, or without disturbing the occu-
pants.
Hss- Tn a Republican caucus in Ward
tx, New Haven, Conn, a colored man
( received seventy votes as a candidate for
representative. There was no choice
until the coIored man withdrew his
name.
b. Official dispatches to the State De-
partment from our various European
4 Consuls, report that there is a great abate-
ment Of the cholera. In Paris it is on
/ the decrease. At Barcelona it has ceased
altogether
Hea= A Washington dispatch says the
/ conservative friends Of the President de-
clare that ex-Speaker Colfax's speech is
in opposition to the Presidents policy,
and assert that he Is in favor Of the ad-
mission Of Southern Representative to
/ Congress without a test oath.
Er Gov Morton, Of Indiana, had an
/ interview with the President on Monday
The President indmated that he was
fully determined 10 carry out his recon
structi0n policy. He complimented Gov,
Morton on his Richmond, Ind, speech,
and said that he fully indorsed it.
HJ= a man in Providence, r. 7, re-
Gently deposited in am unused stove one
thousand dollars for safe keeping. A cold
snap coming on while he wasout Of town,
his housekeeper built a fire in the stove,
and the hard earnings Of years were in a
moment reduced to ashes.
Ia Judge Sydney Bruce, Of the Hi
nois Supreme Court, is writing some
memoirs Of the early settlement OF
Illinois. No man living, says the
/ Chicago Times, is better qualified for the
work, as the judge has been a resident oi
the State nearly fifty years.
~ One hundred and twenty-five
men have been mustered out Of the Vete-
ran Reserve Corps in Washington, leav-
ing only one hundred enlisted men in
this department Two hundred officer
are striving TO hold Oh TO their positions
until Congress shall authorize the main
tenance Of their corps.
} na- Gen. Sheridan is at san Antonio
? Texas. Orders have gone forward to con-
+ eentrate pretty large military force in
e tlat vicinity, the precise object Of which
has moi yet transpirsd, but ii is supposed
1 10 be for the purpose Of locking after The
+ French troops.
4 pS4- Last week Antoine Collins, aged
r about eighty years, committed suicide in