Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-20


~ Rev. Ed. Baldwin, editor Of the
Selma Messenger, died on the ninth. He
T was a pure and an able man.
pa-Mr. William Lott, who was one
Of the first settlers in Hazlehurst, Miss,
died there on the fifth instant.
R5- Mr.. Garland, one of the parties in
the ARRAY at Jackson, Miss, a few days
since, died of his wounds.
B9-CoI. john S. Thrasher was in Mo-
bile on the fifth, en- roUte to his home in
Galveston, Texas.
B6-InCalhoun ounty, Ala. the other
day, a man named Reavis, was killed by
two men named Morris.
IA J. L. Craig, a young man residing
near Tyro, Marshal county, was killed
on Monday last by a fall from his horse.
Bg- The peppermint oil produced in
Michigan last year was worth ninety
thousand dollars.
B1 DR.. Robert L. Buck, an eminent
physician of Jackson, Miss, died on the
fifteenth instant.
- DR.. y. J. Houston has upon his
farm near Tuscumbia a colony Of Ger
man emigrsnts, and intends trying their
labor.
BE- The hog crop Of the West this
season viii be nearly equal to that Of last
sesson-two million hogs-while there is
an Increase in weight.
n- The Paris Temps says that
Stephen, the Fenian Head Center, "
was seen on the Boulevards the other
day. It describes him AS a well dressed
gentlemanly man of about forty.
IA There were twenty-five deaths
from small pox in Mobile last week, ex-
elusive Of five OF six from cases unknown,
which are supposed 10 be ehargeable to
the same account.
bT On the ninth, at Thompson's
Station, near Columbia, Tenn, Mr..
Whitley was robbed and murdered by
two men. During the same night several
negroes We're robbed and beaten In the
same neighborhood.
"a The eighth Of January, eighteen
hundred and sixty-six, was the coolest
day ever known in the Norlh-from
Halifax 10 Washington City-south of
the latter, the day was not unusually
cold.
IA The crop Of cotton in Tennessee
this year, it is expected, viii exceed any
one ever raised IN the State-as greater
exertions are making for its culture, the
high price stimulating white and black
to engage In it.
ET The Alabama Deaf and Dumb In
stitution, located in Talladega, has been
reopened, and is now ready for the re-
ception Of pupils. State b~enefciaries
from the different counties of that State
are free Of charge for board and tuition.
ra- The Post's Washington special
says the Committee on Banking and
Currency met this morning and agreed
to report against all petitions asking for
tho repeal Of the law imposing a tax Of
sixteen cents on State bank circulation.
~ The little principality Of Monaco,
in the Gulf Of Genoa, contains only seven
thousand inhabitants, and yet, few as
they are, they comprise a free and indie
pendent nation, witha hereditary prince,
and a government all their own.
Ia A gentleman from Texas says it is
no known what has become of Senator
Wigfall. II is considered certain that he
has lot crossed the State into Mexico, |
and if in the United States, his locality is
secret. Many believe that he is dead.
rsa- Queen Victoria always sends a
gift Of three pounds TO any poor mother
in her dominions VINO may give birth to
triplets. The latest successful candidate
for the money is the wife Of James Glib
son, a weaver of KHbarchan, Scotland.
Re- The newly invented fire work
called "Pharaoh's Serpent, " lately killed
three men in London. Two customers
entered a makers room, when an explo-
sion occurred, killing one customer and
the maker on the spot, and the other
customer was blown out Of the window
and picked up dead.
Ia An odd bit Of dialogue appears IN
a novel now publishing in a French
paper. ''Where Is your husbaDd?' asks
a gentleman. "He went out TO buy a
segar, " replies the lady. "Has he been
gone long? ' Eighteen years" 'He
is quite right, % remarks the gentleman,
philosophically che wants 10 choose q
good one."
Ia \ couple in LItchdeld county,
Conn, had lived together for ten years,
supposiug themselves married. Dialcul-
ties having arisen, n applied to the
Court for a divorce. Upon investigation
it was found u that they had never
been legally married. Like sensible
people, they gave up the ideaofa divorce
and We're married.
ra- The city of Mexico IS better sup
piled with water than an city in the
world. Il has two immense aqueducts-
one seven miles long, and the other three
which bring the water from the noun
TO the very heart Of thecity; thence
by arteries it is distributed in every di-
There are also numerous
Artesian wells in the city and it, ,
~ The improvements which are TAX :
place in JUdea are very great. For :
some distance around Jerusalem there ]
are extensive plantations Of young olive !
.rees, and in and about The city the new !
buildings are both numerous and hand ?
.ome. Every European nation seems :
anxious 70 have a footing in the Holy :
'ity. The Russians support the Greeks, {
he French the Latins, and the English
though not avowedly as a nation pat y
unize the Jews, whose interest will pro :
ably become the strongest eventually. a
LITTER FRoW GEN. STERLING .
PRICE. |
The CORDOBA C5long-P6H1d.ag q Tom o
He Opinion Of the Soil, Climate
and GdreraU1eEt q AericO. Il
A copy Of the following letter addressed =
D a gentleman Of this city, has been =,
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