Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-21
The MEMPHIS APPEAL
MEMPHIS:
aIDAY. 80: ;::::s; JUNE Ql. 1876


--Arehduehess Matilda, Of Austria
died in Vienna on the 9Th. -
1T is rumored that Juarez demand
two and half millions sterling as
ransom for Maximilian.
{ Another military conspiracy ha
beed discovered in Spain.
"A Tornado in Toverack, N. Y, ol
Sunday, destroyed hundreds Of frui
, trees. .r isa
-0rders will be issued to sop worl
on the Notifications around Vienna.
The Austrian ministry is to be mad
subservient to the imperial legislature.
Trial by jury ia civil cases is to b
granted ia Austria.
"A cremona violin has been sold IL
New York for S1400.
Ten thousand bedsteads year s9s
made in one manufactory in Msine. 2r
"A son of John Stephens, OF DetFd9l. Z.
= 7, y led of hydrophObia on Monday. ~
enp The Methodists publish fifty-onC
newspapers in the United States.
Famine is said to prevail extensively
in the Irish highlands Of Scotland.
4 "A proposition is on foot in London tC
supply HOSPITALS with newspapers and
periOdicak e
"A petition has been presented to the
/ French senate, asking an act TO compel
mothers to nurse their offspring,
.-One of the ablest papers in the
/ Westminster ReVietU, was written by 8
daughter of John Stuart Mil.
The fashionable hotels of Havana
charge $50 per day for board with fur
nished rooms.
Edward A. Pollard, of Richmond,
has commenced suit for his property in
Washington, sold by contiscstion.
The king and queen of Spain and the
emperor of Morocco have decided not 70
visit Paris.
A great deal of cSes1terfeit fractional
| currency is in circulation in Arkansas.
-InsIead of leyees on the Mississippi,
it is now talked Of laying drains to carry
/ off the surplus water in the gulf
"A ticklish neutrality-suspicious.
the new queen of Hungary under the
right arm-pit.
-Ex-President jefferson Davis was
born in Todd county, KY, and was sixty
years old Oh the Sd. ..
"A western critic, speaking of Ham
/ let, says that he is much of gentleman.
The courts at Richmond, Va, have
decided that dog stealing is not theft.
/ One of the shells at West Point has
/ this inscription: Fiftegn-inch hollow
| shot, fired by the abolition fleet of IRON
| clads at Fort Sumter, April Z, 1858"
/ The Hudson river has become fully
stocked with carp or gold fish. They
| originally got into the river from pri-
| vate pond at Newburg. -s
! The newest wonder in New York is
man who writes visiting cards with
his toes as neatly and perfectly as can
be done by lithograph.
| The bogus confessions Of a man who
used to go about New York with pla-
card, Pm starving" on his chest, is
about to be published.
-McDevitt has again challenged Dion
to play for the championship of the bill
lard world.
"A topaz weighing three and hall
pounds has been deposited in the bank
Of France-a neat thing for scarf pin.
Antiquarian excavations near the
palace of the CRsaTs, in Italy, have
caused the discovery of the grotto where
Romulus and Regulus were spckled by
the wolf, and it is expected some other
explorer will find the she wolf, too.
The king of Prussia and his minister,
Bismark, arrived in Berlin after their
visit to Napoleon, on Saturday.
The emperor of Russia is visiting at
Darmstadt. -.......
A Georgia paper calls confscation
Thad. Stevens daughter. There is no
question as to the legitimacy Of that
child. r
"A few days since Mr.. Isaac Lichsten-
tein, of Summit, Miss, was called to the
gate of his house by a negro, who shot
him through the heart, killing him in
stantly. 20.
Judge Kelly lost his hat in the Mo-
bile riot. Won't Gen. Pope issue mill
tary order that the corporation buy him
8 new one?
The Louisville board of trade have
prepared memorial to congress, pray
ing for the removal of the tax on cotton,
and setting forth its injustice and injuri-
Gus influence upon commercial affairs.
The AUeRir National wittily observes
that the present situation may be
summed up in single phrase: \ NOw
that we have made peace, let's fight"
The vendetta rsges in Corsica. Two
families recently destroyed three men
each by hand to hand fight.
"A relic Of Buffers reign in New
Orleans has come to light in the shape OF
$40 900 worth OF jewels snd gold packed
away in a barrel of damaged pork.
The old bachelors of Jersey City are
in a rage at the publication Of their
names in a New York paper.
Famine is reported in the city of
Mexico, and the citizens are in a state Of
disorder and riot.
The cargo of the steamer Neganza,
recently sunk on the Alabama riyT Tnny
valued at $4,000, and consis7A was :
plies for the destitute peosstice accoi-
terror. tIuhks -
"A few cases Of cholera and yellow
fever have occurred in New Orleans.
"A Young man in New York, who
had stolen $4,000 from his employers,
went to the theater, and wss so affected
by the play that be gave himself up to
-Judge A. NJ. Grant, of Mt Vernon,
jefferson county, ILL.,, was robbed on
Monday night, Sd inst, of between two
and three thousand dollars, most Of it
gold and silver.
Great expectations are being enter
tanned respecting the use of electro
magnetism in connection with the melt
ing of iron.
"A reform mob took possession of 8
tory meeting in London, Monday.
A Cineinuati clerk has obtained q
verdict of S225 from his employers for
discharging him before his expiration
of service.
Senator Henderson, chairman of the
Indian committee, who has been out on
the plains with Gen. Hancock, says half
Of the reports concerning Indian depre-
dations are false.
"A brewery is being erected ut Lock
port, which will have preparation
capacity Of 1000 bushels Of malt and $50
barrels of ale per week.
The New York Tribune gives a
lengthy description of the tenement
houses of that city, in which revelations
are made positively sickening and dis
gusting.
The Emperor Francis Joseph, king
of Hungary, has distributed vast sums
of money among the poor, and richly
endowed various benevolent institutions.
"A series of experiments in erial
navigation are shortly to be instituted at
Paris, in which q number Of well known
aeronauts will take part.
A prisoner is in custody in London
charged with forging Dutch coupons so
well executed as to have found their way
into the Dutch, English, and several
other foreign markets.
"A committee has beer appointed by
the city council to locate park of 500
acres for that city.
Elder Ross has been ex-communi-
Gated from the Mormon communion, for
'' drunkenness, swindling and lying"
Among the attendants at the Boston
anniversaries were two women wearing
bonnets of the style Of twenty years ago.
They attracted much attention.
The Galveston papers indignantly
deny that Massey, the Fenian informer,
was ever colonel Of any Texas regi-
ment.
. An exchange says Campbellite cler-
gyman, named Mitchell, Of Jefferson
Vile. Ind, got drunk in Louisville, went
10 3 house Of i'll fame, waa arrested. and
cot out of the lock up just in time to
reach his pulpit on Sunday and preach.
An action has been brought against
Tudge Rosecrans. OF New York, Tor an
alleged fraudulent sale of the Adriondac
railway company.
"A man at Portland, Me-, had his
house robbed recently by New York
professional, wno, on his way home,
stonped and wrote a letter to his victim,
ratnrninp a lot of papers, valuable to the