Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-02

[ robbed Of $40 and silk dress pattern by
/ three ruffiaus in Brooklyn.
Gen. Grant says he knows of no
/ United States troops being sent to the
frontier in anticipation OF Fenian
I troubles.
-Four car loads of freight have
reached Junction City Kansas, in five
days from New York, via ST. Louis.
A FIRE in Louisville on Thursday de-
stroyed property to the value OF 81, 900.
A destructive eonhsgTation pre-
vailed in Philedelphis on Thursday
night.
Female preachers are increasing in
England.
The battle of Long Island was fought
upon the ground now inclosed in Green
wood cemetery.
1t is estimated that at least $1,000
Swedes viii come to the United States
during the present year.
New York tenants in some of the
wards are on a strike for the reduction
Of rents.
There is to be a new union paper
published in Raleigh, \. called the
Hero.
Robins sell in the Richmond market
at a half a dollar dozen.
Among the contributions for south
eru relief from Baltimore are packages
Of garden seeds and onion sets.
The New Hampshire courts have
decided that man may make his will
on Sunday without danger to his leg
atees.
Edwin Forrest has given five hun
dred dollars for the relief Of the destitute
"a the south.
f-The Brooklyn Union says that
Madame Rosa, in a recent concert, sus-
tanned high note tweuty-three seconds,
Thirty divorces were granted
in Gilpin county, Colorado, last year.
-Freemasonry was introduced into
this country in 1850.
One fourth nearly Of the men and
nearly one half Of the woman in all
France cannot write their names.
Iowa publishes one newspaper for
every G0OO inhabitants. OF these twelve
are dallies.
Charles Dickens has a novel 10 pre-
paration for the Weekly Tribune, for which
it will pay SS5,O 600.
The Virginia express company will
soon commence business. We hope it
will not torn out another abortion ike
the National"
The farmers Of Buneombe, y. c.,
hold monthly meetings and discuss sgri-
cultural subjects. Good idea for these
times.
Twelve ladies graduated at the fe-
male medical college, Philadelphia, on
Saturday. There we're forty-four stu
dents the past session.
The proprietors Of the Wilson North
CuoliHjaa have appropriated ten per
cent. of their earnings to the education
OF children cf deceased soldiers OF the
country.
-MolHe Trussell, the psrdoned mur-
deress, left Chicago recently, ostensibiy
70 enter convent in New York. She
changed her mind, however, and has
sailed for California.
1t is estimated that the population Of
Iowa was swelled at least $4,000 by I'M
migration during 1855. This number
viii probably be exceeded during the
present year.
"A circular saw, about twenty-five
feet in circumference, has been sent to
the Paris exposition by the American
Saw company. 1t is the largest saw ever
seen.
Nathaniel Fullerton, president of the
National bank at Bellows, n. H, is
ninety-two years old. He has been
president for thirty years, is said to be
the oldest Mason In the country, and
retains the vigor Of his faculties.
"A London correspondent says that
Artemus Wards receipts from his lee
lures averaged about sixty guineas
night.
"A peasant ia Paris killed his father
in order to avoid the conscription by
pleading that he was the only son Of
widow.
Mai Gen. Rswlins, Gen. Grants
chief OF staff, has given to Congressman
wsshburne the Illinois one) a-gold-
headed cane made out Of the tree under
which Pemberton surrendered.
The Tallahassee FZoridiaR says that
the whole sea island cotton crop Of that
state is probably not less than ten thous-
and bales.
1t is understood, says an English
paper, that Mr.. Bennett. the celebrated
American yschtman, will next year
cross the Atlantic in bis yacht, the Swal-
low, which is described as a faster craft
than the Henrietta.
The cholera is reported as raging at
Queenstown, ireland, and in view Of the
fact the press Of New York urges the
importance OF strict quarantine.
The New England agricultural fair
viii be held this year on the extensive
aud elegant grounds Of Senstor Sprsgue,
OF Rhode Island, the improvements on
which have cost him $50, 900.
In telegraph, it appears that the
New World leads the Old. America has
1000 miles Of telegraph wires Europe
6O, ,O00, and India 5000.
-Bonnets, made from the skin Of the
cobra du capella, and ladies' mufis, made
Of vulture down, are knong the articles
sent from the Cape ofS4ood Hope to the
Z Paris exhibition.
I Somebody curious in cat statistics,
has had leisure 10 estimate the number
of the feline species in New York city,
aud gives as the result OF his labors, q
total Of 10000.
The New Jersey assembly, which is
decidedly republican, has rejected pro-
positicu to strike the words male aud
white from the constitution of that state.
"A young lady just married in New
York has twenty-fOur pairs Of shoes to
match twenty-four dresses. She is q
whols-solsd maiden.
-Tbe ex-Confederate Admiral Tucker
has resigned bis position as secoDd In
command Of the allied Peruvian feet.