Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-07
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL
ME M PHIS:


M e MI HIS:
TUESDAY, :; MAY :, 1897
"A New Jersey farmer has been fined
$1,000 for poisoning cattle.
-Thfee. divorces were granted by
Columbus (O.) Judge on Friday.
Crude oil brings a cent a gallon IN
Canada. It don't pay for pumping.
The New York Herald now contains
the name of James Gordon Bennett, jr.,
as manager.
-James Brooks, a notorious hotel
thief. has been sent 10 the New York
penitentiaFy for ten years.
Vermont has only three public dis
dIIeries where she had forty fifteen years
ago.
American officers are offering their
services to France and Prussia, accord
ing to preference.
False lips, false ears, and false stom-
acbs are the latest things talked about in
the fashionable world.
"A man named Thos. Tha5er was
run over, horribly mangled and killed by
an engine in Cincinnati Friday.
During April the fire losses in Chi
cago amounted to S97, ,l12, Of which S75,-
SO was covered by insurance.
-Maretzek failed to come to time
with his opera troupe, in Chicago, the
other day.
Reed and Fitzgerald fought prize
fight at Denver for $1,000. After ninety
eight rounds, Reed won.
An old man named Alton, while
sitting in his house in Birmingham,
Michigan, a few nights since, was shot
and killed by some unknown assassin.
A railroad " section boss" named
Jefferson, was killed by a Mrs. Youns
eight miles from Paris, Tenn, few
davs since. No particulars are given.
Judge VIM. s. Mudd, Of Marion
county, is spoken of in connection with
the next gubernatOrial canvass IN AIa-
bama by the radicals.
The loss by the destruction OF En-
erv,s candle and oil factory, in Cincin-
natl Friday morning, viii reach nearly
! 500 900.
The car of the United States ex-
press, on the Chicago and st. Louis
railroad, was destroyed by fire Thursday
morning. Loss, 5000.
The heaviest income reported IN
Chicago this year is that of Cyrus II.
Mccormick, who returns Sl69,76O. Pc
ter SebuttIer returns S111, ,625. All others
are below 500, 900.
During the present year 44,S27 emf
grants have arrived in New York, being
not quite 1000 less than the number
during the corresponding period of last
year.
Rhode Island has two cities with
population Of 81, ,2S3, 13S villages with
population of sO,O42, and a rural popula-
ton of 1850. Providence contains
54, ,595 of the 1856, ,915 inhabitants in the
state.
"A green young man at Manchester,
y. II. was married last week to one OF
his male companions, who had assumed
female apparel and q very thick veil for
the occasion.
A keg Of powder exploded near Fort
Lee. New Jersey, Tuesday, blowing a
man named McCalley fifty feet into she
air. and "landedD him into the river.
He swan ashore, and is still living.
Mr.. John Blanton, of Middle Grove,
Monroe county, No, died at his resi-
dence on the 29th of April, at the unus-
nal age of 100 years, three months and
seven DAYS. He had been soldier IN
/ the war Of 1872.
-The Dubuque Herald states, on the
authority of gentleman from Mime
sots, that the governor Of that state Is
about to issue a proclamation urging the
citizens to ship no more wheat down the
river until after harvest, owing to It's
scarcity.
A few days ago two boys in the st.
Austel union .workhouse, London, each
swallowed eighteen marbles. One Of the
bovs said he swallowed the marbles be
cause he was hungry. The boys looked
pale but were not much the worse for the
experiment.
There is now exhibiting at Redcar,
a small village in England, cork model
of Lincoln cathedral, made by lincoln
shire ploughman, which contains the
extraordinary number of 100000 old
corks, and occupied ten and half years
in building.
in the suit at Boston for bastardy,
brought by the servant Jane Langviile
against J. r. Gilmore" Edmund
Kirke.u author of " Among the Pines, y
the Jury were unable to agree, after be-
ing oat seventeen hours, and were dis
charged. They stood seven for theplain-
| tiff and FIVE for the defendant.
There are now buried in the memo
rial cemetery at Raleigh, n. c., 81
North Carolinians, 4G South Carolinians
a Georgians, Alabamians, s Mississip-
piaps, 4 Virginians, FIoridians, 2 Ten.
uesseans, ] Texan, Louisianian, l Ar
kausian, Confederate States navy
men, and 1O6 unknown dead. Total, 5SS
A statement which lacks full CON
firmation, that Chief Justice Chase in
tends to exchange judicial circuits viii
Associate Justice Field, prevailed in
Washington Friday. If it is consum'
mated the chief justice will hold the
United States circuit court for Oregon
and California, while Judge Field vii
have the old circuit of Virginia snC
/ Maryland.
1.-The Mobile Times says that the de
preston in business matters there is in
creased by exorbitant rents. The mer
chants have formed an association il
order to represent in the most impres
sive manner to their landlords their un.
willingness and inability 70 continu'
paying throughout the balance of th,
year, the high rents which were i'm
posed on them last year.
The dedication of the new grant,
Masonic temple at Boston, on the 24tl
of June, will be performed with impOs
ing ceremonies. The day will be a pub
lie holiday in the city, and preparation
will be made by the Masons to entertain
twenty-five thousand visiting brethren
President johnson and Gen. Grant hav,
accepted invitations, and are expected
"A man was horribly mangled il
Buffalo, recently, by being caught unde
revolving grindstone. When takel
out his back was mass Of gritty pulp
one arm was torn to shreds, the muscle
being literally pulled out by the roots
Every time the fearful stone revolve'
upon the writhing flesh, it filled it witt
grit and dirt, while the greater part 0
the clothing was stripped of.
"A man named DeLong murdered