Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-28
NTws OF THE DAY.

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conception.
| The viceroy Is going to send twenty
young Egyptians to school In London.
Water sells in the dry part OF Aus
tralia for five dollars half pint.
An nhistOrical pic mic and clan
bake - is to take place at Fort Popham
/ Me-, tomorrow, Goth inst.
"A paper printed in Italian has ap-
peared in Chicago.
Only the negro can stand the eli
mate OF Cuba. The mortality among
the coolies is very great.
/ A San Francisco firm Is about estab
fishing direct trade with the island o.
I. Borneo.
The Omaha branch Of the Union
/ Pacific railroad is completed five hundred
! and forty miles. Il. i.
The next meeting OF the national
labor congress will be at Pittsburg.
The Texas papers say the cotton croI
of eight counties in that state is almost
an entire failure.
New York capitalists are about to
open a bank in Mexico. q.-
/ 1t Is asserted that the eight-hOul
system has had a depressing influence
on the lumber trade of California.
The Harvard boat club has abandoned
the championship Of New England To
the Lowell club. i..
The steamer Western Metropolis
sailed Friday for Bremen with 239
officers aAd soldiers Of the imperial army
of Mexico.
There were 2S6 deaths from yellow
fever in the island of Cuba in July, and
l34 deaths from smallpox.
The Swiss government has ordered
/ 1900 Peabody rifles. - aItI..-
The New Orleans Crescent thinks
subscribers to the Chicago Times can well
dispense with the Police Gazette.
Admiral TegetboH sailed from New
I Orleans, on Thursday, for Vera Cruz,
but it is probable he will fail to get the
remains of the murdered prince from the
yainglorious greasers.
Two gentlemen, citizens of Clinton,
La, have opened night school for Ne
grOes.
1t is positively asserted the Harris
letter in the New York Herald was not
sell, but written by a Harris whose
name was mistaken for that of the ex-
senator.
The New York TTBleSand Tribune are
still quarreling about Gen. Grant
One thousand dollars were promptly
contributed in one morning by few mer-
chants in New York for aid to the sick
in Galveston. .F g
Gen. Sheridan telegraphs that there
is much distress among the officers and
their families at Galveston in conse-
quence of yellow fever
The American bark, Ocean Home,
recently seized at Havana, is to be re-
stored to her owners, the charge upon
which she was detained having failed to
be sustained.
The strike on the Mobile and Ohio
railway is at an end. The officials and
employees having arrived at a satisfactory
solution of sll financial troubles.
The bones Of old Ephraim Williams,
founder of Williams college, were recent
ly plOwed up at Glenn's Falls, New
York.
There is dissensiOn in the negro camp
at Mobile. The Register says every col
ored man who has not been appointed on
the police considers himself aggrieved.
-KanaCha county, Virginia, has sub
scrihed S250,000 to the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad.
Within the Jurisdiction of the nine
orthodox Greek church parishes in
Alaska, not single crime has been re-
ported in forty years. Now that the
people have become citizens of the
United States they will acquire higher
civilization.
Gen. Augur, in his evidence before
the Indian commission, stated that,
should the war become general, it will
require at least 10000 troops to suppress
it.
The locusts have appeared in War
ren county, Miss, and. are nearly rs bad
as the army worm.
Breach loading fOwling pieces are
already very generally used ia England
and on the continent, but notwithstand-
ing the supposed greater safety in using
them, muZzle leaders are still preferred
in the United States.
The cotton crop in the lower part Of
Georgia has been materially injured by
the late rains. The reports of the rava-
ges of the worm have been greatly ex-
sggerated.
The Portland physicians account for
the remarkable healthiness of that city
this year by attributing it to the purify
ing influence Of the great fire.
County meetings are the order of the
day in Alabama. The purpose of them
is to elect delegates TO the state conserv-
ative convention, which meets Septem-
Der 4th.
The brig VIM. Anderson, which
brought load of coolies from Havana,
and landed them in Louisiana, has been
libelled, and the captain and man in
charge Of the coolies bonded in one
thousand dollars to answer violation Of
the laws prohibiting the Introduction of
coolies into the United States.
-Fire-prOof muslin is an article at
present occupying the attention of
scientific men. 1t is stated that a con-
centrated neutral solution OF tungstate of
soda, diluted with water, and then mixed
with three per cent. OF phosphate of soda,
will effrctually protect muslins against
fire.
The Mount Gents tunnel, which is
nearly eight miles long, is now a little
more than half done. At the present
rate of progress, it will take five years to
complete it. ,- .. .....- .-..
Some wit in Montana, who wants to
be severe on the lieutenant general has
posted the following notice in the streets
Of Virginia City: "Wanted, 80, 900 grass
hOppers to enter the service Of the
United States, under Gen. Sherman"
The general staff of the Prussian
army has unanimously decided, after a
thorough examination Of the new French
Chassepot musket, that they are inferior
to the Prussian needle-guns, and that
there is no necessity whatever for
changing the latter.
-Fiattering accounts have been re-
ceived from the mines in Barbados,
West India. One hundred aud thirty
two pounds of gold were taken out in
three weeks, and forwarded to Europe.
The crew Of the ship Lizzie Mores
mutinied Saturday when but few miles
below Philadelphia. The mutiny was
quelled by the police. The mate was
stabbed and one of the mutineers had
his skull fractured.
The Rev. Newman Hall, the eloquent
independent minister in Enland, is COM
ing to the United States.