Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-24

the Natural BRIDGE Va are o 10
erect q church. They nave been liber-
ally aided by the white people of the
neighborhood.
They have a eross-eyed horse in
Allegheny City, Penn. Where is But
Ter? They'd make a gay team,
-Four OF the crew Of . lifeboat were
drowned near Plymouth, Mass, on
Wednesday, in saving the crew of a
wrecked schooner. Their names were
Cromwell f. Holmes, James Lynch,
Joseph B. Lynch and Amasa Bart
lSt, jr.
1t is said that Gen. Halleck will take
possession of the Russian territory when
the country is delivered over to its new
%pers.
The grain crop in the Shenandoah
valley, it is said, will be larger the
present season than ever before. Wheat,
buckwheat and Rye never looked better,
and an immense amount of land is to be
planted in corn.
Mrs. Swisshelm Gun that
after suffrage is given to women, her
sex will not work for half pay, and that
vice will not furnish women the most
profitable employment.
The settlers Of nearly all the frontier
counties of southwestern Minnesota are
almost entirely destitute of seed wheat
and corn, and unless their wants in this
respect be relieved, next falls crops
must be very light.
The Platte and Missouri rivers are
reported higher than at any time since
1874. The track OF the Union Pacific
railroad, near Wyaudotte, is overlowed
to a depth sufficient to extinguish fires
in the locomotives.
The police records Of New York
make US acquainted with the alarming
fact that within the last three weeks no
less than six girls are known to have
been stolen from their homes in that city
for the worst purposes.
The steamer Colorado, in her round
trip from San Francisco to China and
back again, realized Si1I,OOO, besides the
II 1873 paid by the government for carry
ing the mails, thus making at least $50
coo clear profit. This announcement has
had a very cheering effect on Pacific
mail stock, which has been under the
weather lStsly, but is now in large de-
mand again. o
Rear Admiral Davis viii very shortly
leave the naval observatory, and will
relieve Rear Admiral Gordon in COM
mand of the South Atlantic squadron,
on the Brazil station, going out in the
GueTriere. Either Rear Admiral Lee or
Commodore Sands wiz Re ordered to
duty as superintendent Of the oGsetVs-
tory.
"A duchess in Paris, whose infant
had, when newly born, been sent. into
the country to nurse, recently sent for
the boz, when he was four years OLD.
Walking out with the little fellow she
was amazed to hear him exclaim
There, mamma, is 8 good house." and
running froA heF into the ooHFt yard be
took OFF his cap and began to sing. The
unfortunate little duke had been trained
by his nurse to beg as a ballad singer. I
Col. James Plummer shot a large
male lynx, five and a half feet in length
and two feet high, In Abner Hord's
woods, nea Milwood, but in Fleming
county, Ky, April 3, 1867. The colonel
had its hide stuffed, and it can be seen at I,
any time at sinon Miller's. The query
is, how it came in this country running
at large, it being a native of Europe and ]
Asia. The %supposition is that it escaped
from some menagerie-its feet look as
it had been Gagged. It has been !
quite a curiosity to the neighbOrhood. {
Benjamin Rranklin, once putting to s
press a form Of the Common Prayer, the
c in the following passage dropped /
put unperceived by him. We shall all q
be changed in the twinkling of an eye. +
When the book appeared, to the horror 5
Of the devoted worshippers, the passage z
read We shall all be hanged in the l
-winkling of an eye" i
The city authorities of Savannah, b
3a., have communicated to Col. Rey-
lolds, q-uartermaster at that place, their !,
willingness tS1nYe a tract Of land near e
Laurel Grove oeIaeterg to BE- used as 9 4
rational cemetery for the interment Of (
deceased union soldiers. "
Throughout France there are to be ii
elected shortly three hundred and five S
male and ten female delegates from the i
trades, to represent them at the . .
Paris exposition. Women are 70 vote at Il
bese elections as well as men. Of
The wife of q Wall street broker, u
in a fashionable boarding house a
n the Nights, TAI away With an adven- u
urer, because her husband took tho Il
idiculous part Of "Coek-Robin " In the "a
harade Babes IN the Woods, and hopped h.
bout the stage with two feather brushes W.
uder his coattail. in
The blind man on the Pont des Arts VI
.aris, was recently observed 70 haya lie
lifted mis- plaoard OF Pity the Door fol
LIND, etc" from mis- chest to the back, to-
) if intently gazing into the water. On els
sing addressed, the man turned and mr.,
royed not to be blind at all. He ex- :
the matter by saying he was the ini
friend OF the g paure Avengle,V ab
no had gone to the wedding Of one of ia
IS relations, and begged him to do duty
his absence. w
IA beautiful monument is Ii be erected a
the Dean cemetery, near Bdinburg, e
to the memory of Col. Robert bnt
Smith, 10th Mississippi regiment, @. :
A., who was mortally wounded at the riei
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