Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-18
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL
MEMPHIS:


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BREvrTIEs.
Mrs. Gov. Eyre has received a brace
let Of gold and diamonds from her hus-
bands admirers.
-Cbws are pasturing 10 the burnt dis
| triet OF Charleston, s. 9.
-" "Veribad HOkes is the nom de
1 plume Of q new comic writer.
The Tre6egaP iron works at Rich
mond are in full operation, employing
/ 400 men.
! Volunteers are reported TO be leav-
| ing Greece in great numbers for Gambia
! "A gigantic railway consolidation,
embracing roads extending from the sea-
board to the west, is said to be in con-
temptation.
Having got rid Of congress, Wash
ington is now afflicted with bilious fe-
/ yer.
! The internal reveaue bureau now has
I on hand over three hundred and SSty
| thousand gallons Of whisky thstSnasve
! been seized for violation Of the revenue
/ laws by the manufacturers or sellers.
| In 1850, out Of population of 762, 900
in New Jersey, 3,000 could not read or
/ write.
A new straw paper mill, the largest
in the country, has recently commenced
| operations in Chatham, Columbia
county, n. Y.
The Southern telegraph company
have erected their poles as far as Lex
| ington on the route to Knoxville frsm
/ Cincinnati.
/ "A "Comic History of America" By
Kenward Philip, is announced for early
publication.
| "A congress Of literary men Of al ma
tions is spoken of TO take place in Paris
/ during the exhibition.
The st. Louis Republican Office has
8 lunch and coffee room for the benefit
of the employees.
The New York Herald now has its
| paper manufactuLs1 especially for its
I use, and every sheet is water marked on
| the margin, New York Herald"
/ The Massachusetts legislature has
abolished the usury laws in this state
making free trade in money.
1 The New York firm, Titfaney & Co.,
/ it is said, bought most Of the Esterhazy
! diamonds, at the late great sale IN Lon
| don.
/ The steamer Manhattan made her
I last trip from New York to Charleston in
Z forty-eight hours, the shortest time on
I record BY six hours.
L The mayors court of Mobile is called
by a paper Of that city " popular sum-
mer resort"
/ A grand German " Saeugerfest " is to
/ be held this month at WateFtown, Wis.
| It will last for three days.
! Hugh Karreus, discharged soldier,
/ imprisoned in Charleston, charged with
/ a capital crime, hung himself in jail last
/ Tuesday.
The Jamaica planters are importing
/ COOlie labOrers. Three hundred ana
\ fifty arrived there in one vessel.
A Dublin paper says a fearful blight
has set in among the early planted pota-
toes. and whole fields are affected by
! disease.
The publication of a new Catholic
weekly. called the Guardian, has been
/ commenced iR Washington, ID. G.
The Norfolk journal states that the
catch Of herrings and shsd by the North
| Carolina fisheries is not 50 large this
season as it was last spring.
/ -Th&ckeray says that the soothing
plant of Cuba is sweeter TO the phllos-
4 opher after dinner than the prattle OF all
1 the women in the world.
| Broadway, New York, is to be paved
! With New Hsmshire granite, at cost OF
/ five dollars square yard, total cost OF
/ half q million.
/ Among the largest debtors to those
! New Orleans banks which have lately
! failed are the fiercest radicals
! IT is a current rumoT in Paris, that
( NAPOLEON has discovered that during the
| var Rismark had one Of his ministers,
! Random, and one Of his marshals, Forey,
An East Cambridge establishment
/ slaughtered $4,000 hogs, cured lOO,O0
hams, and manufactured 5000 barrels OF
lard oil last year They employ about
100 hands.
1t is said that Seofeld' sEegistration
| or,ier meets with the hearty approval OF
! Ger. Grant and Secretary Stanton.
The governor Of San Louis, Mexico,
has ordered that fine be imposed upon
| an fathers of family who do not SEND
/ their children to school.
/ The paintings Of Washington ana
! TSncoln in Fanueil Hall, Boston, are sald
to be 'svery unlike any other portraits IN
| tended to represent the same persons:
! In obedience to 8 municipal ordl-
| nanoa for the arrest Of street musicians,
IN PbiladeIphia, a hand Organist was tS-
Ken before the mayor OF the elty. he
was searched as usual, and in a belt
around him he had in treasury biI's the
sum of $500.
| "A New York jury fOnnd out the other
day, when they came 70 MAKE up YER
dict, that a Prussian among their num-
her. who had been observed 20 listen win
yrsat interest to the proceedings, couldn't
I sneak a word of English.
THE Philsdelphia Herald wants the
| names of the streets painted oF tn7 cor
ner street lamps. A gq9es-oilee ana
l might be adopted with Iono9sage pu.lSsge In
! MenaubIs. too -
NTbe British and Foreign Billie society
.;r,,ulatad two millions three hundred
~ ei0htv-tbree Thousand three hun
J-ed srd eighty copies Of the Bible and
portions of the Bible, during the last
year. ft.,,u.,.,,f;o,, >,
at the Paris exhibition is the costaopon-
tan. an institute Of American orihks,
IN ali their native strength and variety
of expressive nomenclature.
REV. DIR. Leonidas ROsser has sold
from SEQ TO l400 quarts OF strawberries
daily during the present season, from
his farm near Richmond. He has al
ready sold shout 7000 quarts st twenty
"a vouug man in GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
wears his hair rolled up on the back OF
bis head like q young LADY. 1t grows
Iuxuriantly, and when it gets TO be three
feet long, be sells it to hair dressers at
sit is estimated there have been Is, 900
, deaths by accident IN the English coal
mines since the discovery and working
of them. From 1850 to 1861 the number
was 5000. - A..
Usnansse to acquire our language, it is
stated that the commissioners, brief as
their acquaintance with it has been, are
, able to converse with comparative IA
!: cility. .bo
: the boarders at the +" American house, "
70 avoid a rise in the price Of board, have
. dubbed together, employed q cook, and
EIn Burgundy, Champagne and
Franehe-Co a great quantity Of
l,snails of all kinds are consumed, and
also sent to Paris; and Prof Simmons
mentions that there are now ntty res
taurants, and more tnan l5VU prlVsle
tables in that city where snsiis are con-
sidered a delieaey by from 5000 TO lO,0OC
consumers,
The New Workers are to have an eX'
traordinary musical entertainment IL
| mne. There will be ninety in the or
| chestra: sixty-five in the military band
ltbirtv in a drum corps, and the Har-
. 4 n,onic society, with hundreds OF voices
/, besides nearly all the eminent soloists
= pianists and violinists, before the public
T At Suuuantum, Massachusetts,, MAI
| has sued bis neighbor for fifty dollar
damages, for killing favorite tom cat
while it was giving midnight sere
!. | made. ,.---r,-
3 A girl has been arrested in Newark
New Jersey, for trying to steal water
fan from the head Of another girl on tn
The average price Of wheat for Eng
. land and Wales during the third weel
IN Nav was higher than in any weel
.s,,.. fha Criuaqan war.