Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-08
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL
MEMPHIS:
SATURDAY, -: JUNEs. 1881
RRERIrIES

1 ~ AllitdISs u oAAAf 900, fb1t tO01,SO6.
The New York Tribune dislfkes Gen.
Ord's advice to the negroes to take no
part in politics.
Last winter counterfeiters carried on
their operations on board river fiatbOats
near New York.
"A watch for the blind Is among the
novelties at the Paris exhibition.
The circulation Of the Wisconsin
state banks has been reduced 10
SIO6,024.
There is q lettuce head in Richmond
measuring forty inches in eireumer-
ence. 81
worth their face, after all. Collectors
were sold.
"A. T. Stewart is upderselling, by
more than one half, the New York deal,
ers in Paris millinery.
-Harriette Beecher Stowe has plaE1ed
three hundred acres in Florida witlenor-
anges.
Missouri has four candidates for the
vice presidency.
Cholera is now raging in Brazil to an
alarming extent.
Two cases Of genuine cholera were
reported In Roosevelt street, New York.
on the 9Th instant.
The safety of the Archduke Maxi
milan is virtually assured on condition
OF his publicly renounciDg all claim to
the crown of Mexico.
They have established reading and
chess club at Columbus, Ga.
The seventh annual congress of the
beer brewers Of the United States was
held in Chicago on Wednesday.
France claims half the prizes for
paintings.
Sweden sends salted herrings to the
Paris exposition.
Six tea ships have entered Hong
Kong for the annual race to England.
The New York Tribune wishes Wen
dell Phillips would go south and
take some lessons in civility and hu-
manity.
The most cutting sarcasm we have
vet noticed, is the assertion, in late
Methodist paper, that "Brownlow is a
christian gentleman"
Sum ner's speech about Walrussia is
like the territory to which it relates-not
calculated for practical purposes.
-Patchen beat Commodore Vanderbilt
at a trot in New York, on the 3Oth ult.
Time-2:2s 2:31 2:33; 2:S53. The first
was dead heat.
Gen. Grant passed through New
York city Tuesday for West Point, to
attend the annual examination.
The king OF Prussia and Count Bis
mark left Berlin Monday to visit Napo-
leon, and see his big show at Paris.
For the three months ending May
3lst. the tobacco manufacturers OF De-
| troit paid government taxes amounting
to Sl85, 30 2g.
The net proceeds of the Hollywood
bazaar at Richmond amounted to Sl6-
| 600
The Park bank Of New York, with
$4,000, 600 capital, has deposit OF Slo'-
The Hebrews of Baltimore raised
$4,000 by their late fair for the jewish
THE new hall of the Pennsylvania
! horticultural society was opened with
appropriate ceremonies last "Wednesday
evening.
-HGckleberries, plums and apples.
are offered in quantities on the streets OF
! Columbus, Georgia.
! The German tenor, Theodore Habel-
/ man. is about to make debut in Eng
| lish opera with the Richings troups-
The New York Tribune tells the
president that if he had gone to Boston
! ne would have been made LII. ID. by
Harvard university.
| The French corps legistdtg has
passed law reducing the form OF natu-
! ralization from ten TO three years, ana 10
one wear when important service has
been rendered by the person.
/ The officer ia command at Mobile
has removed the tax collector, treasurer
! and members of the city council, ap-
pointing others by his own august
Accounts from the plains say it is
feared work on the Union Pacific rail-
road viii have to be suspended, IN con-
! sequence Of the increasing depredauohs
Of tpe Indians. .-..,.-
anne and miscellaneous sources, during
! NTsv. will show not only a very large
currency balance in the treasury, but
considerable reduction Of the pubic
debt. H..
/ for. the newly made land in the Back
! bay. il infested with sand tieas, crOtoh
bugs. cockrosches, rats aud damp
In view of the fact that tSo eases Of
| cboIara. are repOrted in New YORK, that
! If prevails all along the South American
! coast. and various sporadic cases nave
| been reported in different cities OF the
limited States through the past winter,
/ il is not improbable We may nave IL ia
| endemic form again this summer, ana
so every house and every city shouid De
I set in order
Gen. Sickles is extremely fond OF
! iss,,in0 orders. Such men delight to see
their names in print, ana are sStisHeu
4 with rushlight fame. His lest order, I'M
| ike anv OF the rest, embraces st least
1 txo distinct ideas. He is improving;
/ eolor and caste are abolished, and be has
I passed a Maine liquor law for the Csro-
The constitutional state convention
| Of New York met and organized Thurs
day. at Albany. Some sharp speaking
| took place between Horace Greeley and
Several freedmen in Stsunton, Va,
have accumulated sufficient money TO
purchase lots upon which to erect their
/ houses.
A party Of eastern capitalists have
offered the sum of SS0a000 20 aid the
construction of the st. Joseph and Coun-
ell Bluffs railroad.
| Since the opening of the corn ex-
change in Alexandra, thirteen days
| since. IS, 900 bushels of corn have been
received and sold here.
| -Ferney's paper says Stanberys
opiniou is a betrayal of the nation. 1t
doesn't eondeseend to state in what par
! ticular respect.
The New York Sun thinks that at
No neriod within the. last ten years has
| there been so many unemployed work
! ingmen in that city as at the present
time. -,
Vile. now forty years old, who has per-
fectly formed body, but neither arms or
legs. Her name is Hester Massey.
! THE latest announcement Of the in
tended visit TO Paris of crowned head
is that of the shah, of Persia, Naspo-ed-
din. son Of Mahomed, shah, 70 whose
throne he succeeded in lS4S. He is ex-
pected fn July.
bupdned and fifty acres, on Hampton
| ereek. near Fortress Monroe, has been
purchased for $4,000 by the New YORK
| American missionary associsuon, with
the design of establishing there a train
ing school for eolored teachers.
| The mayor and common council OF
Fayetteville, North Carolina have been
I removed by the commanding general,
! and others appointed in their place.
/ The citizens of Huntington county,
Indiana. have found q gold mine, and
have brought quartz mill from New
| York to work it.
| The new Greek minister to the
limited States, Mr.. Paughabie, arrived at
! Roston Sunday, on the steamer Cuba
ea route for Washington.
The New York EvG7aing Post gives
dismal picture of the condition OF the
| CHANCES OF New York. The state owes
$50 600. .OOO, the counties S75,OO0, 600 and
city $40 ,O0O,O more. Taxation is now
at the rate of S27 so for every man,
woman and child in the state.
! The Chicago Times remarks that the
peDiDsula of Alaska, in Russian America,
E a narrow promonitory which nature
seems TO have placed there as a pointer
Indicating the shortest possible route
from Chicago TO Japan.
NReUorts of agents of the freedmen's
bureau in Georgia, Virginia and South
Carolina show an improved condition OF
| the freedmen as regards the labor ques-
| ton. ,--,-,,- -
Ohio railroad to q point in Kentucky
opposite Cairo, is finally determined
upon, aud that the work viii be COM
nieted in a short time. The bridging OF
the Ohio river at Cairo, Is also contem-