Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-12

multiplied.
; New ripe wheat, from Georgia, was
on exhibition at the New York produce
exchaBge on the 5th inst. 1t is Of excel
lent quality.
-Elendershott, the famous yankee
drummer, married at Newburg, last Fri
day. the daughter Of a wealthy merchant
Of P0ughkeepsie, with whom he eloped.
Neither bride or groom are yet nineteen
years old.
An Indianapolis gentleman COM
plains that he has of1iciated as grOoms-
man for q single friend six times, and
SAYS he will not fail him In the seventh.
Large numbers OF cOlOred people in
the south have applied to the agent Of the
L col9nizstiou society for passage TO Libe-
ria in the fall. No wonder even the ne
\ grOes wish 10 get away.
As high as ten per cent. per month
has been demanded and obtained by the
money lenders of Lynchburg, Va.
! A hOgshesd Of tobacco raised in
South Carolina was sold ia Richmond
Friday. It was the first shipmentof the
/ kind ever received there.
The Richmond Ind Telegram tells
Of q Wayne county man, who took his
family 70 the circus, not long since, and
sold his cooking stove TO get money to
buy tickets.
"A radical paper says "Thad. Stew
! ems coniscatiOn theory is a proposition
10 commit national suiciden
The Philadelphia Herald says ripe
peaches are selling Tor fifty cents q piece
in Memphis, but no one here has seen
any.
The real estate in Buffalo has been
assessed for taxation, the present year,
st SO 4g9, ,3SS, and the personal property
at =, sos, $50. .
james Kent Stone has been elected
Peabody professor Of mathematics and
civil engineering in Kenyon college, ia
/ place of Professor Long, resigned.
The earnings Of the Union Pacific
! railroad, now running to North Platte,
are officially reported at S26l, 7s2 81 for
May.
Rev. Joel Howes, Of the First Con-
I gregatiOnal church, Hartford, the Oldest
/ pastor in Connecticut, died on the 5th in
! his seveuty-eighth year.
| The population Of the United States
! is now "a 500, 900. Great Britain has So
600 600 France, 33, 600 600 Prussia and
/ ITS dependencies, $4,000, coo Austria,
/ 81 900 600, and Russia, sO,600,000.
/ At the grand military review in
/ Paris, IN honor Of the czsr, IS 600 cav
airy, 2800 artillery, and 5.O60 infantry
! were under arms.
! Among the relics at a Catholic fair
( in New York are piece Of the wood OF
/ the coffin in which WashingtOn's body
/ rspcsed for thirty years, and a ring over
one hundred years old, made fron the
/ fzrule Of his cane.
A C0temp0rary insinuates that radi-
cqlisul has " blessed" The country by
I oddiug a4Siberis at the north and creas-
/ ing a Poland at the south. Il might
have been added-snd by establishing
uandemoniUm all round.
An election was held in Maine, Sat
ur5av. on the proposed amendment to
| the iiduor law, increasing the penalties
for It's violation. The reports so far show
a decided msjority in favor Of the in
| crease.
There are fourteen royal parks in or
about London, which cost annually
about el25, ,326 to Keep them in order for
. the use of the public. The income from
them last year was only E4S67.
last month the eight hour system
was quietly inaugurated in san Fran
cisco, California. The procession on the
occasion was the largest ever seen in San
Francisco.
A temperance billiard room has been
started st MiddletOwn, on the plan Of the
Charter Oak rooms at Hartford. They
have lots Of them at Boston, Mass.
The Georgia mins5rels, a clever
traupe Of genuine darkies, are to give q
Performance every evening this week at
Dodsworth's haA, New York.
massachusetts mas a debt Of S56, ,6G0,
600, state and municipal. The taxation
Of Boston is twice that Of New York
city.
Next to New York, Boston is the
~ -aF r,f fhfa
country The sugar imports this year,
principally from Porto Rico and Cuba,
will reach Ie0, 600 hogsbeads, and Of mo-
lasses double that number.
The Kentucky ladies' association Of
Louisville have just forwarded $500 to
Gen. Lee for the benefit of Washington
college, Virginia.
A small lot of tobacco was sold in
Tvucbburg last Friday, which was six
teen years old, being part of the crop
Of 1851. 1t was entirely sound and
sweet.
Z The amount Of grain now in Chica-
90, as reported by various warehouses TO
The board Of trade, is 2,056,O00 bushels,
being S decrease Of ], T45, GOO bushels rom
the same time last year.
? A clergyman in New York created a
sensation by taking from his pocket a
morning newspaper, and reading the
news, last Sunday, while in the pulpit
waiting for service time.
-One-haif Of the pianos sold 10 Europe
At the present day are constructed on the
same plan as those sold fifty years ago,
while those of American manufacture
are constantly being improved.
A little girl, only fourteen years Of
see. carries the mail between the famous
stone house and Manassas station, dis
rance Of five and half miles.
A French exchange says There are
5000 Americans residing in Paris TINS
vear. Ordinarily there are but 5000.
They support eight special restaurants,
four dentists, and FIVE banking houses.
The negro crew of the ship Parsee,
all shipped at San Francisco, recently
muticied on the voyage from San Fran
cisco 10 Hong Kong, and were only sub
dued after desperate fight with the ofii-
GERS. who were fortunately armed with
the Henry rifles. There was 100000 in
treasure on board.
A eolored woman, one hundred and !
eleven wears of age, died in Norfolk
county, Va, q day or two ago. She had |
been q slave all her life, Up 10 the eman-
cisation proclamation, and then her lor- |
rper nas5er would not cast her OF, but
continued to provide for her to the day
of her QedLn. Al ueE uSCtaSS AC SS--7cN I
an elegant coffin to be provided, and he |
and his family followed her remains to |
their last resting place. This gentleman /
was her seventh owner.
"A Washington letter writer mem |
tions the existence Of an "Andersonvile |
Ieaepe,u the members all having been /
prisoners there, and who are sworn to 4
lake the life OF Mr.. Davis if the govern /
rnent does not; and the fellow has the /
inpertinence 20 say " the close retire 4
n,ent of Mr. Davis since his release en 1
hail is attributed TO q knowledge Of the I
existeDce OF this organization"-a in
famous SANDER on the Confederate chief, 4
vgho. whatever be his Shortcomings, |
never feared danger in any form, and 4
laast of all from a cOwardly band of base /
sesassins, ike the "league" thus de-
Appleton. 0aksmith, who was con-
viefed some years ago in Boston, Of be- \
inS engaged in the slave trade, and who
esesped 10 Europe, has lately made ap-
ylieasiou 70 the president for a pardon.
fhereupon his wife appeared at, the
white house and protested against the I
nardon. on the ground that be had wick \
ssdlv and upiUstiy procured adivorce from
her. On hearing this representation the
president refused the application.
In q letter lately addressed 70 the /
Fnglish minister at Florence, Garibsldi |
ferDallv sets forth his title to the gov
ernorshfp of Rome, to which Office he
savs he was elected by the Roman people
in lS4s-49, and from which he denies
that he has ever been legally depoSed.
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