Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-10
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ily IN New Hampshire lost eleven mem
bers In two weeks.
1t Is reported that 3 con Of Marco
Bozzsris will he Greek minister to the
United States
A female reformation society Is to be
started at Chicago: and nowhere is
It more needed.
The total debt Of North Carolina, W
to October LIST, including interest
amounts to thirteen million dollars.
Some creatures not fearing the Lord
broke into a church at Indianapolis last
Sunday, and c%onflscated the whole stock
Of sacramental wine.
An exchange says n Dir. Bel, Of
Boston, engaged in laying torpedoes to
blow up Brazilian war vessels in Para
quay, has been blown up by u of his
own torpedoes and extinguished.
A Goldfish breakfast and ndis-rubber
coat will keep men dry all day.
-Thaekery says: "Only women thor
ougbly know the insolenoe Of women
toward one another"
"A Virginia antiouary has discovered
that PocahontEs did not save Capt. John
Smiths life at all.
Beast Butler announces his intention
to run for the Presidency in 1865 at all
hazards. Why not? Running is his
forte when there is nothing to steal!
Vermont has forty-four base ball
clubs, all organized since April /, 1866.
in Massachusetts,, during the year,
81 $50 barrels OF msckerel were il
spected-a decrease Of q, 099 barrels since
the previous year.
AT the Wool Growers convention
held in Springfield, Ill, it was stated
that there are in that state 100000
sheep, worth IS, OOO, 600, yielding annu-
ally 5000, 600.
The st. Louis Democrat discourte-
ously says: The Memphis APPEAL q
rebel newspaper, has been purchased by
John Hogan, the st. Louis copperhead,
and prominent friend OF Andrew John
son. 1t will be edited by ex-rebel Gen.
Albert Pike. l. is destined to De sue
cessfuI If it learns to eat more dirt than
the avalanche.
Victor Cousin, D Of the most emil
nent Of French authors, has just died at
the age Of seventy-fve years. Several
OF his works have been translated into
English.
A writer, who has been to both
places, says life Is too short and uucer-
tain to drink poor whisky or to make
love TO ugly Womeu
The success Of street railroads in
America have determined the cockneys
TO insugurate them for the first time in
London. The next session of parlia-
ment, it is believed, will legalize the
project.
The South CaroliRiaH says there isa
growing disposition among capitalists Of
the north to loan money to the producers
OF cotton FOR the purpoes of enabling
them to carry on the labors Of their
plantations.
The Chicago Times says the New
York Tribune deYotes two editorial col
ums TO attempting to prove that the
democratic party favored secession. If
SO, it may have arisen from reading the
cogent articles fsvoring secession which
appeared in the New York Tribune Just
before and at the breaking out Of the re-
bellion.
George W. Paschel, and quite a
number Of other prominent union men
OF Texas, have memorialized Congress
to divide the State midway between
the Brazos and Calersdo rivers, saying
il 80 divided the western section would
strongly sustain the union on the basis
Of the congressional reconstruction pol
icy.
The notorious P. T. Barnum is a can
didate for congress at the approaching
spring election in Connecticut.
The well known steamer RR. Cuy4a,
long in the New York and Savannah,
Georgia, trade, has been seized as a sus-
pected Fenian ~privateer. She was
DSSfay aInSu.
In despite Of the ridicule certain
northern papers attempted to attach to
the manly sport Of fitting on horseback,
in so-cslled tournaments, the yankee
gentlemen are actually participating in
tournaments themselves, only they pre-
fer their own two feet-sttsched to
skates, TO the four OF q horse and the
successful Sc skatist" selects 3 queen Of
love and beauty" just as the southern
cavaliers are wont to DO.
H. F. james, who founded the city of
Janesville, Wisconsin, in 1886, soon after
ward emigratsd 10 the Pacific coast, and
now writes to the Ja~nesville Gazette, and
says that, although be is sixty-three
years Of age, he has never yet seen a
railroad or a telegraph. :
In a New York exchange We see it
stated that q cartel has been received
from Dir. StauntoA~s representative Of
the English chess players, wherein the
entire strength OF the United States,
without any exception, is invited TO cen
test a match for 200 guineas, through the
medium OF the Atlantic cable. This
startling proposition is as We understand, /
under Amusement among our principal
amateurs.
A reverend geogrspher OF London,
England, not insppropJiately named
Furajss, gives the following definite in
formation about the realms of bis So
majesty Hell is 1000 miles from
the surface Of the earth 1t IS a boundless
plain of red-hot iron, with an atmos-
phere of fire and rivers Of seething filth
and sulphur"
"A bill has been introduced into the
New York legislature which provides
hat all passengers on the several rail
of that state shall only ray half the
Usual fare il u]uprovi3ed with seats by
he railroad companies, and that Il a
passenger shall buy his ticket Of q ticket
gent or conductor, and then have nc
eat provided, be shall recover back by
the entire fare paid, :
- The member Of congress referred to ,
4 the following statement by the New
fork World, IS Benz. +. Loan A sister ]
n-law Of the radical member Of congress [
rom the st. Joseph, No, district, dur /
lg the war, grstifed her mSHgnity by '
Ding out 10 see four Confederate youths T
Rnged in cold blood by jayhawkers Il
Don after, a son WAS born to her whose :
lolls continuously nom his mouth,
nd whose neck bears the frayed appear :
nee Of one in the tinsl agonies Of suffo-
alton. While many viii pity her, none a
i'll say it is not deserved. 5
The American astronomers OF the coast
Iryey have determined, by means OF :
ie transatlantic cable, the difference Z
longitude between NRlentia, Ireland,
I'd Hearts Content, Newfoundland
be difference has been found to be two
ours, hfty-ODe minutes, fifty-six sec o
ads and a half. BY this means the diff