Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-18

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peditiOn have sailed from England for
India.
1t is said Chicago Is Over-run with
young men out Of employment.
Recent indications are that gold viii
be found in abundance Ia Alaska.
The cotton worm is again at work
in Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas.
The anti-gambliDg society in New
York has been beaten IN the courts, and
the gamblers are chuckling.
-" The DEVILS Auction y Is the horri-
flying title Of q spectacular piece to be
brought out at Barnumis museum a.
New York next week.
Queen Victoria's book sells In Eng
land for S 50, and in America for 81.
In Havana telegraph operators are
obliged to wear a uniform VIXEN on duty
apd a sword on state occasions.
The tobacco crop In the Connecd-
cut valley Is cut OF fifty per cent. this
year.
The erasshopper scourge Is affecting
the farms bordering on lake Chanplain
in Vermont and New York.
-The crowd attracted to Paris by the
international exposition, is fast thin
ming out
The national banks are calling
loudly for ones and twos greenbacks 80
fast that they cannot be supplied by
Gen. Spinner.
The number of deaths in New York
for the past week was Eve hundred and
twelve.
The yellow fever has almost entirely
disappeared from Corpus Christi.
! The democrats of New York city
fired one hundred guns on Tuesday, in
honor Of the democratic victory in Cali
| fornia.
Gen. Grant has ordered q reduction
in the number Of employees in the freed
mans bureau.
1t has rained with hardly a days
/ intermission for three months ia parts OF
/ Florida.
The imperial Gazette of Moscow pays
a high tribute TO the United States on
I the Cretan question.
The house ofcOmmOns Of the new do
/ minion Of Canada will assemble in the
last week Of October.
The yellow fever is sensibly abating
I in New Orleans. Less than forty deaths
| ia the past tweuty-four hours.
=" Spanish mackerel,n brought from
! New York by express, sell in Boston at
| fifty cents per pound.
An Indianapolis father is blessed
with an infant son with hands and feet
fashioned exactly like cats. The child
is % perfectly healthy"
The cabinet is said to be united in
the opinion that the amnesty relieves
all excluded whites from disability to
suffrage.
The war department refused to give
Wilkes Booths trunk to his brother Ed
win. Not satisfied with the murder of
Wilkes they would steal his private ef-
fects. Such is radicalism.
Registration is to be opened in the
south for fourteen days before the cleo
tions, ia order to give those q chance to
register and vote who are enfraDehised
by the amnesty proclamation.
The IndisnOla (TeXas) Bulletin is
informed that the grass is remarkably
fine on the prairies, which is sure indi-
cation at this season Of the year, that
the cattle viii do well throughout the
winter.
The corn crop Of Kentucky has suf-
fered greatly from drouth. In some sec
tions whole fields have been dried up and
destroyed.
The splendid customhouse at Charles /
ton, S. G., is approaching completion, |
and will be ready for occupation by the |
middle OF October.
A fashionable paper says the female [
head has become sort Of museum for /
gold bands, canoes, butterflies and /
pendulous wreaths, which hang under
the chin.
Lieut.. Gov. Stevenson, a Kentucky /
exchange says, has expressed q fixed /
purpose not 20 become s candidate for /
governor when an election is ordered.
The American dollar IS derived from /
the German "thaler" literally " Val
ley piece, ~ the first thaler having been
coined in Grachimsthal, in Bohemia,
where there are extensive silver mines.
BY the new law, the queen is author
lied % prorOgue parliament without any
subsequent writ or commission. Her
proclamation is hereafter to be taken as
Sufficient notice that parliament stands
prorogued to the day and place named
in it,
The whisky distillers and tobacco
dealers Of New York are working against
the consolidation of the bonded ware
houses into one general warehouse, which
it seems the government has in contem-
plstiOn.
The Rockingham VA Register
states, as an evidence Of returning pros
perity in the Valley, that since the war
there have been sold there over one hun
dred and fifty pianos by one house.
The Indian peace commissioners left
Omaha on Saturday FOR North Platte to
meet Spotted Tail. From thence they
20 to Fort Larned, Colorado, via Jules
burg and Denver, to meet the southern
Indians.
The efforts Of the government to Sc
cure a naval station in the West Indies
have failed, Spain refuses to part with
any Of her territory, after having enter
tanned proposition for some time. st.
Domingo will not sell SamaDa, and Den
mark never had any idea Of disposing Of
St Thomas.
Horses are commanding a great deal
Of attention in the world. An interna-
tiOnal veterinary congress is TO be held
at Zurich, Switzerland, commencing the
last OF October. The governments Of
thirteen countries viii send represent
atives.
There are in circulation at the south
Ave cent pieces made Of lead
with a coat Of quicksilver, very skilfully
executed, and well calculated to deceive.
They may, however, be easily detected
by the difference of weight between the
bogus and the genuine.
One Of the resolutions embodied in
the radical platform in Pennsylvania is
the following:
I" ResOlUed, That warned by past mis-
fortunes, we ask that the supreme court
Of the state be placed IN harmony with
the political opinions Of 8 majority of
the pe0ple.n
There are no letters held for post
age !" at the Providence { r 1. Office. A
wealthy gentleman visits the office every
week and furnishes stamps for all letters
that require il. What motive prompts
aim to this action is not known, but it is
said that some years ago he suffered loss
70 3 large amount through the failure of
q letter TO reach its destination.