Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-02

confined In the Vermont state prison.
The ship Daniel Crockett arrived liz
Philadelphia recently with $500 bushels
Of California wheat and 5000 bushels OF
barley. This Ia the first lot Of California
grain ever brought to Philsdelphia.
There have been six snow storms lit
Louisiana since the tear 1900.
"A young man in Indiana cut down IL
tree that contained two coons and SIX
ra~ttIesnakes.
Hon. Willard Fillmore is president of
a new club in Buffalo.
There are 1858 fewer votes in North
Carolina Row than there were in 1881.
"A severe snow storm prevailed OH
the 26th uit. in Wisconsin, blocking up
the railroads.
"A mar and wife, named Cook, were
lost in the snow storm last Sunday nigh,
at Florida, Massachusetts,, and have been
missing since.
Sulphur has been found TO answer
the purpose, in its application to sugar.
making, better than the bi sulphate of
lime.
in France a man who spoke disre-
spectfully Of the Emperor in a stage
coach has been fined 500.
The selectmen of New London,
Conn, propose selling the town square,
and a New Yorker has offered $4,000 for
il. TO build a house en-.
Five persons were knocked down
and severely injured by a snow-slide in
Boston on Wednesday.
The late storm in California has
equalled in severity the remarkable one
of ISGI-62, and has been attended hy
equally extensive floods. g.
"A fireman at the Milwaukee gas
works, a few days ago. slipped into a vat
of hot water and was scalded to death.
1t has been affirmed on credible au-
thoriCy that, if he lives, the young Lord
BeIgrave, son of Earl and Lady Con-
stance Grosvenor, and grandson of Mar
o. of Westminster, viii be the wealth
lest man in the world.
The toilettes of Madame Ristori era
brace collections of merchandise and
iewelry to the extent of $4,000.
1t is proposed to a meeting
of the working classes in London for the
purpose of eliciting their views a to the
cause which ALLEVIATE them from religious
worship.
"A citizen of Chicago has been fined
for letting two worthless horses starve to
death. The poor animals last meal was
a handful OF shavings.
in her hurry to attend a sick child,
a woman in Wabash, Ind, threw UNI
consciously a package containing $500
into the fire.
"A private fancy dress party is being
gotten up in Washington, at which all
those present are to wear some costume
of the era of Queen Elizabeth.
The present population of Indiana
is estimated at 100000. At the same
rate of increase it will amount to 2,0O,-
900 in IS7O-an increase of forty-eight
per cent. in ten years.
A few days since a farmer near
| Newark, n. J., was waited upon by a
respectable looking gentleman, who said
he had come to pay for a basket Of
apples which he had taken from the
orchard when he was 3 boy, sixteen
years previously. He insisted upon
paying not only the original value, but
also the interest.
a-Canadian volunteer organizations
are costly luxuries TO the officers. One
/ company has placed five captains and as
many subalterns financially hOrs Oh
.a6at by the expense entsiled in keep
ing up the necessary style.
An important precedent was set in
Washington on Friday, in apprj pristing
$4,000 for the relief of Josiah G. Armes,
whose property a. Anandale, Fairfax
county, Virginia, was destroyed for NIL
| itary purposes. 1t was favored by Mr.,
! Stevens, but opposed by Mr.. Morrill,,
who contended ths.t it would open the
door to claims amounting to a thousand
millions.
During the performance of the drama
Peep o. Day, at the Boston museum
last Wednesday evening, a stage car.
penter named VIM. Hart, while engaged
in setting the bridge scene, fell from the
flies to the stage, a distance of nearly
thirty feet, striking upon his side and
breaking his hip bone, beside sustaining
other severe injuries. He was taken tC
the Massachusetts, hospital.
"A curious etyniology Of the phrase
Christmas-bOx " Is given by a writer il
Notes aud Queries, who says: Tourists
in Egypt and Syria are pestered by beg
ging Turks and Arabs for beckshis-i. e
gift or present. At Calcutta, the pcoI
Hindoos, with both hands extended, i'm
ploringIy ask for 6oris. The work seemi
common over all Asia; and Christina
'boxis' or 'baxis'- -. c. presents-is NJ
] doubt a term introduced by the Crusader
into the language of this country"
About eighty a day of the new
breech-lOaders are now being turned GU
at the Springfield armory, andmthei
number will be constantly inere "a TN
til in February two hundred will be tn
daily production. The working force i
being increased, but only those are en-
gagged who have been in the army o
navy, or who have served long and faith
fully in the government workshops il
that city.
Gen. Dyer, chief Of ordnance, state
in an official letter to the secretary o
war that no contract made subsequent h
April >, 1864, for the manufacture Q
rifles, carbines and pistols, has been re
newed, and none has been extended
With a few exceptions, no increase Q
price has been made upon any of thes
contracts and if any of them have beel
sub-let, it has been done without the au
thority OF the ordnance bureau, so far a
can be as~certained from the records of III
office.
"A mischievous youngster in Rich
mond, Va, upon hearing read an aceoun
of a fire, in which 4 play-fellow figure,
as the originator, remarked that "hs,
be logged if he wouldn't get his name il
the paper too" and straightway wen
up stairs and set fire to his own bed
which but for the timely arrival Of In
fire department, would have laid In
dwelling in ashes.
The New Berne Commercial says tina
within q radius of thirty miles Of tia
city, during the iast twelve months
there have been Ierpetrated not feVfe
than one hundred eases Of rape, murder
arson and burglary, to say nothing o
the hundreds of cases of minor 0ffen5e
against the law. These ofTenses ar
committed, in nearly every instance, b,
negroes, and the Commercial urges lib
assembling Of public meetings to TAX
some action to repress the evil.
Mr.. Gilbert Munger, a young artis
who began to paint in oil cOlors tw,
years ago, has produced some landscape
that are remarkably fine, c~onsiderinI
the short experience OF the painter in hi
art. At Messrs. Philip & Solomons
bookstoEaAg three of his pictures-viev
on the Rapidan river and a view on iii