Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-11-22
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|, ] from nres caused by the careless use %
matches.
The New Hampshire Democratic
State Convention has nominsted Jonn
G. Sinclsir for Governor.
4 Sam. Clark, OF Kosciuako, Miss, was
shot and killed recently, by his brother
in-law, Il. J. McMichael.
"A negro woman near Savannah, a
few days ago, gave birth TO three chill
cren-two coal black and one pure white.
Edwin Booth has been overwhelmed
with sentimental missives in the West.
Ballet girls now dance in the square
Of Saint Mark, in Venice, on pleasant al
ternOOns.
Life is but a flower, which is no
sooner fully blown than it begins to
wither.
The profits Of the London Times are
said TO reach nearly half million Of dol
/ THE Judiciary Committee have post
poned the Maryland Investigation until
after the 25th inst They will now de-
vote their time to theimpeachment ques-
ton.
The number ofimmigrants who have
arrived at New York from January to
November l3, 1867, has been 900, 40, as
compared with 2l2, ,752 during the same
peripd of 1866
The Democratic rallying cry In Mas
sachusetts during the late canvass was
"Adams and Liberty" that of the Re-
publicans, Bullock and Roast Beef"
Gregory, a photographer in Cleve-
land, was found in his room, on Satur-
day morning, with his throat cut, and a
girl, name unknown, lying by his side,
shot, and both dead.
Russia is reported to have decreased
its army by about IO0,0 ,000 men during the
past year 1t still has an effective force
Of about half a million.
| Gen. Rousseau and his staff have re-
turned from Sitka, and are again in san
Francisco. They did not find the cli-
mate of Walrussia so fascinating as to
| induce prOtracted sOjOurn.
/ The Worlds special says Represen-
tative Ashley will introduce on the first
day of the session a hill TO prevent the
1 present Ohio Legislature from re-district-
ing the State so as 70 give the Congress
ionai districts to the Democrats in the
election next year.
The Cleveland PldiRdeGleT urges the
selection of Cleveland as the place to
hold the next Democratic National Con-
ventisn, and says that prominent gen.
| tlemen agree to erect agrand temple TO
be used by the Convention'in its session.
/ The Republicsns of New York NOM
mated the Hon. VIM. A. Darling as their
candidate for Mayor. He will, therefore,
contest the field with Mayor Hoffman
and Fernando Wood.
/ The Pine Bluff Dispatch says the
1 streets OF that city are daily crowded
! with emiurants en- route 10 Texas.
"A musical association has been
/ formed at Little Rock, and officers
1 elected.
| "A number Of prominent citizens Of
/ New York have requested Alexander ID.
I Stephens 10 address them on the condl-
| ton Of the South. He has accepted, and
will arrive in a few days and deliver the
address.
/ The Messrs. Wise, who assaulted
| Pollard in Baltimore, publish card
| denving the truth of the report that his
/ Poilard's) wife was near; saying that
| she was inside of the hotel entrance also
! asserting that George D. Wise did not
4 FIRE until fired upon by Pollard.
! 1t is learned that there is powerful
! influence in favor of n general funding
I scheme covering the whole national
I debt, thus extending the time of the pay
/ ment of our liabilities, and meantime
providing for the gradual liquidation by
! a iudicious system OF taxation.
Mount Vesuvius is belching forth
( from its crater a pillar OF fire, which IS
| said to be a magnificent sight, as viewed
| from the city of Naples. 1t may prove
| to be rather expensive fireworks.
/ All the telegraph lines OF Great
] Britain are to be placed under the POST
/ office Department, and it is expected
/ that this action will result IN cneapenlng
! of the rates Of telegraphing.
The returns from all the counties IN
! Wisconsin give FairehiId, the Republic
/ can candidate for Governor, 4t44 major
/ itv over Tallmadge, Democrat. In the
| election last wear the Republicans claimed
/ Wisconsin by %, ,907 majority, and in
/ 1865 by 1902 majority.
Twenty thousand Roman Catholics
are said TO live in Japan, who are de-
sceudants OF converts madC by mission
aries who l,bored there two hundred
wears ago. They have bishop and a
aumber of priests, and are said 10 have
nresaryed the religion in all its original
purity, undisturbed by their heather
"a wilmington dispatch, from VIII
minqton, n. c., of the l6Ih, says: A
! Conservative ticket has been brought
ont here, and considerable reaction has
commenced among the colOred voters.
some of them will vote the Conservative
ticket.
In Holland it has been discovered
that their prisons are too comfortable
and tempt back cOnvicts, VINO carry
avav a fond recollection of the luXuries
of the incarceration. Al least TINS Is the
complaint made in a report made by one
of the committees Of the Second Cham-
Der of the States General.
TycfIIs1g U5g-gjTj0Jl announces flaI
the process of making steel out Of a com
mon blast furnace direct from the ore,
asd which has been invented by Mr..
Ievbert, is a success, and that steel rails
will soon be laid on the Central railroad,
and SAYS " This is truly reconstruction
1 Think Of it; a revolution in the iron
bpsiness of the world, and all by valley
man 81
About million Of children are said
to gather weekly in the Methodist Sun
daV schools in the United States, under
tbe instruction OF 100, GOO teachers. The
M. e. Sunday-schOol Union last year eX-
pended nearly 100000 in assisting feeble
schools. The society issues 1900 differ
| ant publications, the annual circulation
of which is equivalent TO SOC, 900, 600 OF
| 1SmO. pages.
The philosopher of the New York
Tribune did not crafty himself by gaZ-
ing at the meteOric exhibition on the
18th and 14th, but yielded the field to his
Democratic friends, as he had "seen
stars enough the week previous to sat
isfv him for at least one year.
/ The Columbia and Augusta railroad
bridge was crossed by trains for the first
time on the 18th inst. The bridge is a
| handsome iron structure. It's entire
length is 1910 feet. The road, when com.
pIeted, will be the great through line be-
! tween the North and South, and will
shorten the distance between Columbia,
:. C.. and Augusta, Ca, sixty miles.
The laying of the track is being pushed
hard.
We learn that Mr.. Sam. P. Wins
! will revive the Athens Post on the 9TH of
Decembe This was one OF the best
papers in Tennessee before the war, and
/ Mr.. Twins has lost none of the spirit and
energy with which he then conducted
the Post.
The st. Paul Press, of the 18th inst,
publishes returns from all but three
frontier counties Of Minnesota, and fig
ures the majority for Marshall, the Re-
publican candidate for Governor, at $500.
1t comedies the defeat Of negro suffrage
by about 1000 majority.
I M aNtLltts lLit lhAA4uub ANA AAE1of bN AAAG
laving of a cable under the Rhine, has
] lust been connected with the telegraph
! network, which places all the fOrtresses
of the Rhine in communication with
Berlin, or, in case Of necessity, with the
] Commander-in-chi of the Prussian
| army. This will be Of great value to
Prussia IL hostilities break out next year.
! Tennessee - says a private letter,
lately received from the French capital,
dis not left out in the cold upon the
Champ de Mars. The tallest man that
wanders among the cafes thereabOut is a
Tennesseeap. The pTettiest woman to
be seen among the flowers is a Tennes-
seean. Tennessee marble decks one OF
the finest arcbways; and a rattlesnake,
born and raised ia Tennessee, and pos
sessed of all the accomplishments Of his
nativity, may be found in the mu-
seum.'" IT,
"A Montgomery correspondent of the
Mobile Times, writing about the State