Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-01
THE MEM PH!S APPEAL
MEMPHIS:


THURSDAY, AUGUsTI /, Isa
SRyEITIEs.
Brazil is arm 10000 negroes Il
fight the Psrgzlsyans.
: The Emperor Alexander gave so ,00t
a francs TO the lamplighters Of Paris.
: Tho internal revenue receipts Satur.
day amounted to S8l8, ,444, and for the
{, past week, to S4,67S, ,563.
The evidence being concluded in the
. Surratt trial the lawyers are expected To
! talk one week. They commenced Friday.
b 1t is said that Brigham Young's
colony is to have an accession of four
hundred saints from Liverpool.
"A North Carolina negro woman cut
Off her husbands head, lately, so that
she might marry white man.
The Jews Of London have given the
retiring lord mayor two candelabra Of
solid silver.
The sultan, it is said, was more struck
with the excellent manner in which the
, Paris population, even the poorest, are
shod, than with anything else that has
fallen under his observation.
"A company has just been formed in
France, with a capital of three million
francs, to search for three Spanish galles
Ons which were sunk by the English
fleet at the commencement OF the last
century. The ships were returning from
Mexico with 500, 600 600 piastTes.
Fruit is the antidote Of fevers, and
both come in the same season.
The best remedy for the bite of
rattlesnake islObelia, which grows around
its den.
The New Orleans Picaglnae gives the
following as the result OF registration in
Louisiana: Whites, 1886; blacks, 3d.
$50. Total, l02, 1875.
The recent heavy rains completed
the corn crop, but We fear nearly finished
q great deal of the cotton.
I "A yankee exchange says the freed
men Of Columbus, Miss, sang the " Bon
ME Blue Flagn on the fourth, with all
the gustO of the rebels" " themselves.
I "A Texas paper says he'll is so full of
Just such preachers as BrownlOw that
Z their coat tails are sticking out the win
dows.
/ Twelve old ladies met at tea party
/ in PALMYRA, n. Y, the other day. Their
/ aggregate age was $50 years the average
f seventy-One. The oldest was ninety
three.
"A Kentucky peach grower has sold
bis entire crop as it haRgs on the trees
to q house in Cincinnati for 1900, or
ABOUT - 30 per lCt.
The MormOns had a grand ball on
the 4th Of July; tiekett SIS, for gentle
man and one wife only.
TO surround an orchard with hedges
I Of evergreens is to make a climate equal
to one 200 miles south. When the coun-
try was new peaches grew ia Massachu-
setis-nOw puritanism turns them sour
The New York Tribune regards Sur
raft as the best tried man in the country.
1t is reported that the English gov
ernment is about to establish perms-
nent garrison in British Columbia.
Monday week has been named for 4
the Schutzenfest in Washington. EX- F..
tensive arrangements have been made I
for the occasion.
The life raft " Nonpareil,n - supposed Z
to be lost, arrived safely at Southampton /
last week.
The renaing of Table Rock, Niagara /
Falls, were destroyed by charge of 200 (
pounds Of powder, on Friday.
The Old Mems Home, at Boston, mas .
just been enriched S25,000 by the death .
Of one Of the wealthy men of that city.
The emperor Of China has issued q
decree for the establishment Of a Euro
pean college st Pekin. The Minister Gu
'ojen, il seems, opposed the founding Of
this college, and the decree argues with
him and dispUses of his hostility.
There were four elopements in Chi
cago in one day last week.
Gen. Sherman's opinion Of Alaska is
concise and pronounced Give 'em
seven millions more TO take it back, and
be thankful to get off so cheap"
The Germans in Philadelphia drank
enough beer to float the Dunderberg
during their singing match-abOut '2253
kegs, and yet came not TO lager heads.
"A large rod is said to be in pickle for
Gen. Bazaine in the documents concern
ing Mexico, sent by Macmillan to the
Due d'Aumale for publication in Paris.
Susan B. Anthony confesses pri-
vateiy that there is no hOpe-not even
in the remote future-that woman suf-
frage will ever be permitted in the state {
Of New York.
Every foot of land on which Belfast, ]
Ireland, is built, is owned by one man, {
the Marquis Of Donegal Every citizen
has to pay tribute to him. His income
for ground rent is from one to two mil /
lions Of dollars per annum.
1t is stated that after the first Of ,
October proximo all conductors are to be I
uniformed and alike throughout the {
state of New York, IN accordance with a ,
recent act Of the legislature. s
1t is reported in Washington that
Gen. Sickles has placed 6 number Of !
military officers under arrest for inter- {
fering with political matters in North ,
Carolina. He likes no fingers in the :
political pie but his own.
The KiOwa Indians are committing 7
south Of Arkansas river, and {
Gov. Mitchell Of New Mexico, will call
FOR battalion of mounted volunteers to
act against them.
In BeIoit Wisconsin, the other day, I
Harriet Wallace, aged fifteen, was
pushed over by a school. fellow, and fell {
backward down hill, receiving injuries
which caused instant death. {
The stone vessels" sunk in the }
harbor did no permanent in s
ury. A vessel from England with rail- 1
road iron entered last Tuesday, drawing q
siCbteen and a half feet, which is eighteen t
inches more than any vessel previously {
arrived q
1t is reported in Washington that s
zen. Thomas has consented to succeed q
len. Sheridan in command at New Or e
cans, after the election in Tennessee,
lext month. Another rumor names
zen. Hancock as Sheridan's successor. q
Some idea Of the terrible havoc of b
var may be gained from the following c
igures In the desperate encounter at '
R0secrans lost 16. .S5l men, d
md at MurfreesborO II. 0S5 at Pittsburg &
snding Grant lost 1913. at Vicksburg s.
S75, and at Mission Ridge 1000; at .
faiues' Mills, Peach Orchard, Savage q
station, Glendale, White Oak Swamp n
nd Malvern Hill Mcclellan lost 10000, 81
nd at Antietam II ,425; Hooker lost in C
.is campaign IN the Wilderness 10000; a
Burnside az Fredericksburg - 600; and d
rants united losses from the time OF 81
rossing the Rapidan, in his final cam I
align, to the surrender OF Lee are com "
71f.3 O. on coo n