Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-10-16
GENERAL ITEMs.

5 Monday OF last week.
The Montgomery Mail says that a
the election there mum bers Of negroe
called for forty acres and 8 mule, " ate
they had "put the thing in the box"
Enough cotton has been destroyed
} by fire, aud other accidents, within th'
last twenty-five years to pay the nationa
/ debt. .
Dawson, the great German TRACE
dian, who played in this country las
year, had a morbid fancy for playing
parts which included delineations Of lu
macy. He is now an inmate Of lunstiC
asylum in Germany.
The receipts of the Paris Exhibition
from April lst to September 10th were
G309, 900. A further sum OF $50 0J0 will
be required to cover expenses. tits sup
! posed that this will be forthcoming dur
ing the seven weeks that remain.
in New Orleans, according to the
reports Of the newspapers OF that city,
there have been no less than 40 600 per
sons who have had the yellow fever
during the present season. The New
Orleans Times attributes the wide spread
Of the disease to the neglect of the public
authorities to keep the city in good san
itsry condition.
In New York on Tuesday evening a
banquet was given by the Chamber Of
Commerce to Mr.. A. A. Low, who has
just returned from a tour around the
world. Mr.. Low, besides being a very
wealthy man, and one of enlarged views
and great liberality, is a leading mer-
chant Of New York city.
The water supply Of London and
Paris is relatively the same. London,
with its population Of 5000, 900, is sup
piled with about 100, OOO, 900 gallons daily,
and Paris, with a population Of about
l,6OO,OOO, has q supply OF nearly 5O,OO0,-
600 gallons daily. The average for each
city is about thirty-three gallons for each
individual Of the population.
"A new feature in the trade Of st.
Louis is the large shipment Of freight
from Cincinnati for the lower Missis-
sippi. The goods are shipped over the
| Ohio and Mississippi railroad, transferred
to the lower Mississippi bOsts, and car
ried to Memphis, Viessburg and New
| Orleans. The Memphis Packet Company
! alone are receiving Cne hundred tons per
day Of this freight.
Mr.. Callic0tt, snd those who were
! indicted with him for conspiTiDg to de-
fraud the Government, appeared on
! Wednesday before the court in New
York city by their several cOuusels, and
| put in separate pleas Of not guilty. The
| Government announced itself ready to
try the case at the present term of the
court, but the defendants desired to have
| it tried before the Circuit Court, and this
| Of necessity put the case over till No
| vembeT.
The earnings Of the California Pa
cific Railroad for September were $780,
600 10 gold, and its operating expenses
SIS, 762, leaving net profit Of Sl6l ,63S.
This was with the track open for busi-
ness to the summit OF the Sierra Nevada.
During this month thirty-five miles will
be added to the running portion, which
will bring it fairly into the Salt Lake
basin, and materially add to itsrevenUes.
In Boston there are great complaints
notwithstanding the large amount OF
building that has taken place during the
past two years, that rents were never so
dear as at the present time. Houses that
cost 5000 to build, now rent for $4,000
year, and are difficult to get at that.
Furnished houses in fashionable locations
rent at from $500 to $1,000 per annum,
and board for small family at the hotels
will amount to at least SlOO per week.
The mule race at the New Haven
horse fair was very cOmicai. Eight
clined to mOye-Others insisted on the
opposite direction. The first heat was
won by Kate, who made the half mile in
2:09}. Two Of her companions itseems,
were half mile behind her. Dick won
the second heat in three minutes. The
premium was forty dOllars-wOn by Kate,
best two in three.
During the last hOmeward trip Of
the -- from Aspinwall, the steerage
passengers were so numerous as to make
them uncomfortable. As for sleeping
accommodations it was aptly described
by q Californian, who approached the
Captain and said: L" / should like to have
8 sleeping berth, if you please" Why,
where have you been sleeping these last
two nights since we left ?'' " Wa'al, rve
been sleeping atop Of a sick man, but
he's got better now, and won't stand it
no longer"
On some Of the plantations in Louis
lana the grinding season will commence
shout the 18th instant. The crops in st.
Bernard Parish are very promising. The
total crop of twenty-fOur parishes in the
State before the war 1S6l-2l, was 459, 40
hOgsheads, or about 5000 to a parish.
The crop for the years 1896, one of the
worst seasons known in Louisiana, was
$685. The New Orleans Commercial
Bulletin remarks that parties capable Of
Judging estimate the crop of the coming
year as high as 10 900 h0gsheads.
The New York Herald says that
"ther5 is not single great soldier Of the
country, there never was a cCrps COM
mander in the Army Of the Potomac,
who was not Democrat before the
war"
A ,vf11oi,,o,7s N-s,,l-r~ t,.s 49,, r-,;.,r-
about secretly among the negroes in Cen
tral Florida, selling them, in fOurs, at
fifty cents each, wooden stakes painted
red, white and blue, Ornamented with a
small streamer, telling them thst when
ever they planted those stakes at the
four corners of tract of land, the land
would become theirs when the expected
confiscatiOn came. 1t is rUmOred that he
has disposed of cargo of these sticks,
and has returned to the North to get an
other supply.
War in Europe next year ia considered
almost inevitable. France is arminp.
and it is said strategic studies have been
made, with a view Of covering Stras-
burg, the Emperor having made personal
observations Of the country in that
neighborhood, as he returned from his
recent visit to Salzburg. The country
around the town is being Ieveled, to
allow OF the establishment Of four de-
tsched forts, and an intreuched camp Of
immense extent is to be constructed, pro-
tected on one side by the Rhine and by
submergi5le lands, and on the other by
the four advanced forts, capable of shell
tering, in case Of need, a large number
Of troops.
The New York Atlas says: "The ex-
traordinary phenomenon OF a man mar
rying q man occurred in North Carolins
q few days ago. A gentleman wooed
and won the hand Of young lady-the
day for the nuptials was appointed, and
the groom came to time, as did, appa-
renty, the bride. But it seems she had a
Juvenile brother resembling her so closely
that, when dressed in calico, none but
the most prsctiCed eve could discover
the difference between them. He pre-
sented himself, was saluted with kiss,
snd an authorized prelate Of the magis-
terial persuasion went through the cere-
mony Of making the twain one. Music |
and dancing filed the hour, aud all went
on charmingly unil-the cat was IN
clOaked.
The most alarming phase of life that |
has recently been manifested, is the
case, before the police courts,
in which a woman claims as her hus. |
band q man who declares that he has |
never seen her before. Our citizens, both |
Benedicts and bachelors, have just cause |
to feel particularly anxious about the re-
suit of this case; for if the infuriate fe- |
male involved. establishes her claim to |
the reluctant husband, who can be con- |
sidered safe? The well-tO-dO bachelor /
is in special danger; for at any moment |
some desperate INSCRIPTIONS lady may |
declare in court that she was married to /
him ten years ago in Canada, and he will |
have to bring witnesses, waste precious |
time, and pay a lawyers bill TO prove an
alibi. In view of the new and impend- |
ing danger, we would advise all unmar-
ried men to promptly secure good wives,
and thus lessen the chances of being /
snapped upa la Peterson by indignant
spinsters.
1t is not generally known, perhaps,
that nearly all the ice used on the coast
Of California is obtained from a never
falling cave in the northern part of |
Oregon. This remarkable subterranean