Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-22

rs a voter, is to take a long step bafik-
ward towards barb3risnr. The right TO
vote might just as safely be given to so
many South American monkeys, as TO
the plantation negroes Of MISSISSIPPI and
Louisiana.
BREvETIEs.
A grand ball will soon be given at
the Fifth avenue hotel, New York. Two
thousand invitations have been given,
aud dresses for this occasion have been
ordered in Paris.
Mr.. Jones, aged seventy years, re-
Gently married a young girl in New
York state, went to Albany on a wed
ding tour, fell down stairs at his hotel,
made his will, and left her to go forth a
rich widow.
"A woman in Northampton, Pa, has
been brought into court on the charge Of
being +" n common scold."
The Rev. Lindsay's letter, in which
he avows that he whipped his child to
death from a sense of duty" is de-
scribed by a Philadelphia paper as /" con-
creLe puflIdulSm- I
-Advices from England state that
four regiments are to be withdrawn from
/ Canada on the opening Of navigation.
-Elopements are so common at
! Springfield that there is talk Of estib.
fishing " a home for deserted husbands"
The Empire state has v e four thou
sand permanently insane persons.
1t is reported that Horace Greeley
will be offered the postmaster-general-
shin In case Mr.. Randall resigns.
In Louisville, Kentucky, they have
skating earnivals for the benefit Of the
poor.
-Sentinels are still engaged In guard
ing Mr.. Stewards residence.
The first registry Of voters in
Georgetown, D. c., foOts up Ills whites
and $50 eolored.
Rev. DR.. Hatfield of Chicago, 1e-
nounees the heater as the "synagogue
Of sin"
There is a thirteen hundred acre Gran
berry farm in Michigan.
-Thad. Stevens always has a chew Of
tobaqA in his mouth, as an antidote to
his poison tongue.
Another Fenian Canada raid Is on
the tapis. It IS presumed that a large
party left Boston on Friday for such an
expedition.
More than one-fourth Of the senators
are over six feet high. Physically big
Intellectually " small potatoes"
The New York Methodist considers
the social purity OF the church seriously
menaced by the fashionable eorruptions
Of the day.
French savants offer 10000 francs
fo- the best essay on the "regen-
Grafton of the bone" They declare am
putation can be superseded by the crea-
ton of a new bone.
-Yo Tung is the name Of a rich Chi
nese youth in San Francisco circles,
known among gothamite residents as
the China Astor. He must be a horti-
cultural specimen of the celestial empire.
The Pennsylvania legislative com-
mittee has reported that it can't see any
evidence that any candidate for senator
bribed any legislator.
Coy. Brownlow recently pardOned q
murderer named Wise, who had been
sentenced to the p~enitentiary for ninety
nine years, for killing IA lad fourteen
wears Of age, named Stoekley. The
offense of Stockley was in being the son
OF a southern man.
In Maine the senate has passed a
bill authorizing marriage between whites
andSblacks, but the lower house refuses
eoncurrenee-to the great scandal of Uni
verssl equality.
With true yankee thrift, mutilated
yorn out currency is bleached and
manufactured into envelopes for the use
ofthe treasury department.
About twenty-five bar room proprie-
tors were arraigued before the mayor Of
Mobile, on the 14th, and each sentenced
to a fine of fifty dollars or thirty days in
the work-house. Their ottense consisted
in not having taken out licenses.
"A meeting of marine insurance Off
Gers in st. Louis is considering whether
the owners OF the steamers White Cloud
and Platte City ought not to stand the
loss incurred by the sinking Of their
boats by being run on well known
wrecks.
A child three years old, fell into a
tub Of boiling water and was scalded to
death in Cleveland, Ohio, last week.
April 26th, will be celebrated by the
Odd Fellows throughout the country, as
4 day Of special thanksgiving.
wye, Of Nevada, says that Blaisdel,
the representative from that state, tapers
the wrong way, wearing number ten
boots and number five hat.
The following was found posted on
the wall Of a country p~ostofiee Lost
q red KAT. He had q white spot on | Of
his behind leggs. He was a she KAT. I
will give three shilins to evriboddi to
bring him hon."
Abe Lincoln's old home at Spring
-, Ill, is occupied by Il " family Who
keeps things as nearly rs possible as they
were vwhen he lived in it." 1t has been
visited by over fifty thousand people
since the assassination.
Peter Brewer, q respectable citizdb Of
Utica, died on Friday. Early Saturday
morning. in attempting to come down
stairs, his widow fell and broke her neck.
She was seventy-two years of age. She
will be buried in the same grave with her
husband.
The board Of fire insurance compa-
MES in New York has voted a rise in the
rates of insurance of twenty and twenty
five per cent.
"A Turin journal states that there is a
family in that city, consisting Of five per-
sons, who for the last year have lived
upon cats flesh. The eldest boy, twelve
years old, does the hunting and provides
for the household. The feline race is
gradually disappearing from the neigh
borhood.
A suspension bridge is proposed to be
built between Brooklyn and New York,
a bill for that purpose being under con
sideration in the New York legislature.
The Boston blacksmiths, in shooting
horses that are used on The pavement,
place a cushion Of rubber between the
shoe and the horses hoof with good re-
suits. The philOsopy is that the yielding
Of the rubber tends to diminish the jar,
which destroys the horses legs.
The Bueyrus, Ohio, Journal says that
considerable excitement has prevailed in
the vicinity for some weeks past owing
to the supposed discovery fa silver mine
in a locality named the Broken Sword.
A German named Schanter, made the
discovery through a vision, and a com-
pany of four persons has been formed for
the purpose of working the mine. The
land has been leased for this purpose for
a term of years.
The Ohio legislature was chiefly &C.
cupied yesterday in official and social
attentions to Gen. Sheridan. The hero
met at the capital an enthusiastic re-
ception.
-Hanr Ward Raeobar daIivorod N,