Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-29
The MEMPHIS APPEAL
MEMPHIS:
BREyITIEs.
"A factory in Trenton last year made

| Fifteen thousand Chinese coolies are
said now TO be afioat on their way tc
Havana.
1t was reported in Montreal, on Sat
urday, that Massey, the Fenian leader
and informer, had arrived In Canada.
The birthday of Queen Victoria, May
! 20th, is to be celebrated by some OF heI
admirers in Chicago by a game o.
cricket.
The erection of Syracuse into Cath
olic See has been recommended by the
Pope.
The net proceeds Of the Hollywood
bazaar at Richmond amounted to Sl6,O
The post commander of Columbus
Miss, has issued an order requiring al
vagrant freedmen to pack up and lebe
On Saturday seven steamships sailed
from New York for Europe, carrying oni
over two thousand passengers.
AT single land ofiin" - T'i'OOi,e'' =,
I..ins npril, nine huhuIeu HoniesUe4u
entries were made.
| There were registered at Eaton
Rouge, La, up to the 18th inst, 1866
votes, of which only sixty-five were
white.
The southern relief fund raised in
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Balti-
more and Washington amounts tc
nearly $3.50, 600. Ii
The Massachusetts shoe business has
improved considerably from the inae
tivity of winter and the early spring
| In Lynn the factories are doing a very
brisk business, and the establishments II
Boston are quite liEely. AA
A schooner ran down and sunk 8
pleasure yacht in Boston harbor last
Monday, by which four out of eleven
persons on board were drowned.
One Of the richest men in Massachu'
setts has become hopelessly insane from
love of money, and spends his hours in
solitude, counting over imaginary bag
of gold.
| "A Greenfield Mass. doctor admins
| tered ehloroform to a horse last week
and successfully performed a surgical
operation upon him while under its in
fiuence.
| The billiard match for the champion
ship Of Canada, between Cyrille Dion
the present champion, and Mr. J.'W
Cronn, of Quebec, will come off az Quebec
on the 14th of June next.
"A dispatch from Chicago says: W.
continue to receive encouraging reporh
from all points in the northwest il
regard to the coming grain and frui
crop.
"A young New York broker lately
raised a sensation in a horse-car, 10y
paying the fare of all the passengers OF
board. One young man said he woulC
take segar too. .H..
Useful products of the pine tree ar,
now manufactured at Paris, as follows
Vegetable wadding, raw vegetabi'
wool, flannel, pine extract, spirits an'
soap. -..--
Two Japanese, Ottomniotoro ant
Jankeetinkee, recently visited Talacci
lodge, Sons of Malta, at Camden, an'
were received by the lodge in procession
dressed in full regslis.
Recently a gentleman in Ohio hange'
himself from chagrin at his children
opposition to his remarrying.
The steamship NiragO, from Savsn
nah to New York, was tOwed int
HAMPTON roads Saturday, having broker
a shaft.
"A st. Albans special says there ar
mysterious movements in that quarter
Iookipg to an attack on Canada. 4 But
falo dispatch makes a similar report.
A Fenian riot occurred at Kiliarn.
on the 18th. The police were mobbe'
and several hurt by stones.
The shareholders of the Pittsburg
Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad com
pany, are to increase their capital stocl
$4,000.
The national disbursements for th
week were 81 ,s52, ,253, of which 81 ,370,5O
was for the navy, and S4s0,747 for tn
interior.
Some 2OO0 kegs of lager have bee
seized at Williamsburg, n. Y, for nc
being properly stamped.
Coy. Oglesby has issued his proofs
nation calling an extra session Of tn
Illinois general assembly on June llth
Several disasters and accidents
lake vessels during the recent storm ar
reported from Detroit.
Several gentlemen in New Yor
have organized themselves into com
pany for the purpose Of developing som
springs of seltzer water, recently dis
covered at Saratoga. An analysis Of thi
: water has shown it to be superior to tn
. German in medical properties, and hs
in addition a pleasanter and more pur
gent taste.
"A man named Charnley was csugh
IN some machinery in thread factor
at Newark on Thursday, and was litel
ally beaten to jelly against the hOor.
. Two white and colOred girl, age
!, twelve, fourteen and thirteen years re
spectively, were burned to death by th
? explosion of can Of kerosene oil {
: Ouiney, Florida, on the 18th inst.
The shad pounds at the mouth
the Connecticut river, Enclosures in whic
!, the fish were caught by the wholesal
big and little, and shipped to the Ne
York market, were almost Totally d
stroyed by the heavy seas Of last weel
England, although her people bu
great numbers of watches, manufacturt
but a small proportion of them. Will
5. her watchmakers annually manufactul
= 26. 900 watches, she imports from Swi
zerland alone $1,000 during the san
:. period.
Great numbers Of the restless spiri
who compose the city populations
. California, are already rushing away
= our newly acquired territory to see VIII
can be made there, and no doubt Il
poor Fsquimaux viii be shocked at Il
s, sample of American citizens thus pr
m cipitated amongst them.
Smoking, snufiing or chewing +
= bacco is sufficient reason in Vermont
I" prevent the acceptance OF Jhe Notary
/. y the Methodist church.
Z B. NJ. Brown, the venerable cor
; wainer Of Dayton, Ohio, who is said
= have subsisted for over two months on
Z on food furnished by the spirits, gave
z the ghost on the 28d inst, aged eight
: four years.
is. An English paper states as ia
n that lady the other day, engaging
- kitehen-maid at a register office, s
n stipulated for dry kitchen for herpiat
and an hour day to play.
The commissioner of internal re
of enue has decided that the sweepings
= cotton presses and damaged cotton SC
a as paper stock are subject to the tax il
posed upon cotton by the act Of July
1866.
The London tailors are now sendi
to this country with their coats lit
glass bottles with pins attached, to he
n. the flowers, which would otherwise
stuck in the button hole. By tie use