Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-16

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Senator Salisbury, of Delaware, has
signed the temperance pledge at least
twenty times since 1860.
-Du ChaiIlu, the African gorilla
hunter, is once more announced as COM
ing to this country to lecture.
Butler, the beast, delivered his I'M
peaehment lecture at Albany, n. Y, a
few days ago. A resolution in the legis-
lature to secure the movable property OF
the state during his visit was lost by a
very small majority.
Council Bluff papers say the North
western railroad has been blocked by
snow nearly ever since its completion to
Omaha, and that it is nowin that eondi-
ton.
| stature Saturday night passed a bill to
amend the constitution so as to allow ne
groes to vote, ayes So, 0 e IS.
Water from the crib end of the lake
tunnel was let in on Thursday forenoon,
! for the purpose Of testing its strength
Chicago viii soon have pure sparkling
water, instead of the muddy and fshy
tasting and smelling fluid.
twenty-five ladies have entered
their names, for the ensuing session, at
| the Ladies' medical college, London.
Secretary Seward has lately insured
his life for one hundred thousand dollars
I Nature seems to have done that long
ago.
The latest excitement in Chicago is
hydrophobia. A general onslaught is
being made upon the unfortunate mem
bers of the canine family.
The ladies in New York are accom-
modated with liquor at the thread and
needle stores. The business isearried on
so adreitly as to defy the police.
Up to her twelfth performance at
New Orleans, Mime Ristori's personal
receipts have amounted to $4,000
and it is expected that they viii reach
$500 600 before the close Of her tour.
An exchange says their correspond
ent, since his arrival in New Orleans, he
has been introduced to forty generals,
two hundred colonies and majors, and
captains without number, but in the
whole course Of his journey, he has not
come across any sergeants, corporals or
privstes.
"A Wisconsin paper tells of a man,
hale and vigorous, with a rife ball still
in his brain, received at the battle Of
Boil Run. He was in the hospital for a
year, but can now swing an AK or seythe
with anybody.
Some days since q negro woman, at
ThibodouxviIle, La, suffering from small
pox, threw her infant, six months old,
into bayou Lafourehe, where it was
drowned. Since then, in a state of
almost complete nudity, the unfortunate
creature has taken refuge in a species of
excavation near the town, where she
.subsists upon the charity Of good Samari-
tans. Who is to blame d? Either the
bureau or the town authorities.
The Austin h~lteHjgencer says that
no great time will elapse before the Bur-
net iron works will be in full blast, and
we doubt not that ere many years are
gone, Texas, as rich as she is in her agri-
cultural resources, win point to her mex
haustible deposits of irsn, lead, silver
and gold, and to her marble quarries
and petroleum springs, as the principal
sources Of her wealth and prosperity.
Mr.. Andrew Haggart, of Rails
county, Missouri, while cutting wood a
few days ago, struck his foot with the
near the instep, infieting a horrible
cash, nearly severing his foot.
Capt Abe McPike and NJ. J. Clarke,
Of Missouri, have shipped to the south
this season, eight hundred and forty-nha
mules, and at last accounts had sold the
most Of them at g handsome profit.
Mr.. 7. F. XHer, Of Weston, Mis-
souri,, offers a premium Of twenty-five
dollars for the best ton Of hemp
delivered at his warehouse on or before
the 1st Of June next, fifteen dollars for
the second, and ten dollars for the third
best. The premiums are to be paid in
gold.
The golden wedding of Samuel F.
Reed, Of Granville, Mass, was celebrated
1n the l4th ult., Mr.. Reed being seventy
years old, and his wife seventy
two. He has four brothers and two sis
-ers living whose combined ages amount
40 years, or an average Of seventy
i've years each.
1t is reported that a diamond Of inn
neDse value was found in TipPecsnoe
liver, near Monticello, Ind, on Monday.
The value Of the precious stone-was first
stimsted at S250,0O0. Subsequent in
-estigstion reduced it to S25,O 600, and a
alter and more scientific observation
the figures at sic, 300.
The Searcy ARK Record, of the ID,
that a young man named Hobson
Vas drowned near that place whilst
ttempting to rescue his sister, who had
AIKEN Eefuge on top of her house, from
be rising waters. He swan in on
lorsebsck, but failed to reach the house,
nd turned back, but recalled by her
ries, he renewed the attempt, and when
ear the house his horse sank, and both
erished in her sight. She remained on
house nearly three days before she {
rescued.
-Munchausen, the younger, relates !
a Scotch traveller in Africa drank 7
bottle Of brandy and then lay down in I
jungle to sleep Off the effects. A I
warm Of drivers Ia kind of anti fell in .
18th him, and in twenty-four hours left
but a clean-picked skeleton and {
few boot nailsl They devoured even |
Is boots and clothing. !
Cyrus Bartholomew committed sui S
de at Cameron, on the Hannibal and st.
lseph railroad two days ago. He was
stranger in that place, having been at =
hotel but a few days. He said he
Nd recentlylost heavily at faro. Papers Y
his possession indicate that he for !
erly lived in Fulton county, Illinois. +
descendants Of the Anglo.Saxons s.
e well known to be the most inveterate
Of the human family. While !.
< swarthy sboriginess content them
Ives with sharing the whiffs of one v
pc, six pipes will scarcely keep one q
in steaming operation. At aIate
Of all classes of tobacco at D
e academy Of science in Paris, it was n
Inounced that American tobacco con- u
med eight per cent. of nicotine, q
ably poison; Havana tobacco contains o.
rec per cent; and Chingarora tobacco. p
in the Indies, contains no nicotine ~
The natives of the Indies are u
Instant smokers Of the ChingarOra, and Hl
yer suffer the ills which follow the use e
tobacco Of other climes. u
Reduction Of the NstiOBaI Debt OF
It is a striking fact that the actual re- th
Of the national debt within a di
,gle year, from March l, 1866, TO March
1867, amounts to $lSl, 0S6, 10. AT this
Did rate Of reduction the entire
bt could be wiped out in fif- DR.
n years. But it would have been
IA At the expense of the present QeneF- ID