Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-17
.THE MEMPHIS
MEMPHTS:


WEDNESDAY; JULY u, 1867
BREVITIEs.
The czar was so lavish in his ex-
pendituTes that he had TO borrow money
to return home.
The craftsmanship Of Seward and
Napoleon is not dissimilar in effects.
Rosa B0nham received only a second
class medal at the exposition.
1t is estimated that two per cent. of
the hotel guests of New York are "dead
beats"
The total income tax this year in st.
Louis is S34l $50; last year il was over
double, being S796, ,694.
The salary of Gen. Lee as college
president is over 5000.
Greeley is loUd in his denuneiation of
the grand army of the republic.
There is one unrecOnstructed lady IN
Galveston. She got out of n horse car,
on the fourth, rather than ride under the
"Old flag"
1t is said no other city Of ancient or
modern times has undergone so many
changes as Paris during a period Of ten
years. -fl-e .e-f ..H.H-
Rev. Mr.. Beckwith has been invited
/ to reconsider his declination of the Epis-
copate Of Georgia, and will probably be
reelected.
Mai Rathburn and Miss Clara H.
/ Harris, who were in Mr.. LincOln's box,
at Ford's theater, when he was assassi-
mated, are abOut to be married in Wash
ington.
The rage for divorces is so strong in
/ Chicago that a negro sued for separation
| from woman with whom he lived but
Z to whom he had never been married.
I Jacksonville. Fla, is rioting in water
melons at ten cents and peaches by the
/ cart load, and the inhabitants viii soon
riot in cholera.
--Thaekeray's daughter, Harriet Ma
rion, was married in London, last month,
10 q young lawyer named Leslie.
The last communication sent by
Maximilian to Europe was for the pur
chase OF 1000 nightingales. He had no
idea OF being shot.
Sporting men in Washington are
betting heavily on a divided jury and
against odds on verdict in favor OF
Surratt.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis and child sailed
Saturday, in the steamer Champion
from New York for Charleston.
There have been nearly as many fac
tories built az the south since the war as
st the north; some say more.
The whites in some parts Of Florida
are afraid OF q negro insurrectiOn.
The courtesan who was recently shot
in a brothel, IN Cincinnati, was forty-five
years old and her jealous lover, who did
the shooting, and then attempted to kill
himself nineteen years old.
There was large attendance Satu--
dav at the cathedral in New Orleans, on (
the occasion OF the performance of the (
grand requiem mass for the repOse Of the I
soul of Macmillan.
Houston, Texas, IS to have a new
Masonic temple, to be ninety-three feet I
square, five stories in hight, and to cost I
$4,000.
james Risk, an old Cincinnatian, .
was elected president OF the Mobile Ty-
biographical Union on the 1th inst.
Brigham Young, jr., and John
Young, sous Of the Mormon prophet, 4
were at New York on Saturday, the I
former on his way home from Europe, |
aud the latter from Utah.
Major Cooper, Of the seventh cGval- I
~, shot himself through the head in mt .
Of temporary insanity, while on the late .
march with Gen. Custar's volunteer cav /
airy.
erv, attempted to commit suicide by
jumping into the Alabama river at that .
place, on Sunday last. She was rescued I
by a negro who was near by.
The Herald says two fillibustering
expeditions to Mexico, to avenge Maxi
milan, are fitting up in New York city.
Similar organizations are in progress in
Buffalo and New Orleans.
Among the registers for bankruptcy
i'm the state Of Tennessee there is not
known to be a single native Of the state.
It might as well be a territory and have
a military commander"
Work on the California Central Pa
cfic Railroad Is being pushed forward
with energy. It IS expected to be COM
pleted over the Sierra Nevada Mountains
in November. Sixteen thousand work
men are employed in grading from Cisco
to Truckee The summit tunnel, 1865
feet in length, win be finished in August.
Large orders have been sent east by the
company for cars and locomotives. The
business Of the road this year is in excess
of last. The gross earnings for June
were Sl22, 600 in c0ip. The recent strike
of the Chinese labOrers only caused
SUSPENSION of work one day, when the
workmen resumed labor on the former
terms, the company making no conees-
sion.
"A Russian engineer at the exposition
exhibits a railway invention which at
tracts considerable curiosity. The object
is 20 save the power gained in descent,
now lost in the friction OF the brakes,
with wear and tear, and use ii in an
ascent. 70 90 this the engineer has
attached to the locomotive two very
heavy fly-wheels. Going down hill they
act as brake, and the force they gather
will carry the train up an equal rise, iess
the friction. Here a model train loaded
with water runs down a sharp incline,
the water runs oil, and the force Of the
fiy-wheel carries the train back to the
place OF starting. In this way short
railway, taking coal down an incline,
from the pit mouth, for example, could
be worked without aGy power but that
gained by each descent OF The train.
The Philadelphia Herald says Hor-
ace Greeley wants information as to the
expenses OF building and maintaining
the canals. Let him apply to Gen. But
Ter. Dutch Gap viii be The beststandard
Of comparison.
LETTER FRON BoBERT TOIysBs
CINCINNATI, July S.-The West and
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