Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-23
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL


4 The MEMPHIS APPEAL
BREVITIEs.
-Meerschaum pipes in Paris are now
made OF potatoes and turnips dried.
Aaron Sweat, the negro candidate
for congress- in the Cheraw (S. c. district
is prosecuting bis canvass with great
vigOr, and is quite confident Of success.
Boston stands number five among
!, the cities in the amount of mail matter
delivered and collected monthly.
: The wheat crop OF western New
York will be heavier than il has been
!, for years. Corn is very backward.
Over five hundred persons in Cali
!, fornia have engaged in the silk business
I this year to a greater or less extent.
), The iron crown of Hungary, which
Francis Joseph had 20 wesr during the
late ceremonies, weighs ten pounds.
"A publishing house in Tours, France,
issues 2O,0OO volumes day the year
round.
} The boiler OF the tugboat Johnson
exploded at Saginaw, Mich, on Thurs
day, killing the captain and three men.
j. II. HObson, Of Bradford, Mass.
has been sentenced to pay fine of $1,000
, and costs for making false returns to
/ revenue officers.
of all the absurd hats ever seen,
says a Paris letter, the japanese is the
worst II is a plate Will button on top.
.-Ristori is not captivating the atten-
ton of the public as much il Paris as
she did in the United States -he is
performing to crowded houses Il the
press does not take much motto her.
"A negro soldier in the Brit aFmy
has received the Victoria c. -" for
bravery Lucky and plucky nj
"A grand banquet was given at Guild
! hall, London, on Tuesday evening, in
honor of the sultan of Turkey.
"A yankee being asked if he had
scrossed the Alps, replied: Wal, now
YOU call my attention to the fact, guess
] did pass risin' ground.
The great international racket match
between Foulkes and Gray, has resulted
in favor OF the latter.
At Boston a society for meteorological
Improvement is contemplated.
Work is to be commenced immedi
ately on the bridge across the Mississippi
at st. Louis,
/ The wheat crop of the south is
nearly all harvested, and is unusually
fine.
Connecticut fishermen claim to have
caught . 900 900 shad this season.
A st. Louis tailor has taken prize
at the Paris exposition for q suit Of gen
tleman's clothes. ----
Baltimore is to erect hotel at an
expense Of 8, ,650,000.
Late European adviees say number
( Of Americans have been presented to the
sultan. Wonder what he'll do with
them?
1t is said an attempt was made by
the radicals to suppress Siekle's suffrage
letter.
d.. Boston has Sheridan boat club.
There is fine maekerel fishing of
1 ,NObsnt just now.
f Bancroft intimates that historical
I characters are much more shaky than is
/ generally supposed.
{ AT Newport, items for the season
/ have been unusually duh, and few Wis
! itors.
There is a great number Of stores
! " to let " in New York, but rents keep
up.
A little boy in New York died from
the effect Of an injury received sliding
: down bannister.
The Richmond Examiner and En-
/ guirer have consolidated.
The debt of the state Of New York is
over $50, ,O0O, 600.
1t is thought the Cashmere goat wifi
vet enable US TO make our own cashmere
/ shawls.
The base ball fever in Hartford RACES
to such an extent that the boarders Of \
hotel have challenged those OF any other
hotel in the city.
Wisconsin is having a hop fever.
The acres under cultivation have in
creased 5000 the present year.
The receipts Of internal revenue
Wednesday were S555, 900.
The Boston Post lectures Gen. Sickles /
for his aristocratic turnout in Charleston. /
We are glad 10 learn that cigars are /
to be cheapened by machinery for their |
manufacture.
The new st. James hotel in Boston |
is TO have its guests carried to the upper |
stories on an elevator.
Orders have been sent out for the re- |
call of the ambassador Of Prussia st the /
City Of Mexico and other powers viii |
follow suit.
A report from Galveston says that,
owing to continued rains, the cotton crop
does not promise well.
-Inquests were held at Chicago, Fri /
day, upon the remains Of four boys who 1
bad been drowned in the lake, in differ |
ent parts Of the city.
The New York Post justifies the eXs- /
other reasons, he was cousin 20 the queen /
Of Suain.
1t is officially contradicted that war
vessels have been sent by old W1'les TO |
Mexican waters to watch the 4 t-ian /
fleet dispatched there for the body of
MsXimiliaU.
The impOrtations of dry is at /
New York were a little over t'.. mill |
lions in June year ago tie were
seven.
Leading republicans Of Massachu-
setts have organized reconstruction as
sOcistion to aid the union men Of the /
south in carrying the elections.
-Advices from Arizona state that /
freshet in the Colorado river has almost /
destroyed Arizona City, only two build
ings remaining uniDjured
San Francisco possesses a monopoly |
of transporting thousands of skeletons at
one time across oceans. The Chinese
dead are thus periodically shipped to
their native " tiowery kingdom by the
shiplosd.
A recent discovery Of bones and |
metal relicts, bearing Runic hyreOgllphies
on the banks Of the Potomac near the
great falls, are said to establish the dis
cOveTy Of America by Swedes and also
a visit by the Irish five centuries before
LLt EbulllE VI ANtuAAl Jus 4LlC bOhNc I
eXhumed were, undoubtedly, those Of
Syasy or Snasu, an Icelandie heroine,
buried in 1851.
The New York Citizen calls for
purse Of q quarter Of a million OF dollars
for the widow of NleagheT. He does not
say how much he'll subscribe!
The National base ball club Of WASH
ington, ID. c., Tuesday defeated the
Louisville club, the score standing 50 tel
p.
"A sweet young lady says that males
are of no account from the time the
ladies stop kissing them as infants till
they commence kissing them as lovers.
Not one of the eight hundred Paris
exposition hymns sent in for competi-
ton has been adjudged worthy Of the
prize. A few will receive honorable
mention" !"
According to certain dispatches the
Turks have lost a million men to the
Cretans' forty but according to Tuskish
authority the Cretsns have lost three
millions, and the Turks only five men
rather discrepancy.
STATE ITEMS.
The Daily american Union learns
it Is proposed TO establish line Of steam
eFs TO run from Chattanooga TO Knox
vile.
The numerous friends of the gallant
{ Jol. Harry Ashby, will be gratified to
earn that his trial in Anderson county,
! Cast Tennessee, on several charges,
e nded last Saturday in his aequittaL
The RepU5lieGR Banner asserts posi-
tiNrely that the Trimbie faction of the
ra teal party are now engaged in import
ing negroes from North Alabama and
Mis sissippi for the purpose Of stocking
the cards " at the next election. The
,sle concludes thus "Those who
doubt our statement, and who are exten-
sively acquainted among our eOlored
need only spend few hours
in th vicinity of the registers Office TO
assur e themselves Of the fact"
"A Miss Hubbard was severely, and it
is thought fatally burned, on Wednes-