Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-05


RREvITIEs.
The Japanese new year commences
on the 5thsof January.
The population of Kansas Is now es-
timRted at SZ75,000.
Thirteen thousand persons attended
the circus in Worcester, Mass, in two
days.
A black snake six 'feet eight inches
long was killed near Norfolk the other
day.
"A number Of citizens of Valdosta,
Ga, propose organizing a lodge Of X.
Gen. Swsyne has given notice that
no negroes will be appointed on the Mo-
bile police.
Several deaths from sunstroke have
been reported in England.
-Garroters are bothering night pedes-
trians in Richmond, Va.
The Petersburg va LIlder says that
business is very rapidlyincressing on the
SoHthside railway. ~
Wisconsin is about to complete her
capitol at Madison at an expense Of
SSS, 1886.
American capitalists are buying
| large quantities of timber in Canada.
House rents are falling in New York
l tltg EGpluiSf anu TIC Aabcl 10 Atlf u
! seen on all sides.
The effective force of the French
army has been set at eight hundred
/ thousand men.
The Masons of Norfolk, Va, are
engaged in raising money for the relief
of the southern destitute
The census shows the alarming eX-
cess Of 730, ,000 more males than females
/ in the United States
The Prussian parliament has passed
the second reading of the new constitu-
| ton bill.
1t is stated that Chief Justice Chase
/ hss finally completed the appointments
of registrars in bankruptcy in all the
/ states.
On Frida5 evening last the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher delivered dis
course in his church ia Brooklyn, in
which he strongly defended the release OF
JEFF. Davis.
Horse racing, base ball matches and
reports of Indian depredations are now
the special eXcitements in Colorado.
Commander J. d. Payne, of the
Mexican navy, has been ordered TO take
charge of an expedition against Vera
Cruz.
The Pennsylvania oil regions have
lost fully one-third OF their population,
and the number is lessened every day.
The amount of drayage paid on cot
ton received in Memphis during the sea-
son is estimated to be over S60,000.
The associated press paid sixty dol
lars for the following dispatch from Lon
don by the cable The money market
has not yet opened for the transaction of
business
The Paris Edgar county, Ill Blade
learns that of a party Of thirteen persons
who left Williamson county, Ill, twelve
months ago for the far west, eleven are
dead.
"A lot of land on State street, Boston,
recently sold for nearly hundred dollars
the square foot. This would cover the
lot with silver dollars.
Norfolk, Va, sets a good example to
other territorial cities, by opening direct
trade, on an extended scale, with Liv-
erpool.
"A public meeting in Dublin, presided
over by the lord mayor, adopted memo
rial asking that the lives of the con-
demned Feuians be spared.
New gas works have just been com
Dleted at Detroit, of capacity to manufae
ture one million cubic feet of gas per day.
The present capacity is about three
hundred thousand feet daily.
Three thousand persons are engaged
in mining operations in Aieekienburg
county, n. c.
Crops in Florida, we are glad to
learn, are exceedingly promising.
Sunday in Philadelphia is said to be
as quiet as a churchyard, and water
everywhere, but not drop to drink.
English merchants complain that
the river navigation Of China is rapidly
4 ha fFs~
When a Japense ruler dies il takes {
fifty DAYS to bury him and thirty more !
to install his successor, and in the inte- I
rim no business is done.
"A chime Of forty-twO bells, to be
placed in the exposition, is played like
piano, with perfect ease, to any tune. 1
-Four wears We're spent in the cOnstruc-
ton OF the instrument.
"A memoir Of Gen. James OglethOrpe, /
the founder Of Georgia, has just appeared !
in London.
The oficisl statement at New York /
shows the arrival of $50, 900 emigrants |
during the present year.
New Mexican papers are engaged (
principally in setting forth tle claims of |
the rival candidates for delegate 20 con-
gress, and abusing Gov. Mitchell and .
Secretary Army.
The internal revenue receipts for /
May, as compared to April, are in excess |
two and half million Of dollars.
DIR. j. p. Humbleton, of Atlanta, /.
Ga, mas recently given TO his infant child I.
the name of John Wilkes Booth.
The Richmond Enquirer says of /.
Sickles' distillation order We have no |
complaint ia the south at the order, Z
under the circumstances it was, for .
once, q judicisus use of arbitrary power, /
AT Gallipolis, Ohio, a merchant /
miller holds life and accident insurance /
policies to the amount of $500 600.
The governor Of Montana has ap- /
pointed Thomas Thoroughman, briga- /
der general to command the territorial ]
troops in an expedition against the I
Indians.
An Albany tobacconist, named .
Mosely, claims to have discovered a way |
of freeing tobacco Of its poisonous ele- /
ment, nicotine, without injury to the |
leaf.
The application Of castor oil to new I
boots, it is said, makes them as soft az 4 I
buckskin glove. 1t is also stated to be /
the best application that can be made to
render new boot waterproof, but Oh, |
the Odori
pope, commander Of the third district, |
ordered that the Mobile police should not
wear uniform in imitation of that
worn &" by the late rebel army The I
city council taking very unnecessary
trOublel informed II. VI. H, by a com
mittee of two Of their number, the in
tended dress was not a copy OF the Con-
federate uniform, bat Of that worn by
the police Of the Central Park, New
York.
Three gas meters exploded simUita-
neously in a shop in Portland, Maine, on
tearing away the wood work
of the window seat under which they
were placed, and knocking down young
man near by.
Inspector General Marcy has left st.
I I,ouis for an official tour of the Missouri /
for a thousand miles, and thence over
land to New Mexico.
The famous American chess player,
Morphy, is expected to take part in the
coming chess congress at Paris.
"A woman in Brooklyn, Monday.
gave birth to four children, weighing in
the aggregate twenty.f0ur pounds. The
mother and children are doing well.
California now exports ten thousand
tons Of copper per annum, which is five
times as large as the produce of the
whole United States only ten years ago.
1T is calculated that it would require
a column of specie five miles and twelve
and haIf of mile high and thirteen
inches in diameter to cancel the ma
tional debt.
Last month youthful Australasian,
aged fifteen years, bought pistol and set
az as a bush-ranger. He robbed two
men successfully, but was caught in his
third venture and put into prison.
The various land offices, located at
st. Augustine, Newnansville and Tampa,
Florida, have discontinued and cOnsoli-
dated i'm the Office in Tallahassee, with
A. B. StonelalSe as register, and A. Nor
gan as receiver.
"A Mr. Durgin, Of Decatur. Ill, res
Gently played a game of billiards, in
" Vhieh he made run Of 1915 points, and
hen gave up from exhaustion.
At the end of last month the Model
lodging house association Of Boston made
4 semi-annual dividend Of three per
cent. OF its one hundred and sixty-six
tenants only one died during the year.
The japanese government has ex-
tended a cordial reception to the foreign
ministers now on visit to Yokohama.
Col. Robert Gamble, of Florida, died
IN Baltimore on the 2Sd inst, eighty
,even wears old. He was q native Of
a resident Of Richmond, TIL IN
1925 he removed to Florida, where he be-
nd aH1aaacgfut g9ffQn d