Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-12-12

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THE NEWS,
A dispatch from Florence denies th.
/ story that Gzribaldi escaped from Ca
The cholera is said to have broker
| out in Honduras, near the NicsraguI
frontier.
Hon. Emerson Etheridge and daugh
ter are stopping at the Lamar House il
/ Knoxville.
Tickets for standing-room are nov
sold 81 the Dickens readings ia Boston.
Wooden legs cost the Government
last wear S35, 200 50. Wooden heads cos
/ the Government much more than that.
The Infamous old John Brown VS.
hung Just eight years ago last Monday.
-AcabIe telegram says the navigation
1 Of the Scheldt is entirely closed by ice.
The Tdette is urging the organizs
ton OF an insurance company st Sal
/ Lake City, where there Is nov one
The Bank Of France has now a re
serve or idle capital Of $50, 600, 600 francs
king Theodorss Abyssinisn sabject
l 20 to church at the sound Of kettlt
! drum.
-The anti Contraction Bill viii pas
the Senate.
-Berezowski, the man who attempted
the assassination Of the Emperor 0
Russia ia Paris, is dying Of consumption
While & number Of persons werl
skating on a pond in Philadelphia Mon
dGv afternoon, the ice broke and threi
BOYS were drowned.
Col. Vegessck, who commanded
New York regiment during the war, j
now MsiOr General in the army OF ia,
King Of Sweden.
The Fenian Col. Kelly, rescued il
Manchester, was a passenger by the Min
nesota, which arrived st New YORK
Monday.
There are appearances of an out,
break Of cholera st the Dutch island o.
Surinam.
ten. McCIeznsnd declines the Mexi
can mission.
msjorlty, official count, in its Assembly
election.
The purchase Of st. Thomas is 10 be
put Of until the Senate is satisfied thai
il will pay.
Mr.. Seward has been quieting the
alarm Of Spain about Cuba being seized
by the United States.
DIR. y. B. Shurtlif was chosen
Mayor Of Boston on Monday by reeeiv-
ing 1888 votes against 1915 for Otis Nor
cross, the present Republican Incumbent.
A prominent Radical Senator thinks
that the case Of stanton will be let alone
out in the cold where the President put
him.
The first book printed in America
was sn Aztec dictionary, imprinted
Mexico, 1871. Gen. Phelps Of Vermont
has a copy.
Miss Charlotte Thompson passed
through Nashville, Mondsy, en- route for
her plantation near Montgomery.
The Central railroad bridge at North
field, Vermont, vas burned on the Sth
inst. It was three hundred feet long
aud seventy feet high.
The Cunarders are not TO have an eX,
elusive mailcontract between this country
and England. The North German,
Lloyds and the Indian Line will hence
forward carry mails.
One hundred and t~hirty-One million
bushels Of coal are afioat o n the way from
Pittsburg.
An ex~-Confederste Colonel Of Cav
airy, now resident in Mobile, has drawn
$4,000 in the Havana lottery.
III - EANEAAE1 AaeH WV aAtAIN wa
pass 3 bill for the reissue Of the green
backs retired by contraction since April,
1886.
The Reconstruction Convention met
at Atlanta Monday. One hundred and
eight white and twenty-five oolored
members were present. There was much
confusion As the convention was unable
to agree upon organization.
The number Of letters returned to
the dead letter Office in Washington, for
the last fiscal year, wa 1905 sos.
Successful experiments IN smelling
iron by the use Of peat are being made
in the shops Of the Pacific railroad al
Minneapolis.
A London telegram says: 1t il
thought the scheme of the European
Conierencs fO7 the settlement of the
Roman question will be deferred, by the
speech OF Minister ROuher, which indi'
Gates that the French Government has
already prejudiced the whole case.
The largest salmon ever caught in
Great Britain with a rod and fly Wa
recently taken 10 the Tweed. 1t weighed
dfty-One pounds, was four feet TIRES
incnes long, and twenty-nins ana q hal
inches in girth.
The question OF extending State aid
TO railroads is Just BOW exciting great in,
terest in the Kentucky Legislature, anC
q Joint committee has been raised TO re
port on the subject.
An exchange says Thad. Steven
proposes to visit the Holy Land mex.
suTing. He doubtless is DESTROYS to Sc,
the mount on which his father tried t,
inveigle our Savior into wildcat liant
speculation.
AT Cobourg, n. Y, is q two month
old baby named Ltley Ley, who weigh
two and a half pounds. At her birti
she weighed just a pound. A gentle
mans ring passes over her hand 70 tn
elbow, and a pair OF shoes two inche
long are altogether too large for her.
There is an o. gRnized gang Of thieye
between Pittsburg and J~OhnstOwD, Penn
sylvania, who attack and plumber pas
senger trains on the Pennsylvania Cen
tral Railroad.
The next exciting political question
In Congress, now that impeachment
settled, will be the enforcement Of negr,
suffrage, by Federal legislation, in al
the States.
Fourteen hundred pounds OF grapes
packed in saw dust, we're shipped from
/ Stockton, Cal, to New Yark via Sal
Francisco. The Stockton paper think
the fruit will startle New York with
( specimen OF California ~viniculture.
Dickens reading OF the death Of Lit
Z tie Paul Dombey is said 10 be by far IN
most effective Of his Rotations. H
moves the whole audience to tears b.
his exquisite pathOs.
Greeley promises a portrait OF him
self 10 every Tribune subscriber. IL tina
doesn't cut down the circulation of tn
Tribune, its readers must be worse thar
Pagan worshippers Of benevolent ugli
ness.
DR.. Hayes, the Attic lecturer, say
hat he has seen an iceberg so large tina
il sold by the pound at market rates II
New York, the proceeds would pay thu
public debt. His plan is quite as goOS
as Mc'CullOch's not 20 mention its cool
ness.
FOrthe ladies.
There may be some among our fail
perusers who would be interested il
knowing that an old merino dress may
be made 10 look as good as new, by first
ripping 70 pieces the skirt, and Afterwards
washing each breadth separately, In
warm subs, being careful TO rinse only
10 clear warm water or suds. Cold water
after warm water viii shrink any
kind Of WOODEN gOOds. Iron while quite
damp on the wrong side. Afterward:
fold once double on the right side plac-
lug over il q clean newspaper, and iron
with a very hot fiat, in this way making
the seam fold in al new double fold
goods.
IN A late sermon 10 London. Arch
bishop Manning maintained that Rome
WAS the capital Of ChristendOm and MOI
= III - Hkaa