Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-25

have rewards to the amount of SlO,U0O,
new barracks and breech-loading rifles
for their fidelity.
The April number of the Medical
NelUs and Library relates four cases of
death from heinhalation Of chlorofOrm
The Masonic lodge at Great Salt
Lake City is named Mount Mania No. L
-Pittsburg has contributed Sl927 in
one day for the relief of the south, but
unfortunately stopped at that.
The bureau Of statistics reports an
increase in the population of the United
States of 100000 since 1866. The
southern states show q decrease, eastern
states increased slightly, western states
largely.
A native Hottentot at the cape has
made a painting of heaven. 1t is in
closed by fence of ssusages, while the
center is occupied by a fountain that
runs pot-pie.
James Gordon Benefits income is
returned at s119, ,98T; A. T. Stewards at
| S736, $50. The former shows falling or
of nearly $4,000 the latter of over
three millions.
A few black bass were carried from
some of the northern lakes, few years
ago, to the Potomac, and these fish are
now quite plenty in that river.
! Chase has nominated registers in
bankruptcy for Louisiana and Georgia,
but as nominations require confirmation
by district judges, names are withheld.
/ Chase has instructed district judges that
in case local objections exist to nomi-
nees to reject them.
Immense beds OF the best quality Of
bituminous coal have been discovered in
Houston county, Texas, and quantities of
camel coal in San Saba county.
The New York Legislature has passed
an act taxing foreigners s. 5Oper head on
arrival at New York.
The largest roof in the world is said
to be at st. Petersburg. 1t is single
arch Of iron, covering $50 by $50 feet,
which is used for military purposes, balls,
etc. t
AT the New York theater, last week,
Miss Sophie Worrell was presented with
a bouquet in which was a $1,000 setofdia-
mOnds.
The Rev. DR. Fairbarn and Rev. Mr..
Wells, delegates from the Free church Of
Scotland to the Presbyterian churches in
the United States, are in Richmond.
"A negro girl was acquitted a few
days since in Campbell county, Va, for
killing her fatheF-in-law some three
months ago with a skillet, in self-de-
fense. .....
The twentieth session Of the American
institute Of homeopathy will be held in
New York the 9Th Of June. The annual
address will be delivered by DIR. Cooke
of Chicago.
A North Carolina paper says the
wheat crop in that section is unprece
dentedly fine, and if no accident hap
pens to a, the yield viii be better thar
for years.
Bishop Loughlin, of the diocese o
Brooklyn, n. Y, disapproves Of th'
practice of holding festivals and balls il
, aid of the Catholic churches. He is alst
, opposed to the clergymen keeping trot
ting horses, and there is general sell
ing out. PIP ~
, The fact that an American loeomo
tive won the prize at the Paris exhibition
} against all competitors is very crafty
ing TO our mechanics. The points upoI
|. which it was granted were that tn
American locomotives were more elasti
. and better adapted to a rough railway
! and that it was far more comfortable 70
the engineer than any former engine OF
exhibition.
Z "A lady applied at the Portland, Me.
police Office on Monday, in search Of
! lost cat, for which she offered $1,000 re
ward. She brought the animal from
England, and thought a great deal Of il
The cat had on when lost, q gold neck
lace worth. about forty dollars, whiel
NAV account for its disappearance.
Some weeks since the wife Of re
> spectacle citizen of Troy died after
+ brief illness, leaving her husband some
thing like $1,000, which she had CAREFUL.
saved from money which came into be
D possession, and Of the existence Of whicl
:, the husband was entirely ignorant.
According to the return Of the Iris
registrar general for 1866, there wer
85ls deaths on the island during tn
|, wear, and I46, ,237 births. Yet, in spit
of this prerondersnce, the populatio
decreased. by emigration 46,s2S. A
average of 1000 emigrants per week hs
left the port Of Queenstown during III
present season.
/. The free and easy God and nutme
70 party of New England begin 10 regar
d the nigger as a member Of their church
y, = fixed feature in their political machiD'
q g and propose now, for the first time
a. two hundred years, to devote some a
teution to the salvation Of the Indian
: As a first step toward this great en-,
g. thew propose to substitute beer for whisk
"a an Indian annuity-without exit
charge.
= At one of the Portland, Conn, qua
o. ries. recently, the largest blast ever mao
. in the quarEies threw out IA 42S tons
stope-ss much as gang of thirty me
p. coold get out in eight months. Thr,
kegs of powder were used.
e. webb, the author Of 9 Liftith Sank
a burIesque on Charles Reads Grif1l
:. Gaupt, has written burlesque Of 5
N Elmo, with the title Of st. Fuelmo."