Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-30

BREvlTIEs.
The debt Of Cincinnati is 50, go, 600.
"A horse lately died at Peekskill, N.
y, aged forty-one years.
New Orleans has just planted $1,000
worth Of shade trees.
AN engraving by Rembrandt was re-
Gently sold in London for el1s0.
Archbishop Spaulding, OF Baltimore,
is pronounced out Of danger.
Dogs, to the number of 4402, have
been slaughtered in Chicago.
The Old Bowery theater in New
York has been sold at auction for $780,
600.
An earthquake, the other day, at
San German, Porto Rico, shook the
town clock and rung all the bells.
The ladies of Luray, Va, are raising
funds for the Ashby monument.
The sultan's eunuchs cost him about
800, 600 piastres a month.
Gen. Rosseau has been ordered to
Fort Vancouver, Washington territory,
to relieve Gen. Steele.
"A comedy by John Lester Wallaek,
edited by Mr.. Boureieault, is about to be
produced al the Haymarket theater. y
John B. Cough made his first tenn
perance speech in Rochester on the 4th
of July, Is43. Since that time he has
delivered $500 temperance speeches and
lectures.
The Rev. NJ. D. Conway, who de-
Iivered the funeral discourse at the burial
Of Artemus Ward, in England, is a ma
tive and farmer resident Of Stafford
county, Va.
The late Confederate Gen. Ripley
has received an order from the French
government for $50, 900 breech-Iosders of
his patent.
The Nashville Gazette says the radi-
Gals ~East Tennessee are leaving
Brownlow en- masse. We are not in
formed where they are going.
Hannibal Hamlin, jr., son of the late
radical president Of the senate, is out
in Wisconsin on a wooden pipe peddling
tour.
"A negro seventy years old was shot
dead in his bed, near Louisville, KY, on
Monday night.
"A letter from Mullingar, Ireland, ex-
presses confidence in another Fenian
rise, far more extensive than hat of the
5th of March for the execution of which
he says, a comprehensive plan is being
arranged in London, Paris and Dublin.
The pope has written a letter TO the
municipality Of Toledo, Ohio, thanking
them for an offer Of refuge should a revo-
luton compel him to leave Rome.
The supreme court is preparing its
rules and regulations for practice under
the bankrupt law, but will not have
them ready to publish for some time.
twenty-five years is the legal age
for voters in Italy.
Animal magnetism has been intro
duced into most of the government hos
pitfalls OF Continental Europe.
1t is reported that agents of Nspo-
leon are endeavoring to make purchases
Of arms in the United States.
-Ex-Mayor Monroe and family, of
New Orleans, passed through Cairo, ILL.,,
yesterday, en- route for Canada.
The p~ostofice department has made
arrangements for reducing the mail time
to and from Santa Fe to ten days.
The grand racket match of New
York resulted in a victory for Gray, the
English champion, he winning four of
seven games.
Chief Justice Chase receives an re-
rage Of three hundred applications a day
for appointments as registers in bank
ruptey.
1t was stated in the rentpayer's as
ISOLATION meeting in New York, last
evening, that Mr. Astor owns real estate
valued at s65, OOO, coo, and that he never
sells property, but with the interest Of
his wealth continually buys more.
Marshal McMahan has arrived in
Paris, from Algicra, whence he had been
called by the emperor. The French
furloughs have all been ended, and the
officers ordered to drill the reserves.
The estimated loss to the United
States internal revenue on account Of the
-destructiono of this years crops Of cotton,
sugar and molasses, in Louisiana, by
overflow, is between $4,000, 900 and
SO, 900.
Mrs. Van Hogan, wife of a merchant
of Mobile, was poisoned by the mistake
Of a druggist and died instantly. He
had prepared a prescription for her, with
prusslc acid as an ingredient instead Of
tartaric acid.
Several Fenian officers and men
who have been participating in the up
rising in Ireland have returned to this
country, among whom are the secretaries
~ehe Irish war and navy departments.
"A history Of the life and campaigns
Of Col. S. Mosby, by John Scott, major
in his command, whose work is the one
that is sanctioned by the subject ofthe
memoir, has been purchased, and will
o be published by the Harpers.
"A riot occurred at the Silver Bend
mining oompany's works, at Belmont,
Nevada, which resulted in a desperate
fight, in which twenty men are reported
to have been killed.
One year from marriage makes al
paper wedding; five years makes a.
wooden wedding ten years a tin we'd
ding; twenty-five years a silver we'd
ding; fifty years a gold wedding and
seventy-fve years a diamond wedding.
An Irishman named Kellen was de-
coyed into st. Lawrence church, st.
Louis, Tuesday, garroted in the most
approved style, and robbed Of his pocket
book containing seventy dollars and
passage tickets up the river. The gar.
escaped unmOlested.
Col. w. r. Thompson, now of the
Savannah Nee0s and Herald-author Of
g Major jones' Courtship" and "Travels
and Chronicles Of Pineville will visit
Europe this year, and " write a bookn
of Europeon travel, on the style of his
former productions.
"A contemporary says: The ladies in
their new style short dresses seem to
have renewed their yonth, and matrons
thirty, who have been in the willow
wagon business for a dozen years or
more, pass current as "sweet sixteen.D
Recently a COW, anointed with coal
oil to keep of Buffalo gnats, came too
near a fire in the field, and was instantly
in a blaze all over. She ran among a
herd Of cattle similarly oiled, and the
result was an impromptu barbecue on a
scale.
Maj. F. II. Wigfall, son Of ex-Sena-
tor Wigfal, is travelling in Texas as the
representative Of commercial houses in
New Orleans and England. His father
residing in London.
The London Post says the cession of
INSTANTANEOUS is a transaction full OF
iirect hostility to great Britain. 1t is
he answer from Washington to the con-
federation $50 North American pro-
yinces. ii is more than an answer. IL ia