Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-01-22
IrEns OF AL SORTS.


latest inventions.
|, TtcelUe Times Year is the title Of a
new monthly in Louisville.
Kangaroo Kams, imported from Aus
tralia, have appeared in London.
A sharks law has been found in a coal
bed at Belleville, I'll.
! There have been sixteen hundred di-
vorces in Massachusetts during the last
six years.
The contributions of the Episcopal
church last year reached S, ,02l ,667.
Twenty-Five farms in Alabama have
been sold at the rate of 81 per acre.
| The collective wealth Of seven promi-
nent New Workers is estimated at $780,,
600, 900.
| Gen. Sherman denies that he is either
going to marry or run for presidency.
The oyster trade of Boston now EN-
plOys fifty to sixty vessels, against two
or three in 1880.
| An expedition has gone in pursuit Of
the perpetrators Of the Fort kearney
| massacre.
This is the dullest Of years in trade
and the most frivolous in fashionable
circles.
Buffaloes, in large numbers, are cross
ing the Platte river.
Nine young doctors graduated from
the Yale medical school on Thursday
last.
The salt springs at Onondaga, \. Y,
produced 1902, 240 bushels Of salt last
! year.
Another case Of girl whipping is re-
/ ported, this time at a school in 5eabrOOk,
/ New Hampshire.
| Nearly 2200 buildings were put up in
! Brooklyn, n. Y, during the past year,
| and many more are wanted.
An escaped lunatic was shot in the
woods, near Sparta, Wis, recently, by a
man who mistOOk him for a deer.
Ice, clear as crystal and six inches
| thick, is being taken from the Susque-
\ hanna river, at Harrisburg.
The receipts of the New York thea
| ters for eleven months Of the year 1856
amounted to 81 ,962, 554.
Hon. Oliver Ames, of EastOn, Mass,
/ has been chosen temporary president Of
| the Pacific railroad company in place of
I Gen. Dix.
During the past five yes92's, 1861 Ameri-
can vessels of all classes have been trans
| ferred to the British flag.
! Col. Il. NJ. Little, 3 reporter of the
/ Davenport Gazette, has become heir to
property Of SO, 900 in Dublin.
Several hundred freedmen, from the
/ interior of South Carolina, sailed from
Charleston for Florida last Friday.
Madame MOntholon, wife ofthe French
marquis, is a native of st. Louis, and
daughter Of the late Gen. Gratiot.
A Peruvian merchant in New York
/ has accused his partner of stealing
/ fifteen thousand dollars, worth Of dis
mOnds.
A woman in London, England, lately
| beat her husband 10 death with poker
because he failed to bring his wages
| home.
An agent of the children's aid society
OF New York has arrived at st. Louis
with forty boys, en- route for homes in
Kansas.
4 young gentleman, suffering from an
acute attack Of the tender passion, de-
scribes his complaint as an OverpOwering
lass-itude.
The bride is cheaper than the bride
groom. She is always given away,
whilst he is frequently sold.
| Ira Van Ferburg, q Pennsylvania,
recently deceased, has left his property,
valued at SIS, OG0, 10 his betrothed, who
! is to take possession when she is twenty
one years Of age.
In Paris recently, young man. think
ing it wrong for his father to marry
/ second time. at the age of 50, put the
old gentleman to death with his own
| hand.
In Genoa there are marriage brokers
who keep memorandum books with
names Of eligible girls Of the different
classes, with notes as TO their personal
attractions, fortunes etc.
The exceedingly savage name Of a new
Texas weekly newspaper, intended to in
struct the population Of that state, is said
TO be the {" Sarcastic BOlUie hlJe.n
A wife agency" is in operation at
Cleveland, Ohio. It is conducted on the
employment agency system, the prices
ranging from s. to SO.
Almost every decade in our country's
history, ending with the figure seven,
has marked ths beginning OF financial
crash OF severe depression, says the Bos-
ton Post.
Gov. Chamberlain says Maine lost lO,-
600 men in the war, and had ., coo OF her
sons hOpelessly disabled from disease or
wounds received in battle.
The central monument Of the Gettys-
burg national cemetery is to be white
marble shaft AZ feet high, with statues,
the whole 10 cost nearly $50, OO6.
Thirteen thousand vessels passed east
ward and seventeen thousand westward
through the Delaware aud Raritan canal
during the past season.
zen. beauIeBhfu mas ptulihlto n ASLtSi
denying certain statements in regard to
his political position. He avOws his op-
position to the constitutional amend
ment.
A reporter, hunting up items in Nash
vile few nights ago, was chased by
two policemen, who misto0k him for
burglar. He eluded capture by getting
up tree on the dark side Of the street,
and remaining there until the policemen
went away.