Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-16
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL
MEMPHIS:


M r MPHIS:
TUESDAY,, - JULY Is. 1867
Lf BREYITIEs.
"A number of cases of yellow fever
are reported on board Of vessels which
have arrived at the port Of New York
within the past few days. The vessels
are held at quarantine.
The people of Brownsville, Texas,
subscribed Sl100 10 celebrate the 4th Of
July withal.
"A large number of 4th Of July ora
tors throughout the country took occa-
sion to nominate Gen, Grant as next
president.
There are 80, l2l names in the new
city directory Of Boston, which Is 1897
more than last year.
Near Wheeling, Va, q eolored
"gemman who does landscapes IN
white with a bucket and big brush, dis
plays this sign: " Professor johnson,
Whitewasher and Carpetshaker.n
Belle Boyd will shortly leave Mar
tinsburg, Va, to fill number of engage
ments in the theaters Of the eastern and
western cities. -L
"A riot occurred in New York Sunday
night between the German element and
certain police officers, but was readily
suppressed. The difficulty lad its origin
in the excise law.
The French minister has been re-
fused his passports by the government OF
Juarez.
The negroes have majority Of lll9
in the registration at Richmond.
A New York paper hints that the
" coolest theaters in the city" are kept
so by putting the thermometer on ice.
An instance Of hydrophObia occurred
st Hobart Town recently, the first case
ever recorded as happening south OF the
equator. -.......
a Scotch paper says that two kittens
were recently found in the stomach OF
large Goldfish, taken at Caithness.
The common school fund OF Indiana
is greater than that of any other state,
being s. 900, 900:
p. r Tsfe, OF Cincinnati, this years
vale5iotorian at Yale, has the highest
average -nsrks ever attained there.
The commissioner Of Indian affairs
estimates the cost Of the Indian war at
81 100000 weekly.
DIR. Decaisne, of Belgium, reports
having used successfully the oil Of petro-
leum ia upward of six hundred cases OF
itch.
The twelve free public baths of Bos-
ton furnished ablutiOns, during the
month OF June, to the following extent:
Men, 5207l boys, 1885, women
$3.50: girls, u, go.
The prospect for a rice crop in South
Carolina is very poor. The Georgetown
I Times SAYS the crop Of the up river plant
/ ers is completely drowned out.
Thirteen petitions in bankruptcy
( have been filed in Cook county, Illinois.
William 3. Astor reports an income
or 81 ,Il2,04 for himself and shout S3O,-
/ 600 more as trustee fer other persons.
The registration at Alexandria, Nir-
giuia. has been concluded. The negro
voters registered out number all the
whites by two hundred and twelve.
Late Colorado papers state that the
railroad connection between the Pacific
railroad at Crow Greek, Sud Golden City,
in the mining regions Of Colorado, will
be completed IN May, 1865.
The Indians attacked Fort Wallace 2
few days since, bat were repulsed, the
garrison losing thirteen killed in the as
-Con interest on the public debt %
the amount Of $40, 900 has just been
paid. The interest on the seven-thir-
ties, amounting to Sc, ,O00, GOO, fell due yes
9terday.
The wheat cropof California amounts
TO twelve million bushels.
-SenOr Romero will, it is said, soon
publish history Of MaNimilian's reign
in Mexico, as developed by official dOcu-
ments in his possession.
The old Spanish prOveTb Is having
4. a. Ia
elergyman's skirts the devil climbs into
the Delfry."
The q Society of Cincinnati" +" COM
posed Of officers of the revolution and
other descendants, celebrate its eighty
fourth anniversary in Boston on the 4th.
It Is represented TO be prosperous tnan-
cially and in membership.
BY the new railroad schedUle, which
went into effect last week, the time De-
tween New York and New OrleERs is
eighty-three hours.
-lufanticide is sh0chngly common
among the freed negroes now. Nine
babies were recently found in well at
Columbia, $. &.
The auction Of the Salamanca pic
ture gallery has begun in Paris. On the
first day fifty-twO pictures brought 10,
6OO francs. A rich Englishmsn, "a de-
sceudant Of the circumnavigator Cook
had already expended 100000 francs at
this auction.
At printers festival, on Franklin,s
birthday, the following was the NTH
regular toast: "The editor and the law
ver-the devil is satisfied with the copy
of the former. but requires the original
Of the latter"
A "blue racer" snake (who stran-
Gle, but never bite tried to kill an eigh-
teen month old child near Marion, Ohio
on Tuesday. The mother rescued hel
infant, but the snake attacked her, and
both had a narrow escape. H
The Chicago Journal knows Of one
firm, I'm southern Illinois which sold, the
present season in six counties, four hun
/ 1red and six new reaping machines.
A subscriber to a Richmond paper
recently became 80 disguised with It's
course that be ordered blank sheets TO be
/ sent him until the term Of his subscrip
ton bad expired.
1t has been computed that, in conse'
areuee Of the reorganization Of the
Austrian army, the Jewish contingent
thereto will be from 40 900 to O,0OO men
Nevertheless, the Austrian ministry ha'
refused TO appoint any permanent Jew
ish military chaplain, although pet
toned Tor this purpose by Influential
Jewish bodies.
Private boarding houses are elassi-
fled and defined by the internal revenue
law as hotels, inns, or taverns, and re
ouired to pay a special tax on theii
rental value. Where the rental vallle Il
5000 or less, the tax is SO, and for every
500 or fractional part in excess Of 500, .
-" Beshockment," as applied 70 tht
English people with reference to th,
Prince of Wales conduct in Paris, is the
latest new word coinage we have OBJ
served. Il has a mongrel sound whicl
NAV make it acceptable to Wocd-miee'
] ,.,-,,Fs,r,fgfu