Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-30

] seen IN ALlDA WAS TecelFeA at AAOAB mug
I in March. The press advocates ircreas-
1 ing the number to four.
There was quite frost at Columbus,
Ohio. the night of the 22d inst, and
some damage is reported in the country
round about.
The United States district judge for
the district of Texas has decided that the
order Of Gen. Griffin, requiring jurors to
/ take the "irou clad oath " is Illegal.
"A lady of sporting proclvities, re-
siding in Kalamazoo, Mich, has just
purchased the trotting horse "Melton,N
/ in Hamilton, c. w, paying for the
same $500 in gold. This, with the
present Canadian tariff of twenty per
cent, will make the total cost $4,000 in
gold.
The tobacco merchants of st. Louis
have arranged for tobacco fair, to be
/ held there in July. Costly premiums
will be awarded on thirteen grades of
tobacco. Representative from the pria-
cipal cities west and south are expected
to be in attendance.
1t is stated that the true reason of
Gen Thomas call to Washington is that
| the president may get a true statement
of affairs in Tennessee, there being
much complaint against Brownlow's
militia
The government has offered to sell
to the cZar the famous ironclad Genetor,
a frigate and two ironclad cruisers. The
proposition will be accepted.
The county clerk of Cook county
| lChicagol has, since last New Years
day, granted 1886 marriage licenses,
being an average of about nine each
day.
Gen. Butler wants to know what
became Of Booths diamond pin, which
was found upon his person when he was
killed, and intimates his belief that Gen.
Baker confiscated it.
The Ocala Fla Banner, Of Satur-
day last, reports that Mr.. J. II. GOss, IN
that neighborhood, had found full
bloom cotton blossom on his place few
days previously.
the I4th saws that the weeks shipments
of gold and silver by Fargo's express
alone, amounted to S25 600.
The French trade in eggs is becom-
ing enormous. From one merchant
alone, at Redon, seven thousand dozen
were sent to England within eight days,
last month.
The commissioners on the New
York capitol at Albany have rejected all
the plans submitted, and paid the archi-
tects who furnished them $500.
The new steamer Great Republic, for
the San Francisco and YokahOms line,
is 1000 tons measurement, and has room
for 1000 steerage passengers.
-Icebergs from Baflin's bay and ice
from the st. Lawrence interfere mate
terially with fishing fleets.
1t costs two hundred dollars to be-
come a member Of the Philadelphia
stock board.
The state department has received a
telegram stating that QueretarO had fal-
len Nav 18th. Macmillan, Mejia, Cas-
tello and Mirsmon are prisoners.
The Italian plaster Image makers
have become almost extinct. The cheap
ness Of engravings has driven plaster
| casts out of the market.
A severe hail storm passed over Har-
risOn county, KY, few days since.
/ I.umps Of ice as large as 9 hens egg fell
/ in great quantities, killing poultry, pigs
| and even calves.
The Bishop of Manchester, England,
/ has drawn up a series of questions to be
/ propounded to candidates for holy orders,
| 40 as to prevent the conservation of
ritualistic believers.
The French are less inclined to emf
/ crate than any other nation, yet more
| than 4 million French people have come
/ 10 the United States within the last five
wears, and the greater number have set
/ tied in the northwest.
| An eminent horticulturist, now de-
ceased. was wont to say, that whether
| tbe springs were backward or forward,
/ the fourth Of July every year found
everything in gardens and orchards all
right.
The treasury circular announces a
denuty collector to reside at Duncan
! CITY, Mich, for the purpose of receiving
and certifying manifests of vessels enter.
/ ing Lake Michigan through the straits
| of MackinaTS
The great five mile seulling match,
| for $1,000 a side and the championship,
between James Esmmill, of Pittsburg
and Walter Brown, Of Portland, Me,
took place last Tuesday at Pittsburg, at
1 O'clock, and was witnessed by $4,000
persons. Brown came in ahead. Time
1880.
Letters patent have been issued, at
4 Washington, to Messrs. Neely q Allen,
| Of buckingham county, Va, for the
manufacture of whisky, of very supe-
| rior quality and flavor, from corn stalks.
A man named Francis Smith killed
his wife and daughter on Thursday last,
near Rome, Ind, and then killed him
self. No cause for the horrible crime is
known.
-Yokohoma advices to March 29th,
saw that Gen. Van Nulkenburg has re-
oDeped 3 correspondence with the Ja-
panese government regarding the Ameri-
can claims for property destroyed in
-Hadley Ashton, assistant attorney
general of the United States, will retire
June LIST, to accept q position at Philadel-
phia. and ]. NJ. Binckley, at present law
clerk under the attorney general, Will
succeed him.
A large fire occurred on Sunday af-
ternOOn in New York city, ia Fulton's
livery stable. Eleven buildings were
burned. Loss about Sl50OOV, partially
insured.
An editor in Cincinnati says he ha:
seen a small phial filed with water
drawn from a city hydrant, which con-
tanned about one hundred maggots, each
from an eighth to a third of an inch il
size.
Mr.. Beeeher recently preached 6
powerful sermon upon the love of money
He advocated wealth, saying that it un
derlies civilization, refinement, art, let
ters and religion, but deprecated the
boarding Of money to the last moment
Of life.
The whole number of taxable in.
comes returned in Cincinnati for the
mast wear is 3ll4. The whole amount
returned is not far from S, ,0OO, 900, or al
average of more than $1,000 each Il
persons making return, which woulC
make the tax upon the incomes less thai
half a million.
1t appears from official document
that in 1854 there were in France In every
ten thousand marriages no fewer thar
one hundred and sixty-seven betweeI
relatives. The proportion has been con
stantly increasing since 4oo4i When i
was only 129 in p,OOo;
The Salt Lake Vedette publishe
Elder Ross's accommodation from tn
church of Jesus Christ Of the Latte
Dav saints, for drunkenness, swindlinl
and lying,