Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-11
RREFITIEs.

The New York World counts twenty
thousand sporting men In the city.
Drinking 3 bottle of elaret daily II
mentioned as one condition of health
lOgevity.
Boston has improvements com.
menced and projected which viii cost six
millions Of dollars.
i Chicago weather on the Tth instant
! was ninety-fiVe in the shade.
Twelve deaths from cholera occurred
at Fort Lyen on the 26th ultimo.
"A wholesale house in downeast ity
advertises: Wanted, women to sell on
commission
Copper lightning rods, the American
Artisan says, are preferable TO tin ones.
The submarine cables connecting
England with the continent Of Europe
are constantly being laid.
An exchange compares widows to
green wood, which, while it is burning
on one side, is weeping on the other.
! -" Wanted, a steady young man to
look after a horse of the Methodist per-
suasion,v is an English advertisement.
I -COnfederates abound IN the new do
minion OF Canada, and are universally
well received.
The celebrated tenor, Brignoli, is en-
gagged by Afahager Pike for the coming
I opera season.
The army worm has N ade its appear
anee among the cotton on several of the
sea islands between Charleston and Sa-
vannah.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis arrived at Balti-
more Wednesday from Baltimore, and
/ proceeded to join her husband in
/ Canada.
The new Milwaukee directory con-
/ tains 1900 names, and the Scientific
/ claims rs, 900 inhabitants, an increase of
q, O00 over the census two years ago.
! The metric system Of weights and
! measures is to be introduced as a branch
Of instruction in the public schools in
the state Of New York.
"A traveller describes New England as
the greatest watering place in the coun-
try. He couldn't get anything but water.
1t was contemplated to put Gen.
Grants picture on the new fifteen cent
currency, but he objected, for fear the
engraving would get a speaking likeness.
"A grand national agricultural exhi-
bition and horse fair will be held at the
National race course, near Washington,
commencing on the 2Sth of October.
The premium lists in money and medals
amount to $50, 600.
Punch says the sultan has made a
I joke! Passing the shop of well known
cOiffeuT, where chignOns were exposed for
sale, he inquired if it was a harlem.
"A citizen of jefferson county, Ga,
who had valuable thoroughbred stolen
during Sherman's march, has received a
letter from the thief requesting him to
forward the horse's pedigree.
The Lebanon shakers complain that
they can't go through their gymnastic
performances without public Intrusion,
and heresffer propose to dance through
their worship in secret.
Eight thousand four hundred and
thirty-One acres of land were added to
the productive force of Florida during
July, under the provisions of the home
stead act
The Illinois state teachers institute
is in session in Normal One hundred
and forty members are present, and the
session gives promise of great service to
the cause of education in the state
The dog war in New York city, this
season resulted in the capture Of !, ,s5I
CANNES, at a cost TO the city of S, ,204 80.
According TO the New York papers
they have woman in that city who has
been sentenced to the penitentiary I6O
times She must be incOrrigible
"A western wife threatened to ring
her husbands ears. He told her to prac-
tice first on the pigs nose, for he was
spelling the potato patch.
An exchange says to economist is to
draw as much as possible. The ladies
apply this art TO their persons, and the
result is a very small waste.
"A railroad man named Nelson E.
Haskell, and negro barber named Geo.
II. Adams, had lively fight in billiard
saloon at Greenfield, Mass, the other
day. Haskell broke a cue over the ne
gro's head, and be retalisted by sticking
a knife into Haskell's arm and taking a
mouthful of IL with his teeth.
"A gathering Of SeOtchmen has been
held at Belle Isle, near Detroit, at which
the national games of Scotland were in
dulged in, to the qualification of great
crowds Of spectators.
In Norfolk, Va, turtle is a drug in
the market at two cents pound At
least this was all that crew that had
spent several weeks in fishing for turtle
could get for their catch. Eastern Vir-
ginia does not need recOnstructing on the
food question. People who can buy turtle |
at two cents pound, with soft crabs, /
chickens and oysters at corresponding
prices, enjoy advantages which some |
other communities more favorably stu
ated, politically, may we'll regard with |
envy.
While the crops in the United States |
are reported to be very good, there is bad |
news from the crops in Europe. It is /
announced that the harvest in France |
threatens to be much below the average,
and in Portugal the vineyards, which |
furnish the principal support of exten- |
sive districts, are seriously affected by |
as has often been the case before. !
America may this year have to feed 1
Europe.
-The New York Tribune declines to /
make nomination for the presidency, |
but informs the Chicago Times that "it /
seems as if President johnson is anxious |
to name his successor-was about to
make the nomination himself, by re-
moving Sheridan from command in /
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