Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-24

York and Boston complain loudly Of
mosquitoes.
A German theater has been estab-
lished at Council Bluffs, Iowa.
The ezsr is arming his guards with
the Prussian needle gun.
The Chicago papers are twitting each
other Of mpeeuniosity-a very com mon
disorder with journals and journalists
everywhere.
Whale steak with snail sauce is the
most recherche plat with Paris epicures.
The little newspaper Of which Ben.
Wood is manager eireulates nearly 1885,
600 copies daily.
-In Platte county, Mo-, there are
twelve veterans of the war of 1872, nine
of whom have been disfrsnchised by the
radicals.
The Central Pacific railway of Cali
/ fornia, in its most exposed portions, is to
/ be rooted, as protection from snew, and
| ten miles have already been thus COW
! cred.
There are but few cases Of cholera
| reported in st. Louis as yet.
/ Gen. RufHs King and family, late
minister at Rome, returned yesterday to
| New York
The latest story is that Carlotta was
poisoned during her voyage to Rome,
and that she was all right when she
reached Europe from Mexico.
Election returns from Colorado are
coming in slowly. AS far as received
they indicate a republican success by 9
small majority.
The British parliament was pro-
rogued on Wednesday. The queen was
not present in person, and the speech
was read by commission.
The cultivation of cotton in the Sand
wich island Is said to be carried on eX-
tensively and prOfitably. Large receipts
of choice seC-island had been received at
HOnOl'lla.
"A robbery of $12, 900 worth of bonds
was sdrOitly perpetrated yesterday in
New York, by a man representing him
self as a Texas trader.
-Blacque Bey, who arrived in WASH
ingtOn on Saturday last, as the minister
resident from Turkey to this govern
ment, was not presented to the president,
but will be on Friday next.
1t Is reported that the rinderpest
caused the death of some animals re-
Gently in Suffolk county, Long Island,
and near Patterson, n. J.
One Thousand eight hundred and
eleven emigrants arrived in New York
on Monday.
There were thirty-six interments at
Galveston on Monday. All but two of
them yellow fever cases.
"A provisional protection for six
months has been granted by the English
patent Office to Mr.. Edwin Forbes Gum,
Of Charleston, 5. c., for improvements
in breech-losding firearms.
The Augusta and Macon Ga rail-
road is completed to Sparta, and will be
opened through to Milledgeville by
November.
The New York Tribune says sustain
ing the president does not in the least
detract from a mans patriotism and
fidelity as citizen. WhereupOn, the
Boston Post fears Greeley is becoming
copperhead.
"A woman died in Fort Wayne, Ind,
last week of self-impOsed starvation.
Her husband, with whom she had lived
twenty-five years, recently elOped with
a clairvOyant dOctress.
The embargo laid on Victor HugO's |
dramatic works is being gradually re-
moved. The Paris Gate announces that |
it will shortly play " LIE Roi s. Amuse."
"A BOstOnian recently found his |
favorite horses name awkwardly mu- /
tilsted. By persistent and ingenious |
search be discovered it at last, In his |
maid servants cki iqliOll.
Returns of the late Kentucky elec- |
ton, from all except eight counties, foot |
up: Helm, rebel democrat, S7,l82; |
Kinkead, union democrat, 1924;
Barnes, republican, sc, ,SS1.
Some Of the Lowell manufacturing |
corporations pay a round city tax. The |
Merrimack, this year, pay $50, 1868 the |
Massachusetts, So, ,002; the Lawrence, |
SIS, 1853; the Lowell, ST., sos; the Hamil- |
ton, Sl4, ,250; and the BOOtt, Sl5, 1863.
Tine revenue of Girard college has 4
increased so largely that it is proposed /
soon TO add to the number OF beneficial
ries. There are about five hundred /
orphans now in the school,
All the streets in what is known as
the "church district at Boston, are to /
be raised and widened, and the whole
section generally reconstructed, at a cost
to the city OF $500 600.
The foreign letters sent from New
York postoffice on Saturday last num-
bered as follows British, IL, ,273; German
l3,1S7; French, 6,6l2 Belgium, I42
Nassau, n. P, $50; Aspinwall, ETC., 1892
Nicaragua, So; China, 1910. Total,
81, $50.
Gen. Grant has for some time con-
templated q reduction in the quarter
masters department, which will soon be
made. OF nine adjutant generals, two
will be transferred to duty elsewhere. OF
assistant quartermasters on
duty here, a majority will be sent else
where, and the quartermaster's bureau
iDgtOn dispatch of the 14th.
"A Washington dispatch to the New
York World says Gen. Grant has urged
The president to dismiss every member of
his cabinet, in order to create harmony
between Mr.. Johnson and his advisers.
The general is known to be particularly
hostile to Mr.. Seward, whom he regards
As too adroit and dangerous
AT the MOrgue, in New York, new
process for preserving the dead has been
tried. A dead body has rs
NAMED forty days without decomposi- ,,
iOn. The process consists of injecting |
preserving gas into an Rir-tight metallic
,Offin in which it is placed.
"A meeting of radicals in New York
las nominated Gen. Sheridan for presi- ..
lent and Gov. Fenton for vice-presi-
lent. II the former is elected, his adj
at New Orleans has abund- F,
lntly shown that he is likely to con-
irm the experience of the monkey who
'limbed pole, more completely than
my man in America.
The First Baptist church of Kala-
naZOO had been haunted with +" strange !
'oices,n nightly, for several weeks, Z
when careful watch was set, and the
hosts were found to be a couple of
tammeriDg youths, who were prac-
icing elOcution with pebbles in their =
mouths, a Ia Demosthenes.
The Louisville Courier says emo
nan is politically prescribed by the peO
lie of Kentucky, on whatever side he
nay have been in the late war, provided :
le is now willing to do all within his
'ower to maintain the supremacy of the
constitution, and to assist in the over !
brow of that reasonable organization
hat is running the country" =
"A special dispatch to the Commercial D
rom Galveston, reports the death of the
wife of Col. Albert, United States army, !.
n Sunday. There were twenty-eight |,
nterments on that day, and eight before
reakfsst yesterday morning.
The Cooperstown IN. " Repu5li- n
an spesks discouragingly Of the hop ]
rop theFeabO4t It says in ChenangO e
nd BrOOme counties many fields are enc
rely ruined by insects, while others {
romise net more than half q crop.
"A young man named John p. May
as been arrested at Laurensville, S. c.,
harged with poisoning two of his step =,
hiIdTen, of three snd eleven years Of R
ge. A post mOrtsm examination re- v
ealed the presence Of strychnine.
Capt. Swan and his crew, of the +
chooner Swan, have been arrested at
an Francisco, charged with purpOsely r
the vessel in order to defraud
he revenue department and insurance
ompanies. The vessel sailed with .
argo Of alcohol worth $4,000 on board, :
'hich has been found ip cave since 1
he wreck.
The old Pennsylvania bank build \
lg, in Philadelphia, is to be removed
iecemeal to Portland. Tne marble has q
cen marked, letteFed and numbered, 4
tone by stone, and is sent to Portland, fe
here 1t will re-appear as a custom .
ouse. m
The sacred relics preserved in the L
OF Aix-la-C -Chapelle are exhib- G.
ed to the pnblic once in seven years, to v
ne great emolument Of the inn keepers. 81
n the present year the oopeonrse Of pill =
rims is so great that the number has Il
cen estimated at 100, 900 for single day. P
Lore than IN 000 uuara aountad 70, L u