Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-17

The president has ordered Gen. Han
cock to report at Washington.
Ex-senator Gwinn intends to make
California his permanent home.
Mrs. Julia Dean Hsyne is playing
Julia in the Hunchback, at the COnti-
mental theater, Boston.
Gen. Griffin, successor to Sheridan in
command of the fifth military district,
but specially noted for offering senseless
indignities to the remains of Gen. Albert
Sidney Johnston, died of yellow fever at
New Orleans on Sunday.
Jacob woll and his wife, residing at
East Liberty, Pa, committed suicide on
the 10Th inst. by taking arsenic
Sake gets one thousand dollars q year
for his poems in the LaagcE7 and is ex-
pected to contribute one week.
George il. Kane. the leader-of the Bal
tiDore riots in 1891, has declined the
democratic nomination for sheriff.
George R. Childs, formerly chief cOiher
IN the mint, died at Philadelphia, on
Thursday, aged sixty-six years.
DR.. Dio Lewis will rebuild at Lexing-
ton, Mass, and viii meanwhile occupy
the Spy Pond house for his celebrated
school.
Thurlow Weed has bought Maj. VIII
| liams' interest in the new suspension
bridge at Niagara Falls, for $50, 600.
Mai. Yelverton is likely to lose both
/ his wives, as the legal one has been 50
bothered with all this row she means to
| get a divorce.
It is stated that John B. Cough has
been obliged to decline four hundred
invitations to lecture during the coming
! season.
Gen. Tom Thumb has gone in hisyacht
/ Charles $. Cameron on a fishing eXcur-
sion OFF Long Island.
! Lurringar & Vanbeck, two brewers of
/ st. Louis, were held in 5000 bonds yes
terday for violating the revenue law.
A report that Mr.. Seward is to leave
/ the cabinet forthwith, is for the one
hundredth time prevalent in Washing
| ton.
Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, deliv-
cred an address Friday night, at the
Opera hall, indianapolis, TO large au-
dience.
Malcom Melville, son Of Herman Mel
vile, committed suicide in New York on
Thursday by shooting himself with a
revolver.
Prof. ]. w. Mallet, professor Of chem
/ istry in the medical department of the
university of New Orleans, has been
elected TO the chair of chemical tech
nolOgy in the university Of Virginia.
Alexander B. johnson, Of Utica, n.
Y. an eminent citizen and tinancier,
formerly president Of the Ontario branch
bank. died on the 9Th at the advanced
age Of eighty-two years.
Hon. Edward Kenney Of Halifax,
will probably be appointed president OF
the senate of the dominion, and DR..
Tupper, of Nova Scotia, will in that
case be appointed to succeed Mr.. Kinney
in the ministry.
Barney Aaron has accepted Shep-
nerds challenge to fight for the cham
pionship of light weights, and the first
depOsit of "battle money " has been
made. The men will shortly 90 into
training.
Can't. George w. jerks, an old resi-
dent Of st. Louis, and for many years
superintendent OF the freight depart
ment Of the Ohio and Mississippi rail-
road, died in that city on Thursday.
DR.. White, Gen. Simpson and Col
Buford, United States railroad commits
sioaers, left st. Louis on Thursday, tC
INSPECT another section Of twenty-five
miles on the Union Pacific railroad
Kansas branch.
The friends of Gen. Mcclellan il
Washington assert that, although h'
NAV have been requested by telegraph Il
return, he has no idea Of doing so; that
on the contrary, he has just determined
to remain abroad another year, ana ha'
taken q house, and made arrangement:
for the tuition of his children accord
iBgly.
Summer says Carlyle seems to hav'
changed from an evangelist into a-vice
gerent Of the devil
Rarevis will is Just published. H,
leaves the reclaimed "Cruiser" 20 hi
brother. with the Injunction that th'
horse is not to be sold nor exhibited fo
money, nor taken away from the stable
which the testator built for him.
The last piece ofunpleasart news abou
the Prince of Wales comes from the Ma
bilIe at Paris, where his rOwdyism drew
forth a rebuks from enc Of the festive
, damsels who disport themselves in tn,
, cdncGn.
A Galveston paper says: " Gen. Lorel
Kent collector of this port, met the epi
. demic as hrayely as he met an enemy il
, arms. Up to the night on which he diet
there was thought to be no occasion 70
7 alarm, When the storm arose, 8 storm
, is ALWAYS fatal in the time of an cpl
demicl, he was thought TO be dying, ant
, after he had rallied, said that he hat
. thought so himself. In few hours h,
. sent for his brother, who was in an ad
inning room, and greeted him with an eX
, pressiOn that all who know the genera
will recognize as characteristic. Their
is, said he, no use fighting this thin
anv longer-I must CO. and began Z
give directiOns about his effects and bus
|. iness. From this time till the mOmen
I | Of his death he made remarks, some
times lucid and sometimes wandering.
/ The Ohio Statesman, the democrati
= paper Of Columbus, has come out in favo
D Of the constitutional amendment.
{ The Kentucky state agricultural Sc
0 ciety will hold its ninth annual fair a
the fair grounds on the 18th.
4: The secretary of the treasury has re
D moved the injunction on certain Missoul
4 and North Carolina bonds.
v The race of the tea ships, whie
e occurs every year from China to LondoI
e is this year contested by no less tina
Z, thirteen clippers.
+ "A man was arrested in New Yor
|, recently for pasting bills on curb-stone
q as it defaced the natural scenery
q The Crescent asserts that the Me-
a York church uniou ia down IN paaaI,a