Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-14
The MEMPHIS appeal
MEMpHTG
SUNDAY. -: July Il. Isgz


five students and thirty-three professor
y and tutors in the university Of Mich
e igan.
' Tom Thumb has raised what man,
bigger aHd stronger men can't raise
= mustsehe.
: New York ladies have commences
!; washing their faces in "green seal.p
! The yellow fever is raging at Pana
, ma. The English consul has lost hii
family by the disease.
= Among the American celebrities a
Liverpool is an alligator seven feet il
length.
Mr.. Seward has negotiated a reci
procity treaty with the Sandwich
Islands,
-Heber KimbaIl, a Norman light, was
: at Omaha, on the third, going to Sail
Lake.
) THE widowed empress, "poor Car.
5 lOtta.n was tWenty-seven years old OF
the 7th ult. What a sad experience
. hers has been for the sister Of king
The city council OF Paducah, KY.
have decided to destroy all the ailanthus
trees in that burgh.
Nashville has no less than three hun
dred drinking saloons,
"A man in Albanywho drank benziIle
for whisky became highly intiamed, alId
has not been seen since.
Mr.. Stanberry testified before the
judiciary committee the other day, thai
he did not write the presidents veto
messages.
An Omaha paper says: "There are
two women in North Platte, and these
are continuously drunk"
"A large number OF MaXimilian's Off.
GERS and soldiers, representing several
nations, are in New Orleans, all wearing
mourning badges.
The stove pipe hat heretofore always
the mode in Europe, is at length BAH
ished by the decree OF ineX0rable fashion.
The New Orleans Crescent says: We
suggest that the two principal st. Louis
papers make al even exchange of names.
The Republican is a democrat and the
Democrat a republican.
Admiral Dahlgreen in the steamer
Ossisser arrived at Panama on the 5Oth
ult.; there received orders TO San Fran
cisco, and sailed Immediately.
-RistOriis " Elizabeth has been
translated into German, by st. Louis
poet, and is TO be performed at the Ger
n man opera house. Mrs. Hasse takes the
character Of Elizabeth.
-Walrussia, where the day is now
twenty-four hours long, is the only place
in the United States where a Sumner
speech can be read in a day.
The latest medical novelty in Boston
is a physician who sails under the ban
ner Of " Naturepathy."
Three distinct volcanic craters have
been discovered near Red mountain in
Montana. On throwing stones into
( them no sound to indicate the bottom is
J heard.
A southern farmer advises the use Of
| the suuhOwer as green fodder for horses
and mules. He says IL viii yield eight
tuus Of fodder to the acre, and is eaten
/ with avidity.
! -Ex-Confederate Gen. Louis 7. Wig
/ fall, formerly United States senator from
! the state Of Texas, is about entering upon
! the practice of law ia England in con
nection with American cases.
! -Seventy-three years ago the first
| boat started from Cincinnati up the
Ohio. 1t was bullet-pleof equipped
[ with two cannon and small arms. The
round trip 70 Pittsburg was made in f0Er
[ weeks.
Lieut.. Kidder, of the second cavalry,
with ten men and guide, VINO left Fort
! Sedgwick on the 29th, with dispatches
for Gen. Custar, have not been heard
from, and they are supposed to have been
captured by Indians.
Ten years ago the number Of work
ing horses in New York city amounted
TO some $1,000; five years ago 10 had in
creased to 10000, and is now estimated
at 10000
-George Peabody proposes this sum-
mer to join his sOn-iB-law, Sir Curtis
Lampson, at Gilderm0ry, in ROsshire,
the shootings of which have been rented
from Sir +. KerisOn.
-Thackersy speaks of a place in Ire
u r II.
keen that the servant brought up the
Goals for the parlOT CRATE on clean plate.
The price of milk on the Illinois
prairies is ten cents gallon, and it is
unmXed with water, chalk, anotto OF
any other supposititious improving or
flavoring article.
European mail advices state that all
arms Of the land aud naval service of
France are being strengthened, and that
the activity all through France produces
an impression OF pending difficulties.
AT FredisbUrg, eighteen miles fron
New Albany, last Wednesday, Mr. Rice
was stang on the lip by a bee, and the
poison spread through his system so rap
idly that he was speechless in thirty
minutes, and died in about three hours.
This is the second instance Of death from
the sting OF bee in a short time.
The extensive missionary operations /
resulting from the close of the war have |
increased the demand f5r clerical labor, !
which is now greatly needed. II is said /
that hundreds Of churches all OgsS the /
south have no settled preacher
The insurrectiGn stated to have taken /
place in the island of Porto Rico was a |
military revolt led by captain Of artil- /
lery 1t was early quelled after some /
skirmishing, winding up with the sur /
render of the insurgents and a few exc
cutions by court martial.
A memorial of John Gibson has |
been placed near his grave in the Protes- /
taut cemetery Rt Rome. This comprises
a medallion, with the portrait Of the de-
ceased sculptor in profile, the wofk Of his
uupil. Mr.. Spence, and an epitaph writ
ten in feeling terms 10y Lord LyttOn.
There is a remarkable artificial fOGn-
tain at Bennington, Vt. The water is
brought in a six-inch pipe from an ele-
walton Of 325 feet and is thrown in an
inch Jet TO the height of 154 feet The
entire works cost Sd, 600. The celebrated
at Chatsworth, England throws
a jet only ninety feet high.
AT New Haven the president mis-
took a white boy for youth Of African
blood, patted him on the shoulder and
said: "Ah! my little fellow, you are
free now, amt you2'' Yes, and / hope
YOU always will be Free" The coDster-
nation Of the bCy's parents nsy be ina
gined.
Yesterday in Paris began the grand
musical competition between the soeie-
ties of France, Belgium, Prussis, Eng
land and Switzerland. France alone
will furnish $40 choral societies ami
twelve orpheon military bands. Five or
six thousand performers VIII take part
in each Of these concerts.
1t is suggested that il Napoleon was
hit by the projeetile intended for the
ear. be was saved by a coat Of mail
which he is said TO habitnaiIy wear, and !
which is perhaps the cause Of his crab
like movements when he walks.
1t is said that General Pope remark
ed 10 a citizeh of Atlanta that unless the
people Of the south accepted the recon-
structiop bill, they would be reduced "to
the condition of Tennessee and Mis-
souri,
The AfoniteUr says: Napoleon and
the king of Prussia parted in the most
Nf'ectionate manner; but from other
sources Of information it IS known they
iid not get on harmOniously during the .
visit of the latter.
The Russian cZar and the Emperor
\ apoI con became more and more
markedly cordial each day the former
was in Paris, and in this connection it /
nav not he Hnimportant to remember
he very obvious cOldness of the ear to- ,
ward Americans in Paris.
The Hartford Press suggests that for !
he soldiers monument of that town a
' lofty and massive belfry, towering ,
even above our highest church spires (
md containing a clock and chimes,
would be novel and impressive. Per- !
laps a triumphal arch would be moro so.
Neither of these are to be found ia any !
American town"
The people Of New Jersey laid the {
,orner-stone Of monument to WASH '
ngton on the 4th Of July. The structure
viii be erected on a high elevation few {
niles from Plainheld. The spot is said l
o have been favoTite resort Of WASH }
Egton in the days OF the revolution, and
rom whence he took observations OF the s
of the British army. The ;
will be fifty-five feet high, {
and sGrmOunted by a statue.
The workmen employed at a mari !
pit, Hanley, England, recently came ]
Ipoh an enormous fossil calamite seven |
'eet 10 diameter and of at present unas- \