Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-16

militia.
-rhe snow drifts on the Allegheny noun
isins are forty feet high.
Switzerland is the oniv foreign rover that
does not reciprocate In atcrediting TO Washing
ton a minister.
Black tea OF dne guilty is raised on the
coast OF Georgia Much attention IN given to
its cultivation.
W. W. Astor, son OF ,Iohn J., Jr. is a pupil
Of Thompson, the sculptor. A Psyche Of his is
vel spoken Of
The receipts OF tina principal places Of
amusement in New York city for eleven
months, were 81 ,402,55l.
Eight hundred years ago the s. waterfall !"
was the mode among men Of fashion IN France.
The Oldest OF the John Smiths, known to
be extRnf, resides at Pleasant Mills, New Jer-
sey. He is sweet III.
"A Maine boy who amused himself some
years ago by planting apple seed, nettsd a
profit Of 500 from his orchard last year.
-Thei late Gen. Cass's cradle was u common
sugar trough. His babyhood must have been
sweetly spent.
Joshua Converse, Of WOburn, Mass, viii be
700 years cid on the 18th. His townspeople
are going to give him a birthday dinner.
A woman in Lawrence, Mass, has sued that
city for $4,000 for the killing of her husband
by q skyrocket,
In Decatur, Ill, Mrs. Merry, an elderly
lady, attended church. Remaining in a kneei-
ing posture at the close OF a prayer, she was
presently approached ard found to te lifeless.
The gold coin OF thu United Ststes is thus
formed: gold, ninety parts silver, two and a
half; copper, seven and a half The silver
coin is thus composed silver, ninety parts I;
copper. ten.
The Asphalt or wooden block pavement, is
to be given a trial in New Orleans.
7 advertising receipts OF the st. Louis
newspapers last year were rs follows: RePuJ-
bean, tDemocraticD s2ls, sss; Democrat. CRepub-
licanl sll2.6s2; four others, Sls9l7s; total. $780,
1853,
Brown colored children are called hac-
tons Of republican currency
-BufTAle has a ghost which goes around the
town shaking its CORY locks" at people.
Mechanics have worked 90 years on the
spire OF the Cathedral ST S~trasburg.
Jet have been replaced by amber
on women's dresses In Paris.
-Ex-Fresldent Day, of Yale college, aged
ninety-four years, is the original 'ive-ong
D9fhs Man Of tie WorlL a new comic weekly,
viii shortly appear in New York city.
Venice is going TO have steam gondolss for
her canals,
-MOille ITu,>1n Is EtpoElS4 70 nave TO
nounced her Intention OF going to New York,
and viii n into a convent.
-Pium8go has been found near Canton
New York.
Show me the man possessed Of power ana skill
/ To stem the torrent OF n wOman's viii
For II she will, She will, you msy depend ont;
And If she won't she won't; and there's an
end ont.
1t is stated that the Pope will soon make
an appeal 10 the Catholic powers to sustain
him,
The English yacht clubs are presenting
young Bennett with medals.
NEW BIsHoP OF F~LoRIDA.-Rev. DR.. Beck
with, Of New Orleans, is spoken Of as The prob
able clergy man to be elected to the Episcopal
see OF Florida, made vacant by the death Of
Rev. d.. Rutledge.
The World publishes an expose Of an order
OF the grand army ef the republic. The organ
ization numbers 5eOJOOo radicals pledged to sus-
tain Impeachment.
Miss Ann z. Cunningham, regent OF the
ladies' Mount Vernon association, has made a
report, showing the receipts TO date 70 be about
S2gO, eco, OF which Edwari Everett raised s6s,0o0.
The purchase has been completed, and s2.eoJ
spent in repairs.
An Englishmgn employees as a miller in 2
hourlHg mil in the village OF MszoTnonle, Mis-
sour, was caught in the betting the other day
and torn 10 pieces
At us moment of difficulty does a husband,
knowing his own utter helple.sness, draw so
closely to his wife's side for GOmfort and assist
auos, as when be want a button 50 wed on his
shirt collar.
"A man in Detroit adverti4es for a partner
in the nursery business II he wants a wife,
why hasn't he the msnliness to say so?
Section third OF the new Tennesss militia
bill provides shat the organization shall take
P ace by companies, each member of which
shall swear and file tho regular, retrospective,
pluperfect loyal oath.
A. T. Stewart hss brought a suit against the
city OF New York for S754, being the value OF
sundry gsSoves, grapes and scarfs furnished to
the city council to wear at the funerals OF vari-
Gus city officers,
There i to he at the Paris exhibition an
ambu~ Chinese restaurant, made Of BAN
boo, andS 5rne on The shoulders OF a celestial.
The season tickets for the Paris exposition
VIII be about twelve dollars for a lady and
twenty dollars for a gentleman.
The t,az-sas re France is the oldest newspa-
per extant It is now in It's two hundred and
sixty-slzth year, AMI was already mature be-
fore the revolution OF lSS.
5 ewes are 10 be introduced into the Louis
vile street cars this winter. They are about as
large around SIS a plug hat, twenty inches high,
and will be protected by a wire guard.
In an old cellar at Montreal the police dis
covered tour boys and a girl half drunk, be-
sides counterfeiting tools, false C in and spoons.
Madame Anna Bishop is giving concerts st
Maulls. She was wrecked on The passage
from san Francisco, snd travelled over 100
miles in an open boat. She lost all her ward-1
rsbe aud music.
The Catholic Bishop Lefevre, OF Michigan,
celebrated the twenty-fnh anniversary OF his
conservation at Detroit, on the 2lst OF Noyem-
Der. He received presents to the value OF
Oc0.
Mrs. Late was married at Cireleviue, Ohio,
lately, her own daughter and granddaughter
acting as bridesmaids
According TO the New York Herald, tie col
leCtor Of that port mares $4,000 per annum.
Each clerk in the eustom-house is faxed four
dol srs per month for political purposes.
There were manufactured In the United
States, and sold TO the government during the
war, Ss3,95I breeeh-losding c~srbiaes, 81 the
price OF So %; 67O,6I7 rife muskets, c4liher IS,
Springfield model, SO q; J4,II7 muskets and
rifles, csHber IS, Springfield model, go Is; 49,
449 revolving pistols, 81 81; 5S pistols Of va
rious kinds, s. 10.
MI continental papers give curious
statisti6sof assassination. The proportion OF
murders is, in England, one in 670,O00 souls
holland, one In l5S,OOj; Prassis, one in IO0,0O;
Austria, one in 1900 Italy and France are
not iRsluded in this calculation.
The Cathohc Aiy0r says that the present
number OF sisters Of CLARITY in this country is 1
81, being a net increase Of thirty during the
past year. They have founded four new estsb-
lishments during the same period, and they
have now under their charges twenty-five hos
pitfalls, thlrty-twO orphan asylums, forty parO-
ch!al schools, four houses OF charity, and one
academy-maEing a total of les establishments.
These Institutions extend frcm Boston to san
Francisco, throughout most Of the states. Their
chief religions house is ct Emmerts0uTg, Nd.
The Yorkvine (South Cardinal Inquirer
says = lady near there recently gave BIRTH to a
daughter, and fJ1ty-tp'o hours afterward she
gave birth TO another daughter and son.
The weights OF the infants we're respectively,
ave and three quarters, seven, and eight ard a
pounds, and they are all, with their
mother, d" doing as well as could be- expected"
The husband Of this lady Is over seventy
years old.
1t has been very cold at Charleston, s. C..
the lO.h inst, at 7 am, the Thermometer in
the shade Was at four degrees below freezing
point. All the cutters and puddIes were frozen
hard, and milk froze 50 rapidly that no milk
or toddys could possibly be made, and
the chivslry must have suffered dreadfully.
The Providence (R. L. Post records a freak
Of nature IN that city. A Mr.. Ludowig las q
young pup, OF the poodle breed, eight weeks
old, ". ich weighs eighteen ounces and Is en-
tirely destitute of forO legs but beneath the
skin the shoulders may be felt fully developed.
The young poodle is jet black in color, and
aside from the absence OF It's fore legs, it is a
perfect animal. 1t does not suffer from the
malrormation, as it Is 70 I OF life and spirit.
David Moore and wife are under arrest in
Perry county. Ohio. for whipping a little or
Il girl to death on Wednesday last They
whipped her until the ~nelghbOrs interferred,
and on "Wednesday morning tho child was
dead, while the body was still warm. 4
post moriem examination revealed the fact
the back Of he child was beaten TO a Jelly.
OF sixty-seven queens OF France, only thir-
teen have died without leaving their histories
a record Of misery ana sin. Eleven were di-
yoreeJ, two executed, nine died young, seven
were soon widowed, three cruelty treated, three
sxiled the poisoned aud brOken-hearted make
up the rest. The pillow OF roy ally Is indeed
illed with thornS
E-PiseOpaIfan Bishops.
There have been in the Protestant
Epiaponal church I'm the TrDitad Sfafas