Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.

4 sore throat Is epidemic in some parts
of New York city.
An Augusta (Ga. dispatch says the
rains have ruined the rice crop, and one
third the cotton crop.
| The Mediterranean squadron sailed
from Cadiz Wednesday for Greece.
The city government Of New York
spent S537 for feather busters last year.
| -phe state Of Virginia has sold its
Dismal Swamp canal stock "at an
alarming sscrifice.n
Not more than one-third OF a cotton
crop will be realized in Texas. The corn
crop will be enormous.
1t is complained that the corOners in
New York are either all out Of town, ill
OF drunk.
The Hsytian government has in
creased the duty on imports fifty per
cent.
"A plum tree in the garden of the
editor Of the Lynchburg Republican is
putting out leaves and blossoms.
New Orleans papers assert that the
fever is slowly abating, but the deaths
still average forty in twenty-four hours.
Two negroes were instantly killed by
lightning, last week, whilst working in
field near Vicksburg.
Somebody says ISLANDERS issuing from
beautiful lips are like spiders crawling
from the blushing heart of a rose.
The Maine democrats have forty-five
representatives against thirteen last
year.
From Key West we learn that the
yellow fever is abating at the Dry Tortu-
gas, and the officers are out of danger.
The New York Gdzette thinks the
art of swimming should he made branch
Of public school instruction.
The ichnuemsn fly, the great de-
stroyer Of the cotton worm, has appeared
in large numbers on the Texas coast, to
the great joy of planters.
The New York World says the
president is entitled to no credit for the
results Of the elections in California and
Maine.
The yellow fever is raging in HOus-
ton and other interior towns in Texas.
The New York Tribune has adj
vanced its advertising rates twenty-five
per cent.
Primary elections are to be held in
Mexico on the 22d, when q vote will also
be taken on certain amendments to the
constitution.
Clubs favorable to the election Of
Gen. Grant to the presidency are form
ing throughout California.
The subscription Of $4,000, 600 to the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad was voted
by the city of Richmond Wednesday by
1000 majority, the negroes voting for it
en- masse.
1t is now known that the German |
voters organized throughout California |
TO oppose the Sabbath legislation, and |
voted the democratic ticket by thousands |
for that purpose.
1t iss remarkable coincidence that |
the only two emperors of Mexico, Itur- |
bide and Maximilisn were both shot on 1
the 18th of June-the former in 1924.
A gentleman living near the railroad |
Jackson and Nicksburg, found |
three of his finest mules, on the morning |
Of the 9Th inst, shot dead in his pasture. |
Such wanton Outrages are said TO be Of
frequent occurrence in that region.
1t is reported from Havana, that in
answer 10 the complaint of the commit
tee of storekeepers that the taxes were
too heavy, the authorities answered there
we're bayonets enough in Havana to en-
force the collection Of them.
The latest news from Japan states
that siXty-thTee native christians have
Deen arrested, and one American and
.wo F1glishmen murdered. The Japs
earned ferOcity il seems il nothing else,
Dy visiting radical officials in America.
The United States government has
eased the race track at Atlanta, Ga,
or five wears, at $1,000 per year, and will
prepare quarters and barracks for $1,000
men.
"A gentleman who has been a great
ufferer from inflammatory rheumatism,
Informs the editor OF the Richmond
Dispatch that kerosene oil is q specific
or this disease. He has tried it effec-
ually,
Alabama uses ten million pencils
very year, and wants to start factory
o keep that much mOney-near a mil
ion dOllars-from going north annually.
food idea.
A serious trouble occurred between
ONE ex-Confederate soldiers and loyal
sts in Jefferson county, Mo, on Friday.
Three men are reported killed and an
ther dangerously wounded. The muir
.erers fled. +:
"A disastrous fire broke out in the
government buildings at Rio Janeiro on (
he 2Sth Of August, and destroyed all the |
apers OF the treasury, together with {
ther important documents. It was sup- {
osed to have been the work Of an incen- /
isTy. {
"A number Of ex-officers Of the army,
7hO have suffered dismissal from the I
ervice by the arbitrary course Of Stan
Dn, are in Washington presenting their
ases to Gen. Grant. In the majority OF
the facts in their favor are so
that they will be rein
lated, and then honorably mustered out. 8