Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-28
NEWS 0F THE DAY.

The Fort Smith, Arkansas, NelO
4 Era is enlarged and improved.
"A man swan across Niagara river
abeve the suspension bridge, on Sun
day.
South Carolina malcontents stiIl EN-
/ igrate to Honduras.
An island is forming In the reach Of
the Mississippi river above Natchez.
Brazil anticipates this year the
largest harvest Of coffee ever gathered.
Trousers this fall are to be as tight as
possible, and with very broad stripe.
/ A neat thing.
Troops have been dispatched from
France to Rome.
-Ericsson::has built for the Swedish
/ government man-monitor," to be
worked by man power.
The finding of dead bodies Of infants
in Brooklyn, New York, is becoming Of
almost daily occurrence.
I "A raft passed Winona, Minnesota, on
the 18th, which contained 100000 feet
of lumber, contained in 100 cribs.
The cranberry crop Of Jackson coun-
ty, Wisconsin, which has begun to come
ia, is estimated at 5000 bushels.
The cotton crop in West Tennessee,
Arkansas and Mississippi, is reported to
be an average yield.
Packing ale in dour barrels is the
latest unsuccessful dodge at Boston to
elnde the vigilance of the eonstabulsry
seizure.
Some one has given currency to the
startling statement that Havana cigars
are made Of potato leaves.
The New YOrkCentrsl railroad leads
of in the very important reform of ex-
cluding peddlers from the cars.
The Cuban cable company received
two thousand dOllafs the first day the
cable was open TO the public.
The Rock Island and st. Louis rail-
road has been put under contract for its
whole length.
The streets of Des MOines, Iowa, are
black with grasshOppers.
The Harpers are soon to publish q
weekly fashion paper on very extern
sive scale.
The cotton worm has made its ap-
pearanee in the eastern part of North
Carolina.
The South German states are now
free to join the North German cOnfed-
Grafton, and thus make Germany one
natisn.
The Prussian diet, which was dis
solved yesterday, will meet again in
November, when the new states will be
represented.
The total amount Of tea exported
from China this season to the 29th of
August is 60, 600, 900 pounds.
Rates OF freight from st. Louis to
Vicksburg, Natchez and New Orleans
have advanced.
Senator Wade and Representative
Spaldiug, of Ohio, announce themselves
in favor of a continuous session of con-
gress from the day of its meeting until
the fourth of March, 1869.
1t is estimated that one tenth Of the
entire number of soldiers and prisoners
at the Dry Tortugas have died by yellow
fever.
The Savannah papers mention the
shipments of four crates of new sheaf
rice from that port to New York. This
is the first export north of the new rice
crop.
John B. Cough has On his estate at
West BowlstOn, Mass, over 2000 of the
feathered tribe, consisting of turkeys,
hens, ducks, pigeons and geese.
Those sections of North Carolina
noted for unionism during the war are
utterly opposed to negro supremacy as
the radicals will discover at the next
election.
Tom P. Ochiltree writes letter from
the Langham hotel, London, in which
he POLITICALLY refers to Texas as the hus-
bandman's paradise, and shepherds ely
sian field y
The monthly sale of Scranton coal
took place at New York yesterday
10000 tons sold at S3 55@4 IS per ton.
Stone coal 81 55@4 70. Steamboat coal
50 1903 s74.
Under the amnesty, and according
to the census of 1860, the vote in Texas
would be as follows: Whites, l09 625 /;
blacks, 3s,l52; giving a total white ma
jority Of Il ,473.
Westerly, r. l., has furnished sixty
five sea captains, of whom twenty-eight
were Pendletons, and other prevailing
names are Barber, Barnes, BAbcOeK,
Burdick, Bliven, Dunbar, Hazard, Hall,
Nash, Saunders, etc.
Congratulations have been exchanged
between the gOvernOr-general of Cuba
and the governor elect Of California on
the establishment of telegraphic cOmmu-
between California and Cuba.
-Garibaldi, when arrested, was con-
veyed 70 the fortress of Alexander. The
arms and other munitions of war de-
signed for his troops have been seized.
The italian government is determined
to prevent an invasion of the Papal ter
ritOTy.
Postage stamps are a comparatively
recent invention, but they have gone
into universal use in most enormous
quantities. England uses $50, 000 900
postage stamps annually; France, 45O,
900 600, and the United States, $50, ,O00,-
600.
Some miscreaDt attempted to wreck
a train on the Bellfontaine road, near
FOrtville, Indiana, last Friday night, by
lOosening the rails. The eastern bound
express passed over the gap sn safety, but
the engineer, having discovered some-
thing wrong, stopped the train and caused
the mischief to be repaired.
"A wretch in Philadelphia, the other
day, employed several girls who owned /
sewing machines, to come to his estab- /.
lishment on Chestnut street, the next /.
day to work. Early the next morning
he sent team around for the machines, /
and when, subsequently, the girls went /
to the place indicated, they could hear /
Of no such man and get no trace of their /.