Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-25
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL
MEMPHIS:


\ The receipts Of internal revenue fol
| the past week we're So, ,280, ,367.
The Budalonians boast that they
have consumed $50 900 quarts of straw
berries this season.
"A fiuit grower in Fayetteville, Onon.
daga county, bad a bill Of Strawberries
I that produced 400 berries.
I The liquor sellers Of BROOKLYN paid
of $40 600 ~ the city debt last year.
The oil wells Of Pennsylvania now
I yield less than six thousand barrels per
day.
The president pocketed the bin au-
/ thoriZing negroes TO sit as jurors and
hold Office in the District OF COiumbis.
-Four black bears were seen eating
Strawberries in a field near Holderness,
I y. H, recently.
The engineer Of the Dismal Swamp
canal, estimates, after a careful survey,
that Il will cost over half million OF
dollars to repair it.
Careful barOmetrical observations
recently made by the state geolOgist Of
California, show that the hight Of Mound
Hood, Oregon, does not exceed u, 400
feet. Seventeen thousand was the alti-
tude claimed by OregOnians.
Considerable excitement exists in
West Virginia and a portion of Ohio,
over the discovery Of silver ore, which is
said to contain Dinety-four per cent. Of
silver and six Of copper.
Prentice says: Hades is governed
by the devil, and Tennessee by Brown
W.
The New York p0stoffice building is
20 cost less than the land upon which it
is to be built Five hundred thousand
dollars Is the sum appropriated.
Ian off ArafAh
on Wednesday, in honor of the sultan,
cost fifty thousand pounds.
Gen. Seofeld has called upon the
recorder of the hustings court at Rich
mOnd, for an explanation of the proceed
ings in bis court, which were clearly of
a character partial TO the COnfederates.
"A soldier named Stickley, who
fought at Waterloo, still lives hale and
hearty in Worcestershire, England. He
Is seventy-seven years old, and has had
three wives, and ten children by each
wife. Waterloo, even, could not kill
him.
Stewart county, Ga, registered 81
whites and 1872 colOTed Effingham
county, 1856 whites and III colored; For
syth county, 9SS whites and l4] blacks.
Six hundred and seventy-seveu
French conscripts are annually exempt,
upon the average, each year, as stam-
merers. This fact proves that suffering
is more common in France than even in
the Confederacy, when eOnscription was
temporarily an American institution.
Prof AgassiZ has declined an invita-
ton TO deliver q course of lectures on ich-
thyolOgy, in San Francisco. He has
other fish to fry-the Brazilian piscato-
rial collection, for instance.
One of the OHIO counties boasts a
"rat eXterminating society," The last
hunt resulted in the capture Of Il, $40 YER
min, after which grand picnic was held
and the tails counted.
-Catharine Bayless was married in
Cincinnati a few days ago, was arrested
for theft a few hours after the ceremony, I
and as she was bail-less, had to pass her
honeymoon in-the station house.
The United States slOOp of war
jamestown has been scOurged with yel-
low fever, contracted at Panama. Out .
OF a crew of one hundred, forty-eight .
had the fever, and twenty-One Of that +
number died.
The New York restaurants of the .
lower class are wretchedly filthy, and /
the cheapest item in their dinner-bill .
costs the consumer one hundred per cent. .
over the price Of the raw material.
George SouIe, of the commercial
college, having been invited to stand as
q candidate for the position Of assignee I
in Barker's bankruptcy case, has con-
sented.
A couple Of chivalrous actors, J. W.
Fox and F. B. Lytle, quarreled in Des
MOines, Iowa, on Wednesday, and made
arrangements for q duel. At the sp-
pointed hour, Lytle, the challenger, I
failed 70 appesr.
There is a French machine in the
exposition that takes in chopped tobacco
aud turns out cigarettes at the rate Of
sixty minute the year round, ringing a
signal bell as often as there is not enough
TO put IN a package. These machines,
about half yard square, make saving
of 20 600 600 francs a wear