Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-09
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL
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SUNDAY, >; ;;;; JUNE 9. 1851.
BREYITIEs.
The statement OF the public debt
shows a decrease of s5f7, obs 926.
Needle guns are advertised for sale In
Boston.
The Salt Lake VIdette has passed
into MoFmen hands.
The British have decided 10 send
3Oi 900 Enfield rifles to Canada for the use
of volunteers.
The total number Of deaths in Gin
cinnati last month was 7TS.
The past has been the most back
ward spring in New Hampshire since
I7Ss.
Lord Monk has been appointed vice.
roy of Canada.
The sultan Of Turkey will visit Queen
Victoria some time ia July.
An official deputation from the
French government has been in Spring
field, Mass, for the last two days, ex-
amining the srmory.
Mrs. Harper, a colored lecturer and
poetess, was announced to lecture Sa-
vannah last Monday night.
There are eleven lodges Of German
Odd Fellows in Indiana.
"A new Jewish synagogue was dedi-
Gated at Richmond, Va, Saturday.
There is prospect Of large hay crops
in New Hampshire and Maine.
"A noted courtesan in st. Louis sub
scribed Sl0,0 to the building of the
Lindell house.
The Episcopal convention of the
diocese of Ohio. met in Cleveland on the
- 4 L. Eav- r,F nh 0fnas
are represented.
"A cotton factory in Grsenville, n.
c.. turns cut one hundred and twenty
thousand yards of cloth per week.
The Hayward mine in Amadon
county, California, has been worked
thirteen years, has yielded $1,000, 900,
and the net income now is over $4,000.
per month. The mine is 120G feet deep.
The Galveston Wdtchni0n states
that Prof Buckley has discovered coal
beds in Milan aCd Robertson counties.
Pope Plus TX has completed his sew
enty-fifth year, having been born May
IS. 1892. He will have occupied the pom
tifieal throne twenty-one years on the
10Th inst.
"A New Orleans paper argues that
suicides occur at the first Of every month,
and produces facts TO substantiate its
theory.
Some workmen at Winchester, Va,
while engaged in tearing down a build
ing g few days since, came upon bottle,
upon which was written with diamond
"Bottle of whisky, buried in 1921"
A royal order has been received at
Havana, placing the price of slaves st
S4OO or less. One Of MaXimilian's war
vessels had arrived there with prize
captured near Yucatan
July SeatOn, a negro aged eighty
wears, was married by Rev. Mr.. ThacE-
erv to Rosa Lang, all of Old Town, Fla,
on the 2lst inst. He had resided there
sixty wears, and recOllects the landing of
Gen. Gregor MeGregor in 1917, when it
was Spanish territory.
Gen. Sickles, in South Carolina, has
issued an order stating who are qualified
to vote and serve on juries in his dis
trict.
A man in Meriden, Conn.,, has two
magnificent Newfoundland dogs Of pro
digious size, which have drawn burden
of no less than five hundred pounds.
The London Times declares that II is
"the intention of the queens govern
ment to withdraw at no distant time all
British troops from the American con-
tinent"
1t has been discovered that an ex-
tensive contraband trade is being carried
on with Indians by " respectable y par
ties in New York and the New England
states. Patriots must live, you know.
The Austrian government has or
dered the city of Vienna to be fortified,
and the work will be commenced imme-
diatsly.
The acquisition Of Russian America
gives the United States four hours and
thirty-niue minutes more sunlight than
II had before.
Midnight robberies with violence are
of frequent occurrence in Paris. 1t Is one
of the effects Of the exposition.
The German population OF Charles-
ten. S. c., is about 500 souls, and over
$50, 900 in gold have come to tAem from
their istherland during the last tSO
years.
inst fallen heir to an estate in Galveston
valued at $40, 1000.
Two street car conductors in Phila-
deIphfa have been arrested for "sDeez-
ing" at q couple Of negreSses.
1.-THE two cOl0red men in the
legislature" says the Boston EUeaing
TRANSCRIPT, " have conducted themselves
in a manner to win the respect OF their
fellow members"
in sumter district, South CarOiiRG,
declares that 5000 people at
least are living on corn husks alone.
An accidental insurance agent IN
last year issued 50 O4S poll
cies covering risks to the amount OF
S277, 97S, 200.
1t is asserted that Rey. J. T. Head
lev is the writer Of Detective Bakers
book.
The board of health and authorities
Of New York are vigorously at work im-
proving the sanitary condition of that
city, in anticipation of cholera.
A correspondent remarks that the
marriage contract in Chicago ls treated
as of far less Importance and soiemnlty
than a note of hand for SO.
The hay-packing establishment OF };
\. Bonaparte, at Baltimore, was burned
On the morning of the 9TH inst.
"A COW at Oris, Mass, has adopted
litter OF pigs, and nurses them by lying /
down.
The largest monthly shipment of coal |
10 southern ports from Pittsburg has just |
5een made. 1t amounts 10 6,656,OOO /
bushels
Dover. n. H, is the oldest place in /
the state. 1t was born in 1923. 1t Is re- |
building its city hall in modern style, at /
an expense of S3S, 900.
A brstheF and sister named Margaret /
and David Smith have recently been SEN |
fenced to ten years confinement in states /
orison at Nevada, Montana, for living |
together ss man and wife, and murder |
pg two children born to them, and /
which they had buried under the house !
.n which they had resided.
Upon the borders of the Cheesquake |
creek. which empties into the Raritan |
osv. Of New Jersey, large developments /
nave lately been made of a material for |
combustion, little known in this country, !
but long used in Europe, snd well
known as Ignite, or brown coal.
"A person adveFtises to give a-lesson /
IN French 10 all Engiishmen about to
visit Paris, the lesson to be given e13 Uoy- I
1Oe. It is grounded on the advantage Of
saving time.
-Tbe London Court Journal says that
the BrOGd1Uay, asixpenny magazine, will
be issued in London and New York
simultaneously.
A writer in the Mobile Evening NelUs
avs the only way to save the colored
race from destruction, and TO make them
ft for good citizens, is to provide Sunday
schools for colored children.
The Illinois legislature at It's session
passed a law providing that any person
bringing into the state seed of the
Canada thistle, in the packing Of goods,
grain or grass seeds, or otherwise, and
permitting the same to be disseminated
and vegetate, shall be liable to fine of
four hundred dollars; and any person
allowing this thistle to mature and dis
;emiuate its seed upon his hands shall be
subjected to q penalty Of fifteen dollars.
- A board of engineers have been ex-
,erimenting at the ChsrlestOwn navy
rard with crude petroleum. Rs fuel for
generating steam on sea-going vessels.
The beat generated by the system en-
1loyed is intense, and the combustion so
,erfect that no smoke is perceptible.
rhe test lasted eighty-seven successive
hours. Com, Rodgers is perfectly salts
led with tue experiment, and will apply
o the department at Washington for
lermission to make trial trip oy sea.
The silver miners at Belmont, Ne
yada, gave themselves up to riot on the
sth ult. Ninety men were reported
ljlIed. The agent Of the Silver Band
company was ridden on rail and other
wise maltreated.
The Holyoke paper company employ
me hundred and sixty hands in the pro-
luctiCn of writing paper They run two
machines and seventeen engines, and