Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-03

Registration in Louisiana closed on
the 3lst Of July.
The Turkish commander in Crete
reports the Cretans as very nearly sub
dued.
Great stagnation in business is com@
planned Of in France, and there is much
suffering in consequence.
Sheridan threatens further whole
ssle official decspitations ia his domin-
ions, and especially Texas.
-Philadelphis claims to be the great
est manufacturing city in the 1nioU
Her operatives number 96, SS3, and their
gross earnings amount to Sl25 966 767.
"A Cincinnati paper is publishing q
history of whisky. It should employ
/ Senator Chandler in an illustrative ca
pacity.
There is a pretty woman in Paris
who out bloomers "Dr. Walker" She
wears coat vest, tight pantaloons and
patent feathers.
"A number Of the New York bellies
were entertained at a ball the other
night on board the United States ship
Minnesota It was great time for the
young middies,
The politicians are focking to Long
| Branch, because they think the next
president Of the United States is there.
"A planter near Alexandria is killing
caterpillar flies with vinegar and mOlas-
ses which he puts upon plates on stands
of the hight Of the cotton.
The London Times bluntly informs
/ the English people that they are unpre-
pared for a war.
Sumner is color blind. He reeog-
nizes nothing but black.
Beast Butler SAYS he viii soon stsrtle
/ the country. He has made il hold its
! nose often enough already.
! "A radical editor talks about "taking
his life in his hands, p aud Prentice ad.
vises him to take it at Once-either in or
I by his hands.
The display of the European mon
archs at Paris was almost equal to the
display of the five moHarchs in the
south.
"A soldiers monument at Weathers-
field, Mass, contains, beside the names
of the dead, those Of tone hundred vol
unteers who returned in health.n The
next thing will be a monument to those
who stsid at home.
in the city of New York alone, it is
stated that at least seven thousand peo-
pie wear glass eyes. The operation OF
inserting them is represented to be en-
tirely painless, and the artificial organ
moves and looks like a natural eye.
"A great deal of sickness is prevailing
in the county of Walkulla, Fla. In some
neighborhoods there is not family
which has not from one to five and six
cases in it of severe chill and fever or
ordinary bilious fever.
1t is said the Mexican officer who
took Santa Anna from the Virginia st
Sisai, carefully avoided tramp pling upon
the American flag by directing his men
to hold it up while Santa Anna was con-
Quoted from the vessel.
"A New York gentleman enclosed {
some percussion caps in a letter to his
boy ia the country. rs contents were |
disclosed by the stamping process in the |
postofiice.
The London Times priuters make
only twenty five dollars week. They !
work in a small, illventilated compOs
ing room, and use old fashioned stands /
and cases.
"A gentleman in Richmond has sent |
a straw chair to the president Did be /
mean to insinuate that congress had /
made Mr.. johnson 9 straw president? J
There is now building in Paris sn [
experimental house eleven stories high. /
II has no staircase, bat the tenants are 60 1
ascend on hydraulic elevator, which I.
gees up and down once q minute. The Z
sky parlors are the aristocratic rooms.
The pr0prietors Of the Bay State /
house, at Worcester, Mass, estimate their /
loss by the destruction Of furniture, doors, /
windows, erockery and bed clothing. and |
the theft of moveables, at over Sl400, on |
the occasion of the recent regatta.
The Massachusetts, liquor law is
decided failure. It has driven liquor 4
from public saloons into club rooms and /
private houses, and consequently in \
creases drunkenness. Still men will in |
sist on legislating people sober, and I
making them holy and moral by law.
The Israelites Of the western states /
contemplate establishing an asylum for 4
orphans and widows At ST. Louis they 1
have petitioDed the council of that city !
TO grant them two or three acres of land I
for that purpose.
The believers in the approaching
millennium are now at Warehouse Point, I
Connecticut, auxiously waiting to go up
The understanding is that unless the
present attempt is successful, there will
not be another opportunity for two
thousand years.
The friends of Mr.. Davis have pur-
chased a house for him in one Of the
aristocratic streets In the city Of Mon
treai, near Montreal mountain, and he
contemplates making this his future
home.
The tobacco statement of Great
Britain for January 1, 1867, shows that
the aggregate total decrease there was
5000 hhds. during the last year, and 5000
in all Europe.
"A disgraceful fight occurred in a
lodge of Sons of Temperance at Charles
town, Mass. few evenings since, orig
mating between two OF the ssns and soon
became general among the fifty or sixty
members. The ladies present endeav-
ored to stop the disturbance, but one re-
ceived blow which prOstrated her, an
other had her cheek and lip badly cut, !
another tainted, and two or three ran 10.
to the street crying murder. The sons
had probahly mixed water with their
whisky before repairing to the Lodge,