Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-26

Haight, governor elect of California,
positively declines being candidate for
senator.
Mr.. John Francis Msguire, NJ P, has
nearly ready volume on "The Irish in
America"
Mayor Horton, Of Mobile, has dis
charged a negro policeman for contempt
Of court and neglect of duty. Won
derful!
The statement that Bishop Duggan, of
Chicago, now at Rome, has resigned, is,
we are glad to see, denied.
A. T. Stewart hasa private telegraph
connecting his dOwn-tOwn with bis up-
town store.
Spurgeon is described as a common
looking little chunk of a man.
Mrs. Siguurney hss written one hun
dred poems for the New York Ledger.
5. w Munroe, the representative elect
to the Vermont legislature, from Shafts
bury, weighs $40 pounds He was reared
a pet, and fed on the national food,
dOughnuts and maple sugar.
Gen. Charles G.. HaIpine miles
O'Reillyl is stated to be in bad health.
The Planters Banner records the death
of three prominent citizens of New
Ibera-J Lloyd Lewis, DR.. Hilliard and
Harvey Hopkins.
Henry Ward Beeoher is going to have
his prayers bound in book form. Why
don't he have them dramatized
Stonewau Jackson's G. $. Banks is
going to reyel in the balls Of the Monte
zumas.
Satrap Pope opposes reopening the case
Of Gen. Porter.
Murdock is playing his farewell en-
gagement in Cincinnati. He is to found
a school Of elocutiOn in Cincinnati.
Lord Dalton, a young Euglishman Of
noble % birth and " immense fortune,
has Just married his laudlady, a woman
many years older than himself
Raymond, Parke Goodwin, and Bishop
Wood, Of Pennsylvania arrived in New
York from Europe on the 18th.
There are thirteen applicants for the
position Of minister 20 Ecuador. Il IS
probable that ex Lieut.-Gov. Ford, Of
Ohio viii get the appointment.
DR.. Newman Hall Iectared at st. Louis
Thursday night. At pause in his
speech three cheers were given for John
Bright, John Russell and John Bull.
Thomas A. Jennison is about to COM
mence a suit against Mr. Sharell, school
teacher, in st. Louis, for unwarrantably
and cruelty beating his boy in school for
some trivial OfIense.
Mr.. Burton, late United States minis
ter to BOgota, publishes a card in Pam
anna paper, denying that he had en-
deavOred to effect treaty for the an
nexation of the Isthmus TO the United
States.
We are pleased to learn that the presi-
dent will in a few days issue pardon to
Alex. H. Stephens, Of Georgia.
Mrs. Fletcher Webster occupies Daniel
Websteris house at Marshfeld, and Miss
Adelaide Phillips, the singer, that which
was built for Fletcher Webster.
The mayor and council of Cincinnati,
now visiting in the east, have been ten
dered a trip to Europe by CoI. OBrleni
Of the Little Miami railroad.
It is announced that Maggie Mitchell
is to retire from the stage after perform
ing her winter engagements, when she
will marry a Boston journalist, to whom,
it is said, she has been engaged fifteen
years.
John II. Surratt. who was indisposed
recently, has entirely recovered his |
health. His sister, Anna, visits him at
the jail almost every day, spending a
half hour or more in his cell on each oc-
casiOn.
Gov. Mccormick writes to Gen. Me-
DOwell imploring more troops, stating
that the hostilities of the Indians in
Prescott district are unusually formida-
bic and alarming, and the military force
is totally insufficient.
J. X. WhitmOre and Henry Meigs !
a. If ~,
pany, for six million dollars, to remove
the Immense deposit Of guano from Ma
gellans point, held jointly by Bolivia
and Chill.
The Psed,lsle says: DR.. Blackburn, |
well known in this city and state, who |
has been residing in Canada for the past
few wears in consequence of the active |
part he took in the late rebellion, has |
gone 10 New Orleans to give his services |
to the relief of the yellow fever sufferers. |
DR.. b. returns to his old home under the |
provisions OF the presidents amnesty |
proclamation.
w. Ii. Hale, an old and highly re-
spected citizen of Arkansas, was MUIR |
dered near his residence in CLARK county |
last week.
Mejia, the present Mexican war minis
ter, is charged with having ssld corn to |
the French during the war.
Carson w. Clarke, well-known actor, |
died suddenly in New York OF heart |
disease last Sunday.
r. CASTOR, editor of the New York Day !
Book, died yesterday Of congestion of the
lungs.
1t is learned from a well informed
source, that the British government will
not at present appoint successor TO Sir
Frederick Bruce. The duties Of the le-
CATION will be performed by the first
secretary, Francis Clareford.