Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-04
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL
MEMPHIS:


SATURDAY, :;; MAY 4, ls6l
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The New York Tribune says Charles
A. Dana is the author of the 3" On to
Richmond y howl.
Dog staying is the order of the day
in Dubuque, over fifty Of them being
disposed of in one dAy.
John S. Johns, telegraphic operator
at Gosport, Ind, has been murdered in
his Office.
"A Leavenworth paper hoists U. s.
Grant for president, and for yice-presi-
dent, 1" A man wecan trust.p
The Rev. c. P. F. Bancroft, Of An
dover, Mass, is president elect of a col
lege founded on Lockout mountain.
"A wedding took place in Fulton, n.
Y, last week, where the bridegroom was
sixty-hve years Of age and the bride
sixty-fOur.
The first train of the PACIFIC, rail-
road across the Mississippi at So An
thony, crossed the new bridge on Tues
day.
-ALis, Waters & Co, private bankers
of Rochester, n. Y, suspended Tuesday,
and made an assignment. Their liabili-
ties are about $4,000.
Why do people afiix the words no
cards at the end of a marriage an
nouncement? Because they have played
all their cards before marriage.
"A scriptural student, who has just
heard of the Russian treaty, says Uncle
Sam is like the prodigaI son, because he
is wasting his substanee1n a fur country.
-TweDty-one fellows Of Trinity col
4 lege, Cambridge, have signed the petit
ton for the enfrsnehisement Of women,
which has lately been circulated at Cam
bridge, England.
"a difficultyooceurred between a Mr..
/ Stephens and one Carroll Kendall, col
Ored, at Trenton, Phillips county, Ark,
last week, in which the latter was killed.
/ Stephens escaped.
"A Cincinnati saloon keeper lost one
Of his eyes the other day 10y the explo-
sion of bottle OF mineral water, one Of
the fragments cutting his eye completely
in two.
Mr.. James Searles, Of Vicksburg,
! proposes TO build wooden levees, the sap
of the material being first expelled, and
an oleaginous substance substituted.
/ Good for lumbermen and oil mills.
"A lady tainted few days since in
the cars. A medical gentleman present,
who went to her relief, exclaimed, Has
any gentleman flask of whisky or
brandy e' Over thirty pocket pistols
I flashed IN the air at once.
The board of aldermen Of New York,
have adopted resolution to bring de-
cision before the supreme court, the con-
troversy between the municipal author
tiles and the police commissioners con-
cerning licenses.
Rhode Island has two cities with
population of g., ,2s3 IS& villages with
population of S0,042, and rural popula-
ton Of 81 $40. Providence contains 81,
595 Of the 1s5 9l5 inhabitants in the
state.
"A little piece of land at the corner Of
Lombard street, London, site for one
house, was recently let for ee6OO a year
it was sold for premium Of e7O,OOo and
the rental, and there is now building on
it a house expected to cost go, coo, and
to let for COS, 600 year.
day. a cheerful colored deck hand at
tackled John Newton, mate of the
steamer Keokuk, with razor, severely
cutting his neck, and severing one ear.
The negro then jumped overheard and
was drowned.
"A man named Roundtree was gored
by COW on Saturday, at Weslin, c. w
The cows horn entered his thigh, max
ing a fearful cash, and severing the
femoraI artery, from which blood flowed
very profusely. He died in less than
half an hour.
Mrs. Minnie Nugent, who murd ered
her little girl at the Union hotel, in
Wheeling, several months ago, and has
since been lying in jail there awaiting
trial, died about three O'Clock on Satur-
day morning, Of consumption Of the
bowels.
Mrs. Daniel Kent, Of East Walling-
ford, Vermont, left her house to 90 to her 1
husband, who was boiling maple sap in
the woods, the other evening. Losing
her way, she wandered for some time, |
and at length fell, aud died from exhaus- |
ton when within twenty rods OF home /
"A deed was filed, April oath, in the Of |
flee of the recorder of Santa Clara eoun-
ty, Ca lifornia, by the Quicksilver Mining |
company, OF Pennsylvania, conveyinR |
TO the Quicksilver Mining company Of
New York, the New Almaden quicksil- |
yer mine. The consideration expressed /
in the deed Is three aud half millions /
of dollars.
An illustrated paper in France has /
an ingenious way of making its illustra- /
tons serviceable q second time. 1t re- /
produces the cuts ON long rolls Of paper,
which are used in the provinces for wall |
paper. The poorer classes are thus ena- 1
bled to enjoy an economical picture gal /
lery, a. no two pictures are alike. on !
rolls sufficient to cover large room.
A man in Evansville, Ind, lost the /
button from his shirt collar, and crossed |
the street to ask woman for pin.
She, supposing be meant to insult her,
made an outcry and alarmed her hus-
band, who rushed out Of the house, pis-
toI in hand, and narrowly missed Sheet
ing the buttonless individual.
The New York 7Fi5Ras wants Wen
dell Phillips to follow Gen. Wilson down
south, and believes che might learn /
useful during few weeks Of
free conference with the southern people
of all classes-that he would return more
therefore more influential,
than be went"
"A nice young man in Norfolk, Va,
an anonymous letter to a mar
ried lady, the other day, and she handed
it to her husband An answer was sent,
making an appointment for a meeting
on the street the next evening, which
was faithfully kept by the enamored
youth. He was met by the lady's hus-
band, who gave him sound thrsshing
with cudgel, and then cropped one of
his ears.
"A barrel containing ashes, in the
basement of a building on the corner Of
State and Congress streets, Boston, took
fire on Friday evening, and melted
gas meter fixed to the wall near it. The
was 8 tremendous explo-
sion, which threw up the sidewalks
along both fronts Of the building, and
,,,rlad fragrnants throuvh Windows ~, |