Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-28

Gen. Meigs, QUartermasterg general OF
thez army, will visit Europe on six /
months leave granted on account of i'll |
health.
The steamer Orifiamme, belonging !
to the California, Oregon and Mexican
steamship cOmpany's line, Will leave
San Francisco June 1st for New Arch !
angel and Sitka, Russian America, and |
is the first Of the regular passenger
steamers to be dispatched semi-monthly
to our new possessions.
The German, heretofore the fashion,
able dance north, is no longer deemed
the mode, and the GALAXY prophesies it
will, after next season, be thing of the
past. 1
There is a boy at Lafayette, Ind,
who is said to have played on the piano,
at sight, fifty pages Of BeethOven's COM
position, full Of difficult passages, with
out mistake. He is only aged twelve
years.
The young masters and misses OF
Petersburg, Va, have formed themselves
into a jeff Davis Hoop Rolling club"
We shall doubtless next hear Of the
| q" liorace Greeley CrOguet organization
In Massachusetts they are still quar-
reling over the prOpriety of whipping
/ girls in public schools. Advices from
| Europe assert that whipping has been
| generally abolished in the schools OF
! France, Prussia. Holland and Germany.
-Hertford, of Philadelphia, has been
convicted of defrauding the government
out Of SlO0 600 worth of liquors by
| means of false bonds. He has been held
/ to bail.
The true name Of the italian minis
/ ter for this country is SignoI Corruthi
now ambassador to Switzerland.
Last week the first race at the Je-
rome park, premium S5OO, mile ana
quarter, was won by Ruthless. Ilme'
! lis 3-5.
Edmund J. Underhill. Of Washing
ton county, New York, committed sui
eide on the 20th instant. Cause, jeal-
0usy.
! "A special board of army officers has
baen convened at Little Rock to select
registers for certain counties.
Col. J. n. Caldwell has been de-
tailed a member of the examining board
at Louisville, vice Brig.-Gen. ). Bur
bank, relieved. -.
Nj. Rouher, the French minister Of
state, was born November 80, 1Sl4 He
is one of the ablest lawyers, most eio-
quent speakers, and most distinguished
public men now living in France.
A subscription is on foot in Ken
! lucky, 10 CAAaoN a AAoAAAI ANA NAAe
of John c. Breckenridge.
New Workers spend about fifty thou
sand dollars in Hoboken every Sunday
for liquor.
L. Delmonico, the famous New
York restaurateUr, returns his income
at S2O6, ,5O4. The previous year it was
2The project Of abolishing slavery on
the island Of Cuba, is openly mooted,
and is likely to be accomplished at no
distant period.
A reflector is in use in q depot in
Baltimore, which makes as much light
bv the aid of four burners as thirty burn
ers make without it.
The board of health Of New Orleans
have declared the port of Vera Cruz and
aU the ports in Nicaragua infected, and
all vessels arriving from them are sub
iect to quarantine
in Paris you can buy neat and ex-
cellent, and even pretty clock for twenty
five cents. In Germany and Switzer-
land, of course, they are even cheaper.
The native opera seems to have su-
perseded the italian opera at st. Peters
. burg. it being cheaper and not so worn
, out hy constant repetition of old music
The Lynchburg VA Netos says the
tobacco warehouses of that city are COM
: pleteIy filled with that article. Trade Is
brisk, and prices are well maintained.
The ship building interest of New
england is suffering greater depression
, tI,an IL has experienced for years, and
, many Of the yards are silent and de-
serted.
There was manufactured and sold il
the tswn of Cambridge, Vt, last year
!, over three hundred tons Of butter, which
at eighty-eight cents, the average prie'
u maid. amounted to two hundred anC
twenty-eight thousand dollars.
= Mr.. G. c. Trowbridge, of Detroit
y hiss in his possession a Macedonian coin
=. of the reign of Alexander the great,
: whose head is yet noticeable on one side
: together with q Greek legend. The COLI
: was sent to Mr.ITrOwbridge by relativ,
. living in Constantinople.
: According TO the new Dutch nav!
: organization law, twelve new screw cor
z veftes. with sixteen guns each, ten iron
: eIsds. each carrying two three hundred
s. FOUNDERS, and fourteen monitors areto b,
n added 10 the Dutch navy.
The postmaster general has writer
an official letter, in which he decides tha
railroad companies have no rigbtto carr.
. business letters Of their companies ope
rations on their own line free Of postage
-Du Chaillu says that when he remon
Of sfrated with the Africans on their in
= temperance they answered, Look q
= the gorella; he drinks water and LETT
to be inferred that they had been evolve
and differentiated from that noble beas
by many generations Of strong drink:
Poisoned honey is proving iatal {
the country people of South Carolina.
-Forpey's Chronicle comes out in
long editorial in favor Of contiscation.
i, THE BLACK Crook " company pre-
eeeds 10 Richmond after leaving MOI
s9T folk.
q Both the German and the Frencl
authorities now open letters passin
70 through the postoffice.
- Gen. J. d. jackson, of Philadelphia
e. who is the third on the list Of Mr.. Davil
in hail. has purchased the Belton plantatio
in st. Andrews parish, South Carolinl
The new French rifle, the Chassepo
seems TO give the soldiers great satisfa(
d, ton. They have nicknamed it tn
% pereepean 1.-THE skin piercer. Sixt
rounds can be fired from It without ovel
- heating, and at the rate Of twelve di'
: charges minute.
don halit tom have signed a doeumeI
sionifving their intention to abstsi
=. from shopping after two O'Clock Sa
ets urdays. -.,
Ter he a Miss Dare, worth two million
ey, Notwithstanding such numerous attrs
81, tions she is not pretty.
M -Normonism is increasing rapidly
Numbers by heavy foreign immigr
oy tiou. principally Danes.
Rev. Peter G. Edwards, professor
la- .neiant languages in Furman universit
at Greenville, s. C., died recently.