Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-27

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Othello which he brought from Dixie
land.
1t has just been decided by a jury il
Boston that Mary Ford cannot recover
damages from john Turner, for shooting
her nose Off with a rocket last 4th O.
July.
Statistics show that the northwesI
contains one-sixth of the improved IanC
Of the country, and produces one-haIf O
the entire bulk of the products of the
United States.
Col. Fullerton has been confr med a:
postmaster at st. Louis vice Foy-re.
jected by the senate.
There are $4,000 Catholics in New
York city, $4,000 OF whom are regular
church attendants. The total include.
$4,000 young men between the ages o.
fifteen and thirty.
"A young lady of Quincy, Ill, died.
to all appearance, lately, and was in.
TERED in atOmb. More than twenty-four
hours after somebody heard a faint moau
in the vault, and opening it and the cot.
fin, found the person alive, and she Is
now rapidly recovering.
The Menken waltz is the newest
dance in Paris.
The "black measles" prevail in
portions of Maine.
Abraham Skates, an old gentlemen,
aged seventy, committed suicide at
Whithersfeld, Conn, a few days ago..
Frederick Douglass was in the B1ichi-
gan legislature last Friday, and was
received with applause. The speaker
introduced him to the members.
An elderly man at N.rth Castle,
New York, attended the funeral of a
friend a day or two ago, and dropped
dead as he passed out of the graveyard.
In 1868 the number of volumes pub.
lished in Russia was 1862, and in 1854,
1886.
Col. Chapman, Of the royal engi-
neers, has been appointed governor OF
Bermuda.
The Burlington, VT, liquor dealers
paid S238S fines and costs in 1866, and at
the beginning of 1867 there were sew
enty-two of them left.
-Eucharistic vestments are to be
adopted in several churches in Here
fordshire at Easter next.
De Quincy wept the first time he en-
tered a large library, becalse he couldn't
read all the books.
O'Leary, gazing in establishment upon
an elephant in a menagerie, asked the
keeper-"What kind of a haste is that
atm hay with his tail?p
"A man in Montreal swelled up and
died from applying coal oil to a bruise.
He said he felt all sfire.
Andrew Chestnut, a veteran of the
wa of 1872, died in Mercer county, Pa,
a few days ago, in the ninetieth year Of
his age.
The Irish societies of New York are
making preparations for a grand celebra-
ton of st. Patrick's day.
The New Orleans Times says there
appears to be in that city, at the present
time, a predisposition toward suicide.
"A cotton factory of one thousand
spindles and twenty-five looms is soon to
be started at Independence, Washington
county, Texas.
There were ia deaths in Buffalo, n.
Y, in December. The total number of
deaths during the year was 1872 against
1892 in 1865.
There were 262 deaths in Philadel-
phis last week. The number during
the previous week was 2s7, and in the
corresponding week of last year, 26O.
The much talked of Rosa-Parepa
marriage will take place late in the
and all Fifth avenue is in a
There is profound wisdom in the
of an English farmer, that he fed
his land before it was hungry, rested it
before it was weary, and weeded it be-
it was foul. Seldom has so much
agricultural knowledge been condensed
a single sentence.
An exchange is responsible for the
blowing altogether incredible state
nent: New York woman found $1,000
n ~greenbaeks, AMI papered a fireboard
With them. Didn't know what they
we're.
In congress recently, a resolution
referred declaring all pardons by the
resident, except such as have been reg
tried and convicted, as null and .
old. j
"A case testing the validity of the J
overs of attorney, held during the war,
n which property was sold for Confede- l
ate money, is pending in the circuit
curt at Charleston. Mrs. Caroline Car
on, daughter of the late James L. Pet
grew, and now residing in New York,
the plaintiff. =
The revenue receipts of Great Brit
ia for 1865 were e6S, 745,662 sterling. I
wo seventies of the entire revenue was !
erived from customs. The receipts for j
80 We're e69l96, AIS pounds. ;
The man who never told an editor
ow he could better his paper has gone q
marry woman that had never looked q.
Ito a looking glass. 81
-"You need a little sun and air" said n
physician to a maiden patient. "IfI 81 6i
>" was the cute reply, "Tll wait till 1 "
a husband.U al
"A young lady in New York was
presented with a basket of
WARS vaIuad Of MIN L,r.9-os JoTT,-- {
William Tell, the Swiss patriot, has 10
lowed Pocahontas into the regions OF En-
Die. A Mr.. Barring s. Gould, master of p!
5, has applied his scholarly energies 81,
the work of proving Tell a myth, and g.
It his story is no more than a feeble bs,
~ Of n which has been repeated W:
men of many lands, remote Ma
m each other, during the past eight u
lturies or more. On the fact that the =,
ne story as Tells was current far l.
ecedent to the date of the popular one dsy
IS MIR. Gould's theory that William tEa'
! is not a historical character. sls
The Catholic church in the United , %hi
is said to have 1854 churches and &c
pels, "a theological seminaries and shaI
academies and schools, e~ontaining G Ssss
OO pupils. The Catholic population equi
he United States is estimated from said
1000 to 5000, eco. .EIe
1t appears that Sweden was more Gi
'red with shooting stars, last Noven-
than was Chicago. They fell there leg
reat profusion, equaling in splendor
ce Zebra 9d.t exhibitions lib ts%,s Of q 1873 $ land and ,JU'