Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-26

-cholera is reyiving from it's wintry

ward the erection Of amonument to Vol
taire.
Two Esquimaux visited the opera in
New York the other night. They were
clad in fur-not verdure.
"A pleasant little raid in Missouri re-
Gently resulted In the untimely end Of
sixty Indians.
Somebody says Carl Rosa plays
second fiddle now he is married. It's a
mistake +; he's a better beau than ever.
In Washington a woman shot 3
man because he did not marry her in
Cincinnati another shot one because he
did.
There are now but four members
who were in the United States senate
when Mr.. Foster entered it twelve years
ago.
There is a proposition to remodel
New York city by adding Brooklyn,
Bushwick, Greenpoint and several other
suburban towns to it.
"A German woman, in Philadelphia,
in q fit Of insanity, threw her child out
of q third story window a few days
since.
GOOD Friday this year comes on the
10Th, and Easter Sunday on the 2lst of
April, until which time Lent consumes.
The number Of paper makers in
Great Britain is declining. In 1854, Ala
took out licenses in 1865, 4O2 in 1866,
1872.
"A seed store in London, over which
was an infants school, burned down on
the SIst nit, and sixty children persisted
in the flames.
The Boston Post, usually well posted.
elaiRRs governor and hreecongressmen
for the democracy by the April election
in Connecticut.
One Of radical exchanges terms
congress "a parcel of half idiots, inca
pable of comprehending the plainest
propositions Of public economy
The queen has informed the colonial
authorities that she viii hereafter confer
the Victoria cross on the Canadian vol
unteers who distinguish themselves in
the field.
The Fenians are chased by the BrR-
ish troops through the Businesses of I
land and By congressional demagoguss
through the swamps and fens Of AmeH-
can politics.
"A Maine editor says he cannot i'm
agrne when editors have a leisure time,
"unless it is after the ferryman carries
Us over styx, and then we have no
doubt the old fellow would beseige us for
a puff on his boat"
The ex-grand duke Of Tuscany has
sent in a claim to the Italian govern
ment for the restoration Of his personal
property, which he values at about So
000, 600 of Iivres. Among the articles he
claims are three Raphaels and a great
number Of exquisite works of art in sill
yer. gold and precious stones.
The population Of London is over
three millions, which is considerably
larger than the population Of all England
in the day of Richard II. The London
Of Shakspeare's time was a village; even
in the reign of James I it was but I53,-
600; in 1881 it swelled to 100000 in
l849 it had passed 1000, 900, and so has
gone on until now, when it numbers
-, 600 and upwards.
The Rio Grande Courier has the fol-
lowing extraordinary puff 1.-THE pistols
used on the occasion Of the recent duel
on the other side were from the we'll
known establishment Of WexeI & De
Gress, of this city. All gentlemen who
wish to do likewise can find 8 splendid
assortment Of most approved arms-also,
ammunition Of all kinds-at their house
on Elizabeth street."
All classes in AnjOu are in a state Of
great excitement at the proposal to hand
over to England the statues Of Henry II.
and Richard CGur de Lion, as well as
those Of Eleanor Of Guienne and Isabel
Of Angouleme. These statues are, at
present, in the chapel Of the prison at
F~ontevrault. Numerous petitions of pro-
test have been addressed to the emperor,
and the French academy has been ap-
pealed to on the subject.
The whisky makers can more easily
cheat the government Of its taxes by
using molasses instead of corn or wheat
in their manufactures, and they are buy
ing it up extensively in all the large
markets. The sales Of molasses st New
York have averaged one thousand hogs
heads a day for more than a week.
"A freight car loaded in New York
with freight for Leavenworth, arrived st
Weston last week, having come through
stta out breaking bulk. The time of
passage was nine days. The ears now
cross at Quincy on a ferryboat.
The Colored Reltuckiaa Is the title
Of a new weekly paper in the frqt
mems interest, to be started in Lok b.
vile.
"A recent fashionable marriage in
New York was indefinitely postponed,
because" alas that it should be the
bride was too drunk to say Eyes"
The supply of ice for New York and
Brooklyn for the present year amounts to
sos, 900 tons, being an excess of $4,000
that Of the previous year. This
is distributed among eight com
n Of which owns over one-haIf
IF the entire number Of tons.
DR.. Cumming has beer proposed as
/ member of the AthenRum club in
London, and blackballed with great en-
.husiasm and uDanimity.
Munich is about TO lose a large num-
DER Of those priceless art treasures which
been so long the wonder and admit
of the visitor to the P~inakoethek.
The department of the Paris exhibi-
ion building assigned to the United
States will be full to overlooking.
AT a Catholic orphans fair recently
leld in Natchez, the proceeds amounted
o W. six Thousand dollars.
-Thirty-eight years ago an Indian
rode on horseback from Los An
to Santa Barbara, using a piece Of
rapevine as a switch. On reaching her
estimation, she stuck her switch into the
round. 1t took root, and sixty barrels
{ wine were made last season from its
ruit.
The grave Of the revolutionary hero,
ZEN. Israel Putnam, at Brooklyn, Conn.,,
neglected and in danger of being for 3
A flight of steps should at once
g erected TO his memory. )
An exchange says when the new !
was born it was pretty much 3
he same old congress born again, but {
.ithout regeneration. =
"A child asked, ma, dear, what I
they play the organ so loud for when q
is over? Is it to wake us up?D
"A Missouri paper says some scoun-
rel the other night, entered the orchard
Dr. J. A. CdsaRn the town Of Fox. il
endall county, and bored auger-holes 4
the trunks Of 200 fine apple trees. =
stage and mail from Fort Clarke,
sxas, were captured by Indians on
18th ult. The driver and passen- n
rs kept fifty assailants at bav unrJI =