Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-27

! n huJIh VI col HeethS 80
/ felt in San Francisco Sunday night
Complete registration returns in
| Georgia show lSS, ,720 names OF these
| "a, ,305 are whites.
The project of q new Congregational
religious weekly in New Haven has been
abandoned.
The Universalists ofSt. Paul, MINI,
are erecting q SO, 600 stone church.
-Twentv-nine Indians have been reg
! istered IN Mississippi.
The United States steam sloOp Dale,
which has been on a cruise TO Europe,
| with 8 crew OF midshipmen, returned TO
AnnapOlis on Saturday.
= The section Of the Pacific railroad
Just completed, extends 10 within fifty
miles of Cheyenne, at the base OF the
mountains.
Department officers are busy prepar-
ing their reports for presentation to con-
gress.
The bark Milan has sailed from San
Francisco for Sitka, with q cargo Of
building material.
-" May your whole family be jammed
into one coffin Is an expressive Chinese
oath.
The savings bank in Norway Village,
Maine, was robbed on Saturday night, OF
money and collaterals. The rogues have
not yet been taken.
Fires are very numerous IN san
Francisco. Fifteen frame buildings
we're destroyed Saturday night, atrribu-
ted to Incendiaries or Over-insurance.
It Il reported that the esub-committee
on retrenchment viii report in favor OF
reduction OF the whisky tax, and ab9li-
tiOn of bonded warehouses.
The pope has publicly declared the
laws Of Italy for the sale Of the church
lands null and void.
Large supplies Of goods are now go-
ing 10 the interior from San Francisco,
naTtIv for Nevada, IdshO and Montana.
Demand for duties last week, S3l6, 900.
Sheridan, in Washington, declines
TO converse on the matters at issue be
tween himself and the president. He
saws Louisiana will give large msjority
for the convention.
Commissioner Wilson, Of the general
landofice, has received the final returns
Of survey Of the Great and Little Usage
Indian lands, ceded in trust TO the United
States, lying east Of the Arkansas river.
The Irish organ in California op-
poses any further levies for raids on
Canada or insuTrection in Ireland II
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able for the Fenisn objects.
The Methodist "cenetary fund.- IL
is reported, now amounts to 100000,
and another million is expected to be
added when all collections are paid IN.
At meeting Of the councils Of Phil
sdelphia recently, the city tax rates were
fixed at 81 20 on Sl0O. Last year the
rate was 81 on 500, but since then the
assessment OF property is fixed st actual
value. The total assessment am mounts to
s462, 900, coo.
The United States steamer Yucca,
which arrived at Fortress Monroe We'd
nesday from Pensacola, lost one OF the
crew by yellew fever, while at sea, on the
18th Instant, and has seven other cases on
board.
sheridan called upon the president
Thursday. The interview was not sig
nalized by 8 too boisterous cordiality
though Phil attempted to give 1t an airof
somber cheerfulness, bv q grave joke
about his escape from Yellow jack at
New Orleans.
The construction Of ses wall Of
granite on Brooklyn brick foundation,
for the protection of the harbOr Of san
FRANCISCO, is now favOrably progressing
under The direction Of the state commits
sioner, and it will extend along the whole
city. ,
A California crew has challenged the
Ward brothers, Of Newburg, to a boat
race for $500 in gold, $500 to be allowed
10 each crew for expenses according to
tie place decided upon, Sacramento or
New York. The challenge has been ac-
Cepted.
"A lady Of Trenton, near DetrOit,)
a -rI hoy nh u a
breakfast table on Thursday morning,
aRd nearly strangled TO death, but was
by medical aid in = short time relieved
Of A snake some fourteen inches in length
and over half an inch in thickness.
A dispatch to the war department
from the Dry Tortugas, says Maj. Stone
had arrived st Fort Jefferson, and is
very sick. Or. Smith, son Of the late
Col. B. 2. Smith. OF Washington, died
on Wednesday. Lieut.. Orr died on the
18th. The sickness is not Abating al
TOrtuga5.
Citizens OF Indianapolis have taken
life insurance SIS follows: james NJ. hay,
$50 600: Chsrles A. Ray, $4,000; Ed
ward King, S4G coo; Frank Wright,
$50, 900; H. W. COmstOck, S35 coo; Lu-
cieu Hills, $4,000; K. B. Msrtindale,
$50 go; Thomas Cottrell, Sl5,0o0.
In 8 Catholic fair, now in progress st
Chicago, the visitors are voting, at 50
much a vote, for the presentation OF q
gold watch to some lady. The widow OF
a union officer, and q lady Of secession
notoriety, are leading the poll.
The trustees Of the New York house
OF industry announce that they will
omen on the first of October home for
working women, capable OF sGcommo-
dating five hundred persons. The charge
for board and washing is thsee dollars
and twenty-five cents per weesi and any
women of good character may obtain
admission.
The late assistant secretary Of the
navy. Mr.. Fox, has presented, through
the state department, to the library OF
the Smithsonian institute, valuable as
sortment Of books, given him by the
enperor during his visit to Russia. Some
are extremely valuable. Only a few,
personally presented to Mr.. Fox by the
emperor, are retained by him, under
authority OF the congressional resolution.
The donation eui uibFsces one hundred and
sixty nine volumes.