Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-16

as to attract no atteAliou.
in middle Georgia people have
walked twenty miles for peek OF corr
meal. n,
at BIaekwelrs Island Of delirium ire
mems.
Great Britain is now the only Euro
pean power that has territorial posses
sions on the North American Continent.
The Picd3Hfne says the present straw
berry season has been the finest ever
known in New Orleans.
Remington, VT, has lawsuit grow
ing out Of a divine kicking one Of his
congregation out of bis house.
"A man in noble county, Ind, has
manufactured 4SO0 pounds of maple
sugar the past season.
SSpurgeon has finished his very pop
Mar course Of sermons at the Agricultu-
raj hall in London.
An unusual mortality prevails among
the Vermont lamts. Some Of the most
experienced sheep raisers are the greatest
At the recent fire in Cincinnati, ten
thousand boxes OF candles were melted
IN the basement. The grease puddle is
valued at SO, coo. 2
A sehoolmaster in Ohio adVeEtises that
he will keep a Sunday school twice
week-on Tuesday and Saturday.
The first chime of bells in America
was presented to Christ church, Salem
street. Boston, one hundred and twenty
three wears ago. The bells exists in 3
good state Of preservation.
-Fvert A. Duyehkinck, Esq, read a
memoir Of the late DR.. Hawks, at the
Historical society of New York last
! Tuesday evening.
1t is estimated that bridge could be
built from Calais to the English coast
for $50, ,000,O $50.
A good guess at the business of Bos-
ton NAV be made from the fact that the
Journal last Saturday contained S74 ad-
vertlsements, representing nearly fifty
distinct callings or branches of industry.
There is serious talk in Paris Of a
marriage between Adah Isaacs Menken
aud Alexander Dumas, pere. 1t would
be her tenth matrimonial speculation.
The Paris lFrRncei Times, of April
27th, contains a letter from zanzibar
which affords stFong hopes that DIR.
Livingstone, the African explorer, is
stiil alive. as he was certainly seen at a
later date than that Of the alleged
murder.
The American yachts Henrietta,
1 Flestwing and Nesta, which have been
laid up at Cowes during the winter, are
about to be fitted out 10 go to sea for the
summer season,
-Tbe Journals of Messins are raving
about a new ddHSCuSe, Durani Taglionl,
a Neapolitan, who has just made
her appearance in that city.
The number Of newspapers IN the
German language published in Eu-
rope il I, ,24I, of which AZ are political.
Crown Prince Oscar Of Sweden has
arrived in Paris and taken Up his quar-
tars at the Swedish embassy.
One day in April, 5000 emigrants left
Queenstown, Ireland, for the United
States.
At a sham battle, on Easter Monday,
st Dover. England, the channel heet snd
b. COO volunteers participated. BY order
Of the royal field marshal, in command,
his higbness, the duke Of Cambridge, no
less than 500, 900 rounds of artillery am
muuition was expended, besides the
small arms cartridges necessary to sus-
tain sn incesssnt JltSi3djde OF three hours
duration.
There is q child IN Montgomery
county, Va, which was cnristeEeT
tAndrew-J ackson-GOrd James Bu-
chauan Raise the Flag g-and-Fire-the-
Cannon Dolby
Gen. StOnewall Jackson's colored
nurse died in Jackson, Tenn, on the 5Oth
Aprii, aged one hundred and thirteen
wears. She wa nanumitted by the
general twenty-five years ago.
"A man is on trial in Detroit for the
seduction of his wife after having been
divorced from her and married TO an
other woman.
The ice block in trout Of the hsr6oT
of Buffalo, New York, is broken up, and
a large neet Of vessels arrived yesterday
forenoon.
A negro woman Ia st. Louis, the
other day, presented her liege lord with
four bouncing boys at one birth, and all
are doing well, including the father.
-Brunswick, Ga, is paying the inter
est on its bonds IN oash-a rare thing II
the soGth since the war.
NCommodore Hollins, of Confederate
ram notoriety, was appointed crler OF the
Baltimore city court, by Judge Scott
last Monday.
baen neglected in Brazil during the past
wear, these grains have reached eAtraOr-
dinsry prices in Rio JaneirO.
Some naiscreant, day or two since
cut in two pieces the portrait OF George
Washington, hung in tLs chamber OF tht
New York board Of aldermen.
Two negroes in Richmond were Sc
delighted at the idea of being able tC
ride in the street ears that they carried
their breakfast and dinner with then
and remeinad in one Of the cars unit
night. .
9Bayard Taylor, in his last letter from
Furope. saws Tennyson is still erect, Wig
orous and iull of creative life, and tha
- many a golden line win yet flow from
that fall voiced fountain Of song"
"A boy in the employ OF Bierstadt
the artist, recently stole one hundred
steel prints Of his famous picture, The
p Rocky Mountains valued at S5OOOi ano
; tore them up to sell for waste paper.
There is in Pepperell, Massachusetts
child ten months old, whose mother
grandmother. great grandmother anC
great great grandmother are all living
, The latter is not yet eighty-one year
. old.
William Sandilands (hOrne on tn
: books of Her Majesty's ship Victory q
: w. Saunders the last survivor Of thos
who carried the dying Nelson to th
/ cockpit of that ship at the battle of Ira
falgar, died recently in Glocestershire
: England, aged ninety-two years.
The rector Of a London church ha
assembled the thieves and RyHlghs d
Dape of Golden Lane, and, after givin
Them tea and cake, which the report say
disappeared with amazing rapidity,
instructed them in the leading tenets G
the church. Speeches were made oy
thief and others. The movement
though q strange one, Is thought ste
in the right direction.
Mr. 4. IT. Stewart has sent in tn
Dlans OF his new store to the superintend
ant of buildings. 1t is estimated tina
, the alterations viii cost s., 500 600. Hi
house on Fifth avenue is TO cost 81 500,
600. and $3.50 900 are to be spent in inter
nal fittings.
A little daughter of Sheriff DissoS
way, of Bethlehem, Penn, during schoe
hours, complained of a sudden pain j
her ewes, and was permitted TO retuE
home. She had only gone about fiv
hundred yards before she became to
tally blind, and all efforts to restore he
, sight have proved fruitless.
Eleanor Hughes, pauper OF Cole
1 ford, England, got collin from tn
parish authorities TO bury her daughte
= Eliza in. The coffin was several inche
J too short, so the son OF scripture reade
named Price. with the consent of th
mother and the assistance OF mine
named Page, cut off the legs of the corps
u with hatehet and hammered the fee
|. ont straight. so that the mutilated limit
8 could be squeezed in by the side of th
body. Even then the nose had to |
broken before the lid would go on. PriC
was committed to jail.
Joseph Mock, or his grand childrel
have been awarded by the court
claims. S27, ,426 for mail locks furnisht
, TO the government forty years ago.
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ALABAMA ITEMS.
p An unusually cold rain storm yisite
Eufaula last Tuesday-more beittiI
October than May.
e The Montgomery Dolly Mail Of u
10Th inst. says Of the crops: From 8
e. the intelligence we can gather from u
IN country, the prospect has not been mo
fIattering for a number OF years-tl
farmers are all in high hope with Il
idea of making good crop, and, fro
I, tbe quantity of corn that has bee
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