Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-10-04
GENERAL ITEMS.

house of commons.
John @. Breckenridge, tired Of the
| hubbub Of the Paris exposition, has gone
! to Switzerland.
The public schools Of New Haven,
| Conn, cost last year 100000, and next
years expenses is estimated at ssO,OOOi
| Of which SOS. 200 will be paid in salaries.
An enterprising firm in Philadelphia
has constructed private telegraph line
to New York, for the especial aecommo-
dation Of few large business establish
ments in that city.
"A man 10 Connecticut has cleared
his house OF rats by catching one and
dipping him in red paint. He then let
him loose, and the other rats left, dis
gusted by bis appearance.
The Yazoo Mss Banner says that
| a conservative negrO-Dan WOOlridge by
name-will be a candidate for congress
in that district.
Miss Nellie Marshall, daughter Of
Gen. Humphrey Marshall, Of Kentucky,
| Is riiraIiziDg In Beeehland, her fathers
! splendid farm in Henry county, engaged
on g war novel.
The new constitution OF New York
/ will not be submitted 10 the people at
| the coming election. The radicals fear
/ it will be rejected. The convention has
adopted a section that no state debt shall
| be contracted without q law especially
! designating the debt proposed. A prop
ositiOn TO move the capital TO New YORK
| city was defeated. ca
The New Orleans Crescent of the 2ist
ult. saws It may now be safely assumed
/ that no important cotton growing local
] ity in the south has escaped the vista
| ton OF the army worm. The only mlti-
eating feature Of this fact lie that the
I general ravage was delayed until at least
/ a goOdly portion Of the cotton bOlls had
either opened for picking or attained
/ sufficient growth to set the worm at de-
/ ianee.
| The secretary of the treasury is re-
ported to be maturing plan which, it is
claimed, will bring about specie pay
l meuts in five years. It is said to con-
! templste the retirement of all the ma
| tiOnal bank notes with the substitution
| Of greenbacks as the sole currency Of the
country. and. il is alleged, meets the APP
/ proval of the bankers and financial men
/ TO whom il has been submitted.
! The Missouri Democrat, one Of the
most wildly radical journals in America,
SAWS to its readers - Look TO your rifles,
| for they may be needed before the snow
| faHs.U Does this mean that the radicals
! will jnsugurate revolution If the demOc-
Z Fatth are ElCEEGoAAA IL A24C NANN~Ae-- -
/ So this crazy editor had better look to
| his need, for il may be broken by demo-
cratic hemp before the snow falls.
] "A story is told about the late w.
/ Hone. the banker, of Amsterdam, that
| he had bought picture as Rembrandt
/ and given 1000 guineas for it. Finding
| that II did not quite fit the frame, he sent
! for a carpenter 10 ease it a little. Whilst
watching the operation, he remarked
how wonderfully the picture was pre-
| served, considering that it was nearly
| two hundred years old. "That Is i'm
possible" said the carpenter; this
/ wood is mahogany, and mahogany had
| not been introduced into Europe at that
/ time.U Mr.. Hope burnt the picture.
/ The New York EUeniRq Post speaks
/ of a piece Of property Of 400 acres in Jersey
/ CITY, bought sixty years ago for So, 900.
! twenty wears ago this property was
/ offered for $500 900, without buyers. a
/ part was subsequently sold for s., ,O0O, 600,
and the remainder was estimated three
wears ago TO be worth nearly $1,000, 900.
/ II woUld now readily bring IS, 100000.
The Nashville Banner says COM
many of militia struggled by the st.
/ cloud hotel while Gen. Thomas was
sitting in front on Friday evening, and
gay. him a feeble cheer. He took no
notice of them whatever-nOt word,
not q bow, not even q wave OF tie
hand.
"A dispatch FROM Oregon states that
Lieut.. Small, lst United States cavalry,
| fought and defeated q band Of Snake
Indians near Lake Albert. The same
hand had lately defeated Gen. Cooks
friendly Indians. Alter the first charge
the Snakes made for 8 swamp, but the
troops dismounted and fought waist deep
in water. Tweuty-siX warriors with
their chief were killed and fifteen were
taken prisoners. None OF the soldiers
were hurt.
The mayor OF Mobile fined a negro
/ girl ten dollars for kissing white child,
] or "a nasty little reb," as II wss put up
( in the charge.
"A card has been published by thirty
rornen of Alabama and their children,
stating that they are suffering for the
necessaries Of life and can get no work.
/ The negroes of Louisiana say they
| will not work any more for either wages
/ or q part Of the crOp-that they have
! got .papers in their pockets that votes
/ them land, and they are going 20 have 1t.
! An old lady announced in court at
| Atlanta that she " had no counsel, +" that
a. cod was her lawyer My dear
not practice in this court"
! "A radical of the Thsd. Stevens and
| Rsn Wade stripe, out in Iowa, lately
expressed himself 81 follows in speech:
! - GeDt1euen: The war is not yet over.
| To. dsv there is an hundred thousand
| armed men in the south, ready at the
first opportunity to devastats the north"
sYeaT = he continued waxing eloquent,
u YES. fathers, you may well think OF
vSur home to be made desolate by the
ruthless invaders. You may think OF
your families to be outraged; OF your
hard earnings destroyed. Yes, mothers,
you may well hug your little lniants 10
1 your bOsoms. Unless congress Is sns-
taiued il won't be long before southern
| tends are dashing their brains out. The
/ NIi.sissi,r,i river will run blood instead Of
water. The bright cedar will be crimson
| with your gore the-the-D Dlteh, gen
| tIeI1en. will join them and bold high
carnival Of blood and beer. Beware, be-
waTeI Don't vote for Huested-he is the
chief Of the golden circle, and was IN
close communication with Jett Davis.
Vote for Benson for county judge"
A Iove-loru poet thus gives vent to
his feelings
Vould were COURT -I,Issler-I would be
/ A patch upon her lip,
! And spend my life IN ecstacy,
And sip, and sip, and sip.
Were i pair Of spectReles,
| How dearly would prize
| A situation on her nose,
To z 70 into her eyes #....... .....
| "A story is told Of a country gentle
man, - who, for the first time, heard an
! Episcopal Clergyman preach. he had
read much Of the aTistecrRcy and pride
of the church, and when he returned
heme he was asked if the people were
stuck %. 4" PshAw! no." he replied,
Uw why the minister actually preached in
his shirt sl6eUes
| Another effort is to be made to rsise
the Confederate ram Merrimac from the
bed of the Elizabeth river, where she has
remained an obstruction TO navigation
ever since her sudden demise soon after
] the famous combat with the Monitor
All her guns, anchors, chains, etc, have
been removed by the wTeckers in the
employ Of the government. All the
| attempts to blow up the hull have thus
far failed. The wreekeTs have secured
the iron prov, and are advertising it for
sale as a curious relic worthy of place
| in some collection Of raTities.
Some graceless wsg smong our ex-
changes perpetrates the following harm
less pun upon the same OF our state
capital, under the dominion Of Gar
Brownlow: From the fght-pelitical,
| personal and otherwise-rsging inces-
sanity in Nashville, the capital of Ten
nessee, that place should be termed