Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-31

/ AutOlnette at efSallleS have been placed
at the disposal Of Mime. RistOri 70 have
them copied for Giscommetti's new play.
The costumes will be made st Lyons.
BREVITIEs.
Louis Napoleon paid $1,000 for pair
OF pistols in the exposition.
1t is stated that the testimony on
impeachment has already cost thirty
thousand dollars.
Gen. Porfiria Diaz has been sp-
pointed commander-in-chiefo Of the ar
mics Of the republic Of Mexico.
"A man at Newport dispatched a
message to Alexandria, Egypt, a dis
tance Of about 1000 miles, the other day,
and in twenty five hours had reply.
A New Orleans editor says he
counted 173 alligators in a sail of six
miles along bayou. 1t was good day
for alligatOrs, though
The letter from Macmillan to Car
lotta is spurious-first published in
France.
-Eugenia is soon to make visit to
Queen Victoria at Windsor castle.
An old man in Portland broke his
thigh the other day while pulling of his
boots. ..-s
Fat ladies with small husbands
abound at Saratoga.
Arrangements are in progress 10
/ secure q visit from RistOri to Lynchburg,
Va.
Bancroft is skinned alive in the June
/ mum Der Of the Historical NdqGsiHe.
Savannah and Thomasville, Ga, have
/ been recently connected by telegraph.
A white man named Abbott was
/ murdered by two negroes on Tensas
river Parish of ConcOTdia, La, on
/ Wednesday Of last week.
/ Horned snakes are reported to be
quite numerous in the neighborhOOd OF
/ WardiDsville, Va. Four or five have
/ been killed.
/ A bridge across the ChattahOOchie
/ at Fort Gaines, Ga, will soon be COM
/ menced-tO be finished before Christ
mas.
In Franklin township, Ind, the other
day, a newly married 2oman gave birth
TO child iu corn crib.
The French expectations for the first
five mORths Of this year were 2OO,OOO,OO0
francs less than last year. lmporiations,
on the contrary, are 1873 600, 600 greater.
At Cambridge, Mass, the other day,
q wiGOwer of sixty, who had lost three
wives bv death, was married to twice
widowed lady Of fifty'thTee.
Maine pays something Ike $50 coo
for the privilege Of not drinking.
"A smash-up on the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy railroad, few days
since, which cost the company thirty
thousand dollars, was caused by a
drunken engineer.
One third Of the students at Mercer
university, in Georgia, we're once soldiers
in the Confederate army, and One-tifth
Of them were wounded.
IN. Tuesday Ia one drUU Store in
Atlanta sold sixteen hundred ounces Of
quicksilver to parties engaged in mining
near AllatOODa.
Much attention is now being paid in
the interior Of Louisiana to the propaga-
ton Of q new grass, called the Hunga-
Tian, which yields two tons to the acre on
bottom lands.
The Albany (Ga.) Ne5Cs thinks the
indications are that much sickness will
be experienced this fall in Southwestern
Georgia.
A boy died at Huntington, Pa,
a few days ago from swallowing cherry
stones.
Anna Barry, Of Pittsfield, Pa, has
been sentenced to five years imprison-
ment for whipping to death little girl
six years old.
The American watch company at
Waltham, Mass, now turn out watch
every two and half minutes during the
working hours Of the day.
After finishing an eXhort8tiOn in a
conference meeting at AOrwalk, Conn, |
on Sunday, Deacon Thomas Clark, OF
the BAPTIST church, sat down and died /
instantly.
Parties are purchasing land near /
Apalachicola, Fla, for the purpose Of 4
going to raising oranges and lemons on |
g large scale.
A Danbury genius found hand |
grenade among some old iron, and ran /
rot poker into it. Just then his left hand 4
dropped of at the wrist.
An extensive fraud has been discov- /
cred in the management Of the New /
York canals.
Armour, Dale & Co, are going to /
build at Chicago, the largest elevator in 4
the country.
Geo. Alfred Townsend did the Coll 4
Iege regatta for the New York Tribune. I
He saws the victorious Yale boys fell into .
each others arm and kissed like girls.
"A Muscatine Iowa. dispatch Of the .
Odd saws "the bugs are so thick the priu-
fers ia the Courier office cannot set type .
on account Of their getting into their
eyes"
Queen Victoria is building a new
house in the Scottish highlands, seven
miles from any other dwelling. She
intends it to be place Of retirement for
herself and few select friends.
Sister Fanny JOrdOn died at st.
Joseph's sisterhOod, near EmmettsbuTg,
Nd, recently, in her eighty-tifth year.
Size was one Of the original band with
Mrs. SeatOn at the organization of the
order in this country, and the last sur
vivor Of the founders.
The harvest in Hungary promises to
be magnificent. A considerable number
of orders for grain had reached Trieste {
from England, and agents sent to Hun
gary had bought up 400, 900 bushels. The
French also made large purchases in
gar plantations on the Hawaiian group I
Of the Sandwich islands. The number
of acres planted with cane is 10, Jos. The {
capital in the business is 8, 100000.
On Tuesday, in Troy, lady stum-
bled on the walk, and in falling, the
point Of her parasol penetrated her right {
eve, causing wound which destroys the
eye orb for life.
A member Of the French legislature S
has lust asserted in that body that in {
ase Of a general war the holy alliance !
.'C,uli take ground against France, and
he would hsve to depend upon herself
tone, with perhaps the aid OF Spain. {
The .ValmNn and salmon trout are
wing in considerable numbers in the
,ngIisb and Scotch rivers, and especially /,
d The Solv Vy. A Scotch paper attrib- :
iyes the cau.Ne to the heat of the sun, s
G., the fish a. e dying of sun stroke.