Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-10

fields of the newly sown wheat.
New Haven, Conn.,, has voted to
= build new S4I 200 schoolhouss for one
Of its districts, and laid a two mill tax
to pay for it.
Fourteen hundred and thirty-eight
barrels of -four were shipped from Rich
mond to Brazil for the quarter ending
3lst March.
The negroes of Helena, Ark, are
dying rapidly of an epidemic which,
from the accounts OF it, locks like the
Asiatie cholera.
The French imperial commission has
just insured the palace of the exhibition
for the sum of 1900, 600 francs, in the
International Mutual Assurance society.
The quarterly report of the national
banking associations shows the total of
their resources to have been, on the first
Monday of April, 81 ,452, 727, ,s97.
Chief Justice Chase proposes to call
our acquisition Arctic territory" The
Tribune of Monday suggests that our
new acquaintance be called oval
russia"
The interior of old Faneuil hall at
Boston has been rejUvenated and beau
titled, and the great historic paintings on
its walls have been touched up and
brought out clear and sharp.
Green Clay Smith goes to the plains
with arms for the residents Of Montana
to protect themselves with.
"A United States supreme court decision
leaves the Government in possession of
six square leagues of land in Michigan
valued at from IS, 100000 to s., ,OOO, 900.
Secretary McCulloeh, it Is said, ex-
poets soon to reduce the public debt to
twenty-five hundred millions, at which
figure 1t will probably remain as long as
the present rate of government income
and expenses is maintained.
"A regular bounty is paid by the Eng
lish government for every authenticated
case Of a triple birth. The Court Jour
nal complains that they are becoming too
/ frequent, and calls for an investigation.
The heirs of the Lawrence Towuley
estate, in England, have been advertised
for. They have plum in the shape of
S47 900, ,OOO-about forty millions better
than the Russian possessions, which our
government has just purchased
The common council of Buffalo has |
passed an ordinance which fixes a PEN
atty Of fifty dollars for swearing in the |
street, with Imprisonment in default Of |
payment.
Boston has project to connect Itself |
with East Boston by q wire bridge,
which will run from the end of Com
mercial wharf, three hundred feet above |
high water, and cost $500, 600.
me CUnoo=dia dr0Eaaatie association /
Of st. Joseph have contributed $50 to |
the southern relief fund of that city.
The veterans of the war Of 1872 are |
to have an excursion in New York on
the 5th of June. Poor old fellows con-
gress, while lavish on negro bounties
and loyal claims, forget or refuse to
grant any pension to these aged, totter-
ing volunteers.
"A lady living near Wilmington,
Del, recently elOped with her husbands
hired man, leaving seven small children
in the rear"
"A man OF Chsmbersburg, Penn, sold
his wife the other day to a peddlar for
sl7, and executed regular bill of sale
for the goods.
The increase of the area under cot
ton cultivation in the Bombay lIndia)
presidency is about 270,OO acres, repre-
senting increased export to the value of
S, 100000.
"A riot in Brooklyn between the
police and rowdies has occurred, the
former getting worsted.
Houses are so scarce in Hartford
that people flock to them when deaths
occur, even before a funeral, hoping a
family may be broken up and a lease
obtained.
1t is reported that the democratic
managers, in rivalry with the republi-
cans, are concOcting a plan for sending
democratic speakers throughout the
southern states.
-Colored divisions of the sons of
temperance are to be organized in WASH
ington, but the members are not to be
allowed to visit the white divisions.
The oil and bone taken by three
wbaleships which arrived in new Bed
ford this season, during their last voy-
age, amount to over nine hundred thous-
and dollars. /:
Uncle Toms Cabin is still selling (
1000 copies a year. The original pub
fishers have sold $4,000 copies of it in
all, and counting foreign editions, it is
probable nearly a million copies of this
famous book have been printed.
A Missouri exchange says: "In the
northwestern part of this state and in
Kansas grasshopPers are being Matched
out by the million myriads-no larger
than a mosquito at present; but they'll l
grow. 8
Gov. Perry, Of South Carolina, has
written another letter against calling a !
convention under the military act.
Quite q commotion was kicked up in
Kansas city few days ago, growing out
of the report that the body of a child had
been found in an out-Of-the-way street Of !
that fiourishiDg burg. The indefatigable /
coroner at once summoned a jury, and I
they, proceeding to the place indicated,
dug up-a rag baby '
The missing $1,000 bond, some days a
since mislaid in the printing bureau of C
the treasury department, which has oc- y
casioned considerable investigation, has =
at last been discovered. e
The commissioner Of internal reve- Il
nue. has decided that wagons, carts and :
draws made to be used for farming or y
lumber purposes, and baggage or express
wagons made for carrying freight exclu- .
sively, and not to be used SIS pleasure
carriages, are by act of March 2, 1857,
"a e.o,,, ta wafiOp n