Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-31

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"A majority OF Mexicans are repre-
senUed as being sated with bloodshed and
! are now clamor z for a general.amnesty.
The recent wholesale executions IN
Quaretaro are denied officially by Consul
Cooley at San Francisco.
"A heavy rain storm visited St LoHis
Thursday night. 1t is the first rain they
have had in that quarter for a month.
The anti-slavery congress convened
in Manchester on Wednesday. VIM.
Lloyd Garrison and several other dis
tinguished whiteAfricans madespeeches.
The hop crOp in Northern Massschu-
sets has been nearly destroyed by the
lice.
The births recorded Mt Boston last
year numbered 5544, the marriages 2s45,
and deaths 1873.
The Great Eastern has been char
tered to lay the nsw Atlantic cable from
Brest to New York.
Among the relics preserved at AK
la-Chapelle, DAVeRir AdtiOnale mem
tions the handkerchief Of John the Bap-
tist. AS the Bihae makes no mention OF
his possessing such an article of modern
luxury, the genuineness OF the relic is
open to doubt.
The steamship Pereire made her last
in eight days and seventeen hours-the
fastest time on record.
The earnings of the Union Pacific
railway, Kansas branch, in July, were
Sl90,000. The @timated earnings for
August were S200GO0.
The gross esrnings Of the Chicago
and Northwestern Hallway for the last
year were more than ten million dol
lars; net over thfee millions.
George Sheldon, Of Deerfield, Mass,
has an original bona fide electoral ticket
for George Washington for president
1t is headed "The Washington Ticket
of Electors
Secretary McCulloch has been in
formed by those in the presidents con-
fidenee that his resignation will not be
accepted.
Two more suicides are reported at
st. Louis yesterday. At least thirty self
murders have been committed there this
summer.
"A magnificent block Of marble front
stores are 10 be erected in st. Louis on
the site of the Lindell hotel.
"A destructive fire occurred at Con-
meanwhile, Pa, Thursday morning, the
flames laying waste an area of two acres,
including the Presbyterian church.
From st. Louis to st. Paul, via the
North Missouri and Iowa Central, the
whole road, SIS miles, will be completed
by January, l, 1859.
Two hundred and fifty houses are
building in Omaha now. The Cozzens
hotel is completed and open for guests.
The fine Catholic cathedral will soon be
cOnsecrated.
"A restaurantscar, 1t is said, will be
l. I
Charleston railroad. On northern lines
they have been in successful use for some
time.
AT New Florence, Mo-, on the 18th,
a tornado struck the unfinished amphi-
theater at the fair grounds, completely
demOlishing the building and killing one
man.
The proprietors ofR London suburban
cemetery advertise that theirs is the
only one where the dead of the modern
Babylon can find complete repOse.
Mr.. S. S. Knowles, a well to do
farmer, aged about sixty years, residing
in ZumR township, about three miles
from Port Byron, committed suicide early
on Saturday morning, by cutting his
throat.
A colOred mass meeting was held at
Macon, Ga, Thursday, at which from six
to eight thousand persons were assem-
bled. The Atlanta radical platform was
adopted. Good order prevailed.
Seven wOrkmen were precipitRted
into the river at Harrisburg, Pa, Thurs
day, by the breaking of q trestle of the
new bridge. One was killed and the
others were slightly injured.
Colorado mining matters are improv-
ing. Ia that territory a man named
Dick WilmOt discovered a rich lode of
copper, sixty-fiVe miles from Denver, Oh
the South Platte.
Gen. Grant has requested Gen.
Howard to furnish an estimate of the
funds required for the freedmen's bureau
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1868,
unless longer continued by the next
session Of congress.
The pay department is now paying
about fifteen thousand additional bounty
claims each month. They are paid as
fast as the second auditor furnishes a
certified statement that the claimant is
entitled to bounty.
The connection between the South
ern and Richmond railroads, at Peters,
burg, has been completed, and passen-
gers 60 through to Acquia creek from
Weldon without changing cars.
Ten persons lately died in Vsndalia,
H., from eating corn boiled in g brass
kettle which had not been properly
cleansed.
The Ohio and Mississippi company
are making arrangements TO lay a third
rail marrow gauge) from st. Louis to
Odin. This will be accomplished this
fall, when ears will be run through to
Cairo and Chicago without change.
The New York Tribune says it does
not regret what it has said of Grant, and
adds: +" No man, however great his pep
ularity, can reconcile belief in the laws
Of congress with voluntary obedience to
the presidents policy"
"A young man in Portland, Me-, COM
mitted suicide few days since by shoot
ing himself. 1t appears he was engaged
to be married, but could not find sufti-
cient courage to face the music.
The president has ordered the bureau
Of Confederate archives, of which DR..
Francis Lieber was chief, to be closed.
This bureau was organized by Secretary
Stanton, and contains all captured re-
cords of the civil and military admins
tration Of the defunct Confederacy. 1t
has been of great service to the govern
ment in its various investigations.
The amount of gold in the treasury
Wednesday was S93, ,6l9, 900; gold certifi-
Gates, SIS, ,l06, 900; currency, S51, ,3l2, 600.
The receipts for six days, up to the 26th
of August, were, internal revenue, $2,-
379, COO; customs, S3,343 600. Total re-
ceipts from lst July, S60, ,260, ,000
There are 1929 acres Of grapes on
Catawba island, near Sandusky, Ohio,
viz: 20l J bearing, and 221 non-bearing.
The first roots were set in 1858.
Erie, Pa, which used to be only 9
peanut stand, now claims population of
%, 600, and is having Nicolson pavement
laid in it's principal streets.
Hamilton, Ohio, with population
of only fourteen thousand, makes more
malt than any ether place in the union,
and has three hundred and twenty-five
drinking saloons.
Denver (ColOrado) papers give en-
couraging accounts of mining prospects
thereabOuts. Travel on the overland
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