Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-22
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL
MEMPHIS:


cut five teeth and three more are COM
3Tbe railroad depot at Plainiieldi
New Jersey, was struck BY lightning
and burned, on Monday night.
The spring meeting OF the itselede
racing association, at 81. Louis, VIZ IL
auCurated on Monday with three m0s'
interesting races.
only two unmarried ladies, and five
females in all.
a HOMEOPATHIC medical college hos
: pital viii soon be built in New forH
Recently q ambridge, Mass, school
mistress tried 70 knock down the wall o
1 q room with a boys headi but was noI
successful
Mayor Hoffman, Of New York, vii
visit he Paris exposition as represent
alive Of tine New York common eouncli
A desperate encounter between the
police and q gang OF drunken soldiers
took place in New York on the I4gh
The soIdierswe well clubbed and 1Bally
taken 70 the statiCnhouse.
Two horses at Huntington, Ohio, be-
longing to a Mr.. Kemp, have died oi
hvdrOphobia. Several other horses olt'
ten have manifested symptoms Of the
dreadful maiadg
A Chinaman has applied for natu-
ralization as an American citizen II san
Francisco.
The Hera1d1s special says q theft oi
SIS. 600 has been peTpetrated IN the cur
reucy bureau.
At the time Of the recent earth.
quake in Missouri, sn acre Of ground
near Carthage, Ohio, sunk ten feet.
In 1860 the Georgia railway carried
/ 2I9. ia bsles Of cotton, and last veal
only 55.Tl4 bales.
The Oswego starch works support
! 300 people, and viii produce 1900, OOt
pounds OF starch this year.
A gentleman was fined twenty dol
lars in Americas, Ga, the other day foi
iastling Ia freedman of the sidewalk IL
passing
One OF the oldest taverns In Massa'
rhuSetts is the Hitchcock house, West
Prookt{eid. IJ dates back to llvt.
Gen. Grant has been presented with
a billiard table.
"A Iunatic named Helen Doe boiled
herself to death in New HoTk on the l4Lh
inst.
A broadside gun carriage worked by
steam has been adopted by the ordnance
bureau of the navy
-The viceroy Of Egypt is the richest
man in the world. ne owns fourth Of
tie entire soil Of the cOuntry.
There are more negroes in Washing
ton Cirv than in all New England.
-Thirty-0ne American printers have
contributed 10 the Paris exposition. All
but five are from New York.
-Advices from Mexico state that gil
Of the liberals are armed with Spencer
rifles. taken out from New York some
time ago.
The university Of South Carolina has
ten professors ana only ninety sLldeh Is
A meteor recently fell az Helena,
Montana, having hghE equal 90 ofe
thousand gas burners.
An Irish aerOuaut left Dublin lately
in a balloon and landed in Westmure-
land. England, having crossed the Irish
channel in the dark.
Miss Eliza J. Wilson has been ap-
pointed pGstmistress at Coosai tioyd
county. Ga, and the once viii soon be
The Kansas City Journal says thirty
b7rglsrs have been hanged by the vigil
lance committee ia johnson and Pettis
counties during the winter and spring.
The last sensation in little town
near Erie, Pa, is that Of young widow
who advertises a " grand hop to raise
funds to bury her husband.
A Masonic temple for the Grand
F.odye of Texas Is going up al Houston
A Western exchange says, from
Dresent appearances, Within i've year,
Minnesota viii have population OF oyel
600 Ong people.
-Reports from the growing crops, 81
far as We may judge from our IeNa:
fIas. are favorable and encouraging
throughout the state.
o. The work Of laying the iron on tn'
NiIedgeville and Augusta Ca. railfoat
is progressing rapidly, and the contract
ors propose to complete the JoO by March
The first public school in the worl,
was established at Newport, r l., by
town vote in 1910. Hartford, Ct, ha,
her first public school TWO years after
and Massachusetts seven.
The queen win lay the corner stOn
/ Of the bsii Of arts and sciences in Londol
G on the aO.h Of Asy.
William Bradford, the artist, wi
make bis usual excursion TO Labrade
mis- summer, but in steamer instead
sailing vessel.
a radical paper in Wisconsin say
that marty has gone mad on humhUg
ana - Hsdheres consistently to nothing.
. 1t is asserted that seventeen million
out Of the twenjy-tarae millions OF Lh
: italian population are unable to rea
! and write
The Peruvian government viii 10
allow a protestant cemetery at Quito.
A woman IN jersey city ls &ccuse
OF having fourteen husbands.
The supreme court during the tern
= inst closed, disposed Of 200 cases, leavin
go on the docket. All the admiralt
cases argued were decided.
The maple sugar crop Of Indiana tbi
.. wear will be unusually large.
The queens birthday is to be yer,
.' generally celebrated ia Canada this yeal
There are in the Methodist church i
q. this country about $4,000 Germans, an
. more thgn half OF these have Preachin
iu the Germsn language.
A curious wSt.hIan at SsybroOE
- Mass. who wanted to try running a
en5ine. turned on the steam on Tuesday
mi being unable TO shut It of again, Oh
machine ran of an embankment an
y plunged into the river.
, The crown princess Of Prussia opene
a fancy fair in her palace for the relt
If INDECENT soldiers. The Turkish an
hssasdor Immediately bought bOuque
3 al hqr tabls and paid l0G0 thalers for i
The shells collected by the late Al
ll gusfus Gould, Of Boston, consisting
40 OgO kinds, American, European, IA;
- rins fresh water and land, have jui
~ hee1 sent from Boston to the state ge'
=. LOGICAL rooms at Albany, y. Y. 1t
= one Of the finest collections IN the coul
= try. and cost its present owners $1,000.
THE diamond mines Of Golconda al
z giving out, and those OF InQia are ral
. idlv failing. The scarcity Of real gen
= has been met by the ingenuity Of coul
Z terfeiteTs, who manufacture spurlo'
= gems that frequently deceive expert COZ
Is. Toisseurs. Large quantities Of fal
IN osms are made in Birmingham al
Paris, and shipped east, where the Or
entails sell them to creduloUs Europes
! / travellers as the real articles.
"A Kentucky paper says we trust q
dav may come when the intense bite
-. ness OF fhese sad days may be buried
VI an eternal grave. For one, We yesrn
- the true peace-tbat peace which on
= exists where liberty and law reign 6
New Orleans is fast losing some
lis hest and wealihiest population,
conseouence, it is said, Of the oppressi
and disgusting administration OF aha
ia that city.
4 ssTssIssIPPI NEws.
The Communication awarded TO 1
% Mississippi Confederate soldiers, who !,
81 legs in the service, and have suppl
themselves with artificial ones, Is sc
20 entv-four dollars. They receive a W.
- rant on the state treasury for Il
ce. amount, on the certificate Of the proba
in Judge.
The Friars Point CO0honlsdll sa
that in a terrible af'ray on Mr.. l. }. JaC
sous plantation in that county Il
4, Wednes iay Lee Turber killed a m
named NcCloud. AIeCloLd attack