Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-18


his escape from British train of cars at
Dublin. A.
The steamer Florida has been btt,l15ed
bv sn iucendiary st Charleston. Loss
over $50, 600.
senator Wilson will leave New
Orleans for Washington Immediately.
/ He feels satisfied he can do no good in
the south.
The French government paid s., ,000,-
900 for the ram Dundenberg.
st. PauPs church in New York has
been struck by lightning, but no serious
damage was done.
James McCaffrey murdered his wife
in New York, Sunday night, because
they differed about religion.
The clerks of the New York post
office have collected sufficient sum OF
money To purchase I've hundred bushels
Of corn for the suffering poor OF the
south.
"A spiritualist, named Smith, in Bos-
ton. has been arrested for numbering a
Young man who disturbed his seance.
Crime is rampant in Hayana-so are
financial failures.
Pigeons are - numerous in Leaven-
worth City that complaints are made OF
their poisoning cistern water off the roofs
of houses.
Major Russell, late of the Confederate
service, and a relative of John Slidell,
died in Toronto on Sunday last.
Mrs. Sukey Raymond, of Norwalk
Ct, a heroine Of the period when that
town was destroyed by the British, died
at Brooklyn, CT, a few days since, aged
ninety. eight.
/ Decker & Co, of New York, make
pianos which are preferred over all 9th
| ers by vocalists like Brignoli, Parepsa,
Rosa, and Togbsrem, the great Phila-
delphis teacher OF singing.
New gold diggings, reported very
rich, have been lately discovered in the
northern part Of Jackson county, Ore
gOn.
The Chinese labor question is being
agitated in Portland. The Oregon iron
company proposed to employ Chinese
! laborers and the white employees made
/ respectful and cOgcnt protest.
The Idaho World says the democrats
/ of San Francisco fired one hundred guns
/ ia honor of the late triumph in COnnec-
ticut. California will be democratic her
/ self next election, we believe.
At a large meeting in San Francisco
/ lately, for contributing relief to the starv-
! ing people. OF the south, addresses were
made by Archbishop Allemany, Gov.
Low, Bishop Kip and other prominent
/ citizens.
The Pilot says Boston needs more
religion and less talk about it-more OF
/ the spirit of truth and less theological
/ hair splitting
Mr.. Hartford Mellor, an English anti
/ quarry, asserts that Ne has discovered the
remains Of King Alfred, which have now
/ been buried nine hundred and siXty-siX
years.
Flour, under democratic rule, cost
only from three to seven dollars per
barrel. Under radiealism it costs from
/ twelve TO twenty dollars.
Rev. J. f. Young, an assistant min
/ ister Of Trinity church, n. Y, has been
elected bishop Of Florida.
/ "A man died near Marksville, Va,
recently, at the age of thirty years, who
! occupied a cradle up to the day Of his
death, heing then a mere infant in phys
] ical development.
The Texas people are pushing their
railway enterprises with commendable
/ spirit and energy.
"A Bostonian has invented tobacco
soap,n which is said to destroy all kinds
Of insects, worms, slugs, etc, very salts
! faetorily. 1t has the additional merit Of
] beiBg cheap.
D san fIdutleCO HAS SCll a y sl4lhtc IA z
engine to Japan, and a company OF resi-
dent citizens Of that city went with it to
show the Japs how to manage it.
The white people Of Middleburg, Va,
/ and its neighbOrhoOd, have transferred a
good stone church Methodist EpiscOpall
1 10 colored trustees, former slaves Of some
Of them, for their exclusive use.
/ Montana territory, the richest gold
bearing country in the world, is suffering
/ from financial stringency. Cause-gOld
/ is sought to the neglect Of agricultural
! production.
-Advices from the Hawaiian islands,
to April 10Th, have been received. A
school of 100 sperm whales were OBJ
served near the islands, the first for
many years. Thirty Of them were
taken.
Glass engraving is said to be done
with solution fiuoride Of calcium in
hydro.ehloric acid, without the danger
attending the use of ftuoric acid, and
equally well.
"A young lady Of seventeen, in Hi
nois, has achieved local fame by attack
inc a midnight burglar with q bed slab,
| and clubbing him from the house.
There is to be a gathering OF Metho-
dists at Sandersville, Ga, and the Cen
/ trai Georgian, published at that place,
calls upon its subscribers to furnish a
thousand chickens for their support.
A port society has been organized in
Galveston, Texas, TO establish a sailors
home. Thirty-four thousand three hun
dred and forty seamen entered that port
lastyear.
Among the prisoners received at the
Ohio penitenuary, yesterday, was Ju-
META Dixon, convicted Of grand larceny
| in Defiance county, and sen nteuced for
two years. She is apparently not more
than twelve years of sge.
Jacob Riley was tried recently in the
Allegheny county court Of Maryland, for
killing his father, and sentenced to six
teen years imprisonment. The case was
an aggravated one.
Mr.. Swinburne's new poem is con-
tanned in siXty-siXpages, and ofthese about
twenty are occupied by string of adju-
rations to the hills, skies, plains, woods
winds, waves, gorges, dews, rains, olives,
BAYS, myrtles, moons, seasons, storms
graves, and hundred other things, tc
praise Mazzini.
The crops in Florida, says the Talla-
hassee F2oTididn, so far as we can learn
were never more promising. Within q
day or two, we have visited several
plantations. The corn is looking well
generally, With suitable seasons and
work ST the right time, there will be
plenty made for the demand. OF cotton
there is good stand.
Lodgings were furnished in a Boston
police station, Thursday evening, TO 3
travelling tinker, who stated that he was
a Frencbman by birth, and came to this
country in 1898, when he was twenty
five years old, and consequently wa;
ninety-nine years of age. His appear
ance and story agree. He was minus
one foot, and carried his pack Of tools or
his back.
Smith Brothers, of Providence, have
patented q process whereby kerosene oi
is burned from gas pipes, the burners be-
ing fed from q reservoir. IL is so ar
ranged as to be self-feeding-the burner.
being supplied by the action Of burning
The weight of the atmosphere holds the
oil in the pipes. There is not the leas
danger from overflow, n0r from explO
sion.
The Albany, Ca, Net0s says: So fal
as we have been able to learn, the plant
ers have had excellent luck IN getting s
stand Of cotton this year. They are now
busiIy engaged in plowing and choppinl
il out. III no misfortune befal the pre-
sent crop, it will be one Of the best il
years.
"A London newspaper says that Nor
monism is in a very fiourishing condi
tion st Remington, and that the saint
are rapidly increasing in numbers anC
influence They give concerts and con
UersdcioRes in aid of the Salt Lake emi
grafton fund, and find no difficulty il
persuading young men and women 4
try their fortunes among the saints o
the holy city.
The steamer Sarah, which runs be
tween New Orleans and Mobile, wa
struck by a tornado OFF Pascagoula OF
the 30th of April. She lost her entiT,
cabin and upper works, and ten person
went over with them. Eight Of thes
were lost.
The irrepressible Colenso proposes t
submit himself for discussion in a new
way, by putting in an appearance and
claim to recognition at the general An
glican council which meets in Londol
next September.
Montana is believed to be the riches
. / ...f-,orol- country in the world In ISG