Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-17


Estimates prepared at Charleston, 5.
c., Of the total crop Of cotton loot up
1870, 600 bales.
The Brazilian parliament proposes 10
extinguish the national debt by means OF
lotteries.
-Titian's splendid picture Of the Mar
tyrdom of St. Peter was burned IN re-
cent fire at Vienna.
The Winona and st. Peters railroad
Is omen to Waseca, one hundred and five
miles west OF the Mississippi river.
IRELAND is blessed with very bount-
full harvest this year.
The yellow fever is extending to the
interior towns Of Texas.
New Alabama corn is selling IN Mo-
bile at 81 40 per bushel.
-Georgia's peanut crop is fully up to
the average this year. In North Caro-
lima it is deficient.
The New York Observer pitches into
camp mp-meetings-thinks they are I'M
moral.
-"A A journalistic enormity" is what
/ the New York Gazette calls reporting
priEe-fghts
"A board of naval medical officers
will convene at Annapolis, Md, on the
| 10Th inst. to examine candidates for adj
/ mission to the naval academy.
| Gen. Grants retrenehment has re-
suited in reducing the expenses of the
war department One-third.
A staustician estimates that every
! married couple may calculate upon 4,l9l =
| 3O4 descendants in about fiye hundred
years.
Of Perry's victory on the lakes, by the
graad army Of the republic, at Toledo,
| Tuesday. was one of the grandest cele-
bratiOns ever known in that part of the
country.
| Pears from tree in Danvers, Mass,
planted by John Endicott, first governor
Of the colony, in 1923, were exhibited at
/ the American genealogical convention
/ in st. Louis, Wednesday.
! A body Of policemen from New 1ork
were detailed by the superintendent,
| who is q Methodist, to keep the peace at
] a Camp meeting. Many OF them were
/ converted, and forty of them held a
| praver meeting on their own account.
/ THE fail book trade sale opened in
| New York on Thursday. There was a
/ large attendance and the bidding was
1 brisk. The catalogue of this sale en-
braces over one million volumes, and the
! sale will last nine days.
"A woman, eighty years old, has Just
| been committed to the house of eorrec-
] ton at New Bedford, Mass, for drunken
/ ness. She was accompanied by another
! woman over sixty.
"A Roman Catholic chapel has just
| beeu cOnsecrated in HeadfOrt, County
| Galway. Ireland. which is designated by
/ its builders the /" I-ish-American Church
of st. Mary.T The money for its erec-
ton WAS supplied by Irishmen in the
! United States.
1t is stated that there was furious
| snow storm on Mount Washington, New
Hampshire, on Thursday of last week.
| ] Parties ascending were driven back The
! thermometer fell to below the freezing
point, and ice formed on the telegraph
! poles an inch thick.
1t is estimated that Amasa Sprague
| has expended S25O. 600 in fitting up Mar
| ragansett park, in Providence, Il l. The
! gateway cost 5000, and the bridge of
| granite for the horse railroad 10 pass over
| cost $50, 600.
! The Jefferson Wis Banner says an
| old woman recently from Germany has
| laid three months in a chamber at Farm
/ ington, without medical or other attend
ance. and when discovered one OF her
/ feet had lotted of.
Needles were first made in London
/ nv a negro from Spain, in the reign of
| Queen Mary. He died without impart-
! ing the secret of his art. The art was
| recovered in 1565. Elias Groves first
| taught the English to make needles, but
/ the art was again lost for nearly CEN
| furv. when il was again recovered by
! CbTistOpher Greening, who settled at
Long Crendon, in Buckinghamshire.
The London Times has reason TO be-
| Iieve that the report Of the ritual COM
mission, which the Archbishop of Can
| terbury has announced, will shortly be
! issued, and will be decidedly adverse to
| the practices which have been lately
| brought into vogue by a section Of the
| clergy of the Church of England.
The city of Montreal is undergoing a
| great change in the way Of public inn
1rovements. Like Paris, immense num-
| bers of buildings are being demolished,
| and the streets widened to make them
/ beautiful avenues. Among streets un-
| dergoing this change are Notre Dame
and Great st. James.
Late adviees from the British West
| Indies report the weather favorable for
! the crops. The health Of the islands and
| Demerara was good, with the exception
| Of Jamaica, where yellow fever had
made its appearance on the north side of
/ the islaud-a rare occurrence.
| The latest novelty is a deaths head
robe. It is an English idea, the first
having been ordered at Lyons by Brit
| ish lord who must have a tremendous fiji
/ Of spIeep on him. 1t is a black ground
worked over with white skulls in silver
| thread, and the bottom is bOrdeTed with
big dropping tears.
The Mobile Tribune says, with deal
of pcint. that were the devil TO come
on earth in prOprid persona, there would
4 be found fools to burDish up the prongs
of his tail and adorn them with ribbons" "
1t is proposed to reduce the whisky
/ tax TO fifty cents a gallon, and tax each
still according to its capacity, discharge
| all inspectors and detectives, and appoint
only a few gaugers and inspectors OI
I stills. This will give US more revenue
Z and curiail frauds.
! One Of the principal hOp-raising re-
! gions of the United States is SaulR
I county, Wisconsin, where over three
! quarters of a million Of dollars were
! Daid out for hops last year. Twice that
| sum will be realized from the crop OF
| this year, which is better and larger
than that Of last.
-Jtis a rule with the Boston banks "a
nav no checks at the counter unless the
| person presenting the same il known e
the teller. check was presented al
the counter Of a Boston bank the othel
day, on the back Of which was a de
scription Of the "persOn presenting the
same,u as follows, viz: Sixty year
old, gray hair, blue eys, gray pants and
vest, Specs, blue cotton umbrella" Suf
fee it to say the check was paid and NJ
questions asked.
The Montana Post says: An ex
pIoripg party, which had been 20 th'
headwaters of the Yellowstone river, hal
lust returned, and reports seeing one 0
the greatest wonders Of the world. FO
eight days they Travelled through vol
eanic country, emitting blue flames, an'
| streams of molten birthstone. The coun
trV was smooth and rolling, with long
level plains intervening. On the sum
init Of these rolling mounds were craters
from four TO eight feet in diameter, AM
everywhere on the level plains wer
smaller eraters, from four to six inches
from which streamed a blaze and con
slant whistling sound. The hollow
ground resounded beneath their feet a
they travelled, and every moment SCENE,
as if ready to break through. Not
living thing was seen in the vicinity
The explorers gave it the significant ap
pellatiGn Of hell "
STATE NEWS.
Last Tuesday two men were blow
mn bv a premature discharge while blast
ing rock in tunnel, nine miles from
CovipRton, on the Louisville and Gin
/ cinnati branch road.
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