Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-28
BREvTrIEs

AT Lynehburgs Va, shipping to-
baeco, which two weeks z sold for s7G
&c. now brings si2@I5.
The First orthodox congregational
church OF Boston has been burned down.
Loss, $4,000.
The New Orleans Bee estimates the
present population Of New Orleans at
275,OoO souls.
Cleveland has a building association
with a capital stock Of six hundred
thousand dollars.
THE anticipated fall in rents in New
York has not been realized. It is even
said that in most cases they are adj
vanced.
Gen. SehofieId is about to displaee
such justices Of the peace In his district
IS he deems incompetent.
1T costs Sl7s2 to carry a ton of letters
across the Atlantic.
Six thousand and eight hundred tons
Of freight arrived at Atlanta, Ga, in one
week.
The Quakers propose to allow both
sexes to sit together in church. The
world moves.
m. A Hawkes.. of st. Paul, insured
his wife's life, shot her accidentally, and
has been arrested con purpose"
The ex-Confederste ship Alabama,
bought by the Greeks, and called by
them the Akadion, has arrived at Syria.
The London omnibuses have low
cred their fares, and adopted the penny
a-line system.
There are only about $4,000 Nor
mon souls in the whole world. This
allows about 90, 900 adult men.
"A Nevada paper mildly says Of the
legislature Of that state, that it is made
up Of horse thieves and swindlers. The
paper in question failed to get the state
printing.
The Brooklyn ~navy-yard has been
finally reduced to a peace footing in all
the departments.
Mrs. Benjamin, wife of Judah P.
Benjamin, late secretary of state to the
Confederacy, has the handsomest equip
age in Paris. .
Seven hundred thousands pounds Of
pork were shipped by rail from st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, on the 9Th.
u. Madison Bell, the colored poet, is
giving readings of his own and others
productions in Philadelphia.
Chicago paid $4,000 for amusement
last month. Boston paid see, 200.
An exchange says Brownlow's body
guard of ten thousand miscaIIed militia
is about five times the number allotted
to Queen Victoria!
The difference of time between Lon
don and New York, and which the use Of
the electric cable makes a matter of some
consequence, has lately been aseertained
afresh. 1t is four hours fifty-five min
utes and 1925 seconds.
"A New York paper gravely asserts
that the sale Of Legitimate babies in
that city is a large and profitable bust
ness, and so publicly carried on as
scarcely to be elandestine.
-Lueretia Mott, as president OF the
American Equal Rights association, is
first in the field of the May anaiversa-
ries, by announcing thather anniversary
will be celebrated in the church of the
Puritans, May 9 and 10.
The resolution to impeach Collector
Smythe, with the amendment OF Ste
vens, "a agreed to yesterday in the
house.
Glowing accounts Of gold discoveries
continue to arrive from Montana and
Dacotah.
The Greek government has distrib-
uted decorations among the French jour
nalists who have supported the Cretan
instruction.
The Paris exposition viii be opened
about the middle of April and the build
ings to be occupied will cover an area Of
l4T, SIS square yards, and will cost about
81, ,OOO.
Mr.. Colfax, with the single exeep-
ton Of Henry Clay, is the only mar who
has had the honor of being three times
elected speaker of the house.
Rev. B. r. Hanley, author of "Nellie
Gray" and other fsvorite songs, died ia
Chicago Saturday.
Mrs. Z. A. K~ingsbuFS, is lecturing
with much success upon reconstruction
and impartial suffrage, in Western New
York.
Much excitement is reported in Pres
colt, Arizona, over the discovery of new
and rich placers on a tributary of the
Aqua Frio, sixty miles from Prescott.
The Indians are troublesome in that re-
gion.
The French postofiiee receives daily
1000 letters whose address is ilkgible E;
two clerks are constantly employed in
deciphering these ehsrades; about 230,-
600 letters annually defy all guesses.
The largest weekly in the United
States is that of the San Francisco But
tetin. 1t comprises ten pages, each con-
z siderably larger than the page Of the
New York Tribune.
"A panther attacked aud attempted
to carry off a child heal Brirksoury, n.
J., the other day. 1t was closely pursued
with the child, which escaped without
injury.
There are said to be about 1000 cash
mere goats in Illinois. They are as
easily raised as the common goat and
are very profitable.
All season tieket-holders to the Paris
exposition are to be photographed and
the likeness put on the ticket.
Republican candidates in Maine are
c~atechised as to whether they take DEM
Ocratic papers.
1t is stated that Butler forked over a
good sum to help establish a new radical
paper in New Orleans.
"A snow slide occurred March first at
the town of Kearsarge, Nevada, killing
one person and destroying nine houses.
In England four-ffths of the work
in the postofices and telegraphs is done
by women, and they sell two-thirds or
more Of the beer and liquors.
The bill directing the city of Balti-
more to pay the Kane police, has been
passed. by the Maryland legislature. The
amount will not be less than $1,000 O0.
On the st. Johns river, in Florida,
are grown the finest oranges and lemons
in the world, and the land which pro-
duces them can be had for one dollar and
twenty-five cents per acre. A single
acre will grow one hundred trees, which, |
after the fifth year, viii yield eighty
thousand oranges annually, said to be
worth on the tree three cents each.
The Petersburg (Ya.) bgdeS says
that a party of spertsmen from Rich
mOnd and another party from North
Carolina have made up a fight for a
main Of tw~enty-one cocks, $1,000 aside,
to come of about the middle of March,
at the Cool Spring, in Chesterfield
county.
Last week a piece of coal weighing
1853 pounds, from the mines Of the
Lehigh coal and navigation company, at
Summit Hill, passed over the Lehigh
No1To- ,xslw--l 4 " VI - =