Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-06

I "a tIcAibHue o4 LflG GUaSL sOulu q
Rio, Brazil, ha-7e erected saw mills, an
are now supplying that market with ex
cellent lumber.
appointments have been made 70
fifty five anniversary meetings to b
held in Boston this week.
: The committee of the United State
senate on Indian affairs have postpone
their proposed trip 10 the plains until tn
: middle Of September.
The receipts Of cotton at LouisviIl
during the year ending March 81, 1867
were 79, SIS bales. The greater portion
of this was Tennessee cotton.
The Odd Fellows of Columbus, Ohio
are going to erect a handsome buildinl
for themselves upon ground recently
purchased opposite the opera house.
Two frightful deaths from hydro
phobia took place in New Orleans las
week. The victims were children.
Another attempt is about 10 be made
to stop the street cars from running OF
Sundays in Boston.
Coal sold at auction in New York or
Wednesday last for 81 25 per ton. Thi,
is lower than it ever sold in gold times
The last survivor of the war of 1T7t
/ is in the person OF hale, hearty old vet.
| sTaD, named John Gray, residing in
/ Noble county, Ohio, aged one hundred
and four years.
Last Sunday night, in New Orleans,
! during the temporary absence Of the
watchers, some villain entered the house
| where the body of Mr.. Fsures was laid
ont, and stole two silver pieces placed on
I the eyes of the corpse. t
The average depth OF the Atlantic
ocean is estimated at 25 900 feet, and of
I the Pacific at 10000. The deepest water
in the Atlantic is OF the island of St
! Helena, which has been sounded p, 900
! feet, or ever five miles.
/ The location of the Illinois indus
| trial university has been permanently
Z fixed at Urbana, two miles from Cham
psign, upon lands given by the county
( for that purpose.
The annual meeting Of the educa-
I tional association Of Virginia, viii be
/ held in Lynchburg on the 18th of July
/ Gen r. K. Lee is a member of the assO-
I citation, and is expected to attend.
"A Norfolk, Va, firm shipped to New
/ York during the past season lO5, 7S5
bushels oysters, and during the busiest
part Of the season employed fOTty-seven
vessels in transporting oysters, fish and
teTrapins.
In Europe the financial barometer
indicates general confidence in the sta
bility of peace. ConsuIs continue to rise
and are quoted ia latest dispatches at
49,, whereas they were down 10 80 before
the e0nferenee assembled.
Madame Ristori's $4,000 profits
from her trip through Americs are not
without parallel. It is stated that Mad
anne Patti from two hundred and thirty
representations in Paris has Just cleared
no less than S5l2, 800 ia gold, an average
Of S2230 from each performance.
The latest topic in Partisan circles Is
the extraordinary success of khamil
Bey, the Turkish secretary Of legation. at
the gaming table in the "Cercle des
Montards" He has won the enormous
sum Of 1000 900 francs in a fortnight.
The total amount Of beet sugar pro-
duced in the world is srePOrted to be about
., 500 600 tons annually. France IS the
chief grower Of beet sugar.
The body of ArtemUs Ward arrived
st New York on Friday night by the
steamer Deutchlsnd, and viii be taken to
Maine for iuterment.
1t is estimated that there is in New
YORK city alone five hundred thousand
dollars OF counterfeit fractional currency
in circulation.
The com mon council of Boston hsve /
voted to extend the hOspitalities of the
city to President Johnson. --
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad has
made arrangements for transferring cars /
across the OHIO river without change.
A New York Publisher Is said 70 have |
baTgained for Gen. Lees forthcoming re- /
view OF bis campaigns for ten per cent. (
on the sales. /
The largest piece Of paper ever dis
counted by the bank OF England was 1
bill for 100000, about four millions Of I
dollars. Aud the largest amount paid
out in one day was E2 jOO,O ,O00, or about |
S12 500,O0O. This was in the great panic
in May, 1866
-Oa Thursday last Mr Elisha Prior,
years old, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the breast
with . rife. He had been III aud de-
spending FOR sometime.
A plessure fishing boat capsiZed OF
Fishers Island. Connecticut, on Friday
morning, and sunk. Capt. Stearg Hail,
Capt. C0ddington Fish, Capt. Beckwith,
and boy named Rogers, were drowned.
Dakota papers of the 18th ult., say
that not a single outrage has been cons
mitted this season by Indians on the
upper Missouri. Small parties pass up
and down the river without molesta-
ton.
Mr.. George Neuse1, a farmer resid-
sng near Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, hung him
ielf last Friday because be feared having
contracted glanders from diseased
horse. He leaves a family.
Capt. J. Mix, formerly second officer
Of the steamer Santiago de Cuba, will !
leave New York for Europe on Monday,
0n 8 monitor raft, taking with him two
sailors. This craft is only twelve feet in
width. by twenty-five in length.
Collector Crane, of the fifth North
Carolina district, reports that during the
past week he has seized twenty dishlle-
ries engaged in the Illicit msnufact1fe Of
whisky and apple brandy. rTT.. 4
The president did not decide upon the
question Of restoring the municipal Off
GERS at Mobile, before leaving Washing
ton for the south, and nothing will be
done in relation to it until his return.
Mr.. Howe, chairman OF the AmeFi-
san committee for assisting the CaBdi-
ltes, has arrived at Athens. he has al
ready forwarded several hundred breech-
oaders for the insurgents.
George Meaeham, while washing
sheep in q mill pond in strongsville,
county on the 3Oth uit., got
nto deep hole and was drowned. He
vas seventeen years old. . asF
Tie extraordinary number OF 1904
voters has been registered in Washing
on. of whom S2I2 are cOlored. The
Vbole number of votes cast for municipal
,fficers a year ago was 57s3.
-Havana q advices OF the 2Sth say the
United states steamers MOnOngaheia
md Swatara arrived at st. Thomas on
ne 18th. 1t was surmised that they
lad gone there to take possession Of the
slaEd. L.
The Canadian authorities intend to !
celebrate the I'd Of July, when the con-
ederation goes into effect, as holiday,
with grand review of regulars and
militia, at Toronto.
-The Otoe Indians of Nebraska are
eported by their agent to be IN starv-
ng condition. Many of them are dying
rom the effects of eating patrified meat
rheir corn and bean crops last year were
,ery scant, and they had barely seed
,nough to commence operations this
-R1sbert 0ttarson died ia Springfield, !
Pa. last week. lie had been insane ,
or tkirty years, but recovered his senses ,
IA his death bed, and conyersed iBtelli- Z
,ently of occurrences that transpired the :
Law and week previous TO his insanity, :
making inquiries about his oxen, the I
york on the farm, and Old neighbors !
Who had been dead for years. TIE inter I
rening space was q perfect blank to bis !
nemOry. - IL
"A few years ago Count Raousset Boul- :
on purchased a large tract OF land in !
,opora. Mexico, and planted a French !
olony upon it. In a difficulty with one !
4 the colonists, the count was shot and =
he settlement was tbereupon broken up.
Vow a report comes from France that I
ne of his cousins is organizing an expo [
itiou with the double object of reveng- 4
az him and recovering the property ! 2
4e is said to have succeeded in obtaining 4
200 recruits, WHOM he has armed with !
Winchester earbines. l.1 -sr17 .H v