Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-03

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| The corn planting in Western Texas
is about finished.
The Texas papers urge the speedy
eonvocation of the legislature.
Hog cholera has appeared in Appo-
mattOx county, Va.
Russell county, Va, viii export this
year thirty thousand dollars worth Of
mules and twenty thousand dollars
worth of horses and cattle.
Half the whole population Of New
York city are Catholics.
-Chinamen refuse to take passage in
q ship which carries a corpse.
The ladies OF Providence, r. l., meet
every day at one Of the church vestries
to make garments for the Cretans.
AT police office in Pittsburg, Pa,
there are several singing mice, whose
performances are said to equal canaries.
"A glow worm with two lights, one
the usual phosphoreseent green, and the
other glowing red, has been discovered
in the Argentine republic.
The Lynehburg Republican says:
at strikes us that the southern people
ought 70 be vigorously doing nothing in
a political way at present, and every
thing in manufacturing and sgricultu-
raj way"
"A preacher who had been a printer,
said in one OF his sermons that youth
was like a comma. manhood like semi
colon, old age like a colon, to which
death puts a period.
-Falstaff Hackett is negotiating for
a lot on Broadway, New York, upon
which to build the finest theater in
America.
The treasury Is receiving st present
an aversge OF about four millions a week
in gold from CUSTOMS and the same
amount in currency from internal taxes.
"A Dalton GA paper tells of for
nor planter in Pulaski county who is
employed by one Of his ex-slayes as an
overseer. Sambo pays his ole massa lib
orally, giving him eight bales Of cotton
for his services for the season.
Bishop Doggett, of the Methodist
Episcopal church south, gives notice that
the annual meeting of the bishops Of that
church viii be held in Nashville, Tenn,
on the l5th inst. /
The japanese commissioners have
sailed from San Francisco for New
York.
1t is now said that ex-President Da-
Davis will be tried on the first Monday
in May, and Chief Justice Chase will
preside.
Some fanatic who dishonors the
name Of Benton, tried to get a resolu-
ton Of thanks in the house Of represen-
tatiyes to Gen. lisorgaDiEer Sheridan.
-Ex-Gov. Eyre, of Jamaica notOriety,
has been acquitted of the charges pre-
ferred against him.
A eoquette in Ashland, Ohio, was
made to return $500 worth of presents
and paysix cents damages to the blighted
object she had Tilted.
About eighty architects have sent in
designs for the new postofiice at New
York
There is said to be no longer any
sale for Gen. Seott's autobiography. The
generals pen was less mighty than his
sword.
There are los mat-iculants in the
university of South Carolina, and the
library contains 25, 600 volumes. /
The number of graduates of the
medical school Of Philadelphia this
season has been ASS.
-Ristori's performances in Louisville /
(fve in number) averaged SLIGO per
night in net proceeds to herself.
The first white man that ever sp- |
peared before the public, BACKED up"
was Mr.. Grawpner. He appeared in the
character of a negro at the old Federal
street theatre, Boston, in 1893.
The banjo has been introduced into
the orchestra for the first time, at Wal
lacks theatre, New York. 1t is played
by Mr c. Dobson, one of the best ban
joists in the country.
The Boston Transcript has heard of
a christian congregation within six
miles of that city that numbered last
Sabbath only six persons.
Within the past year We have lost
two coEcsls, psymaster and United
States sengineer at Panama. Here is q
fine opening for enterprising young
men.
"A vessel has sailed from New Lon
don, bound for the coast Of Africa, on a
codfshing voyage. It is expected that
market will be found for the fish on
the coast of Brazil. This is a new ven
ture In fishing.
In two years s., ,OOO, ,O9O worth oflead
has been mined in Grant county, Viz
ginia.
"A religious paper asserts there is
great difference between Eece Deus" "
and the book of Exodus.
DR.. Hayes, the Artic explorer, hopes
to be able to organize another expedition
for the Polar regions.
-Two-story cars are growing in favor
on the European railways. The lower
story has compartments in the English
style, and the upper is on the American
plan. The whole height of the car is
about fourteen feet.
-Four hundred editions Of Don Quixote
have been published since 1905, the date
Of the first edition, in Spain alone.
The bar Of a new steamer, to voyage
between St. Louis and New Orleans, has
been sold for $4,000.
There is talk Of a movement to i'm
pose a national tax of fifteen dollars on
every dog. They cost Us that much now
in sheep and Vool-
1t is said that Cousin looked for
nothing in reviews and newspapers but
capital C's-the initial of his name.
Some Of our public men have similar
weakness.
-Rarepa has been engaged for a New
York church choir.
Two hundred Methodist ministers
were showed in on Kansas train few
weeks since.
"A black brute in st. Louis chopped
Off one Of his wife's thumbs with an axe.
The Paris wssherYomen are eharg
| ing franc shirt, all on account of the
exposition.
A number of the cotton mills in
New England have determined to sus-
pend operations for thirty days from the
first of April, on account Of the rosolu-
tiOns of their workpeople to strike unless
the hours Of labor are reduced.
The widow of Henry Grattan died
in Dublin during February.
The receipts Of the American Bible
society for the month Of February was
S73, ,a7s IS.
in recent engagement the noted
Mexican Gen. MiramoD, had both legs
shot of.
"A boy twelve years Of age was
starved to death by his father, at Brom-
ley, England, a few days ago. His body
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