Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-30

A corporate company, with a capital
Of 500. 600, has been formed in VintoD,
Iowa.to test the value Of iead discovered
in that locality,
While attempting to get out OF a New
York avenue ear a quiet gentleman q
his umbrella broken in pieces, had his
hat smashed down over his eyes,
was pushed off the car, and finally
knocked down. Pleasant riding in
Gotham.
The fair treasury clerks advocate a
long summer recess, as during the ao-
sence of their congressional protectors
they can indulge in agreeable firta'
tions with their fellow clerks OF the
sterner sex.
Gen. Marcy, inspector general of the
army. is believed to be the best shot in
the country.
Col. Benjamin Franklin Mosby, the
guerrilla leader, is engaged in manu-
featuring corn-cob pipes in Richmond
Va, which he offers for sale to smoker;
Of the weed.
According to the statistics, Turkey.
in 1865, had 1900 schools, attended by
COO. 600 boys and girls, out of a popula'
ton of 5000, 600. In Russia there are
10000 schools and $780, 900 boys attending
them.
An elephant on the New York cen
trail mail train, on Saturday, bound fol
Girard, Penn, the home Of Dan Rice
amused himself between Rochester and
Syracuse by pulling the bell-cord with
his trunk, causing the brakes to be put
on and the train stopped three times be
fore being discovered.
"a s~mooth-faced negro man appeared
upon the streets of Natehez the Other
day in full female costume, with the
waT waterfall appendage. Gle was
recognized, arrested and fined.
The Bergen tunnel at Jersey City is
being arched with brick and iron foT
nearly its entire length. The blasting
necessary for this improvement is done
at night, when no trains are running.
-Porson, in a social party, offered to
make a rhyme on anything, when some
one suggested one of the Latin gerunds,
and he Immediately replied:
" When Dido found Eneas would not come,
She mourned in silence and was Di-do-dum"
About three weeks ago, the keeper
of the elephant in the geological garden
in Paris was found dead in the animals
cage, and with very few bones in his
body broken. The animal will not have
a new keeper, and the directors are I'M
certain what to do with him. Attempts
to starve him only increases his ferocity,
and he is toe costly to be poisoned.
One thousand acres of land in west
ern New Jersey, situated within the
corporate limits of the town Of Ham,
monitor, have been purchased by the
"Hammonton cranberry and improve
ment association" with the intention of
making one vast cranberry meadow OF
it. -Four hundred acres are to be pre-
pared and planted out with vines the
coming season following.
"A man living in Grant county, KY,
who has not yet reached three score and
.aa years, has now living ffty-four
children. His name is "Chslk" Jim
Webster. He regrets very much that
he did not marry early in life.
The Chicago tunnel was formally
opened on the 18th inst, with spe eh-
making, gun-iring, etc. The vhole
arrangement for the supply of water to
the city will cost, complete, S2,500,000.
The services of twenty Baptist
churches in Illinois are conducted in
foreign languages. These churches have
seventeen ministers and 753 members
OF these churches, eleven are German,
three Swedish, two French, two Welsh,
one Danish, and one Norwegian.
The japanese, it is said, have the art
of feeding turtles and other ~crustacea on
aurtrm potable, or some liquid prepare
ton of gold, which gives them a most
gorgeous and gilded appearance. Sew
eral OF these gold turtles and crabs are to
be sent to the Paris exposition.
The deepest note which the human
ear perceives as a continuous sound, it is
said, is produced by sixteen vibrations
a second the most acute by 4S,OOf
vibrations. The extremes Of color, it is
said, are red and violet, the former being
given by ASS, 600 900 vibrations of light
per second, and the latter by 727, 00O,-
000,0 600 vibrations.
The emancipation of the Russian
serfs is still far from being completed.
According to an official return just pub
lished, there were at the beginning of
the present year no fewer than 1865, 10
peasants still under obligation, while the
number Of those who had been freed
from their obligations up to that date is
$500 O7.
The Richmond Enquirer indorses
the course of Wade Hampton and other
prominent CaTolinians, as indicated at
the Columbia meeting of freedmen, on
the 10Th instant, and urges the people Of
Virginia to adopt promptly a course of
conduct calculated TO bring about har-
mony between the white and colored
elements of the population.
An imperial Austrian edict has gone
forth regarding the whiskers OF officers
Of that army. They msy be allowed to
wear the whiskers long, in imitation of
The navy, who now stand in such de-
;ervedly hignp%esteem after CALAMITY.
But they are not TO wear them of a length
mutton chop in fashion, so as to hide the
insignia of rank and the decorations.
A freedman living near Riceville.
Va, had a quarrel with his wife, when
re deliberately took his little son, aged
years, and chopped off his head with
IN axe. The body was then thrown into
he woods SIS a prey for wild beasts and
he fowls of the air, and the diabolical
Iced kept secret till 8 few days ago.
when it was accidentally discovered.
The rich marquis of Westminster
las accepted the presidency Of an asso-
" to protect the Church of Eng
and from Romish innovations within
Ter W pale, and 20 preserve the integ- I
ity of her creed as settled at the reform
The senate has confirmed the follow
ng nominations of secretaries OF Iega-
ion Wickham Hoffman, Of Louisiana, :
{ Paris; John w. Dix, Of New York. {
ssistsnt secretary at Paris; VIM. Brent, 8
scretary at Lima; J.. a. Gross, secretary :
{ Rio de Janeiro. :
1t is a curious factin medical history a
nat during the prevalence of cholera in t
different plans Of treatment !
ere tried in the various large hospitals,
1t. in n hospital it was agreed TO en-
no treatment whatever. The per Z
'ntsge of mortality wa exactly the \
me In all the hospitals, including that s
which no medicine was given. 81