Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-21
RREyITIES.

girls IN I|nllaueipnlsi nearly 2UOO OF.
whom are street Arabs.
The tedious voyage of the Great
Eastern was owing to the inability Of
her new boilers to make steam fast
enough.
The Lorillard tobacco mandatory
is the largest in the world. 1t pays a
tax of over a million dollars a year.
The United States steamer Monon-
gahela, bearing the p%ennant of Com.
Bissel, has sailed from Norfolk for the
West Indies.
"A vessel with emigrants for Ven
ezueIa, sailed from Wilmington, n. c.,
last week.
The jewels of the Overton Masonic
Lodge, Tenn, were carried off by the
late floods in the Holston. If anyone
has those jewels please return them.
There were 4O7 deaths in New York
last week, being twelve less than the
week previous.
The Upper Mississippi, from Lake
Pepin north, is still firmly ioe-bound.
The cotton mills in Petersburg, Va,
have used 11l7 bales of cotton since the
first of this year,
The Irish citizens of Chicago are
about to establish a paper, to be called
the Irish Republic.
The state department. has advices
that the emperor of Brazil will open the
Amazon river to the free commerce of
the world next September.
1t is proposed to build a bridge across
the Kennebec river, nearly 27OOfeet long,
and costing 81 ,OO0,O 600.
Lowell, Mass, has forty,nine facto-
ries, the capital stock of which is s13,-
$4,000; 9Ol3 females and 1914 males are
employed.
The people down east are receiving
large cargoes of halibut from the western
bank. One vessel brought $4,000 worth.
There win be nearly $50, 600 900 feet
of lumber, mostly spruce, sawed on the
line of the Grand Trunk railroad this
season, all of which will find q msrketin
Portland.
1t has been settled that the COM
mercial flag Of Germany shall consist Of
three stripes-black, white and red-s
combination Of the old Hanseatic with
the Prussisn colors. .
The first appointments of registers
under the bankruptcy law viii be made
by Chief Justice Chase this week, and
will be confined to New York city.
A dispatch from Pottsville, Pa,
states that a fire-dampexplosion occurred
at Bancroft, Ashland colliery, Satur-
day, by which twelve miners were killed,
among them John Mather, a well-known
cricket player.
"A rumor prevails in diplomatic cir
Giles, in Washington, that Zealand in
tends to seize the PHILIPPINE Islands as a
reprisal for the seizure of the Tornado
steamship 10y Spain.
-Adyices from the west coast of Az
riea, dated at Sierra Leone, on the 14th
of February, report that the natives
were giving trouble again to the Eng
lish.
In Lacrosse, Wis, on the 18th inst,
Mrs. Shepard, a milliner, shot q man
named L~ederman, who had slandered
her. The wound is not considered fatal.
The remains Of 2lSI. Inion soldiers,
who fell during MeClellan's memorable
struggle on the peninsular, have recently
been inferred in a beautiful national
cemetery erected in the vicinity of York
town.
About 100000 pounds of a good
quality of sugar, made from the beet root,
have just been received at Springfield,
ILL.,, from a mandatory recently estab-
lished in Livingston county, III. The
experiment is pronounced a success, and
great results are anticipated.
Mr.. McCready, residing on Elm
street, New York, was called to the door
of his house the other evening, and the
caller placed a bundle in his hands,
and Immediately stepped into a car
and drove off. The bundle con-
tanned a baby about a month old.
The imperialists at Q~ueretaro offer
ten dollars bounty to each soldier who
Joins them with his arms, and five dol
lars to unarmed recruits. The late battle
in that n~eighborhood was stubbornly
contested, and Escobedo reports heavy
on both sides.
1t is thought hat the Central Pacific
will reach the Nevada state line
by the 18th of November. The present
working force is five thousand men.
Contracts have been made for ten thous-
and more-all coolies.
"A party from Fort Phil Kearney
Fort Laramie, in charge of Mr.. Van
a government scout, and a SER
yeant and twelve men of the ID cavalry,
killed, scalped, stripped, and mt
by the Indians, eighteen miles
EAST of Fort Reno, on the 9th. None Of
he party escaped.
in the library of the late A a.
Smets, of Savannah. are ten books
previous to 1879. The oldest
printed in 1860, two in 1855, n in
46S, two in I470, one in 1913, one in
Az, two in 147S. The oldest a n
book was written in the year 500, I
now fully one thousand years old, I
in parchment, and about the :
of a family bible.
"A fatal disease termed m~enengetes
las prevailed for some time past. In !
ilaees on Long Island attacks Of persons =
n robust health have occurred, and gen.
rally proved fatal in forty-eight hours. Q
he membrane of the brain and spinal :
hord are inlamed, and the whole mus
ular system subjected to strong con- 8
reaction and stupOr follow, in
Thich the patient sinks and dies. In .
very case, so far as heard from, except y
ne, death has supervened. d
"A shark was caught a few days ago, 3
t st. Augustine, Fla, six feet three y
lches long and two feet thick. 3,
"A negro driver Of a coach in Texas
to get some water for the ladies f
the carriage, being asked what he Z
opped for, replied, at am watering
y flowers" A more delicate compli- a
lent could not have been paid. "
fcs
CLEAN wheat straw is selling for VI
venty dollars a tun, so great is the "
smand for it among paper manufac-
Irers. y
Il
THE freedmen in Louisiana have gen. al
ally made contracts for the year. The Y,
rmers aud planters are very active and ~
e diversity ing their crops. pa