Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-25


county TO pick hops.
The negroes Of New York havi
called g convention, to be held mex
month, with a view TO cooperate will
the radicals to secure manhood suffrage
"A schooner sailed from Chicago 4
Buffalo last week, eleven hundred miles
in i've days and half
Peoria, ILL.,, one Of the pFettiest cite
in the west, is spending million and {
half on Improvements.
"A contract has been made In Phila
delphia for five hundred dozen Reed bird
for Chicago, where they will be canned
for winters use.
"A line Of steamers is about being
established between Washington City
and the mouth Of the Potomac.
Among the curiosltes on exhibition
at the New Hampshire state fair is 8
spinnet, imported In 1875, by Gov. Col
lins, Of Newport.
The city council Of Milledgeville
] Ga, have presented the colored people 8
/ lot On which to erect school house fol
/ their children.
! Over teB millions tons of coal are
[ mined annually in the middle states. Oh
this six millions go to New York, and
! the remainder goes 70 Philadelphia.
I II
! stantly received showing the great salts
| faction felt in naval circles there at the
| Performances Of the Dunderberg in her
/ recent voyage across the ocean.
+! Forty emigrants from East Tennes-
/ see aEd North Carolina, including men,
women and children, passed through
| Kansas city on the 18th inst, en- route
| for Colorado.
The assets of all the United States
| insurance companies are one hundred
and twelve millions of dollars.
Arizona is gsrrisOned by eight
thousand United States troops. The In-
dians, however, are as dangerous as ever
the Apaches.
Cavalry soldiers in the English army
are obliged to serve twenty-Oue years, in
stead Of eighteen like the infantry-be-
fore they receive +" medal"
Miners in England receive on an
average twelve dollars per month or less
than three dollars q week. Flour is
higher than in this country.
"A piece Of stone, resembling sand
stone, which yields like rubber TO
pressure, has been dug upin Delhi, India,
and is now in the Hartley institute,
SOUTHAMPTON, England.
At Paris they sell flowers for the
button hole. They are very artistieally
made, initiate az little distance all the
different decorations, ard can be worn
with impunity. At three PAGES the illu-
sion is complete.
1t is reported from Paris that the
Turkish government is IN treaty with
certain French and English capitalists
for the sale Of a vast quantity Of timber
in its forests. The purchase money Is
= l., cU 1 fssss 90
Her most Catholic majesty has
caused to be published IL Mexico and
South America q decree fOrbidding the
Spanish subjects, now residing thereat,
from hoising the national flag over their
dwellings or places of business on any
pretense whatever.
In Switzerland the cost Of telegraph
ing Is TO he reduced half, and after
New Years day, 1868, a message may be
sent anywhere within the country for
the low price of ten cents.
"A Communication from Inspruck
SAYS: In consequences Of opening OF the
Brenner Railroad, the last diligence left
this place for Botzen on the 2Sd inst.
The horses we're driven by the Oldest
position in the place, wearing Grape
round his hat. The carriage itself was
dressed out with branches of weeping
willow.
A dispsteh in the English papers
saws. A terrible fire is said 10 have bro
Ken out in one of the crown forests near
AIsccio, Corsica From the sea it pre-
sents a spectacle Of sort of mountain Of
Are. The flames are devouriDg & space
of several leagues. Sailors snd troops
sre Fastening to the spot to afford help.
There are three manufactures OF
wire rope in the United States, and the
article is largely used upon the Inclined
planes of the railroads connected ID the
coal regions. ships and steamers now
use wire rope considerably for stays, and
a thin rope of the kind, less than sn Inch
In thickness and quite pliable, Is being
largely introduced into stores for hauling
goods into lofts
The Angl0- Brd.iltGyl Times OF August
7th saws everybody eOneurs in antlci-
pating the largest harvest ever gathered
in coffee. Every year new pientAiions
are coming into bearing, and the yield
OF the trees is particularly abundant TINS
season. OF cotton, likewise, the antici-
nations are very sanguine. The lowest
computation is some 500, 600 arrobss-the
highest I, ,OOO, 900.
" "A decree of the king of Italy orders
that a medal shall be struck in bronze,
silver and gold, to be conferred on such
persons as shall have rendered signal
services during the prevalence Of cholera
or any other grave epidemic. 1t VIII
have on one side the head Of the king,
and on the other 8 crown OF oak with
legend importing that It is recompeDse
for services in connection with pubic
health.
Australia is not alone In its super
sbundapee Of sheep, for at Hawkes. Bay,
saws a New Zealand paper, the settlers
have under their serious consideration
the question Of how to dispose OF 10000
TO 100 600 sheep per annum. II they boil
them down they will realize 8 profit OF
ak sbiIHugs per head; this is their only
sIterpative. Their ficcks are increasing,
and the old sheep must make way for
the new.
The Partisan public may soon look
forward 10 A new but harmless excite
n,anf The remains Of Napoleon II. are,
n is stated, to be removed from their va
riops resting places st Vienna, and laid in
tile newly restored vaults Of the Abbey
of st. Denis. The deputstiOn on whom
will devoIve the duty OF conveying them
has already been appointed and consists
OF Marshal RegnAult de st. Jean d'An-
gelv. the Duke Of Bassino, M. de Cam
baceres, and Gen. Fleury. Marshal Vail
liant Is busy with the programme OF the
funeral ceremony.
-Tbe independence Beige says that
the Schleswig difficulty is now In fair
course Of adjustment. 1t will be settled
ali the more easily because, acting on the
advice Of France, Bismark will not in
sist upon the restitution Of Doppel and
Alsen. At the same time, the value OF
the retrocession will be greatly dimin-
ished by that concession in the eyes Of
the Danish people. On the other hand,
Prussia will no longer insist upon those
guarantees in favor Of the German in
habitants Of Sehleswig which she lately
demanded
We extract from the New York Ga
-ette the following criticism on the drama
OF Rip Van Winkle, ~ performed by
jefferson:
"But the real interest and consum-
mate act begins when the curtain rises
for the last time, upon the weird old man
waking up from his twenty years sleep
among the mountains. Nothing in the
stage is a. nearly perfect as the picture
which Jefferson presents Of Irving's le-
gendary hero. His white beard and
| silken hair seem to be stirred by every
zephyr. he JOCKS as III ne had been
bleached by the rains of twenty years.
and his bones almost fall apart ike the
pieces Of the old gun which drop from bis
hand Nothing is lacking TO make the
/ old sleeper perfect reproduction Of the
image which Irving's description creates
/ 10 the mind. Everything is pictured
with the most exquisite delicaey, from
| the long white hair 10 the old ,,westher.
| beaten coat and the bare knees. His face
too, has the wierd, astOnished, unearthly
look Of q twenty years sleeper who
wakes upon strange scenes and amonp
strange peOpls."