Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-06
BREYIIIES.


Sheep are selling in San Antonio at
one dollar head.
Registration in Orange county, Va,
S66 whites5 1853 negroes.
in the vicinity of Cincinnati Thurs
day morning the thermometer was down
to fifty-fve.
In Paris the sultan wes drawn by
eight horses in London by two, and in
Vienna by six.
-Du Chaillu has returned to Africa and
his gorillas.
The holy father at Rome celebrated
a mass for the repOse Of Maximilian's
soul.
Mrs. J. q. Bennett has been on 8
cruise up the Hudson in her private
stesm-yaeht.
The Princeton students call Prof.
Aiken, late of Dartmouth, " Professor
Yankn
Sherman's force averages one man 70
Is 600 square miles of territory.
The wonderful humbug, Beecher,
saves time by reading history between
the two courses Of his dinner.
Fine peaches are selling in New
York for u cents per dozen. Cheap.
The National IittelligeReer has re-
duced the price for subscription.
A Brooklyn DID. is arraigned on
/ charges of various misdemeanors-in-
/ Guiding smoking in the church and in
I tOXication.
| The Massachusetts senator, Wilson,
/ says Grant, Thomas and the infamous
| Sheridan, all favor negro suffrage in the
north as well as south.
"A numerous and influential clique Of
/ republicans desire TO nominate Horace
/ Greeley for the presidency, but he has
not yet been consulted, and may decline
| the Droffered distinction. If run there is
no doubt he would prove stronger than
! Grant.
1t is believed Gen. r. E. Lee will be
| appointed president of the Covington
/ and Ohio railroad, Of Virginia, and his
son Gusts is to be chief engineer.
Boston was surprised the other
morning to find a hole in the Common
I evidently shaped TO receive a coffin.
N. P. Willis was a spiritualist. but
| preferred communing with Count Dor
| say to his own mothers shaded
in England, Oxford has conferred
upon the poet Browning the degree Of
master of arts by diploms-an honor
hardly conferred once in century.
Two thousand six hundred emf
grants arrived at New York, on the 29th
instant.
"A Chinese youth, who calls himself
S0ovooy, carried Off the Greek prize at
Kenyon university.
George Alfred Townsend has con-
eluded nice lecture on Walrussis.
The japanese Little All Rightn
died in Chicago on the 18th, probably
from the effect Of the injuries received
bv his fall IN New York.
The president says he should be sur
prised to find Grant opposed to hispolicy.
The time has been when 8 president OF
the United States was not puppet, and
would have displaced any subordinate
who failed to obey orders, or opposed his
commands.
The New York Times thinks New
York beats the world in the eonsump-
ton Of lager.
The ladies at the summer hotels
complain Of a great desrth Of gentle
men, ct vice versa.
The lawyers do not find near as
many applicants in bankruptcy as they
had expected.
Rev. DIR. GRnDet's, a Boston fash (
ionable church, has been closed for the
season on account Of the raysges Of the /
moths.
A critic calls the verses and senti- !
mental stories OF young writer's the teeth 4
cutting ana measles OF literary infancy. |
A man in Maine has built summer /
house in the top of a huge willow tree, /
and connected it with the second story I
Of his house by lattice bridge.
The proprietors OF the new ocean !
cattle from Brest say that line will pay 1
at one-third the rates now charged by /
the Atlantic.
A Texas stock raiser's clip Of wool,
this wear, thoroughly cleaned and picked,
amounts TO 25 900 pounds.
N III. Berry, OF St Louis, commit
ted suicide at the Arkansas Hot Springs,
on the Dist ultimo.
A rural friend says: Hens of all
kinds set twenty-one days, ducks twenty /
eight DAYS, geese thirty 10 thirty i've
DAYS, guinea fowls twenty-eight to forty /
days, turkeys twenty-eight days, pea
hens thirty days. Worth knowing.
An exchange says: The Rev. DIR. 1
Wentworth, Of Troy, insisted, in ser
mon recently. that 8" all men were
Hars.n Perhaps, the doctor weighs al
mankind by Troy weight t
The abolition Of imprisonment for
debt is gradually cOnquering a place in
the legislation Of every European coun-
try Even imperial France, SO tinid Of
liberal laws, has now adopted the reform.
doctor Mary Walker" is Just now
walking the Paris hospital. The medi-
cal students have been rather startled by
the appearance Of their petticoated col
league, but have abstained from any
hostile demonstration.
The negroes in Russell county, Ala
bama, are extremely insubordinate and
iDsolent. Letters from that region say
the blacks are armed and mustered in
considerable numbers, and are terrible
in their threats against the whites.
DIR. n. NJ. Sneed, of Savannah, for
merly of this city, has had left to him
by personal friend, recently deceased
in Scotland, the comfortable sum of
twenty thousand pounds sterling.
On hearing the news Of Maximil-
ian's execution, the Empress Eugene Is
said to have burst into tears, and no one
dared inform Maximilian's mother until
the return Of the Emperor Francis from
Munich, when be broke the sad tidings
to heI.
The silver palaces, in which the press
gang went west, are the most brilliant
veheeles that ever rolled on iron wheels.
The woodwork is of black walnut. pol
ished and elabOrately carved, the carpets
are velvet and Brussels, the seats are
covered with moquet, and the whole car
is most lavishly embellished with silver.
Another bit Of immaterial Washing
ton gossip Is that Gen. Siekles is to be
the manager Of the councils Of generals
commanding Districts and the secretary
Of war thus expects TO control Phil
Sheridan.
The Pacific Mills Of Lawrence, Mass,
received grand prize Of $1,000 IN gold for
a well conducted factory. The award is
said TO be from the emperor's private
purse.
"A silver button arrived 10 Omaha on
the 23d, from the Georgetown smelling
works in Colorado, weighing tbirty-four
pounds, and valued At eight thousand
dollars.