Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-12

RREVLTEEs.
Two women have been elected "a
parish overaeers In England.
Fifteen butcher shops In Indianap-
oils have been closed up on account OF
the scarcity Of beef.
There are three thousand pauper
gentlemen in New York who live by
begging and borrowing.
In consequence Of the great strike Of
the Workmen Of Chicago, the work Of
building to the amount OF "a, 600, 600,
which was contracted for, is abandoned.
The students Of Harvard and Yale
colleges have abandoned the intention
TO participate in the proposed interna-
tlonRl regatta between the English and
American universities at Paris.
"A singular procession Of babies-in
the arms OF their nurses-was passed
in review at Savannah, Ca, on May
day.
The Evansville (Indisna) Sentinel,
edited by an ex-federRl officer, writes 3
leader in favor Of Gen. R. E. LeeffOr
president in 1858.
"A Wurtemburg paper protests against
a practice which it asserts is now very
common in that part OF Germany-send-
ing psrdoned criminals or psupers to
America.
-Embonpoint is the rage in Paris just
now, and art is resorted to where nature
has denied this new found beauty.
"A Frenchman in New Orleans has
given ten Thousand dollars toward found
ing an orphans home without respect to
color.
The New Orleans Crescent denies
that ex-Mayor Monroe and family have
gone to Canada.
John B. Cough made his first tenn
peranee speech in Rochester on the 4th
Of July, 1913. Since that time he has
delivered $500 Temperance speeches and
lectures.
An American gentleman writing
from Paris says, thus far, the Universal
Exposition has proved failure, and all
parties are dissatisfied.
"A few days since, as the carpenters
in the ship-yard of Mr.. Sylvester Hardy,
/ at Salisbury, were cutting UP a large
stick of white oak timber, they found
full grown and well preserved owl deep
Iy imbedded in The wood.
| The gold received at the custom
house at Boston for the first four months
Of the present year amounts to S., $780,,
/ IS3, against 81 ,553, ,093 for the correspond
ing period Of 1858.
/ The London Times remarks that the
recent treaty for the REIMBURSEMENT of
Russian America to the United States
4" is the first time that Russia has ever
receded from q territory which it has
once acquired"
Max. Strakoseh proposes to play an
| opera season at Chicago with the Parepa-
/ Brignola troupe, and other artists.
United States Treasurer Spinner re-
| eeived two letters on Saturday, post
l rlrah fHfnnfnnZff nnnfQlnR K36lHf in
! conscience money.
Coral jeWelry is one Of the most
| prominent novelties of its class in Paris.
I The rose-pink variety Is most esteemed,
| and is worth twenty times its weight in
gold.
The hsrbor of Buffalo, n. Y, was
bIoekaded by ice on the 9th, blown in by
the gale which bad PFeyatled for day or
two.
The state treasurer of New Hampshire
receives salary of only $500, and is OBJ
liged to give bonds of $500, 600. There
must be either an extraordinary amount !
of honor or stealing connected with the
Office.
-The Cincinnati merchants are con- !
sidering the psQpriety Of having q law /
passed taxing eastern dr.mmers,' re- /
quiring them to take out city License. I
A dispatch from 500 miles west of
Omaha, dated May 1st, says: "The 4
Union Pacific railroad track is being laid |
at the rate Of two miles day" That
will do.
The state treasury Of AiaSREla will 1
soon commence the issuance Of S4QO, ,0sG, [
authorized by the last session Of the leg |
islstIsFs, in one, two and three dollar
notes. They viii be receivable for taxes
and for dues to the state. end are ex-
empted from any tax under the United
States revenue law.
Loyalty is defined in the dictionary 1
as fidelity to prince" As we have |
no prince 20 be loyal to except the /
81 black prince" it means fidelity to the 4
nigger-as long as you can coant on his .
vote.
The statement that two United
States soldiers had been murdered in
Edgefield district South Carolina, turns
out TO be pure, unadultersted lie, man
UfsetuFed by q lstter-day saint for north
ern consumption,
Wisconsin has q new law which dis f.
qualities liquor sellers from holding the
Office of justice of the peace. Why not |
disqualify liquor drinkers from holding
that Office.
The jacksonville fla Union says
the registration boards in the several
coIDties in that state, under the Sherman
bill, will be composed Of one colored and
two white gentlemen.
1t is said some OF the people of
Lynchburg, Va, have decided to camp
Otft lor the summer, on account of high
rents.
BY the act OF Congress approved
March Q, 1867, no revenue stamp is
needed upon affidavits. Ithas been sug-
gested to US that the TreasureF's cOTpo-
ratiOns and Justices of the Peace need to
be reminded OF this fact.
The Boston Herald estimates that over
two tLOpssnd men have been thrown
out of employment by the closing Of the
bar rooms iD that city, and 81 least five
hundred stores In the city proper, and
East and South Boston have ITO lett
placed ON the shutters.
Richard b. Kimball, the novelist, is
reported to be writing q new and power
fui story OF american life, to be brought
ont in two volumes by prominent New
York publishing house. Il
A foolish farmer in New York has
sent barrel Of apples to Queen Victoria.
His return for the gift was letter from
one Of her msjesty's secretaries with the
queens thanks.
Miss sfsggie Mitchell is going with
the Plymouth church excursiOnists TO the
Holy Land Robert Henry Hendershott,
"the Drummer Boy of the RappshRn-
mock, ia also going 10 an official capac-
ity.
A company hss been formed in Mer-
iden, Conn, for the manufacture Of hats
by machine which Weaves them whole. ,
The capital stock is S400, 600, and it took
SIS, 900 to buy the different patents used
in the machine.
The secretary of the union league in
Alabama, Mr.. John c. Keffer, says that,
although organized only a year ago, it j
now numbers 5000 white and 1000
colored members. The mountain
1en are generally not only loyal but
very radical.
Eight yesrs ago fourteen rabbits
were turned out in Mr.. Austin's estate
Of BarWon park, Melbourne. The pum-
Der of their progeny shot last year on
this estate was IA, 253; and in spite of ,
this destruction, and what goes on out !
side the estate, they have swarmed over .
the neighboring country, and have been
found at considerable distance around.
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE.
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