Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-26
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL
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console him.
| Zine water-melons were in thu
Tampa FLA. market on the l1th inst.
The fruit crop in the valley OF Viz
ginia promises a large yield.
MANY Of the wealthy old Creoies o
New Orleans are returning to France.
-Bishop AfcGill, Of Richmond, has
left for Rome on temporary visit.
1t is said Georgia horses are fstteninE
Some q. S. troops at Macon, Ga.
were paid of a few days since, anC
sixteen deserted.
NCommander ]. n. Maffit, late Of th'
lC. s. Navy, recently arrived in sew
York from Rio Janeiro.
In Troy they arrest the newsboyl
who hawk the Sunday papers through
the streets.
Richmond negroes have an ugl,
habit of shooting at policemen on sight
William and Mary college, at WI
liamsburg, Va, is prospering uhder th'
presidency OF Gen. Ewell. IL
AN Indiana law firm has received
letter from a woman IN Scotland "n'
wants a divorce from her husoano-
"a Boston servant stepped upon
glass skylight the other day fen Sky
feet, and was picked up dead.
-Dnring the present year there arf
/ hut 45O 600 persons in the United States
! who pay tax on incomes.
! Key. DR.. n. H. Schenek, the newly
elected rector Of st. AIMS, Brook lyn
has become seditor of the Protestd't
! CH,frca.sldgl.
The immortal ~. N" has turned
mn aCain, He was to speak in Louisville
! Thursday, on "TRRth and Recoilectlon..'
! "A local burlesque, entitled Ih'
/ Fight Hour Movement" IS one OF tht
! theatrical attractions in Chicago.
| Three thousand acres OF land IN thf
vicinity of Hammondsport, SteubeI
county. n. Y, were under grape cultiva
Two Germans in st. Paul, Mimi.
claimed TO have discovered the secret II
the manufacture Of the explosive car
! fridOes used in the needle guns OF Pfus
A eoIored man named John Sim
mons was killed on Saturday at Column
bia. s. c., by the explosion OF q sheI
from which he was endeavoring 10 draN
The stable of Mr.. Abraham War
wick. pesr Richmond, was burned lew
nights since. It was the work Of som'
violent negroes, who thus showed tnell
disapprobation Of his going on Preslden
| Davis'bOnd. &C., a.,
refuses 10 work unless he IS rldden, ah'
to save q hand they have mounted al
artificislmOpkey upon hIn, ana ne "oIA'
steadily now. ,c,..sD.-.
| Arch Masons is in session at indian
apelis. -.,,- p.,no. - the
N-svv Work L,edger, last year, was ovel
500 900 He was formerly journey
mn nrinter on the Hartford C0ttrdyat.
-Pere Gratry and NJ. Jules Favre have
haan elected respectively to the chair
yacsted by MessFs. De Barante ant
es,l,rin in the French academy.
| "a woman has just died at hronan
in the Grand Duchy OF Baden, at the age
~. I24. she had exercised the calling o
a beggar for upward of le0 years without
| interruption. ,t...t
| There was lately on exhibition be
fore the royal society in London, manu-
script sermon by Cotton Mather, and al
autograph letter, IL which he thanks th'
society for electing him felloW.
| THE ladies OF FredOnia are ofganlF
ing IA suppress the saloons IN that place
by fair means or foul.
The Chicago newspapers represen
business as very actiSs in that city
They state that the streets are 5hE0nEeq
stoeZs are rising, and there is more build
ing than before - ,,..;,. ~,
MORT of Tampico, while it remains dis
obedieut 10 bis government, has beel
received at New Orleans.
- New Orleans letter says tisp re
cent decision in the New Orleans courts
thst debts incurred for the purchase o
/ rIaves before the war are null, inVolve
| pea,Iy 500 900. 600 in Louisiana alone:
-Geofgs whiting, thirteen years old
sud q boy named LOring, sixteen year
old, quarreled at Bag City, Men, ol
Saturday, and L0ring shot whiting, 10
( HietipC ! wound of which he died IeS
hours after. The young murderer Is Il
Recently, a boy ia Montresl put tw'
fire crackers into his nOstrils Gnd pre-
them to see the effect. lie now know
he has no nose.
inpton. Mass, there is yet a pile Of snoE
one hundred feet deep.
NAbout two o'clock Friday evenin.
tba roof of the Buffalo union pudding
mill niusty by two hundred feet IL
iangth feU in, burying one hundred
! yroTkmen ia the debris, killing four an'
! dreadfully crushing fifteen,
-Chauncey Page, the murderer. hs
been assessed 5000 damage for sloount
and otherwise assaulting the girl Fredo
MIA I.udolph, whom he thought ne ha'
| killed with the rest Of his victims.
M.aFaf fWg I 50
suartments have been reserved at st
Tis v,rance hall for Jefferson Davis anC
famiIy. The southern refugees at To
ronto intend TO invite hiai 70 visit tina
city. .-.,-
axneIIed from New Orleans hackmer
association on ths ground that he was o
| African blood. lie now sues for 5000
damages for being called nsgFo,
A writer in a st. Louis paper, WHIT
has recently Travelled through the states
of South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama
ssvs that deaths occur almost daily il
me localities which he visited, and ths
many more must occur before the corr
crop natures, unless aid comes from th'
north.
A Kansas farmer scattered hsy
around his wheat field last fall, and thu
locusts gathering into the hay at night
he set fire to it in the morning, and by
reDeatjng the process saved twenty-five
out of thirty acres, and the wheat Is nov
looking well.
The I,orillard tobacco factory in At
IaDta is one Of the largest in the world
II paws 81 600, 900 per year in taxes T.
the government, and spends $1,000 pc
month fnr printing labels. The average
stock on haud fOT the past six years wa
I 900 OO0 pounds. Here are made apnu
allv 100000 pounds Of snuff, 1903 bar
rels of which go to Newbern, n. c., fOl
the use of the snuff dipping danes ant
Semoiselles OF the old North State. TIT
otto of roses used for scenting the snuf
cost $50, 900 per year. ...
An English paper is responsible 70
the following rather tough yaTn: On
saturday last March man at Fort Pitt
Prince Rupert's Land, British America
killed some hogs in the presence OF hi
two little boys, aged six and eight years
respectively. Sunday the little ones go
10 playing " hog killing" and when tn
unhappy parents returned from churei
thew were horror stricken by the sigh
thai awaited them. The elder boy ha'
killed his brother, hung him up like
bacon by the legs, and disembowele'
him, and came running toward them
clapping bis hands and exclaiming b
had "kiIed little piggy; come an'
see."
There is at q Nashville brewery
mammoth frog, Weighing twelve pounds
which Is supposed to have attained hi
enormous Size from the nourishmen
received from the healIh-giylng oeyerag
manufactured at that establishment. H
IL kept In the cellar, with no companion
but his own thoughts, and drinks hi
regular allowance Of lager with all th
apparent satisfaction and relish OF
portly Mynheer Of the olden time.
As an illustration of the perfect con
dition to which the workings OF the At
Iantic cable has been brought, LOndol
paper mentions that recently, IN tn
business Of three entire days, durint
which messages were transmitted con
tanning 24,4O0 letters Tor 4S,SS0 letter
when doubled for repetition the repeti
tions showed mistake OF only one letter
consisting in the substitution Of Pat
tieson" for Patteson."
DIR. NJ. KayseFling has lately pub
lished a " History Of the Jews in Portu
OaI - which is painful reading, Like tn
history Of religious prosecutions. tn
, most curious portions Of this volum
which Ii contains Of the negotiations c
Iohn. the then king Of Portugal, tn
!. po,,es Clement VII and Paul III, in re
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