Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-04
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL
MEMPHIS.


DREvITIEs.
THE Mani aetafflelHb abave honored
Admiral Farragut with a private din
ner.
l s-sGayibsiGi has accepted. the honorary
presidency of the British reform league,
The queen Of Spain will visit Paris
about The 29th Of The present month.
There me now gSs convicts in the
Ohio penitentiary, at Columbus, and the
institution is over crowded.
Miss Hosmer's statue of Thomas II.
Benton isito be erected in lafayette
Park, St. Louis.
The princess of Wales little girl has
been ehristesied Victoria Bcuisa Alexati.
dra Dagmsr.
"A brute was imprisoned in Jersey
for beating bis mother aged eighty
seven.
-RdttiisTeeent reception in London.
was most enthusiastic.
The BOstsn advertiser considers Mr..
Greeley's influence bale-ful. he
TyMrs ohm II. Morgan was IN. Louis
vile on Sunday.
Gen. Siokles has left Charleston for
Raleigh to meet President Johnson.
1t is estimated that the registry in
South Carolina, when completed, viii
show As 900 white to 10000 colored.
Tire Richmond atty council invited
the president to visit Richmond on his
way To Raleigh, and he accepts.
The second annual horse fair will be
held vt Buffalo on the 18th, 44th. 10Th
and 10th of August. The premiums
amount 10 $1,000. -
. "A criminal named DunkeD was taken
from iail at Richmond, Mo-, on Tuesday
night, and hanged by mob.
in New York there is a union CO.
operation building society, having a
membership Of 2S3 persons, and repre-
senting a capital of S650,000. q
IA company has been formed in Clai
borne. parish, La, for the manufacture
of cotton by steam power, About $50, Geo
Of stock has a1ready been taken.
The great work Of cutting tunnel
through the Alps, Mount Censi, is re-
ported to be going on vigorously.
Failures Of several heretofore strong
houses in Cincinnati are reported, but
the papers mention no names.
The Milwaukee chamber Of com
meHce fayOrs a national Commercial con
gress TO take into consideration the
sceutaFsystem.
"A man in Smyrna, Delaware, las
sold his strawberry crop, four acres, for
ann
They are trying to organize a base
ball club in Knoxville, Tenn, themen-
bers Of which are TO weigh l60 pounds
and over. A -weighty club esi
Gilmore Simms says there is no pOssi-
bic escape for South Carolina from gene
raj famine unless the charities Of more
favored sections should be more prompt
and houutiful than hitherto.
Within the next thirty days every
dwellingin New York will be visited by
the sanitary inspectors Of the board of
health. The condition Of all buildings in
an unhealthy state will be reported, and
ali filthy teRements vilP be cleansed st
the expense of the owners.
During the past year or two, citi-
zen of Dubuque, Iowa, received between
$4,000 and S12,00o in gold, and being
distrustful of banks, buried his treasure.
Being now dead his heirs are engaged IN
digging about the homestead in search
of the gold, and a short time ago un-
earthed between $1,000 and $1,000. Strict
watch is kept, and none but the heirs
allowed to dig.
The senatorial excursion party for
Omaha and the plains arrived at Chi
cago on the 1st inst, and left, via the
Northwestern road, at o'clock OF the
same day. The party expect to be gone
some weeks.
-Advices from MauVltlCs state that
inward of 5000 persons died iB March
from endemic fever, and over 5000 more
in the first half of April. The total
number Of deaths to the 18th Of April
was 13, ,064 Vigorous sanitary measures
were being instituted.
There are mutterings ip Paris that
if the emperor of Russia visits that city
he viii not be welcomed by the popuiass.
The Poles have many representatives IN
Paris, bat Louis X EapOleOn will be likely
to see that his guest is treated with proper
respect.
a boy preacher has appeared in
Wales. WHO, according TO his admirers,
is to extinguish Mr.. SpurgeeH. This
promising youth IS bIaster EBock Pro-
bert, who has lust completed his eleventh
The Chicago police last week. found
a drunken man IN the gutter, in whose
pockets, when he was searched at the
-tationhouse, were letters from Wendell
Philips and others, recommending him
as a temperance lecturer.
New Orleans is 20 have an entertain
ment at which a fountain of iced ciaret
wine will Jet from the center of the par
Duet during the performance TO he
served out 70 the audience in silver COB
lets
"A New York lawyer has been con-
victed Of forging pension and bounty
papers, ami sentenced to five years ia
the states prison.
On Thursday evening the police
made a raid on three gambling houses in
II. louis; the implements-wers thrown
in the river, and over fifty persons were
arrested.
last week the board Of aldermen OF
New Orleans adopted an ordinance ap'
pr0priating $50, 0G0 for the maintenance
of schools for colored children.
THE Brazil steamer South America
sailed from New York on Thursdey for
Rio. taking out one hundred and seventy
passengers, mostly from New York and
Pennsylvania, who go out as emigrants,
under encOursgementO offered by the Bra
zflfax1a governmental in grants Of land.
The iron mines along the Juniata
river, near Mount Union. Pa, are said 10
contain both gold and silver An assay
proves the ore to contain SO so Of gold
and eighty cents of silver TO the ton OF
iron
in a recent report Of the registrar
general, it is said the population Of Lon
don, proper, is 3 .OS7, ,9gl. The suburbs
added will raise the total to 8,52l ,267,
while New York, with Brooklyn ana the
Jersey shore dependencies, does not eX-
ceed ,632, ,s94, little less than haif the
present population Of london. London
dates its foundation from the Norman
CONQUEST in 1866, and is now 500 years
old Z: New York has only begun its third
century. and if it increases in the same
ratio as it has done in the last century,
It's population will exceed t1relUe millions
in the wear 1865, A.D., when It has
reached tiie present age Of London.
The diocesan Episcopal convention
at Philadelphia, last week, had spir-
tied debate upon the establishment or
sisters of charity, which ELECTED the
fact that, while the convention was
unanimous in it's anxiety 20 encourage
the systematiZed labOrs Of Christian
women, it was strongly opposed to the
uptiops of the ritualists in the matter Of
distinctive dress, vows of celibacy, etc.
A partv of freedmen, six in number,
on the plantation of Mr.. Zimmerman, in
SUt1tlr Caroiina, visited his store on the
nretease Of buying some articles, a. Few
niphts ago. and while the young man
was waiting on one OF themi the rest
loaded themselves with bacon, shoes and
other articles, and left. The gentleman
and his son alterWard visited their prem
ises and recovered the most Of the
articles. On their way back they were
wavlaid and again robbed by the same
gang, who were armed, and Threatened
10 ear q hundred armed men from the
swamps TO their assistance. Subse-
auentiy they we're arrested, but broke
All and are at large. This gives a glimpse
IF plantation life in the south under the
new order of things.
1t is said that there is $4,000 ooun-
terfejt fractional currency in circulation
in the city of New York.
"a disQusted radical in ohio writes
to Horace Greeley TO stop his paper. He
expresses the opinion that Horace
would drink lager beer while sitting
uDon union grave stones.
I'm New York an ingenious mechanic
hos made a novel invention, designed
for the comfort of horses during the hot
,gasther. 1t consists OF small reservoir,
allied with water, placed upon the ami
malls head, keeping the brain cool, and
thus wsrdiBg of tie esfeots oil the heat
and sunstroke.
"A northern exchange thinking OF the
coming of the Black Crock south, says
When il gets into the territories, the
military. such as Sheridan and Siekles,
will doubtless require it to be called the
Calored Crook, lest the unwashed chill
drsn of the buFeauis accouchment take