Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-21

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e had beed dead three months, made love
e to and won the heart of a widow OF
e forty-ive, whose husband had been dead
; one month.
Phoebe Washburne, o Lenex, Mass,
celebrated her one hundreth birthday
last week, and died a day or two there
| after.
Cyrus w. Field has contracted for
a submarine cable to be laid from PIa-
)centia, Newfoundland, to Sidney, Cape
Breton.
The 4" overflow" and " comet style
! is now the mode for hair dressing in
Gotham and at the Hub. The former
I gives the hair-the appearance of a mus
tang's tail, and the latter is a struggling
~appendage worn over the left shoulder
from an enormous chignon perehed on
the top Of the head. Fiery red to a brick
dust shade are the most recherche
eolors.
"A beautiful tunnel was discovered
not long since, under a river in the
interior of Peru, the work of the old
Inca Indians, and a lasting proof of their
civilization.
"A compositor in the jackson Afssis.
SlPpfan office recently set and corrected,
in nine hours and a half, sixteen thou.
sand eight hundred ems, BREWER, one
third of which was solid.
The dime subscription in New York
for the erection of a To Vol
taire does not seem to make much head.
way. The sum thus far raised is ss4 &C.
subscribed by 644 admirers of that genial
inhdel and intimate of Frederick the
Great.
"A bill opening t~ocatholics the offices of
lord lieutenant and chancellor in Ireland
has passed a second reading in the house
Of commons by 102 majority.
1t is proposed to take away the priv-
ilege of voting from every man who has
ever offered or taken a brIbe at elections.
People going to Europe should OBJ
tain passports, or they may be compelled
TO pass ports without entering.
BY private adviees from Canada. We
learn valuable gold deposits have been
discovered in Meadoc township, Belle
vile river, and there is great excite.
ment in consequence. Oil springs are
alta stand still, and there being no de-
mand oil IS held at twenty cents per gal.
Ion. The writer says the Fenian war is
carried on only by newspapers. No
local excitement about il.
"A crazy second adventist in Herki-
mer county, N. Y, has RI ten years been
feeding a big OK for a feast when Christ
should appear. He has starved his other
stock and spent nearly all his property
IN purchasing food for that OK. The OK
a few days since died of a surfeit. the
owner having but two days before re-
fused $1,000 for the animal. {
The Massachusetts general hosp;tal !
at Boston received last year 1924 pa !
uents, and the rate of mortality among
them was 81 per cent. The income Of
the hospital for the year was e1sOq35
and the expenditures 1884 O2. The =
corporation debt, SIS, 1863, has been paid. '
ana the total assets, exclusive of build 0
-ngs, S426, 1856. b
"A New York clergyman recently. in =
course OF a sermon bewailing the a
'oldness Of his flock in religious matters. t.
aid that the kind Of conversion most e
ought after by church members of late :,
I'D been the conversion of seven p
hirties. CT
The Hartford gold mining company. q
mine is near Lyman, N. H, have h,
OF out 1900 tons of quartz which assavs Fl
rom 500 to $500 per ton, and are ts pr
ut up a mill and machinery to-crush II. "
The most %scandalous stories are cir a
niating in the Vermont papers respect OF
the Brattleboro lodge of Good Tenn m
lars. 1t is said that "their orgies Oh f ~
leir late visit to Bellows Falls exceeded W,
l prurient eonviviality the ~carousals of M
Broadway concert saloon, or a city ilo
ance-house.U OF
couple were seeentIy married in in
aginaw city, Michigan, who had never Al
each other until the day they were Lat
srried, having lone their counting bv sot
all. n
Twelve churches, of various denom- puI
atoms, are being built in Washington WI
the present time. The corner stone of my
catholic cathedral was laid on the I7tb ola
dye
10000 freedmen have returned wa
from Northern Texas. the sin,
vs. and public sentiment being more
'orable to them in Louisiana. F
Temperance is reviving in South Irai
stern Georgia. An association has "A
N formed in ThsmasviIle, has electad kin.
GERS, and obtained many signatures an i
he pledge. at v
The Atlanta Ns,, H. talk
-kmen have nearly completed the and
,tion of the granite front of the new Whit
sonic temple. When completed the hapI
.hren will have the handsomest build. ILL y
in the city. w
The city council Of Rome has sppro- Lola
ted fifty dollars for the purpose Of eoqn
splantlng shade trees in the new that
late cemetery. This example is least
-hy of being followed in other cities Pr
NAAAG8s --
The California state capitol, which surpr
to be granite, is costing so much that az
IL be finished with brick. must
Astor, Stuart, and all the large real There
e u have increased the renfaIs a lagl
property for the present e a at
'rominent stock feeders and shin reptile
Of Central Illinois have resolved h est hi
fish s~toek-yards at Springfield. dRe l. 2
e stock of all kinds can find sulta- The
feed, and water. The object is The
e stock men an opportunity to con- showe
N some degree the stock market =
eastern ~spsculators. sultan.
he present population of Utah ia "Th
ated at $4,000. According to the tears II
OF 1860 the population was, males. WIZ 4
4; females, 1891; total, 40.I25. am.n
Ia, males, 6lo2 females, no. To "An
It extent, the relative proportion pause,
has Deeh maln- dagger
Tend
skins income is about SIl3, 900. Of
he spends about $500 for bis own AT
u devotes the rest to charity lnsf., &c
le promotion of art. His model ness, an
g-houses are said to De the most says IL
full ever established in London. muchly
never himself seen them. being vegetsb
ined avoider of all ~unlovely "A c
the cirel
ere are one hundred and forty- the Tim
grandees in Spain, of whom 1000. c
mine are first chop or dukes. taken b,
3ne-half the whole number wash lation o
decently. grastlv ,