Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-11

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| There was snow In Chicago on the
6th inst.
| Precious stones are being found in
great abundance In Georgia.
"A company, with 100000, is pro-
posing to organize coffee plantation in
Florida.
The Belgian queen has undertaken
to provide cheap Kitchens for the work
ing classes.
1t costs a dominic, 1886 in geld, to go
from Keokuk, Iowa, to Jerusalem in the
Holy Land.
Manufactures Of potteryware and
paper have been established at Golden
City, Colorado.
Florence offers prize Of 5000 francs
for a treatise on the best system Of edu-
cation.
Over one hundred thousand pc. sOns
participated in the reform demonstra-
tions at LonAon. No disorderly conduct
resulted.
Reported harsh treatment Of the pc
HtieaI prisoners at the Dry TOrtugas is
said to be untrue.
"A majority of the inhabitants Of
Vancouver's Island prefer annexation
to the United States.
Geo. A. Trenholm, Mr.. Welsman, his
partner, and Col. Weatherby, all Of
Charleston, have been examined on i'm"
peaehments
The children of Mr.. Harness, at
Deer creek, Indiana, were fatally in
iured by the accidental discharge of a
gun, left in the barn TO shoot rats with.
"A model of steam vessel has been
made by Pierre Laeroix, of Montreal,
who promises aospeed Of forty-fve to
sixty miles an hour.
"A lightning conductor, on the light
house at Fecamp, proved useless against
thunder-stroke, in consequence Of
being terminated in a cistern Of water,
lined with Portland cement.
The First national bank of New
York, the oldest ia the country, has de-
cIared its eighth semi-annual ten per
cent. dividend, and has accumulated a
surplus Of $500, 600 from its profits in four
years.
Sharp, but INSCRIPTIONS yankees are
defrauding the freedmen in GeOgia, by
selling them bogus land warrants.
Neal Dow is working hard for pro-
hibitory law in England, but the pros
poets are not fiattering.
Miss Agatha States, the American
prima donna, appeared at the Italiens,
Paris, on the 18th instant, in Columella,
an opera by Floravanti, never before
performed there.
Brooklyn has increased in population
from 1892 in 1880 to over 300, 900 at
present. This ratio Of increase is greater
than in New York.
Fountains FOR dogs in the public
streets are proposed by the New York
society for the prevention Of cruelty to
animals. Plenty of clean fresh water is
an antidote for canine rabies.
A new Arctic expedition has been
! fitted out at private expense, and was to
have left Copenhagen on the Sth.
In Connecticut haunted house story
has been exploded by the discovery Of a
/ child's whistle used to fasten a rattling
window, and which on windy nights
made some funny noises.
-Twenty-six colored persons were ar
rested in New Orleans as vagrants one
day last week. They were all registered
voters.
Minister Bigelow, while at Paris, got
hold of the autograph copy Of Franklin's
autobiography, and of capital original
portrait of him.
AT a recent wedding party in Mis-
souri,, the groom failed to be on time,
and a nice young man present offered
himself and was married on the spot.
Wine made from the Sumac, by one
Rev. f. P. Holland, Is said to be unsur-
passed as tonic.
"A man from Wisconsin, riding with
his head out Of car window, lost his
right ear by colliding with car on
side track.
"A newspaper correspondent says that
Chicago employs 1000 rade-drumUers,
Boston 5000 and New York 5000. Other
cities are supposed to make up round
10000. Thirty years ago the system was
unknown.
Prof. Brenngiesser, of Berlin, has,
by feeding poultry on certain prepara-
tions, succeeded in making hens lay
eggs, the shells of which are of any re-
auired thickness, and 30 strongly i'm
pregnated with iron as to seem as If east
from that metal. A number are exhib-
iting at the Paris exposition.
The columns of the northern papers
sre CORY with accounts of murders COM
mitted there, and disgustingly repulsive
in their daily record Of crimes and out
RACES of every grade and character.
In Chicago the railway companies
and manufacturers have decided to pay
men by the hour, which is cruel blow
to the eight hour system.
Cat soup is a recent addition to the
French cuisine, and will be palatable
enough with Chinese visitors TO the ex'
position. A recent victim says it would
be quite as good as rabbit-if the real
material is not known.
"A young lady to-day was recently
captured in Cincinnati with $500 worth
of dry goods under her crinoline, which
she had stolen. On account Of the re-
spectability of her family, the store
keeper refused to prosecute.
"A Vermont lady has collected s
string of one thousand gold beads in ful
flment of the dying request of rela
: tive.
The New Orleans board Of under
writers have appropriated two Thousand
dollars for the relief Of the country par
. ishes of Louisiana.
Mr.. John Saxton, senior editor o
the Canton (Ohio) Repository, who i
now in his seventy-fifth year, set typ
on the presidents message recently from
eight O'Clock until midnight, in thai
time setting $500 ems. The old veteran
! has published his paper continuously fol
: the period Of nearly forty-twO years
/. He has helped to produce every issue o
the paper from the time it was starte'
in 1914, till the present moment
! -Ninety-three million four hundre'
and eighteen thousand nine hundre'
and forty-seven dollars were deposited il
New York city savings banks last year
. an increase Of ten millions on the previ
j Gus year.
"A twenty-inch gun, the one las
!, finished at the Fort Pitt works, Pitts
burg, was tested on Tuesday, at to-
proving ground" in the vicinity o
Wallis station, on the Pennsylvania
; railroad. The test consisted of min
5 rounds, and was considered entirely sat
) isfactory. The charges consisted Of sixty
] eighty and one hundred pounds OF pow
der, with balls weighing one thousan'
d pounds each. 1t is estimated that tn
balls penetrated the earth In the hill-sid
a distance Of two hundred feet.
"A new Catholic church, dedicated b
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