Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-12-24

Opal weddings are the latest sensa-
tion, and come on the fortieth anniver-
sary. .
-Humbug Barnum has an Infant
female Esau.n
NAPOLEON III. aspires to be as cele-
F., srated a performer on the violin as Fred
eriok the 0TvsC wa tO7 his skill as 3
dutist.
San Francisco exported in October
$50, 900 sacks OF wheat, valued at II, 1885,
600.
AT New York chene and checked
VslYets are extensively used for walking
dresses.
-Ex-President Buchanan is not eK-
pected to live through the winter.
Towards Of six thousand bales Of
cotton were shipped frem Savannah,
ga. in one day last week.
The autograph Of Charles Y. sold in
/ New York on Thursdsy at SO 90.
Three hundred thousand people are
said to be starving in Sweden.
"A new and intense color q silk goods
known as the marygold color has Just
been brought out and will be very fash
ionabie.
An Indiana husband, last Wednes-
dsv. hung himself 70 get rad Of his wife,
succeeding to their mutual Satisfaction.
Some demented Democrats are
threatening to flank the Republicans by
! holding an early convention and noml-
/ mating Grant.
The roses and lilies are in full bloom,
sud the trees and grapes are green at New
Orleans, still.
Every gravel ia Trinity and SLPaul's
. churchyaTds, New York, is estimated to
Z be worth $1,000.
The Boston Post thinks Sumner
SHOULD have been appointed Chairman
/ ofthe Committee on Domestic Relations
Instead Of Foreign.
There are 10000 slaves in the POTtu-
/ .lese colonies, 100000 in Cuba, and
$500, 600 in Brazil. Less by 40O,0 00 in all
those countries united than were owned
in the Southern States before the emsn-
cipRtiOn.
Josh Billings says The best cure 1
know Of for tite boots is small feet.
Fall River, Mass, turns out over
eighty five thousand miles OF print cali
GOES yearly, or enough to girdle the earth
three times.
"A down East exchange says g
countryman in Portland, sitter eating
three dozen raw oysters, told the man 10
stop when he had opened ten cents
worth"
The New York papers revel In de-
soriptions of the s~lsigbing " carnival " in
that city and its snviroDs. What would
thew do without that word "~carnivaI?"
The New York World says that the
seizure of the New York wine manufac-
tories will put a stop to the making OF
bogus Heidsick, Meet ct Choudon and
! Green Seal.
Prentice SAYS il Forney is the instru-
meut with which the Republican party
does its work, then that party works
with its tail.
The French Blue Book informs US
that the converts Of France supply a very
large portion OF the hair sold in the
market-the tresse5 cut of when the
Eo-ics takes the veil being saved for sale,
A resolution wss offered in the Cana
dian House 8 few days ago, declaring
that ia the interest Of trade IL is expedi-
ent to enact that in the future American
silver coin be q legal tender at eighty
cents on the dollar.
Cattle driving through the densely
populated parts Of New York city, afirs
being stopped during the summer
months, has been resumed under the
sanction Of the Courts.
The New York Observer intimates
that Beecher's story is nothing more
than 8 boundless plain Of pretty residing,
interninsble passages, leading to moth
ing,
The Fenian matters in England con-
tinue to create the intensest excitement.
In London special police are sworn in,
the jails are guarded, and the habeds
corpus is to be suspended.
The President Is credited with saying
that if his special message should have
ths effect to place Hancock prominently
before the country O. . candidate for
President il would be satisfactory to him.
France has got another snubbing
from Belgium. 1t proposed a CONNER
cial treaty with that power, which re-
piled that it bad made q similar arrange
ment to the one proposed, with Prussia.
-Four States will hold their Demo
cratic State Conventions on the Sch of
January, viz Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska
and West Virginia, As the hrst general
movement connected with the next
Presidency, their action will be looked
for with great interest.
-Leavenworth, Kansas, says the Com.
D1ercidL has q population Of ~thirty.three
thousand, supports six daily newspapers,
some thirty churches, fifteen to twenty
schools, two theaters, and from five 10
ten gambling houses.
The farmers in a portion Of Iowa are
said % have over a hundred thousand
bushels Of surplus wheat stored away,
under the impression that higher prices
will rule during the winter and spring.
The Washington monument has
reached the hight Of one hundred and
seventy-four feet st a cost of two hun
dral and forty thousand dollars. I! is
proposed 70 fuftheT elevate it three hun
dred and seventy -aoir feet.
The New York World is rejecting
whether il shall strangle the Herald
on the 3lst proximo, by refusing it ad-
Mission 70 the New York Associated
P,tss. It says: III hennegt senior were
iSely to live long, or Rennett junior
we're not 80 young, We should have no
peace Of conscience in this life or the
next If we did not pull the bowstrins
and end the curse Of American Jour
4 nalism.m
The good folks Of Lee county, Va,
were terribly exercised by ths appear
anoe, n morning lest week, of what
they thought were three suns rising 81
once. The phenomenon, however, was
merely the result OF the solar refraction
upon the clouds, though some Of the
unenlightened country folks believed the
millennium wa A. hand,