Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-05

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ton to those from whose personal asso-
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4 NEWS OF THE DAY.
The president has issued an i'm
portant proclamation, which will be
found in our telegraphic column.
The receipts Of internal revenue for
I the past two months, are fifteen millions
less than fer the corresponding period
last year.
-On the twenty-seventh the first train
/ Of cars passed over the railroad across
Mount Cenis.
{ A Florida editor predicts that that
/ state will be the Italy of America. There
/ is a strong tide Of emigration in that di-
rection.
The frigate Colorado, Admiral Colds
4 borough, arrived at New York on the
7 18th from Europe.
A negro constable filed his oath Of
office in Nashville Tuesday.
/ The Memphis and Ohio railroad
having paid the state interest on its
/ bonds, will remain under the control Of
/ its own officers.
7 No less than nine surgeons in the
/ United States army have fallen victims
| to the yellow fever or cholera within the
/ past month.
"A few years ago there was no market
/ IN Virginia for sumac. This season as
much as $50, 600 viii be paid for the ar
/ ticle in Fredericksburg alone, and is
/ quoted at 81 50 to 81 S5 per cwt.
| The New Orleans Crescent says that
| a practical minded freedman living near
Fort Psrapet has constructed q pig-pen Of
/ the headboards from a soldiers cemetery
in that vicinity.
/ Late South American papers say that
a great battle on the Parana may be
! looked for at any moment.
The Union Pacific railroad COM
/ psny's artesian well at Julesburg has
/ reached depth of five hundred and fifty
/ two feet, and is going down at the rate OF
! thirty feet per day.
/ The official Gazette Of Stuttgart de-
| nies that a south German bund was dis
/ cussed or even broached at the late con-
| ference. What does it know about it?
Summit tunnel, Central Pacific
railroad, sixteen hundred and tifty-eight
| feet long, Is now open from the end
/ through solid granite, The track on the
eastern slope mountains is now being
} laid. -r- Ee
Iron ore, it is alleged, has been dis
covered near Mount Pleasant, in West
[ moreland county, Pa. The ore has been
/ tested, and is pronounced Of superior
! quality.
! The opium revenue of India for the
/ last six months exceeds the estimate by
/ $500, 900. In May, eighty-nine million
/ pounds of cotton, valued at g, 1861, 600,
/ was shipped at Bombay.
Gen. Pope declines to issue an order
Z 20 IF Lob nd
/ that the only orders he intends to issue
will be such as he considers necessary
/ for the execution Of the reconstruction
I acts.
A letter from Dry Tortugas says the
number Of prisoners there is forty-hve,
] mostly deserters. The cOnspirstors are
! all we'll Arnold is the clerk. Spangler
and Mudd are becoming skilled car
/ penteTs.
1t is learned from the French lega-
ton that the French government has
/ made no intercessiOn with the MeXicsns
on behalf Of the Austrian Emperor to
I secure the remains Of Macmillan.
1 There were 24l deaths from yellow
I fever in Galveston, last week, and 100
l deaths at Corpus Christi up TO the 18th
/ inst. About half the citizens are sick or
/ dead. Much distress prevails, and help
/ is needed.
1 George A. Trenholm, ex-Confsderste
! secretary of the treasury, has had an in
1 terYiew with Gen Grant in relation to
the military custody Of certain property
/ belonging to the firm Of Frazer, Tren-
/ holm & Co.
/ "A telegram from Sharon, Pa, states
that the bOiler-makers employed at the
roling-mill at that place were discharged
Saturday morning, and ordered to leave
| their homes, because they refused TO
work with imported Belgians.
! Prof. Hayden, in making his geo.
I logical survey, says that the portion of
4 Nebraska along the Missouri river, ex-
/ tending 200 miles back, is the richest
| agricultural section in the United States,
and the finest grazing country on the
continent.
A remarkable swimming match
took place in Lake Erie on Wednesday
] last, between John McGreen and Chas.
Kinney. The distance was four and a
half miles. Kinney gave out at the end
/ OF three miles, but McGreen made the
entire distance in two and half hours
without halt or rest.
The company who are authorized to
erect an experimental half mile Of ele-
vsted railway up Greenwich street, New
| YOrky have commenced near the Battery,
placing the foundation masonry for the
c0lgmus.
Spotted Tails Sioux, two thousand
! in number, have left their reservation on
1 the North Platte, Il is reported, with the
intention of taking part in the war.
They have hitherto been counted as
! friendly to the whites.
Gen. Sheridan reports to Gen.
I Grants headquarters that be has sp-
I proved the action Of Gen. Griffin in re-
| moving, on August 18th, three additional
! district judges in Texas, on the charges
of dislOyalty.
The entries st the Omaha land office
| for the month Of August amount to over
/ seventy-four thousand acres, of which
: eight hundred acres were for cash, the
balance homestead pre-emptiOns and col
! lege scrip.
Some Of the rules Of the Boston police
are rather disagreeable. One rule COM
! pels them to keep their coats buttoned up
| TO the throat in summer, and another
! forbids officers speaking with citizens.
"A telegram from Punta Rosa, of
/ August 9th, says the steamer Havana
commenced paying out the cable to Key
I West when it was discovered that two
men had died Of yellow fever, and the
question of cutting and buoying the cable
| and running 20 sea until the epidemic
| abated, was under consideration.
The republicans of Maryland have
decided not to vote on the new coustitu-
I ton, which is to be submitted to the
people on the 18th, and have prepared
! an address to congress, in which they
! state that said constitution is not repub-
| lican in form.
/ The Peruvian government is about to
/ annul its recent legislation against the
| SpaniaFds. They will now be allowed to
I remain in the country, but in case of
! their connection with any plot against
| the republic, they will be tried and pun
ished for high treason.
The Z d M. express train from New
! York, on the Erie road, was thrown from
| the track near Monroe, on Sunday night.
The locomotive was upset and the bag
gage and smoking cars smashed. For
I tunately but one person, Charles Stiles,
OF Elmira, was injured, and he not
seriously.
Inventors of popular toys get quick
! returns. The inventor of the common
street toy known as the returning
bsll,n is said to have realized Sl00, 600 !;
/ the always wound up toy +" realised
! $50, 600; the Inventor of the walking
doll,,' which was so fashionable few
years ago, made $4,000 by his patent.
I The " dancing Jim CrOwn toy, intro
dgced a few years ago, was invented by
an invalid boy, and won a fortune.
Five Spaniards were arrested in New
( York on Sunday, on the suppositiOn that
they are the parties who committed the
robbery of 500, 600 in Mexico. Detect
ives had been on their track for some
time. They were subsequently released,
an examination proving that the metal
found in their possession, supposed TO be
gold, was only copper.