Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-01
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL
MEMPHIS.


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SATURDAY, JUNE 1. iss
BREvITEEs.
3 Poor MaximilEaR's experiment cos
d 500, ,O0O, ,0o0, and probably his life.
Wonderful to relate, the Sultan n
Turkey il to visit Paris
The summers in Russian Americ,
{ last about twenty minutes.
The applications for divorce in Chi
csgo average four per day.
"A temperance convention for the
state Of Maryland iscalled to meet IL
Baltimore.
; -Aman has died in New York from
70 hydroPhobia, although before his death
. he did not remem Der to have been bitten.
: Thomas Austin, of NorthfieId. NJ
H., died on Sunday, aged one hundred
! years and nine months.
Last week, In Cincinnati. q lady over
sixty-two years Of age gave birth to trip
lets.
Some freedmen in MONTGOMERY.
Ala, have organized debating society.
"A spring Of clear, cold, aud spark
ling water suddenly burst up in one G
the streets of Patterson, n. J., last Satui2
day
Mr.. Benge, OF Miami county, Ind,
recently shot large lynx in the door
. yard Of Mr.. Jackson, playing around like
a kitten, and apparently enjoying itself
heartily.
The strawberry season is nearly over
in Charleston, but blackberries are abun-
dant and cheap. Wheat will be ripe in
a month, corn is five or six inches high,
and potatoes Rre in full bloom.
The attorney-general has given de-
cisiOn in regard to the effect of Dresi-
dental pardon that is likely TO result in
s considerable depletion Of the treasury.
DR.. Dabney, author Of StOnewaIl
Jaekson's biography, ceDsures Gen.
Joseph Z. SOhnstOn's denial OF the prac-
tieabiifty Of going TO Washington, after
the battle of Manassas, in q aseven-column
newspaper article, full of testimony from
subordinate officers, and ends by saying:
"Al can say is, that have heard him
say what have stated"
/ "A planter in Leon county, Texas, has
been forced by the military to support
the families Of some negroes that were
killed on his place.
James Ferguson, of Benhsm, Texas,
wishing to commit suicide, recently went
into graveyard and cut his throat.
A guard in charge of two prisoners,
undergoing some punishment at Lynch
burg, Va, one day last week, deserted
with the prisoners, leaving his gun and
sccoutrements.
Gen. Gillem, one of the negro bureau
| gentry, reports from Mississippi that
"there is very little change in the mar
I riage relations OF the freedmen They
still continue to 's take up together as
before the war.
The French emperor has commits
! stoned several naval officers and hy-
drOgraphers to proceed TO various points
Of the globe in order to determine a eer-
tain number of fundamental meridians
which will serve to fix the geographical
I position Of intervening points.
Nearly One-haif the members of the
Connecticut legislature, or l04, are farm
ers, and all but twenty-four are married. /
| The Oldest member is seventy-nine years
Of age. the youngest twenty-three. Gov. 1
English Is tfty-five years Of age.
AT Nassau, New Providence, one I
Sunday, recently, portion of a Baptist l
congregation were suddenly immersed /.
in the baptistery. the jOist and brick [
work flooring Of the front steps gave /
way, precipitating those above into the .
tank
Tie Uniyersalists of Vermont have
raised fifty thousand dollars for a uni |
versity at Barre, and the building is to .
be at once commenced.
Maine has IN operation at present 4
twelve railroads, extending an aggregate
distance OF 573 miles. The new roads
now building are ten iE pumber, and
viii run an aggregate distaneS OF ASS
miles.
The first Of July, it is said, is to be
the day on which TIE new dominion Of
Canada will go into operation, and it
will hereafter be a general day Of rejoic-
ing in the provinces.
No less than fifty-two churches have
been consecrated in LandOn d the past
four years, and this exclusive of all the
temporary iron churches which have
been erected.
Jas. Alexander, of Parkeville, lad,
is the father Of fourteen children, seven
boys and seven girls, thirteen Of whom
raised families and nine Of whom are
now living. He has one hundred and
thirty grandchildren, one hundred and
eight great grandchildren, and three
great great grandchildren. His posterity
in all numbers two hundred snd tfty-
five.
The Lynehburg ReiOs learns that on
the ] st of June the Adams express COM
pany will retire from the Virginia routes
and transfer them to the Southern ex-
press company.
The government life saving commits
sion has concluded its lsbOrs, after hav-
ing been in session thirty-nine days and
examined Ihree hundred and ffty-five
different devices. It is believed their
report will do much toward decreasing
the destruction Of life at sea.
The annual meeting Of the board of
delegates OF American Isrselites will
take place at Philadelphia ReEt week.
The sessions will commence Sc the
~. e \ efv. ~ r
gOgue on Monday, May 9th, at 3 pm.
Pixies New York opera house is
nearly completed. The stage is eighty
two feet wide, seventy-six feet deep and
feet high. 1t will eeat 2500 ,
persons, and its cost is estimated kt | ,
round million of dollars.
A Frenchman has invented q gun
which is to be fired by electricity. Two ,
electric batteries are inclOsed in the !
stock, the conducting wires from which !
at the surface near the breech. r
BY a simple arrangement they can be /
at pleasure with BiSntinum I
wire inclosed within the charge which Is )
guited.
-" Blaekbird of Song, u is the term sp- !
Piled by the London Fra to Blind Tom, :
who is again performing at st. James /
hall His powers of musical imitation 4
are pronounced superhuman." !
"A curious strike has occurred in an !
English mine-the boys striking against :
The men. A fine had been imposed on !
several of the lads for breaking lamps,
which they deemed unjust. The rest Of
he boys, forty in number, made COM )
non cause with their comrades, and re- !
used to 90 down the pit unless tbe fines =
we're remitted. The result was that the !
working Of the pit had to be suspended. !
The men who had gone down were OBJ 4
iged to return, and some four hundred I
miners are in consequence thrown cut OF \
work. :
A tin" wedding was observed sf-
.er an unusual manner, in Vermont, the
,tber day. The wife elOped with young
elbow, taking with her all the " tin" her I
husband had saved in ten years. The '
discovery of her absence of course closed
he festival. I
Such has been the influx of invalids
nto Florida that hotels cannot be built =
and enlarged fast enough 60 aecommo- =
late them.
"A Boston locksmith has furnished o
hree hundred and forty duplicate keys Q
% one club room established to check g
nate the state cOnstables.
The patron of a cheap boarding II
house. when accused of carrying off the
pillows of his bed, said he had by aeci- $
lent put them inte his ears for Wads OF =
'otton.
The MunciO 1nd.) Guardian tells q Q
tory of reputed millionaire who set all Z
he susceptible girls Of that city crazy, q
Iirted and promised to marry q score Of =
hem, finally got drunk, got in jail, and j.
vas only released by contribution from e
lis lady friends. 4
Railroad men in California have de- o
ided TO cover the cuts in the mountains y
o prevent their being filed up with .
nov in winter A very strong species L
4 roof must be devised.
A radical organ advises that con- e
-ress forbid the Alabama legislature to Z
all new county Dixie" y
China has population Of 400, 100000 y