Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-01

the question of fishing by steam
-Buenos Ayres has wool clip Of 100,
100000 pounds this yesr.
Cotton picking viii commence il
Arkansas next week-prospects fine.
There are fifty thousand licensed
cyprians in the city OF Paris, and nearly
as many more lorettes.
The great prize fight yesterday wa
witnessed by three thousand persons
and McCOole declared the victor aftel
thlrty-four rounds, fought in twenty-five
minutes. Jones was badly punished.
H. AlcOrn announces a series Of ap-
pointments for the entire month Of Sep
tember, in favor Of congressional recon
stTuctiOn.
Hon. Garrett Davis, OF Kentucky, is
making five-hour speeches in southern
Ohio.
-Four nesroes were hanged on Friday
/ in Mobile, three of them for the horrible
Dog river outrage.
Large numbers Of cattle are dying
from the effecss Of the heat and dust on
the northern plains.
Immense herds of buffalo are seen
near Fort Kearney, going south. Indians
are following them, and trouble Is ex-
pected.
A piece Of cloth saturated with car
bOlic acid and hung upon liberty pole
in New Jersey, is said to have killed all
the mosquitoes in that State.
Our government has sent dispatches
to our ministers in Mexico, to urge Ju-
arez to deal gently with Santa Anna.
While the solid and stable old con-
soils are yielding little, o. s. 5-20's are
advancing in Europe.
Mr.. Seward, it is said, earns to re-
tire to the shades of AuburIs His friends
say he will leave the cabinG shout the
18th of September.
"A wealthy citizen OF Berlin proposes
to erect statue to Sir Francis Drake,
the famous English admiral, who intro
duced the potato into Europe.
New York has Just finished hearse
for the morgne which is to go by steam,
plying on the rivers by which the island
is surrounded.
Marshall, known by his portrait Of
Lincoln, is now engaged in engraving q
likeness of Gen. Grant.
The Paris newspapers have it that
their city is to be surrounded by a mag
nificent garden, about thirty-five miles
long.
Six daily newspapers have been
starved out in Nebraska this year.
An order has been issued directing
the late King Sickles to report to the
sdjutant-generol at New York.
Considerable excitement prevails in
Canada over the elections. Riots have
occurred IN Montreal.
The new postal treaty with England
goes into operation on the lst of October.
The republican state convention will
be held at Syracuse, y. Y, on September
25th.
The indianapolis Bulletin of the 23d
speaks Of the weather having moderated
and that it is now quite pleasant at
niDety-six in the shade. What a ssls-
manderl
The president has directed that Pc
ninsuIar island, in San Francisco bay, be
reserved for military purposes.
The Concord ScteSmdn, the leading
radical journal in New Hampshire, is out
in favor Of taxing all government bonds.
-On a fishing excursion the other day
Mr.. George Dawson, of the Albany even
ing journal, Drew in shark seven feet
long.
The city council Of New Orleans has
new school directors, twenty
four of whom are negroes.
An Office Of the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western railroad was entered
night, the safe blown open,
and 1880 carried off.
The result of registration in North
Carolina shows that two blacks have
to one white.
The fifth national horse show COM
meneed Tuesday at Springfield, Mass,
under most favorable auspices.
In Rapides parish, La, not over
two thousand bales of cotton will be
gathered from twenty thousand acres
planted.
Shoals Of hump backed whales have
been recently seen at the entrance of
Panama bay, near the lsthmus, and
several have been captured.
Accounts respecting crops in Ireland,
from every part of the country, are if the
highest degree favorable.
-Universalism is about one hundred
years old in America, and it is proposed /
to celebrate its centenary 1870, a century |
from the landing of John Murray, their |
first preacher.
The Aberdeen Miss Examiner says |
the amount of long feed saved in Monroe |
county this year will be sufficient to fatten |
4 hundred thousand head of cattle. |
Cotton picking has already commenced. |
-Four cargoes Of 1852 coolies arrived |
At Havana in a single week last month. |
Of u, ,462 coolies shipped for ,Hsvana !
rom February I'd to June 30th, 800 died |
At sea.
The sales of wool il Boston during |
the past week have been the largest OF |
the season. About 1850, 900 pounds OF |
domestic have changed hands at forty to 1
,ixty cents per pound for supertine and |
extra pulled.
Six months ago Boston house sent !
1ut a cargo OF five hundred hOopskirts to |
Japan as q venture. The Jsps put a /
,Over on them and used them for UNI |
lreIlas.
Jasper is now procured to almost any |
required extent at st. Garvais, in Savoy, |
where the quarry has q surface Of at |
east %, 900 square yards and depth of /
about twenty-five yards.
-Sergesnts Sullivan, Morgan and /
Simmons, who were engaged in the de-
jtruction of Coffee's ranch, near our |
western forts, some time since, were SEN
enced by courtmartial to fifteen years /
Imprisonment in the Iowa penitentiary. !
There is again q very bitter feeling
developing itself against the Pennsylva-
liza railroad at Pittsburg, and no man
IAN be elected to an Office who is sus-
)eoted of being implicated in any way
With that monomoly.
1t is intimated that the president de-
igns appointing Gen. Rousseau to the
department of Washington, vice Candy,
who relieves Sickles. ROusseaa's pro-
onged absence from his command gives
,OlOr to the rumOr.