Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-24
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The business OF shipping pure-blood sheep
from Vermont to the west ID very brisk just
now.
"A steamer is on The stocks in Sandusky,
Ohio, in which the boiler was first placed and
the vessel built around It.
The revenue tax on watches has, we see it
stated, been repealed.
Cricket matches " on ice" are being played
in England.
The composer, Verdi, has lost his father.
who died recently at Brussels.
"A bill has been introduced into he gov
ernor generals council 10 legaIize horse-racing
in India.
Baron Rothsehild has given E4OOo toward
the erection Of a synagogue at the west end,
London.
Good board in hrst-elsss houses. fashion,
able, with rooms, I'm Florence, may be had for
twelve dollars per week.
Italy is producing a fine quality Of pete
lium.
A New York paper advocates the eating of
horSes.
A duke in England is entitled to six chap
lains' a marquis to Eve, a viseount to four, and
a baron to three.
Bears flesh is now sold in Paris as an article
OF diet at one franc twenty-five confines per
pound.
Flour is selling for six dollars 3 barrel in
San Francisco.
Charleston has its new steam line to Liver
pool in successful operation.
1t costs S2fI,775 a year to feed 5000 Nayajos
Indians, at Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
At present there is not a single merchant
ship or steamer in course OF construction at
any Of the New York, Brooklyn or Jersey
City ship-yards.
Some men engaged IN blasting in South
Lynnborough, n. H., last week, found in a
cavity in the solid rock, a green snake hneerf
inches long. The snake was dead, but perfect
in form and color.
-MacoJ, Ca. has had an Infant earth
quake" causing considerable alarm to children
and freedmen
Cinnamon are TO be imported to work on
the Central Pacific railroad.
In 1856 Mr.. Peabody was worth fifty mill
lions, and now his fortune exceeds eighty mil
lions.
"A great Fenian congress is advertised to
meet At Utica, N. Y, on tbs 18th inst.
Tobacco wagons from the country begin 10
block up the streets OF Richmond, Lynchburc
and other Virginia cities. The crop is quite
large.
The fros. is said TO have made sad havoc
among the birds on the Scotch moor. Thous-
ands OF them have died from starvation.
There will be accommodations on the Great
Eastern for 80 passengers, when running be-
tween New York and Havre.
Amongst the novelties promised during the
continuance of the Paris exhibition is a swim
ming match across the channel.
The New York Herald styles the tarin
abomination bill that has just passed the SEN
ate, a bill to blockade American ports.
During the year le6s,St Adams, VT, shipped
TO market 2i6l7,ls5 pounds OF butter, and Ss2,-
49j pounds Of cheese.
1t Is stated that the LOchiel iron company.
OF Harrisburg, has contracted to furnish three
thousand tons OF railroad iron for a southern
railroad.
-Fortune-tellers and fitting hoops operate
differently. The former reveal what the lady
will be in the future; the latter reveal what
she is at present.
Newark stands third on the list as a manu-
featuring city in The United States.
The Lynchburg tobacco Histories are begin
ming operations and all viii soon be at work.
1t is reported. that List, the musician, is
coming to America, under a contract with M.
Bateman.
The air we breathe contains five grains
Of wafer to each cubic foot OF it's bulk.
The earth has I,O0O,O0O.OO0 Inhabitants OF
whom S,sSa3a die every year.
Europe holds s6c0,O0J,OJO OTU. s.. government
and other American securities.
The snow storms in New OrleanS ncs 1900
can be counted on ones fingers. The first was I'm
the first year OF the century the next in 1917;
the third five years later another IN 1851: and
the last in 1862.
Forty thousand tons OF ice will be cut on
The Kennebec river this winter for shipment.
The total number Of national banks estsb-
HuNAI - H. a. Hmz
been and are being liquidaiej.
Elder VIM. Butts and his wife. each AGED
ninety, died recently in Middleharg, ", and, |
after their long journey together, slept in one
coffin.
Congress proposes taxing manufactures
hemp nifty dollars per tun, as the way Of Great
ing inteTestin a rope factory.
A Maine man sold his wife. for fen dollars.
and is regarded as an Y husband.
The LOudon college OF physicians has ar
rived at The conclusion that tie belief that Iep-
rosy is, urder any circumstances, either conta-
gious or infectious is entirely without fouuda-
ton.
1t is reported by the authorities Of the
Louvre that that institution contains 2OOl pic
lures; OF which u are attributed to Raffaelle
S to Correggio, IS to Titan, 10 to Paul Veronese
a 10 Rubens. y to vandyck, II to Rembrandt
II to e.. Dow, II to Murllo, & to YslaSquez, 1 to
Vatican, 4 10 Poussin, 10 to Claude and Al to j,
Vernel.
Young Aortara, whose abduction some
years bacK caused such excitement in Europe,
has just entered the church Of ST, Peters al
ROM, as q novice, before Joining the order OF
regular canons ofSt. Jean de Latran, at Rome.
He is now fifteen years old.
The English government hesitates about
calling cut the Irish militia at annual training.
through fear ofmtHtious designs.
Vienna is the only city Ia the world where
the snow is removed as fast as il falls, but at an
enormous expense. All the men out OF work
are set 10 sweep the streets, at sixty kreutzers
about twenty-five cent? a day.
Mount Hood, in Oregon, is found by recent
measurements, to be the highest mountain in
North Am rica, the top being 1850 feet above
the level Of The sea.
Salt lakes and pondS are said to exist in Da
eOtah territory in great numbers, and when
worked will prove q source OF much wealth.,
salt can be made at but small expense, and the
land necessary for the eVapOrating watts can be
4ad for amere trihe.
In Iowa the Germans have united with the
democracy and inaugursled a peoples move
ment," with a platform eOndemning New Eng
land legislation, productive tariffs, unequaIed
Mr.. Youatt, a famous veterinary surgeon.
whohAs been bitten eight or ten times by rabid
ANIMALS, relates shat crystals Of nitrate silver
7sbJ,d into the wound will positively prevent
hydrOphobia In the bitten. True or not, il is =
easily tried, and is not dangerous.
"A torpedo, OF a magnetic character, that ,
would be drawn to the bottom Of any iron yes .
sci that was passing, is talked OF II would he a
very attractive arrangement. ,
In Georgia, out Of the negro population, one I
ont OF every sixteen, is a nulstto. In the
north, fifteen out OF every twenty are mulatto.
-~Ayankee has cleared his house OF rats, by
one and dipping him in red paint. !,
He then let him loose. and the other rats not =
liking his looks, left Immediately. :
The Cleveland (Ohio) Leader, in speaking ).
Of the danger TO passers by from the falling OF :
he iclcles from the caves OF the buildings :
says: " The danger can be avoided by having n
an eye out" The remedy is as bad cas- the :,
disease, and worse. =
An Albany letter says there are n ow in New I
York, under the control OF the Fenians. 5000 :
breach loading rides, and 10000 equip- -
nents, 10000 600 rounds OF ammunition. and
O.OO) complete uniforms. The amount raised a
md placed IN the hands OF O'Nahony, Stephens =
Ce., was sSl2ye0l. The amount OF money upon q
which Roberts started his raid upon Canada q
vas $4,000. Il
a meerschaum pipe manufactured in this o.
and designed for the Paris exhibition. q
: now to be seen in New York. The pipe itself "
s eleven inches in length, and the amber n
eight inches long and two inches h
hick. The carving on the trunk OF the pipe "
the meeting OF Macbeth and Banquo ce
tn the witches, on their way TO the battle al
cid. surmountlng the bowl Shakespeare is b.
,,,asantad sealed In a chair. looking down IL