Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-26
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL
MEMPHIS:


M Z M Pills:
FRIDAY, 3. 80: JULY IS, 1856
BRRVITIEs.
Nearly 10000 emigrants have ar
rived in New York since January 1st.
There is said 10 be q project for 8
; line Of steamers between ST. Paul AM
e New Orleans.
: Bonner is said 10 make people fee
quite easy in his awful presence.
> A large number Of West Indians
: are coming to New York for the summer
! season.
A Louisville exchange of Tuesday
says: Yesterday was almost too warm
to live, and not quite cool enough TO die.
p Everybody in town seemed miserable.
Some radical Cubsns celebrated the
execution Of Macmillan by dinner.
Toasts 10 the Monroe doctrine were drank.
Somebody having compared Prem
tice to polar bear, Prentice remarks
that lie must then be big thing on ice.
The sultan Of Turkey is only thirty
seven years old.
Statistics show that college iuates
are among the slowest to kick Il 1cket.
Chief Justice Chase and hig y are
at Saratoga Springs.
Horace Greeley declines the 1-lstrian
mission.
Lieut.. Gen. Sherman and family are
at Madison, Wis,
Over two hundred horses and
ffty-nine asses were killed and eaten in
Paris in March.
The public debt of Mexico amounts
to about S95 00O, 900, Of which $4,000 900
are due to Englishmen.
The Boston P0stsays that the factory
operatives in New Bedford were never so
continuously and disgraceiully drunk as
Foreign poultry is fed Oh meat from
diseased or worn out horses. It gives
the eggs q fine flavor and soi-diies the
meat Of the bird.
1t is said Gen. Thomas escaped the
command Of District N. 5, by telling
the president he should follow in the
footsteps Of Sheridan.
Work has been commenced on the
draw bridge to be built across the Wabash
at Vincennes.
The Russian Esquimaux were strsng-
ers and we took them in, also the
japanese commissioners.
The New Orleans Crescent says the
principal use Of Lafayette square appears
to be to air the rags OF the INDECENT idler;
and thinks it had better be used as
pound for vagrant cows.
A careful calculator finds that, on an
average, one person in every one hundred
and fifty is blind in one eye. The defect
is more common in low than in high
latitudes.
1t has transpired that Senator Doc
4 little is charged with the negotiations for
/ the purchase Of st. Thomas from Dem
marx.
Only one senator objected to Mr..
/ Greeley as minister to Austria, one Tip
/ ton of Nebraska, and for the sage reason
/ that he would consent to confirm no man
I who would go bail for Jefferson Davis.
I What an ass to be in the senate!
The once celebrated Julia Deans
New York engagement is said to be
failure. Actresses divorced from kind
husbands are not popular.
The Cretans are preparing squadron
Of fire ships for the destruction of the
Turkish fleet supporting the army Of
Omar PashaG
"A review Of the English volunteer
force by the sultan took place Saturday.
Twelve thousand men were present.
All the bills passed at the recent ses-
sion Of congress have become laws, ex-
eept that establishing equal rights in the
district.
1t is believed that the bill for the To-
cation of the Indian tribes on new res
ervation, passed at the recent session,
will effsctually put stop to the war
now in progress on the plains.
Ward II. Lamon, formerly Of Hill
nOis, and recently United States marshal
for the District Of Columbia, was nOmi-
mated as consul general at Havana, but
was rejected by the senate.
The ladies manned the engines at
fire in Ithaca, \. Y, and the fire gal
lantly retired.
The impeachment committee has
spent $50, 900 in procuring testimony,
which is just thirty thousand times its
worth.
Santa Annals gold epaulettes worth
one thousand dollars, were stolen on /
board the VirgiHis.
A new fractional currency of the de-
nomination Of fifteen cents will be issued /.
in a few days.
BY the late flood in the Mississippi, /
nearly forty thousand dOllara' worth Of
property was destroyed in Minnesota.
A pretty girl in Nashua is iary1ring
on temperance. The tOpers thsIa On INK .
she is better to take than her 90 rines .
--Sickles neither owns nor pa rent
for his fine residence in Cha. son. I.
" Government business " is the l.. .Hder-
bolt that crushes all objection from the
owner.
A farmers daughter, near Paris, sent /
the viceroy Of Egypt fat chicken as a .
present. The gallant old boy sent her a .
hundred franc note in return.
Judge Fisher, in the SuTratt case, .
tries it as if be was the prosecuting at .
tOrney, or rather as If Stanton and Holt .
were continually plucking st his gown.
The burning of the Cheyenne viii .
lage cost the Indians 500, 600, and the
United States $1,000, 900, 3 balance OF
S4, 800 600 in favor Of the Cheyennes.
Washington authorities say there is .
no truth in the report that negotiations [
are in progress for the annexation OF /
Sonora, or any other part Of Mexico to |
the United States.
-rhere is thunderinT big civil war .
raging in Thibet. The grand llama IS .
Strengthening almost as iudustriously as .
JuareZ, and a regular hammer" he /
seems to be.
The British consul and vice consul I
for Azore have been tried for misde
meanor and sentenced to one years i'm
prisonment each.
Mrs. Horace Greeley has been petit
tioning the New York Constitutional
convention in favor Of female suffrage.
-" Juarez is to erect a monument on .
the spot where Macmillan FELL" and .
should provide himself and followers,
each, with leather medal to commem-
crate the achievement.
The latest engineering novelty is a
projected railroad tunnel under the At
iaRtic ocean, between Europe and Amer
lea, to cost only 81 SOC, 600, 600.
In Canada there are seventy-three
gold mines, employing seven hundred
and eighty miners. The yield of gold
for the last three months is valued at
$3.50, ,055.
An armless negro in the Shenandoah
valley who writes an excellent "hand"
with his toes, loads and fires a pistol,
shoots accurately with. bow and arrow,
straps a razor, threads fine needle and
sews with it, etc.
"A regular line Of steamships is to be
established between Liverpool and Gal
weston, Texas, beginning the trips in Oc-
tOber next These vessels are expected
to do large trade in cotton carrying.
The Central street railroad, Of Louis
vile, has been leased for twenty years at
so, 900 per annum, with the refusal Of
the road at 100000
One John Flsgg, of Troy, n. H,
while on his death-bed few days since,
confessed that be murdered peuier IN
R0yalston, Mass, about thirty years ago.
Fiagg also criminated a man now living
in Royslston.
A poor old creature, who called her
self the queen OF England, has been ma
king a sensation at West Point by in-
specting everything and noting down
her observations with view of remod-
cling her own army.
The now famous phrase bottled up"
is to be found in Carlyle's Life Of Fred n
erick the Great. In volume 5, page DO,
the author says: " "Leuwald was just
finishing with the Swedes, and got them
all bottled up in Stralsund."
Jefferson Davis was present iglcOg.
at the Montreal Theater Royal recently,
at a representation for the benefit Of the
southern relief fund. He was enthusi-
cheered on being recognized,
and acknowledged the compliment by
bowing repeatedly.
"A large water spout was observed on
the Susquehana river, near Birmingham,
y. Y, few days since. It vas about
f,pautv- 4 We feet high and moved with a Z ,