Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-12-10

Cincinnati is to have an art gallery.
The receipts of customs for the
week ending, November so, were s ,Q0S,-
654.
The mususm Of the Conservative,
Paris, has purchased the flute of Fred
erick the Great.
One clergymen in Boston took $500
10 marriage fees during two days of last
week.
mo more niger policemen ~ was
the eTqltant cry Of thenewsbOys, atNew
Orleans, Thursdly night.
DR.. Oliver, Of Scotland, lectured last
week at Lynchburg, Virginia, on lin
migration.n
There have heretofore been no gold
coin in Paraguay.
Silk velvet walking-dresses for ladies
are becoming very fashionable in New
York.
-One-third Of the sugar crop con-
sumed by the civilized world is now
made from the beet.
The Kansas river is now lower than
ever known since the country has been
settled by the whites.
"A mountain Of marble has been dis
covered in Fsuquier, Virginia.
The Penobscot river closes earlier
this season han it has for fifty years.
The Telegraph considers it now safe
for a~bsentees 70 return to Houston.
The Austin Daily Gazette has sus-
pended for lack of support.
The first newspaper in Virginia was
printed in 1850, st $50 per annum.
The Fort Smith Herald persistently
advi=es farmers to SOW wheat in the
place Of cotton, which latter, it a
u will not pay"
Half Of the dress circle at Galveston
theater, Texas, is reserved for freedmen,
in consequence perfumery is at q pre-
MUM.
g. Francis Train has contracted for
an immense hotel az Cheyenne.
1t has been ascertained that beets
raised in California have two per cent
more sugar than those Of Europe.
The New Orleans Tribune, conducted
By colOred men, has been appointed the
official paper OF the Louisiana Co1fyen-
ton.
"A Havana dispatch says that a sure
remedy for yellow fever and black vomic
has been discovered In q piece of female
verbena leaf.
Immigrants are pouring into the
eastern part Of Texas. 81
DR.. LSine and Mr.. Duguet, of Que
bee, nave discovered a new process for
purifying magnetic iron ore.
Francis Joseph has made the Empe-
rOr Napoleon Colonel of an Austrian
regiment. At present the Colonel is
4" on leave"
-Philadelphis now has seven Presby-
terrain churches without pastors.
Immense beds Of gypsum abound
through the central belt of Michigan.
. Tine Michigan ladies have got up a
secret society, which they call the Order
OF the Sacred Temple"
The New York Herald, speaking OF
Jefferson Davis, says: His capture was
/ one OF the bluDders Of the war"
Chicago is frantic on the subject OF
ventilation, and her sehooLhouses are to
be heated by indirect radiation instead OF
steam.
By the terms Of settlement with the
exploded firm Of Frazer, Trenholm &
? ca, the Treasury Department receives
four or five ships Of war and e2o. OOO
worth Of cotton.
= An organization OF Southern ladies
In reduced circumstances has been formed
. at Houston, to do sewing, aud has under
D taken several large contracts.
The well for supplying water TO the
T locomotives at Cheyenne has been dug
e to adepth Of seventy feet without striking
q free flowing vein Of water.
Large deposits Of valuable phOsphates
Z superior to guano have been discovered
I on the Ashley river neal Charleston, S.
@. They consist OF animal remains,
. The French government has lately
given an order for the manufacture, al
Eskilstuna, in Sweden, of 60, 600 sword
~bsyonets, to be delivered at the n Of
March, 1868.
The recent prairie fires which have
: ragged at the Northwest, We're probably
/ caused by locomotive sparks.
The first schOoihOuse was created al
Cheyenne, ID. T., on the Both ult. IT will
accommodate l25 scholars.
: There is a cstaract In the interior OF
! Labrador half as high again as Eiagara.
r II is on the Northwest river, ard but
1 three white men have ever seen it.
1 Mrs. Mary Gray, Of areenHp eugnty,
! Ky, lie lis years old. Her age was
proven in court.
, The water Of the Gulf, at the mouth
! Of the Rio Grande, rose during the late
I hurricane, eight feet, and swept over the
land nineteen miles inland.
The main building OF the Globe
/. Print Works, at Fall River, Massachu-
sets, was destroyed 10y the explosion OF q
boiler, on the morning of the 9Th inst.
Three other boilers exploded Ia quick
SUCCESSION. Six printing machines and
a large quantity Of unfinished print
goods were destroyed. 4 fireman had
several ribs broken and q woman had
her skull fractured.