Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-10

Dana, SpTague, Neal and Bryant, are
natives Of Massachusetts.
The streets of Paris are being paved
with an artificial stone made from sand,
cemented by coal tar, which sheds water
and yet is piiable.
-'The steamer China sailed from BOs-
ton Saturday for Liverpool with q hum
dred and eighty-iiye thousand dollars IN
specie.
The Greek blockade runner Acadia
has made her fourteenth voyage to Can
! dia, carrying men and munitions OF war
TO the rebels so called.
The pope is going to Paris in Au-
gust and Cardinal AntOnelh VIII accom-
pany him.
The CITY OF Washington is repre-
senfed as having been very quiet and or
deriy on the fourth.
-Rapresentative Judd, Of Illinois, has
been arrested for setting fire to a bunch
Of hrecrackers in 'front.' of Wizards ho-
tel. He was taken to police court and
fined two dollars.
Judge Underwood states that the
registration in Virginia is half completed,
and hat JOG, 900 have been enrolled.
A western paper proposes the estab-
Iishment Of an asylum for useless young
men.
The car sent a cable dispatch to
/ Mr.. Seward, asking for the intercessiOn
Of our government in favor Of Maxi
. milan.
/ 1t is now the fashion in Paris to stud,
/ ladies' dresses with landscapes and por-
traits.
A church is to be erected in London
. TO commemorate the abolition of slavery,
/ and to be at the same time memorial
/ Of President Lincoln.
Bishop Campbell Of the African
. Methodist Episcopal church, Philadel-
I phia, is speaking fer loyal reconstruction
/ in Arkansas.
The Russian empress gave S6O,UJO to
/ the wife Of the equerry whose horse re-
/ ceiysd the assassin BerezuOwski's bullet.
The London Star gives currency TO
/ a rum0r that " Mr.. James Gordon Ben
nett, Jr, Of the New York Herald, in
tends to bring out daily paper in Lon
+ don ere long.
The Charlottesville Chronicle recon-
meuds a conference Of i'll the cOpserva-
tiyas, to be held in Richmond on the
/ 2jth inst.
Sarah NJ. Sterling, the American
giantess, was married in san francisco
lu Thos. Fintoh, youth Of san Rafael.
She is seven feet high, and he IL four feet
eleven inches.
. -l44tALELdAlao AlDsaALlAu anu " EAt1 ~
man, OF the L. S. steamer Ossipee, had
/ been arrested in Valparaiso by an officer
/ OF the steamer ior intending TO fight
. duel
/ Napoleon and the sultan are re
ported 60 be distant cousins. The EN-
/ perors mother was a daughter OF jose
phine by her first husband, while the
sultan's grandmother was cousin to
! Josephine, having been captured by an
. Algerne cOrsair and sent TO the sergglIo
/ at COnstandnOpe.
/ A proposition was made In the Con-
necticut senate last Wednesday 20 place
/ a portrait o! Lincoln in the senate cham
/ Der, but the democrats, with the aid OF q
single republican, voted it down.
Josh Billings says " never bet any
/ stamps on the man who is always telling
/ what he would have did if he had been
there. l have noticed that this kind
/ never get there
/ There is q great gold plethora in
England, and the bank Of England has
! $50 600 600 coin on hand that there is no
/ call for, Notwithstanding the low rate OF
interest.
/ "A safe weighing over eight hundred
. pounds, and containing about S2uUo IN
money and valuable papers, Was stolen
out Of the store Of Daniel MaiOney, IN
/ Norfolk, Va.
/ New York democratic papers charge
that Readers % have been introduced
/ in the public schools of that city contain
/ iEg extracts from republican electioneer-
! ingspeeches, and demand an inves .iga-
+ ton of the matter.
/ In Boston, as a mother was nursing
! her infant at a fourth story window,
Z lately, Il sprang from her arms and was
/ dashed to death on the pavement below.
The ladies put paregOric IN the ice
I cream al a strawberry festival in Clncin-
matt to prevent Injurious effects. The
effects were not injurious, but ludicROus.
Paris as well as New York complains
/ of the downfall Of the legitimate drama.
I The theater of the future, thinks II. Sar-
cey, must provide fun, if not butiOOnery,
+ for its patrons.
A silver mine two miles above Smith
I land, on the Cumberland, yields three
/ hgndred and twenty ounces to the ton
! and increasing rapidly, there being sew
/ enty- three per cent Of lead.
A deplOrabie account is given Of the
I destltution in Wake county. North Caro-
/ lima. At least three hundred families
] have not four days supplies. Some had
no meat for weeks, no bread for days, or
/ -four for months and no sugar or coffee
| for years.
1t is reported that and Indian coun-
I ell will shortly be held on Powder river,
/ for the purpose of determining upon
/ measures for exterminating the whites.
| Twenty thousand warriors are expected
1 to be IN attendance.
Jack Banister, praising the hospital
/ ity of the Irish, after his return from one
/ Of his trips to the sister kingdom, was
| asked il he had been in Cork. mo"
replied the wit; " but ! saw great many
drawings OF IT,"
GLOUCESTER Mass people, who be-
lieve in taking something but have
bad their Boston supplies cut OF by the
constabulaTy, now have it shipped to
them in small kegs, concealed in larger
ones Of rice, flour and sich.
1t is stated that the Countess Guic-
cioli, Byr0n's Italian asstress, has in
press book on that poets She may
perhaps tell what Moore concealed when
he agreed to the burning of ByrOn's
papers.
A BON mot in Paris is that the bullet
Of tie Pole missed the czar but killed
the king of Prussia, alluding to the total
eclipse that monarch had sustained from
the attention being drawn from him to
he emperor Of Russia.
Horace Greeley says: al predict
/ tnAL Dllt CAAAu 10 n8in " ~ VIA WtAAA hA y
sbod across what is now the American
I faU 10 Goat island and back The
/ World thinks even this feat would ex-
/ rite less comment than Mr. GTeeleyis
I famous performance at Niagara in 1864
In Richmond, Va, the negroes and
military demonstrated their loyalty in
( accordance with the mayors prOclama-
tion. and one Of the courts did so by
| aJi0urning It's aession on receiving a
1 written order from Gen. S3ofield.
Thirty elm trees, twenty years old,
| have been successfully tranPlanted from
! tbe forest to the front Of Congress hall,
/ Saratoga, at a cost Of thlrty-iive dollars
each, to take The place OF the noble ones
4 destroyed by the IRE.
/ "A parish manufacturer Of Berlin,
has adopted a curious method OF adver-
Using his varnish at the Paris exposition.
He mas sent picture, brilliantly coated
with varnish, representing Napoleon III
and B,smark shaking hands. Under
ueatb is the following inscription, II
/ Freneh and German: This varnish
/ Issts longer than the English" The
/ double enfersdre has had great success.
! The enormous prices occasionally re-
slized in England at the sale Of rare
/ hooks were recently cast in the shade at
( An auction OF drawings, etchings and
engravings, where the finest known copy
of RembFSnUs Hundred Guilder Piece"
0Christ Healing the Sick, one Of the
or,lv eight impressions known to exist OF
! THIS picture in the first state OF the plate,
brought the absurd sum OF eleven hum
dred aud eighty pounds. L cost It's pre-
vious owner two hundred pounds, and
the person who sold it to him was pres
enl at the suction,