Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-11

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The London Times says the United
States will have to settle Mexico by force
of arms.
There are HOO miles of railroad
complete in Wisconsin, nearly all tribu-
tary to Milwaukee.
Since the 30th of April the Union
Pacific railroad has constructed forty
miles of track. During the time there
have been a number of stormy days in
which it was impossible to lay track.
Gen. SheridanCIas made a full report
to the war department giving his reasons
for the removal Of the officers at New
Orleans.
st. Louis has population of 205,-
900. On pleasant Sundays about 1900
Of the people attend church.
Connecticut has population of 540,-
600, against 460, l4S in 1850, and $40, 1872
in 1856, and an expected population of
$40, 600 in 1870.
-Splendidly executed counterfeit ten
dollar notes on the Third national bank
Of Philadelphia have made their appear
ance.
"A San Francisco banker, having
half q million dollars to send TO Canton,
bought a barque for less than the steam
ship demanded as freight on his treas
ure.
-Telegraphic advices to the Austrian
minister at Washington, believed reliR-
ble though unofficial, assert that Maxi
milan will be permitted to return to
/ Europe.
An experiment in rice planting is to
be tried in Maine-we suppose in hot
houses.
The English troops at Toronto are 10
be encamped for the summer.
| -Sunchfield's horse recently sold in
California for the sum of $4,000. He
was raised in Maine, and can trOt his
mile in 2:l5 every time.
The English war department has de-
| Eermtned TO supply the Canadians with
more field artillery.
! "A son of Senator FesseEden has just
| been made register of bankruptcy, Port
/ land, Me.,) by Chase. Before this, nine
of this greedy family held federal offices
that pay, and their grasping disposition
is not yet satisfied.
"A new and improved edition Of
| shakespeare y in German has just been
| printed. The translation is perfected by
/ Schlegel and Tieck.
| The New York Central and Hudson
River railway lines charge passengers
/ but two. cents per mile, yet both pay
I large dividends to shareholders.
Collector Smythe, Of New York, is
BiOWlhB iopuial-- bSCauSC AO A4AAu9
/ MS own business"
-Beecher, it is said, is going to preach
! a sermon on Greeley.
The Empress Carlotta had relapse
on hearing Of the capture Of Macmillan,
and it is feared will be permanently in
sane.
"A Philadelphia NJ. d. has just been
held to bail for firing with a shot gun at
a man who called at an unreasonable
hour to secure the services Of this irrita-
bic pill-maker for sick member Of his
family.
When Frank Bird the WalpOle !
Mass representative, was called to take
his official oath at the opening Of the
session, be refused to hold up his hand, !
on the ground that the ceremony was not |
essential to the binding force or validity /
OF the act. The supreme court has given /.
decision which justifies Mr., Birds con- |
clusiOn.
The clergy Of the cathedral at Milan 1
are in CONSERVATION. a valuable neck. /
lace, with a double row Of pearls, has |
lust been stolen from the neck Of the I
virgin, called deN dlberO. The affair |
remains a mystery.
The old story that Charles the Sec /
ond lnighted a loin Of beef, calling it 4
sir-loin, is disprOved by the discovery Of /
the word in manuscripts Of a much older /
date
The West Tennessee Wing of the oth /
contradicts the reported death of Gen. 4
w. II. Jackson, and says the mistake .
originated with the New Orleans papers, /
in consequence Of the death of 8 citizen .
of exactly the same initials and Of the |
same name.
1t is estimated that one and a half /
billion of dollars are employed as rail-
road capital in the United States.
Successful experiments with nitro
gIycerine are being made at Oswego in
blasting for q new dry dock.
Although the town of You Bet IN
California has voted to keep Sunday
hereafter, Yuba Dam declines to follow
suit.
Gen. Allen A. Benton, lste minister
to BogOts, has presented to Gen. Grant
a pair of solid silver spurs, of very
antique pattern, and weighing pound
apiece.
The death Of Persiani reminds the
gossipers of the famous quintette,
Rubini, Tamburini, Labiache, Grisi and
Persini, for whom 1 Puritani was COM
posed.
England is getting her old-fashiOned
stage coaches back again. The Bristol
and Essex railway having reduced the
number Of its trains and raised their
fares, fast coaches have made their re-
appearance and are running between
Tiyerton, Taunton and Bridgewater.
The Philadelphia residents are col
ored as follows in their late directory:
Whites. 500: blacks, l5S; browns, SOL
greens. go; grays, l73; pinks, l blues,
8 soarlets, = s.; eherrys, l6i oranges, q
hazels, II.
"A iourneyman baker, with one arm,
has made his debut as tenor, at Ham
burg, with great success. be sings the
mote do with much feeling.
AT Fort Sedgwick, on the 24th ult.,
nineteen Indians killed and scalped three
men in the eanOns near Pole creek.
-JOtham Post has been appointed
representative to the next session OF the
Grand Lodge Of the World, to meet at
Paris on the 18th inst.
The Boston Commonwealth wants
Macmillan shot without hesitation
and without anger,n in vindicRtion Of
the Monroe doctrine, and because Mr..
Davis has not been hung.
Accounts from the Sandwich Islands
state that on the 4th Of April the tide
rose and fell at the island Maui three
feet eight times st intervals of fifteen
minutes, and receding left the reef quite
hare. The inhabitants were puzZling
over this remarkable phenomena, and
variety of theories were offered to eX-
Judge R. G. Graves, of Lexington,
XIV. is experimenting in trout raising.
He procured the spawn from New YORK
state. and has now quite quantity OF
young fish, apparently IN thriving con-
ditiOn.
The Ancient and Honorable artil-
lerv company celebrated their 229th an
niversary at Boston Monday, June Sd.
\. P. Banks Vas elected captain for the
ensuing year, and William Schouler,
first lieutenant.
Hiram Thomas, who killed his wife,
Margaret, three years ago, in Braeken
county, Kentucky, has been sentenced to
be hanged on the first Friday in August.
He is seventy years of age.
The American institute OF homeo-
pathy, which has been for some dsys
Sitting in New York, adjourned Friday
night TO meet in st. Louis next June.
An Italian correspondence of the New
York Herald, speaking Of destruction by
fire, saws "There has been but one fire
here fFlorepce) Of any consequence
within the memory of men now living"
A eo-operative furniture factory of 81
600 OOC. and employing 900 men, most OF
whom are stockholders, has gone into
operation at Cincinnati.
Milwaukee has a dog factory, the
proprietor of which pays liberal prices
for hrst class CANNES. The animals are
skinned, the hide being used to make
gloves, and the hair to staff mattresses.
The carcasses are then put into huge
Kettle and boiled, the grease being sold
for various purposes, and the bones are
used for knife-handles, and flesh for ma
nuring the soil. The proprietor makes
81 80 on every dog.
There is one man, it seems, who has
read the whole of Mr.. Summers speech
on Russian America. 1t was an ugly
subject TO handle-we mean the perusal
of the document. The subject was ex-
bay4sted. the senate also must have been
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