Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-15
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL
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"WEDNESDAY: MAY To- 1857
BRKvHTEEs.
Louisville, KY, has forty miles OF
city railway.
There are 42,147 exhibitors at the
Paris exposition.
The decrease OF population In Ireland
ia 1885 IL estimated at 4e, ,82S.
Twelve thousand dollars have been
offered and refused for span OF fast
horses in Buffalo.
Hon. H. s. Walpole, home secretary
of the British government, has resigned.
1T Is said that Beecher gets 500
column for his story.
superintendent Kennedy has re-
voked bis Sunday closing order In New
York.
Germany has Peabody. His name
] Is Benjamin Leza, and he Is worth SO,-
| 600 600 thalers.
Wendell Phillips has been reelected
president of the American anti-slavery
society, an organization which has out
lived the object of its creation.
| The tobacco plants about Lynchburg
are being seriously damaged by the ny.
/ President johnson and other distin-
guished persons are to be inviteu to be
present at the Inauguration Of the Clay
statue, at Louisville, on the S0th Of May.
The emperor and empress of Russia
will shortly proceed to Kissipgen to take
the waters. They will afterwards, ia all
probability, go to Paris to visit the ex-
hibition.
The sheep in Lapier county, Miehi-
gan, are dying by hundreds of some
mysterious disease.
An italian paper, sadly wanting in
political sagacity, recently said: " Schles-
wig gave US Venice will
4 give US Rome.n
The Pittsburg glass works are thirty
five in number, with q capital Of $500
/ 600.
/ There are every year in Russia three
/ hundred and eighty horse fairs, at which
number Of animals sold is estimated at
263, 600. a
All the bells in Cincinnati were
/ t0lled during the passage Of the three
! murderers recently hung there from
prison to the dallows,-" in order TO call
attention to the awful Penaly OF crime"
! The negroes inhabiting the Sea
/ Islands, near the South Carolina and
| Georgia coasts, are fast relspsing to the
| barbarism Of their African born progenl-
| tors.
"A COuDlt OL AEAtuCAN AhbAAA1N1
Z Gently exchanged five shots, and one had
/ three balls through his clothes and one
I in the hip, whilst his antagonist escaped
with a wounded coas tail. Decidedly
| bad shooting, we think.
The king and queen of Denmark
propose to amuse themselves with
/ u silver wedding that is 10 say, a
: second marriage after an harmonious
connubial life Of five and twenty years.
The New York Tribune rebukes
/ Gen. Seoheld for his recent warning -
| 10 the Richmond Times, and concludes
I by asking, " Isn't ne a Haynau?"
During the war some federal soldiers
destroyed the organ in the Episcopal
church at Pensacola, Fla, which has
I lust been replaced by a northern church
as frateTnal offering.
A Pennsylvania radical, speaking
to the negroes in Washington City last
week, advised them to abandon all idea
OF eonfseation, as the republican party
has done about all it viii for them.
"A Texas planter has fifty acres in
the palma christi plant, and Will manu-
fscture castor oil for sale.
On one ofthe Missouri railroads they
have several locomotives with tenders
thus inscribed: " In God We trust we
shall not bust
The seventy-secOnd annual council
of the Protestant Episcopal church, in
the diocese of Virginia, commences its
session this morning.
A foreign exchange states that Gen.
Garibsldi has begun three-volume
novel, with priests for its principal char
acters and Rome for the scene of action.
He is also engaged on history Of his
public life.
~ = t,=,.r- mama r,d l., Tarrra ono ~,
titles in the swamps Of North Carolina
and Virginia, where it costs 81 50 per ton,
and sells in New York at s..
The English admiralty will sell
nearly all the wooden ships in the navy,
and replace them with irOnclads of the
most approved model.
The Richmond papers say the York
river railroad is nearly completed to the
White house, or rather the site it once
occupied on Pamunky river This men,
orabie house Of the Custis family was
burned by Mcclellan on his retreat in
July 1852.
The holding capacity of several Of
the most celebrated European theaters is
as follows: Della Scala, Milan, 1000
spectators San Carlo, Naples, $500
Carlo FeIice, Geneva, 3OOOi Genevive,
Venice, 200 q Peale,n Turin, 1000 I'm
I DaElHl ONEEh h-IOu5cf AGhAAa1 oANN- AAAN
Old theaters have five tiers OF galleries
modern only four.
The radicals are beginning to pick
holes in Gen. Grants military coat.
His offenss consists in having declined
TO identify himself with their party.
-Myriads of squirrels are Over-run-
ming some parts OF Indiana, and in sew
eral counties in Iowa pigeons are de-
stroying the newly sown wheat.
There was q severe frost In the vicin-
ity of st. Louis, Missouri, on Monday
night. Ice was formed, and much dam
age done to early vegetation.
An Ohio editor, who has received q
cake of sugar made from the sap Of the
black walnut tree, pronounced 1t superior
to maple sugar.
The Swedish man-Of-war Geffe has
come to New York for the purpose Of
further instructing her seEEuen in the art
of practical seamanship.
Over three hundred cities and towns
in the north, which went radical last
fall, have given democratic majorities
this spring.
One thousand two hundred and
ninety dollars were raised last Monday
st Cleveland, Ohio, for the relief Of the
famishing people Of northwestern GeOr-
1t is said that Alice and Phoebe
Carey are on visit to the poet Whit
tiers charming home in Amesbury,
Mass.
Italy is represented In the peace
conference Of London, and in that be-
comes recognized as one of the great
powers of Europe.
Black river, Wisconsin,, is completely
jammed with logs for fifteen miles. 1t
is estimated that there were not less than
225 000, 600 in the river at the opening Of
spring, Of which about 20, 600, 900 have
already gone down.
The choice Of black for elergymen
originated with Luther, who, when he
abandoned the dress OF monk, took
what the electOr Of Saxony presented
him. black cloth, or the court color.
"A son Of T. B. Stanley, Of Main
Prairie, Wisconsin, went TO the bottom
Of Pearl lake while hunting ducks in a
large sap kettle which he was using as
boat.
The timely announcement is made
that the American institute will hold a
worlds fair in New York In 1876, begin
ing on the 4th Of July, the centennial
of American independence.
Quaker attire was once the universal
costume of sober citizens of the middle
class in England. All have departed
from that fashion now but the Quakers,
and they have never changed, but kept
on in the old way.
An unusual ceremony, it is said, is
to be performed at Hartford, Conn.,, on
Saturday next-tbat Of a christian
woman renouncing her faith and en-
bracing the Jewish persuasion.
London proposes to have street
bridges like the one across Broadway
Two hundred persons are killed in the
streets annually by vehicles,
The Brooklyn Union says: The reg
iments of young gentlemen that mount
guard at our church doors on Sunday,
before and afrer the service, ought to be
mustered into the matrimonial or some
other army no1e7ls UoleIas. The Brook