Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-19

The Washington and Lee association
! have now in charge twenty-nine widow
) and seventy orphans.
: AT Paris the ezar was presented wit
j Bible printed in l47 tongues.
Some miserable misereants in W0r
oester hung out the black flag on the ap
/ proaeh Of the presidential party.
The seven year lOeusts have appeareI
In portions Of New Jersey.
} "A new five-story hotel, to be calle,
the Atlantic, and to cost $l00000 is Z,
} be built at Norfolk, Va.
In West Virginia, no man can prac.
tice his profession, bring suit or vote
who cannot take the iron-clad.
The bishops of the Methodist church
south, have designated Friday, the 16tl
of AuguA, as day Of fasting, humilia.
tiOn and prayer.
Gov. Andrew, OF, Massachusetts, Il
strongly urged by Gen. Grant for the
Mexican mission.
An Austrian sailor has been sen.
fenced TO receive 1000 blows with stick
"A drunken woman in Cleveland had
on S., 900 in diamonds when arrested.
The negro Fred. Douglass spoke In
Portsmouth 4th OF July.
The nett receipts of the Washington
and Lee bazaar and tableaux in Norfolk
amounted to 81 ,9l4, ,l3.
An exchange AYERS Memphis has had
eight duels since 1865.
-R0sches are exterminated by scatter
ing handful of fresh cucumber parings
about the house.
The oil Of pennyroyal will keep mus
/ quitoes out OF room, if scattered about
in small quantities.
ink made from India rubber Is the
! lafn rrrt1a ba ii oil lNv
/ by writers who are inclined to "stretch
a story"
No fly willIight on the window which
I has been washed with water in which a
I little garlick has been boiled.
! "A Paris correspondent estimates the
number Of visitors at that city at 500, GOO,
and says they spend 81, ,0OO,O 900 day on
an average.
A bridal dress in Paris cost Il, 900
! francs. It was white silk, scOllOped, bOr-
| dered, satined, fiOunced, laced, trimmed
with pearls, and made with q peplum.
George Jones, of the New York
Times, lately pulled Cyrus w. Fields
nose, for Deglecting to apologize for call
ing said Jones liar, at the telegraph
/ dinner last week.
-Advices from California represent
/ the Central Pacific railroad tunnel across
the Sierra Nevada range as nearly COM
pleted, and the trains will be running
into Nevada in autumn. The earnings
upon ninety four miles for June were
Sl22, 900 in gold expenses S22, 900,
The Cleveland Pain Dealer says
that at a oonstaoleis sale in that place a
horse was sold on execution for four dol
lars. The cost Of keeping the horse,
while the suit was in progress, was
twenty-four dollars.
The thermometer at Columbus, Ohio,
on the first instant, stood at lO3 In the
shade.
The banjo championship Of the
United States and four hundred dollars
were won by Dick MCGOWAN, of Pitts
burg, in recent match at that city with
Charley Howard, of New York.
1t Is said that sOlle Of the New York
bOquet girls clear f1ve dollars a day in
fine weather.
Ben. Perly PoOre, who was an attache
to Hon. Henry w. Hilliard, within five
years from the time he. was a printers
boy, has dined with the king of the
French, with Victoria and Albert, and
with the king of the Belgisns, and also
danced Wit E-SoOr CarlOtts," who was
then a girl:
A wedding was recently spoiled in
Schenectady by long lost husband step
ing into the carriage With the blushing
bride, and insisting that il any marrying
was to be done he should have the preee-
dence.
The well known French financier,
NJ. Emile Periere, is president Of twelve
Oh fifteen joint stock companies, the ag-
gregste capital of which is Sl4S, 600, 900. |
His influence in Paris may be imagined
Holland is said to be negotiating for
the sale Of its colony Of Dutch Guiana to
England, but England holds Oft on ac-
coust OF the high priee. This colony is Z
a constant loss to the Butch treasury, /
and is in the market for a purchaser.
The Chevslier, Henry Wycef, is .
out in a letter defending the Emperor /.
Napoleon against the charge Of Gesertng 1
II will take many such /
letters backed up by ths heat eyidenCe to /
remove the stain of Msximilian's blood I
from the skirts Of Napoleon.
Work has been resumed on the mag /
Dificent Roman Catholic cathedral on 1
Fifth avenue, New York, projected by /
Hughes, the corner stone Of l
which was laid August l5 1858. Its ex- I
treme length will be 325 feet; extreme /
breadth, ia feet; general breadth, 132 A..
feet. 1t is t. cost four millions Of dol
lars.
An Ingenious French chemist pro-
poses in view Of the supply Of coal in I
Europe being soon exhausted, that hui
man bodies should be utilized for the
purpose Of ILLUMINATION. He says that a
corpse OF ordinary size would be worth
about eight francs for the gas 1t would
afford.
Scott county, Iowa, pays fifteen cents
each for the scalps of gophers killed in
that county. On the 10Th ultimO the
boys brought in two hundred and eighty
three, and, it is said, during the month
Ihe county clerk had paid out more than
Dne hundred dollars for gopher scalps.
The Boston 4dpertiser says: In
some of the towns in western MassRcbu-
setts thriving business is carried on 10
he sale of cabbage plants. The custo-
ners are said to call at a very early hour
n the morning, The most curious part
If the transaction is that the customers
All bring jugs OF bottles to get their CAB
5dge plants in
Baron de Rothschild has just given
s450 for a male cock pheasant peacock,
brought recently from China. There is
)ut one other like bird land it is a hem
n Europe, and it belongs TO the Zoologi-
,al garden at Antwerp. Baron de Roths-
,hild may crafty his whims. He is the
Janker of all the crowned heads who
'isit Paris, and his commissions must
mount TO an enormous sum.
Put the ice into deep dish, cover it
With plate, and place the dish on pill
ow stuffed with feathers, and cover the
op with another pillow carefully, and
" this means exclude the external air.
Feathers are well known non-conductors
f heat and in consequence the ice is
from melting. DIR. Schwartz
tates that he has thus preserved six
'Ounds Of ice for eight days The plan
J simple, and within the reach OF every
ouSabold