Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-20

The Pacific and Atlantic telegraph
company divides two and a half per cent
quarterly.
A contract has been made for re-
building the Manassas Gap railroad.
The coffee crop of Hayti is probably
the largest ever known on the island
Seventeen missionaries will sail fol
Arabia and Turkey, on the 9th inst,
/ from New York.
The Chicago Republican has sEsiI
1 changed its editor ~in-chieL" J.F. Bal
lautine is now the managing editor.
AT an election recently held through
out France for members Of the councils
4 the opposition made large gains.
Nine colored families have bought
town site on the Kansas Union Pacih.
road, twelve miles west of Moravia.
The Italian government is displeaseC
/ with the visit to the pope Of the Frencl
Gen. DumOnt, and will soon look for
I change in the treaty of last September
-Haytien advices to the oath ultimo
state that the small revolution in favo'
of JefFrard had failed. One Of the lead
/ ers had committed suicide and the Othe
| had fed the country.
But three members Of the bar havI
! been expelled from the courts Of Wash
fpgton, d. C.. since their establishment il
4 1901, viz: Levi 5. Burr, in 1922; Hon
/ Henry May, in 1850; and J. II. Brad
ley, Bsnr.
"A defalcatiOn in the Tradesmen't
| bank of New York has been discovered
The losses amount to 100000. Two tel
| !ers are involved. It is expected tina.
some Of the money will be recovered.
A reEert to the freedman's bureau
! from Mississippi, says that the Whit
/ people of that state are very earnestly
endeavoring To. educate tho negroes.
Monterey dates to the 90 stste tha'
Cansles had reyolted and attempted tC
( capture q quantity OF specie, but failed
| aud is now marching on Mstsmoros.
Some Of the Canadians object 10 the
use Of the dollar mark 81, because il i,
3 contraction Of L. 5. They want to us'
] ID instead, which is the initial letter o
dominion as well as dollar.
An unstable stable floor gave way a
| Galena the other day, pFecipit2ting thre'
horses into the cellar five feet below
and into four feet of water. They were
saved.
There was a tOrehlight procession IN
| Charleston, 5. c, last week. Some DO
/ freedmen marched through the city FOL
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not yet registered.
The Detroit newspapers have appa
I rentIy won in the fight which the Prin
ters' Union commenced against them
All the offices are well supplied Wit
help, and all are bound ave again t
employ I" Union men,"
The Michigan state prison is a pro
ductive institution. About two hundred
thousand cigars are made there eacl
month. Prison-made boots and shoes, {,
the value OF $4,000, weres sold last month
in accordance with the recent &C
tions Of the president, Gen. Siekles ha.
suspended section Z of order No. 80, rela
tive to Jurors in North CaroiinE. White
Jurors will serve until the tax books FOL
the present year are returned. .H
The present stock of cotton is est.
mated, by the Cincinnati Journal o.
Commerce, at Gully eighty-eight thou.
sand bales, against seven hundred and
fifty thousand bales at this time lasI
year.
An English paper complains that in
evening costume our women have
] reached the minimum Of dress and the
maximum Of brass.
"A nosegay composed OF 5000 roses
wss presented to the empress the day
before she left for England, by the rose
society Of Brie C0mte Robat, the depart
ment Of France IN which roses sre
most cultivated, and In which there are
growing at present more than 500. 600
of rusebushes.
The state tax collector for Sumter
district, S. c., has returned to the sheriff
two tholsand executions, Including his
own name ana THE sheriff's among the
defsulters.
The United States railroad commits.
sioners are en- route west, to examine an
other section of the Union Pacific rail-
road, eEtending forty miles west of jules
burg.
EThe agricultural department at
Washington gives the comforting as
surance that the wheat crop OF the pres
ent year will allow 1veanda half bushels
to each individual white OF black, man.
woman and child.
A Newfoundland dog has made his
wagon foot, and alone, from Omaha,
Nebraska, 70 Hudson, Lenawee county,
Mich, where he dropped down a. Mr..
Joseph Pixlsy's door, completely ex-
haustsd,