Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-13
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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NEWS OF THE DAT.
1.-The Grand Lodge I. O. o. F., Of New
| York, meets on Monday next.
Two hundred and thirty-four patents
will be issued from the patent Office for
the week ending the 18th. y = fi q
Communication by cable telegraph
| is now complete between Key West and
/ the island Of Cuba.
--Ffve deaths from cholera are reported
in New York within few days, three of
them in one family. ei szfs
while the yellow fever Is increasing
| in New Orleans IL Is abating at Havana
and Vera Cruz. In the former city sixty
deaths occurred In the twenty-four hours
ending on the llth inst. sals 1.: i..-4
--The naval school ship Macedonia,
| from European waters, arrived In the
| Chesapeake Wednesday. -........-.r
The vote Tuesday on the question
anaexing Roxbury to Boston was carried
| by nearly forty TO one.
The public debt of Pennsylvania has
heep reduced during the past year ST.
| T94, ,644 so.
From Ireland, it is announced that
emigration to America is again on the
| increase.
-lGoods were recently delivered in
] Chicago in Just seventy-four hours and
! five minutes from New York.
An exchange says that a Mississippi
doctor cures cholera by injecting sui
phurie acid into the veins Of the pa
tient. ..-. -..-
The people of the interior of Maine
are now reveIling in green peas and
string beans. rrlr. .r
-lThe Good Templars' association of
Athens, Ala, has disbanded.
One Of the regular readers Of the
New York Tines is one hundred and
one years Of age. r s.. ..
The World informs us that Jennie
June lis the regular fashion correspon-
dent of twenty-five different newspa-
pers. .-a
and nobly TO the rescue of the character
of the excellent but slsndered queen of
England. -s-...ryr
: SThe New York Gazette says it has
never before known such indications of
vitality in the literary world as now ap-
pear. q z = - ~
Gen. Banks and Gen. Butler are in
Washington. This means business. I'M
parchment is sure to be attempted.
The last new important discovery
made 10 Colorado is quartz, where gold
Is visible to the naked eye to a depth OF
five feet. T-E "
Indian outrages are of frequent oc-
currence in the Washington aud Idaho
mining regions. The military have had
several skirmishes with the red devils,
and are gradually thinning them out.
The Columbian congress has extended
the Panama railroad compsny's fran
s,sv g. .,
tion Of one million dollars, cash in gold
in annual payments OF quarter million
dOIlAns from date. --- -aH
The Spanish squadron under Mendez
arrived at Rio on the 26th. 1t had sus-
tanned serious damage, but after repair
ing proceeded to the river Plata.
The congressional committee, to in-
vestigate frauds in the pay department.,
commenced its session yesterday.
BY the annexation of ROXburry,
Boston gains 10000 more of population,
and becomes the fourth city in the union,
instead of the sixth, as formerly. She
is now next in population to Brooklyn.
-Kavaugh, democrat, is elected to
congress Hom Montana by about 1900
msiority. The legislature is almost
unanimously democratic.
The boot and shoemakers of Phila- |
delphis have struck for an advance Of
twenty five per cent. on their wages. A
number Of shops have allowed the sd-
vance.
The strike among the Cuban cigar
makers still continues. There are about /
"A 900 Of them on the island, and their !
determined opposition TO the recent eX- |
actions of the government is 8 severe |
blow to the revenue.
E.,E, FNr.g -
missioner Of Indian affairs received yes !
terday, represents the SiOuxs and Chey- |
ennes as anxious for peace, and with /
that object would meet the peace COM |
mission at North Platte on the 10Th |
inst.
"A rumor prevailed in New York |
Wednesday, Of the supercedure Of Secre- |
tary McCullOch by Mr.. GrOesbeck, of /
Cincinnati. which had the effect of infia- /
ting the gold market as was doubtless !
the design Of the originstOrs OF the re-
port. sa
The navy department has received
from Pensacola announcing
the continued raVages Of yellow fever.
The epidemic has slso broken out on
board the United States steamer Isenape, /
at Key West.
The cathedral lately destroyed at
Frankfort was the most famous church
edifice in Germany, on account Of its
historical associations. The German
emperors have been crowned in it for
ages.
-Ou Friday a train on the North
western railroad, in the western part of
Iowa, was detained an hour and half
by mass Of grasshOppers piled upon the
track so thick that the driving wheels
lost their friction.
"A Richmond dispatch says: The
commercial failures reported by special
telegram TO the northern press are false.
None have occurred, and commercial
bills are being met as promptly as be-
fore"
The New Orleans papers say that the
beautiful tropical fruit, the banana, may
be seen growing in almost every gardez
Df that city. They state that the growth
Of bananas, in New Orleans, has greatly
during the last few years, and
If there are no killing frosts, the people
need no longer depend on Cuba and the
tropical regions for supply.
The reports of the crops in Missis-
sippi and Arkansas continue favorable,
but the prevalence Of yellow fever on the
lower Mississippi, it is thought, will
greatly retard the bringing Of cotton to
market.
Letters from Havanus say the revo-
luton in Porto Rico is formidable that
The soldiers are Joining the people that
The artillery have left their quarters in
the capital and gone Into the country
hat Captain. General Maxehiez has hid
himself or fled; that the revolutionists
nave sent steamer TO New York TO tel
sgraph Gen. Prim, asking him to place
himself at their head. sH. - .r.