Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-01

The /. O. o. +. celebration IN Nash-
vile, on Friday, was a grand affair. DIR.
Baird was orator of the day. The beau
uful custom of decorating the Coniede-
rate graves was observed the same day.
-BrownlOw's Wing calls correspon-
dent of the Springfield Repubiicon a
liar, slanderer, coward, ETC., to which
the Republican responds that the only
suspicion it ever had as TO its G,,-res-
pondent arsse from the fact that among
{ his references as to character and ability
was Gov. Brownlow himself.
There is an unusual movement of
citizens from st. Louis to Europe this
season. The majority are Germans, with
their families, going to Faderland to
spend the summer; but not few are
Americans, off for a years tour of the
old world.
-Cooper's Wells, Mississippi, has been
almost destroyed hy fire.
The Mississippi Central railroad COM
pauy contemplate re ducing the fare on
their road, and put on double daily
train.
The Baton Rouge Advocate states
that split. bottom chairs, made at the
state penitentiary, are sold at half
dollar apiece.
Mr.. W. H. SMiuigan has sold the
Corinth Miss Weekly Neaos to Thomas
J. Key.
The Montgomery Advertiser learns
that John Hardy, late marshal of the.
United States district Court for Middle
Alabama, will establish a new daily
paper in Montgomery about the first Of
June. The Mail says it is the old Ala
bama State Sentinel, of Selma, resumed,
and will, of course, be radical sheet.
Hardy was Confederate captain.
Some of the Mississippi papers are
"passing around DIR. Maggiel, the
medicine man, who has been advertising
extensively and forgetting to pay.
-"H. g." and at. W. are at it
again-Horace in the Tribune and Thur
/ low in the Commercial advertiser. These
personal squabbles have lost the fresh
ness of novelty, and people must really
/ be excused if they no longer approach
! them with enthusiasm.
-Maretzek's 5 Italian opera troupe, with
Louise Kellogg, are in Chicago.
The Vicksburg Herald gives an ac-
count of a child born in Issaquena
county, with four arms, four legs and
two heads.
The Friar's Point COdhOmiaH feliei-
lates itself on the fact that only one-third
Of Coahoma county has been submerged
in the late freshet.
The freedmen of South Carolina are
doing well, working industriously, and
winning the favor of their former mas
tiers. In the Charleston sub-district of
the freedmen's bureau, great destitUtion /
is existing among both whites and /
negroes. In Kentucky, the condition Of
the freedmen is also rapidly improving. |
"A correspondent writing from Wash
ington says that there are seventeen /
senators and three representatives, each |
expecting to be successor to President
Johnson.
"A singular confession Of murder was
lately made at Blandville, Ballard
county, Kentucky. Nine years ago a
man named Hudson-whO had removed
to Blandville, from South Carolina. and
who had seduced a girl named Belcher,
was found hanging by the neck in his
own house. He had apparently been
dead for some days, and The funeral was
hurried, Of course. The sedueed girl
subsequently married a man named Nc
Nab, and appeared to be living happily,
until lately, when she confessed that she,
her sister and McNab had murdered
Hudson, by driving the spindle of a
wheel into his ear.
One Jane Langville has brought a
charge Of bastardy in a Boston court
against James r. Gilmore, (' Edmund
Kirke, 7) the well known radical author.
AT Cincinnati, a gentleman in
rather poor circumstances, called at
the Adams express eompany's office to
arrange 20 send the remains of his wife,
who died Of cholera last summer and
has been buried since then, to Genoa,
explaining that he had prsnised her to
do so a short time before her death, she
having been born in that city and de-
string that her bones might have there
their final resting place. He stated that
he had never been able, until now, to
accumulate sufficient means with which
10 carry out this pious mission and thus
redeem his last promise to his devoted
wife.
"A wedding was to take place at st.
Paul's church, Chicago, the other day.
Ali the spectators and the intended
bride, a Miss Emma Knowles, were
there, but Mr.. S. w. Tomlinson, the
bridegroom, failed to arrive, and mas
not been heard from since.
Mr.. Charles H. Wynne offers the
Richmond lVs.) Times for sale.
H. Rives Pollard has turned lecturer,
and was TO speak in Lynchburg, the
other evening, on the "chivalry Of the
south, as illustrated in the late war;
Indiana is making progress as a man.
ufacturing state. At a recent meeting of |
her manufacturers, held at indianapolis, !
it was stated that there were over five |
hundred industrial establishments in the 4
state, several of them having over $780,
600 capital each.
Women are having their claims for |
educational privileges recognized in
England. The new charter Just granted |
to the London university not only ad-
mits women to general examinations to |
test their qualifications as governesses,
teachers, etc, but also to special exam
/ nations for degrees in medicine and |
law and the british Medical Journal |
says that many more ladies are DESTROYS
Of admission to the bar than to medical
practice.
The bankrupt law passed by the last
congress goes into practical operation on
/ the first Of June.
John Gendel was executed at Bell
vile, Illinois, last Friday, for numbering
Adam Zimmerman, in 1864. To the last
he asserted his innocence. What do
you want the press to say Of you ," was
asked. He replied, Nothing; only
4 Pm sorry for my friends, and most Of
all for my poor old mother in Europe,
and that Pm innocent"
The postofiice at Jeffersonville, Ind,
was closed on the oath, there being no
postmaster.
The postofliee department is about
to sell at public auction some six thOus-
and daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, etc,
that were sent through the mail and
finally found their way to the dead let
ter Office.
Michael Reese, a San Francisco mil
iionaire Of German Hebrew origin, aged
fifty years, has been muleted in $4,000
damages for an alleged breach Of promise