Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-21
RREYTTIES.

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were IA.
, The great trot between Dexter anC
GOldsmith's mare was won by the for
mer. Time, 2:2Sl and 2:32.
The Fenian organization ia IRELAND
is said to be still in working order anC
! unimpaired in force.
Twelve thousand eight hundred anC
twenty-siX steerage passengers have ar
rived at New York since the fret instant
frem European ports.
Zoe, the Cuban sylph,' has left the
stage temporarily, on account of bad
health.
} There were $500 steamboat arg IyaIc
in st. Louis for the year ending Satur'
day, May 18th.
1t is not perhaps generally known
that Henry Ward Beecher taught school
, in New Orleans in 1871 and 1912.
Candles are made out Of bayberries
: at Newton, n. J., and are said to be
superior to the best tallOw.
Alice Cary has written a novel en-
titled "The Bishops Son, and the scene
is laid ia New England.
-Cueumbers sold in the Cincinnati
market on Wednesday morning for fifty
cents each. Tomatoes have alse appeared
there.
The two Ciiscoverers OF gold in Cali
fornia are now in destitute circum.
stances.
France exports annually about three
and half million dollars worth Of publi'
cations Of all kinds.
Miss II. Carpenter, who went to
India 70 learn how the female pOpula-
ton may be best educated, has returned
to England.
The Kenton tOhio) Democrat nomi
mates the Hon. George II. Pendleton fol
president.
A paper mill, turning out paper O.
excellent quality, has been put in opera
tion in Petersburg, Va.
Gold is generally more valuable In
France than in England, and silver il
England than in France.
Brigham Young, jr., is in London
picking up Mormon proselytes, and
sending the women off to Salt Lake.
A number of English capitalists ars
examining the mineral land in south.
western Virginia, witha view TO making
investments.
A small gold brick, valued at $500, has
been received in New Haven from the
new mines near MorgantOwn, North Car
Olina.
Philadelphia is to have its society fol
preventing cruelty to animals, and one
9
Z The union league in Alabama con-
sists of two hundred lodges and thirty
Thousand members. A good nest egg for
the republican party.
Vermont has bat two aistilleries, in
place OF the forty, twenty-five years ago.
The radicals Of New jersey have
| split on negro suffrage.
The New York Eree6mdR'S Journal
/ of last week, says: &c Let us prepare 10
| yeDudiQte the Lincoln aDdr debt! When
( We sc that, labor will once more make q
good living foF ths lstOrers."
Mrs. Thankful southwiak, e yell
known friend, abOlitiOnist, and Fescuer
Of slaves, died lately in Granville,
Mass, in her seventy-fifth year
, In Logan, Hooking county, H., on
/ Monday, sEo women, relatives, named
Pontius, quarreied AL assailed each
other with clubs. In the melee s child
Of one of the female sayages was killed.
/ There is a negro in New Albany,
{ Ind, who is gradually turning white.
And a good many whites in the south
/ are rapidly turning black.
/ -Muhi6aeh has dropped Frederick the
[ Great Her last novel, Just published in
I Germany, is entitled 4" Marie Antoinette
/ and Her Son."
David Files, who fired the first shot
st the chief OF police, Carpenter, in Mo
bile, is the only one arrested. 1t is said
: he aimed directly at Judge Kelly, but
was unfortunate in his aim.
I It is rumored that England designs
/ TO seize CdGa n the event of any diff
Guilty with Spain, ana Will engeavOr to
retain the island as base in the gulf OF
/ Mexico.
A monument to cost So. 1000 will be
| erected in Central park, n. Y, to the
/ members Of the 9TH regiment who were
/ killed during the rebellion. 1t suffered
[ terribly, losing nine men killed.
The Kansas republican state central
/ com mittec will organize on negro suf-
fraee basis. The negroes oppose females
/ voting.
The Germans in New York have de-
/ termined to organize for the purpose Of
agitating against the excise law.
/ The New York Post abuses the game
/ Of base ball, because of its tendencies to
gambling. Pity the exercise was ever
[ invented. Match games have been pro-
/ hibited on ElysiGn fields.
/ A suit has been commenced against
/ the English bark Siam, at San Francisco,
| to recover $4,000 for a breach of the
/ California passenger act.
/ A lady defends the Atlanta BIN
uueters from the charge of not having
/ kissed the Pope's toe. She says they
came as near to it as they could. They
| licked his boots.
"A country paper in Wisconsin says
/ the legislation of that state "has adj
jOurned non cOmpOs."
A southern editor says he recently
drew lottery prize consisting Of thitty-
eight articles. 1t was a pint of bitters
] e
! A Wisconsin court lately decided
/ that man has a right to chastise his
I wife to 3 reasonable extent"
"A man in -. Louis was placed un-
| der bond Of $50, the other day, to keep
/ the peace toward q dog which he had
/ threatened to kill.
/ --Euglish engineers have been study
/ ing the pass over Mount st. GOthard,
/ with view to establishing a railway
( across it. The longest tunnel would be
I over three miles.
"A gentleman of Selma, Ala, esti-
mates that g, 600, 600 has been sent north
ward from that city since January, and
| that as much more will 20 before the
/ close Of the season.
/ Recently the young marquis of Butte,
/ one OF the wealthiest men in the three
/ kingdoms, has become a convert to the
] Roman AalDOllC ldilu.
"A negress in ST. Louis, forty-eight
years old, committed suicide Saturday
night, drowning in q pond of water less
| than a foot deep.
Philip Reardon sucked alcohol from
a barrel on one of the Boston wharves on
/ Saturday until he became so drunk that
he died. A great moral idea.
( A lady correspondent Of the Phila-
/ delphia Press asserts that in going
through the Old Capitol prison lately she
was shown the heart Of IFirz, preserved
/ IN a glass jar. Comment is unnecessary
on such disgusting barbarisml such dis
/ grace on the American name!
On the evening of the 18th inst, as
/ the sexton Of the First Baptist church,
/ Augusta, Ga, was lighting up the edi-
/ fee, the entire ceiling fell with loud
crash, ard smashed many pews and
some furniture. Fortunately, none of
| the congregation had assembled, and no
one was injured.
A villain named Condor, aged forty
/ five years, abandoned his wife and chill
/ dren at Quincy, ILL.,, and eloped with his
wife's niece, only sixteen years old, TO
| st. Joseph, No.
"A large fire has occurred in New
[ York, the loss netting over one hundred
/ thousand dollars.
-Isaian T. Williams, John Fitch,
/ Isaac Dayton, Henry w. Allen, Jas. F.
| Dwight and Edgar Ketchum, have been
/ appointed registers Of bankruptcy for
I New York city.
| "A northern jenkins writes that the
| family Of Gen. Grant will leave Wash
| ington about the 18th instant for Old
/ Point, where they will be the guests of
Gen. Scofeld's lady during the summer
/ season.
in Chicago real estate is out of the
/ reach of any but the rich. -Four and
/ five miles south Of the business center of
/ the city real estate is selling at from $50
! TO $50 per foot. At Hyde park, six miles
south, small two-story houses Oh small
lots sell from 5000 to $40, coo, and rent
/ from 800 to $500 a year.
The oldest English newspaper dis
! covered is 3 quarto pamphlet Of few
/ leaves entitled 1.-The Diurnal Occur
/ rences, or Daily Proceedings of Both
! Houses, in this great and happy Parlis-
/ ment, from the third Of November, 1910,
TO the third Of November, l64l."
A man in Boston having experienced
| the sort of religion most in vogue there,
smashed his marble copy of the Venus di