Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-11
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL


| King WILLIAMS army.
1T is officially announced that regis
tration in Georgia, so far as heard frem'
is something over $4,000.
The value of the wholesale oyster
trade of New York city Is estimated at
not less than $40 ,000, 900 annually.
The WELD Of chestnuts, walnuts and
butternuts in Vermont this season will
be larger than any preceding season for
many years.
The Herald thinks there are over
60 600 transient people in New York.
The election in Vermont on Thurs
day resulted in a victory to the radicals.
More than fifty valuable horses have
died in Nansemond county, Virginia, the
mast month, from the disease called
a. 'staggeTs."
-Insolvence il becoming general
among the Richmond merchants. Not
less than forty applications were made to
the register on Saturday
The seventeenth anniversary OF the
admission Of California as state of the
union was celebrated in San Francisco
Monday.
The state of Iowa has now 1l45 miles
of railroad complete and in running
order. which have cost in construction
the sum of S45, 4S0, 600.
The new directory of San Francisco
shows a population Of 1884, 900.
There were 562 deaths reported in
New York last week.
Immigrants to the number Of 2453
arrived in New York Saturday.
The death Of Gov. Helm just one
week after his Inauguration necessitates
new election in Kentucky early in
! October.
Reports Of the release of the Abys-
siuian prisoners are diseredited in Eng
land. Preparations for an expedition for
their relief is progressing.
The rowing match between Hamill
and Brown, on the Hudson, was post
poned until Monday, owing to rough
weather Saturday.
-Stanger, the cashier Of the San Fran
cisco sugar refinery, is a defsulter to the
time Of 500 000. He has gone to China.
In Maryland Gov. Swami has post
noned the militia parade from the 18th
inst, the day of the border state eOnven-
ton, 10 the 18th Of October.
The yellow fever is slightly decreas-
ing in New Orleans. Over forty deaths
are reported for the twenty ending
Yesterday morning, but only thirty were
from yellow fever.
The construction OF the Baltimore
and Potomac railroad has been COM
menced, and will be promptly completed.
The impression is general in admin
istration circles that Reverdy johnson
can be secretary of state at any time he
NAV indicate his willingness to accept
the position; but he believes he can
better advance the interest of the con-
seTvatiyes in the senate.
The Atlanta lGeOrgia) NetC Era is
officially informed that the registration
ID fa
something over lSS, 600.
A New Orleans dispatch says that
many families have decided not TO send
their children to the public schools this
winter, fd case they have to associate
with blacks.
Waco, Texas, is getting to be a city ;
they have brass band, an ice machine,
and Thespian society there.
Georgia flour is said to be greatly
superior to the northern and western
brands sold in southern Iparkets.
Flax seed has proved profitable crop
this year in many parts Of Ohio, the yield
! having been unusually large, and the
price (S2 per bushel) satisfactory to
farmers.
john Brown, the eminent English
| banker, has erected a building in Wall
| street, New York, which cost upward Of
one million dollars. 1t IS Euilt of mar
BILE, and rents for $50, 900 per annum.
AT the German niversities-Bsden
and Berlin especially-effOrts are being
made to abolish the prevalent and dan
gerous dueling system among the stu
dents.
The bodiceslOf ladies' ball and party
dresses, in London and Paris, are said to
be becoming frightfully meagre, and
seem to be patterned after those of in
fants in arms.
The police force of Paris consists of
81, 600 men, and the cost of maintaining
the department is thirteen millions OF
| francs, One-twelfth Of the revenue of the
capital.
The Kentucky Bourbon eompany's
lstorehOuse in New York, containing one
thousand barrels whisky, was seized Sat
urday, under an alleged violation of the
internal revenue act.
-Advices from the Indian territory
state that cholera has again broken out,
and is raging violently among the wild
Indians of the plains.
Orders have been issued by the Spsn-
ish government requiring all vessels
hailing from the United States to be SUBJ
iected to rigid quarantine.
The first temperance organization
was formed in 1917 in England. 1t only
prohibited its members from getting
drunk. No member was allowed to
drink more than fourteen glasses a day.
The king Of Denmark has given
Iceland q constitution, which is about to
be submitted to the representative body
OF that island ltbe Altthing) for its ap-
proval.
Portions of a cargo Of logwood were
found in Portland, Me, few days ago,
which were lost overheard forty years
since. The logs were IN perfect state
Of preservation.
! The National Cigar Makers conven-
ton closed its session at Buffalo very
harmoniously on Friday night last. II
will meet on the first Monday of Sep
TEN ber next, in Cincinnati.
! The Netcs makes the whole number
I Of deaths ia Galveston since the preva-
lence Of the epidemic 64l, while the
Bulletin sets it down at $50. Which is
| cOrTeCt2
The gross earnings Of the Atlantic
cable last year were three hundred and
| thirty-two thousand pounds sterling, OF
| 81 $50 600. OF this the New FOundland
line received $500, 600.
An Alabama paper says that not less
I than halfa dozen mothers in that state
4 Of southern principles, have named
Iheir babies " Horace Greeley,n because
that gentleman went bail for Jefferson
Davis.
Mexican adviees state that Juare7
has formed his cabinet and divided the
country into five military districts, tC
which Regles. Diaz, Escobedo, Corona
and Alverez have been appointed a:
commanders.
The forthcoming report of Secretary
l 11f1 hot
dred and twenty millions Of our public
debt was paid off the last year. At this
| rate It would all be paid off by July, 1887
speaking Of the Spiritualists' con
b vention, now sitting in Cleveland, Ohio
p writer says 3 great division of senti
ment exists, and at one time the differ
| epce seemed about TO eliminate in free
fight. The convention, from its appear
ance, is s gathering Of first class lunatics
BY recent orders from Rome, mixed
marriages between professionals and RO
man Catholics can only be celebrated by
the Roman Catholic clergy in England
/ on condition that no celebration of thu
marriage ceremony, according TO th'
rites OF the protestant church, shall sub
, sequently take place.
/. Rear Admiral Palmer, in the flai
ship Susquehsnna, was at Aspinwall OF
the 18Th OF August, ana WAs 10 sAll OF
/, that day with the MOnongshels for Car
thage, Cabells and Laguyra, CuracOri
; aud Sants Martha, expecting to reael
Hampton Roads early in September. HI
, reports it very sickly all along ths coast
: The Buffalo Courier thinks Z" the bu
reau OF military justice has bred NOR
crime than it has punished, and NOR
perjury than ever heaven will forgive o.
the country forget -
Tie election returns from California
are so meager that il is impossible to Civ
] an estimate Of the general result. II
e thought, however, that two democrats
! congressman have been elected, and {
! sufficient democratic majority in the leg
islatdre to defeat the reelection of Johl
COnness to the United States senate.
this should be the case, Gov. Low is eX
pected to call an extra session OF tn
D present legislature, to ratify the cOnsti
; | tutional amendment.
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