Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-05
NEWS sunmARY.

"A sailor unused 10 society, said 10
his partner after a waltz: " My dear, LET
rae take ysu back to your supercargo."
Donizetti composed more than sixty
operas. AT one time of his life he pro-
dueed four a year-two serious aud two
bufso.
The American watch company a
Wnltham, Mass, make We hundred
and fifty watches a day, and employ
seven hundred persons, Of whom one,
third are women.
I'm England they are extracting tur
pe1tine from petroleum.
st. Elmo has been republished il
London.
"A dogma ir defined as An opinion
laid down with a smart.
In all Of Shakspeare's plays, thirty
five in number, there are but six or sever
Visions female characters.
- At the funeral of n. P. Willis il
Boston, last Thursday, Prof. Henry w
L)ngfeilow, DR.. Samuel G. Howe, Mr.
Edward Quincy, Prof. Oliver Wendell
Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Jane:
I Fields, Edwin P. Whipple, and Mr.
Merritt Trimble, OF New York, acted a
pall-bearers.
ITALIAN OPERA IN TURKEY.-Tht
HltguenOts has been produced for tht
first time at Constantinople, with greai
s~lIccess. The admirable duet of the
fourth act, produced a great sensation
among the Turks of Mahammed.
WHAT NEXT John Morrissey ha:
bought IN interest in a Troy newspaper
John will speedily come down to "whitC
chips" as Beau Hickman would say, i
lie goes very deeply into the newspaper
business.
Gen. Priee's reception at st. Louis i:
described as a perfect ovation, many fed.
erals participating. Private hospitalities
poured in upon him. He intends to re-
side there.
At Wilmington, n. c., letters of adj
ministration were granted to one negro
on the estate of another-probably, the
first time ih the south.
The Petersburg Hlder, very ungal-
lantly, saws: 1.-THE most obstinate ami
NAL in this world is called mule; the
Latin for woman is muller"
DIsARNnNG.-The Fenian leaders in
New York city advertise for sale tive
thousand arms, principally muskets and
Springfield rifles, all ready for instant use.
The Halifax Gt=en claims that
scores of Nova Scotia ships have crossed
the ocean in less time than that taken
by Benefits famous yacht.
Carlyle is coming to the United States
next year.
The Cincinnati Commercial pub
fishes an article recommending Gen.
George H. Thomas for the next presi-
dent.
The bronze statue of Chief Justice
Marshall, for the Richmond Washington
monument, is on its way from Munich.
"A game of chess is being played by
letter between the clubs Of two towns in
Ohio.
There has been nine snow storms
this winter in Richmond, Va.
A New City creamersville - is
the name of a new village just sprung up
near Shelbyville, Tenn. One hundred
residences have been built, and are in
process of erection, within the last year.
"A gentleman named KOosine died N
a dentists office at Philadelphia He
had had a tooth extracted under the in
tluence Of the nitrous oxide, whena cork
which had been placed between his
teeth slipped down his throat, and
choked him to death in q few minutes.
The celebrated trotter, Ethan Allen,
has been sold to T. G.. Simmons, of New
York, for SO, 1000.
1t is stated that a dinner was given
recently in Paris, of which the principal
dishes were shark, horse dog and rat.
The crown of the Belgian queen is
composed of forty-five pearls, forty dia-
monds of large size, and five thousand
small bTilliants.
FINANCES OF KENTUCKY.-Wm. T.
Samuels, Esq, state auditor, reports to
the governor that on the 2lst ult. the
AMOUNT in the state trSnsury OF Ken
lucky was two millions, twenty-six
Thousand, one hunded dollars and thirty
cents.
JUNCTION CITY, Kan, January 81.
A seoutjust in from the west reports the
Cheyennes and Arrspahoe Indians,
numbering about 1900 warriors, on the
war path.
This place will be the terminus of the
Union Pacific railroad in the coming
summer, and great preparationsR IRE be-
ing made for a heavy business w&h New
Mexico. Twelve large trainsa r already
en- route from that territory to receive
the stock which has been shipped to this
point.
Lead quarters and half dollors are
circulating in Quebec.
The question of religious liberty is
agitating the people of Switzerland.
That means the liberty to interfere with
other peoples business, as those precious
rascals attempted not long since when
they advised the north to show the south
no mercy.
Hog cholera is prevailing to a con-
siderable extent in the distilIery pens in
Bourbon and adjoining counties in Ken
Thos. Megibbon, near LARS sta
ton, has lost upwards of five hundred
hogs from the disease.
There will be a meeting of the he
roes of the war of 1872. of Bourbon
on February %, 1867, at odd
hall, in Paris, Ky. The meet
ing will be addressed by several distin-
gentlemen.
During the Philadelphia Niger loyal
convention, says the La Crosse Demo
rat, certain of the mongrel newspapers
asserted that Fred. Douglass met in the
.treets Of that city his former mistress.
md thanked her for some kind considera-
ion of hers to him while a slave. A
ady in Maryland writes us that the mis-
ress and former owner of the Niger
Douglass, to herpOsitive knowledge, died
hree years ago.
MAGNITUDE OF THE EARTH.-The cir
umference of our globe is 5000 miles,
nd so %stspendous a circle may be best
unprecedented by comparison. For ex-
nipple, a railway train travelling night
nd day at the rate of twenty-five miles
n hour, would require six weeks to go
round it. The cubical bulk Of the earth
26O, DOC, O00, 900 of cubic miles, and ac-
to DIR. Lsrdner, if the materials {
.hieh compose it were built up in the [
'rm of a column, having a pedestal OF {
lie magnitude of England and Wales, =
lie hight of the column would be nearly c
ur and a half million of million of
lies. A tunnel through the earth
ON England to New Zealand would be -
'out eight thousand miles long.
1. o. o. F.-THANKsGIvING.-Hon. J. a
Sanders, grand sire of the grand :
dye Of the United States of Odd-fellows, \
IS appointed April 26th as a general G
" of thanksgiving in the order for the J
turn Of peace, with links of the order a
broken. and for gauaroI nrOsDaritv II u,