Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-17

The American legation in Madrid is
accused Of smuggling goods and selling
them.
"A prominent citizen of Cincinnati
has been blaek-mailed to the amount
of 500 600.
, -' The Art Of Fishing on the Princi-
pie of Avoiding Cruelty" is the name OF
new English book.
"A Boston man has sued his bflJher
. for SO, 600 damages, for alleged sl&hder-
GUS words written in letter to sister OF
, the parties.
The Chicago journal says after des-
perate fight of two hours, a lobster was
captured near Flint island, last week,
which weight 300 pounds and was four
feet long, with claws nine feet.
The disbursements of the treasury
last week were s., ,233, ,236. The internal
revenue receipts for the same period were
s., So, ,429.
The Nashville Bonner is running in
dependent of the Typographical union.
The funeral of Gov. Wright at Ber-
lin, was an imposing affair. Prussian
dignitaries, civil and military, assisted.
The Cretans have again beaten the
Turks; of the latter two hundred and
fifty were killed.
The Spanish budget shows def
cheney of $40, 600, coo reals.
The king Of Prussia will visit Paris
soon.
The receipta of duties last week at
San Francisco were S249, $50; since jan
uary 81, 100000.
Over $50 emigrsnt wagons passed
through Hannibal, Mo-, last week, west
ward bound.
There is terrible suspicion among
Americans in Paris that restaurants there
supply horse flesh for beef
In Taylor county, KY, on Monday,
an alleged murderer was taken from jail
and lynched by mob of thirty men.
"A Baptist church in Hartford has a
choir of one hundred children. A local
paper calls them "s silver-throated
chOir.n
The $500, 900, 900 of gold which the
California mines have produced in the
last eleven years would weigh 1927 tons.
Mrs. Gen. Gaines new mansion on
central park, New York, will cost s., ,OOO,-
900.
Last week a brute sn st. Louis not
only deserted his young and handsome
wife, but robbed her Of her baggage.
An engaged young lady becoming
sick Of the bargain applied to friend fOr
assistance in untying the knot before it
was too late. " Certainly" she replied,
! IL very easy uAitg ing II "hiAe II
| beau
A Vermont paper says s. B. Love-
/ land, of Pittsford, in that state, recently
! killed twenty-siX crows at one shot
/ Probably q cannon was used, or crows
must have been very abund2nt in that
/ field.
The negroes at New Orleans have as
serted their idea of freedom by driving
/ whites from a street car and taking for
! chile possession of il. Sheridan cOnnives
at it.
Rev. Lorenzo Howe, Baptist min
| ister and member of the Massachusetts
| legislature, has been detected in gross
aud revolving familiarities with the
children Of his flock. His seat in the
| legislature has been made vacant,
"A London paper says The half
holiday movement and the knocking off
early at night take a tenth off the value
of the labor, and the increase of tenth
in the price of that labor places the
English manufacturer at disadvantage
of twenty per cent"
The latest reported yankee inven-
/ ton is that of an ingenious resident of
/ Hartford to burn water. The flame,
which is Of wonderful intensity, can be
/ produced in three minutes, governed by
a thumb-screw, and be applied to any
/ purpose as easily as any nre.
Harvard University has made an
! important change in its course Of studies.
| After the Freshman year, Latin and
Greek will be only optional studies, the
student having his choice between them
and mathematics, philosophy, physics,
the modern languages, etc.
The Boston Medical and Surgical
Journal closes an elaborate editorial on
female practitioners Of medicine with the
statement: 1--WE do not believe that
women are adapted te the study and
practice of medicine"
Sir Roderick Murchison has received
over twenty applications from men snx-
ious to serve as volunteers in the Liv-
ipgstone search expedition which he
proposes to send to the interior OF South
ern Africa to finally settle the question
of the explorers fate.
\ Carara marble bust of Mr.. Lincoln
is to be placed in the Lincoln park, Gin
cinnati, at cost of 10000 to the Gin
cinnatians.
Washington dispatches state that
the president will probably be compelled, /
by the pressure of business, to abandon
his projected southern trip.
In New York a movement is on foot I
to clear of the whole OF tie mortgage /
debentures of the American telegraph I
cable.
The New Workers like the Nichol- T.
son wood pavement. Nine months /
wear has not produced any perceptible 1
wear, and it is easily removed and relaid |
when necessary to reach water and gas |
pipes.
/ "A San Francisco German almanac |
for 1867 thus comments on the prevail |
ing extravagance in that city! "Many 4
,,orgrng roftrea ahapua pf lass than O
dime. The drayman carries gold |
watch the wRsherwOman dresses in /
silk the cham5ermaid is unhappy if her /
bonnet is not of the latest Partisan /
fashion"
-Pittsford, Vermont, is the great egg |
mart Of New England. During the past /
month one resident has supplied 2700 /
dozen, and is still sending 500 dozen daily /.
to Troy, New York.
A Frenchman named Gravel died in /
Bristol, Vermont, recently, aged one F.
hundred and five years.
"A constable in Kentucky, in publish |
ing some personal property for sale, put |
up a notice, with the following clause
~ wyll xspose fr sail the 5da 1866 NV
Jan won iytle rome horse, or so much /
tharof as may be nessary to ssttisfi sed
gument"
A noticeable instance of absence of
mind was an editor quoting from rival
paper one of his own articles, and
| heading it, Wretched attempt at wit"
A native of Africa, who had visited
England q few years ago, when asked
what ice was, said Him be water fast
asleep.n
The general synod of the Evangeli- !
cal Lutheran church of North America, /
better known as the general synod ofthe /
southern Lutheran churches, is to meet
at Staunton, Va, on Thursday, the 22d
of May.
The horse railroad in Worcester, !
Mass, has proved a failure, and rails
are TO be taken up, unless new COM
pany will purchase the franchise and !
property.
"A law in Canada prohibits the kill
ing of insectiverOus birds. A police /
magistrate at Ottawa has decided snipe !
to be insectiverous, and sportsmen are in 4
disHlay.
Tile recent cool weather so unsea-
sonable for May, seems to have been /,
generally experienced throughout the |
south. The Florida papers say 4" Never !
In the memory of the oldest inhsbitant, I
has such cool weather been known at |
this season." and attributes it to radical
influence in " the territory We think |
| it results from the annexation Of Russian
America.
The New York commercial asso-
citation proposes to erect a building to
cost $500, 900, corner of Fourth avenue
and Twenty third street, The subscrip-
tions have progressed 50 favorably that
the managers feel justified in CONS
mencing operations.
"A western man visiting down east
! is surprised to find that the cost Of liv-
/ ing is less than in the west, from whence
bread and meat are transported to sup
ply New England.
in France, SO72 miles of railroad are
now in operation, and 1880 miles more
are in course of construction. The
| French government has made q grant
/ of $3.50, 900, GOO TO these railroads, on con-
dition that at the end of so years, the