Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-08
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL
BREVITIEs


WEDNESDAY: MAY s. lSd
BREVITIEs.
-Vesuvius is breaking out again will
eruptions.
"A man in Kentucky named BedbuG
petitions the legislature to change hi
name.
Brigham Young says it is now as
important to raise crops as it is saints.
Some graeeless scamps at fire in 8
Georgia town stole three eoffins from 8
cabinet wAreroom.
A town in Maine makes thousand
quarts of shoe pegs a day.
The Indian war will draw largely on
the national resources this summer.
Italian sausages made of mule meat
are the latest innovation.
Cincinnati is in the milky way. She
has 5S1 COWS.
An Albany paper thinks it is wlluan
and not her wrongs that ought to be re-
dressed.
The government has shut up all the
great cafes of Madrid because they are
"centers of revolution"
The failure of the English iron-clad
feet seems to be complete.
The emigration from Ireland to this
country is immense. Nine steamships
were filed in a week at Cork.
"A little girl in Sheboygan more than
a year ago swallowed a needle, and one
day last week it came out of her knee.
"A shawl was recently sold in New
Yerk for $1,000. In the same city wo-
men make shirts for u shilling apiece.
"A sea captain says that Mississippi
river water will keep longer at sea than
any other. For the reason probably that
nobody can drink it.
The first ferry between Boston and
Chelsea was established in the seven
teenth century.
The citizens of Helena and Vir-
ginia cities, Montana, have held public
meetings to invite Prof. Agassiz to visit
that territory.
"A Richmond paper intimates that
the annexation of the Old Dominion to
West Virginia might be good thing, as
they would thus get into the union.
Eighteen years ago the wealth Of
California was represented by thousands.
Now it is over two hundred millions.
An exchange thinks the pews of
some of the churches ought to rest on
pivots, 50 that the occupants could see
who comes in without straining their
necks.
Treasure to the amount of S751, 400
was shipped from San Francisco for
Panama and New York, on Tuesday.
The tycoon of Japan has directed
the disbandment of the troops employed
in the ehastisement of the ChasOin.
There was a fall of snow in New
York early on the morning of the third
inst, sufficient to cover the ground.
The cry Of mad dogs is heard just
now throughout western Canada.
"A Chinese firm in San Francisco |
wields capital Of over g, 100000.
The original Jim Crow" died last |
week among the Rocky mountains.
Philadelphia is losing its southern |
trade on account Of the union league.
A preacher in Kentucky has just /
gained a lawsuit which puts $3.50, 600 in
his pocket.
Boston, in proportion to its size, has
more accommodation in its churches
than any other American city.
The great complaint of the radicals
at present, is, that the southern whites
treat the blacks too kindly!
Those who were complaining that
Surratt was not brought back to this
soon enough, now think he came
too soon.
The colOred people Of Newbern have
to support no native white re-
publicsns in that state for Office, but de-
sire TO hold the offices themselves.
South American advices state that
courtesies have been resumed, since Ad-
miral fuckers retirement, between the
Chilian and United States war vessels.
The harbor of Valparaiso was full of for
eign war vessels, and the work on the
of the city was making
good progress.
Hon. James Buchanan, ex-president,
entered upon his seventy-seventh year
On the 22d nit. He is in vigorous health,
and occasionally makes the trip from
Wheatland to Lancaster three miles and
4 half, on foot.
M. GOusset, the great champagne
grower, has inaugurated a new system,
which probably will come into general
Use. By means Of new system of cork
md cOrkscrew, a glass of champagne
'an be taken from bottle without in
uring the remaining contents.
-" Mark Twain " says that to "see a
ovely girl of seventeen, with her saddle
IN her head, and her muzzle on behind, I
and her veil just covering the end Of her
lose, come tripping along in her hoop
ess, red bottOmed dress, like churn on
ire, is enough to set man wild" '
An orderly attached to the charity
hospital on Blackwell's island, n. y,
vas arrested yesterday on the charge of {
,ouging out the eyes OF one Of the hos '
'ital patients and afterwards strangling
lin with linen cloth. :
The watch case factory of c. d A. t
at Philadelphia, was entered '
~ burglars on Tuesday night, and
obbed Of watches and money to the
'alue of five thousand dollars. The rob-
,ery occurred before ten O'Clock in the
vening, the factory being but a few q
teps from the Central police station.
"A rigid quarantine of all vessels 7
laving contagious diseases on board, or I
oming from infected ports, has just t
'een ordered by the post eommandant at /
dobiIe.
The message of Gov. English at the 2
pening of the legislature of Connecticut, t
ecently, takes strong ground against the ?
surpstions of the thirty-ninth congress,
whose measures, if persisted in, he as v
erts, will transform the republic into q t
espotism. He declares its legislation to Il
e wholly unwarranted and as fatal to :,
be union and the constitution as the a
octrine Of secession, and that congress G
as no more power under the constitu-
ion to establish military government at 4
be south than to institute the order. Of $
obility in England. Z
The London metropolitan under i
round railway is about five miles long, n
nd carried in 1866, 2l ,27S, ,2O4 passen- 3,
ers without a fatal accident Its e
sceipts per mile were considerably =
lore than those of ten principal rail- \
'ays centering in London. Plans are d
ow in progress to increase the lines to "
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