Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-12
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF IhE DA II.
BY a recent decree, Spain allows the
free importation of corn and flour for
four months, .E
The Austrian ministry has been re-
organized, with Prince Charles Won
AenersbeTg as president.
The last Greek loan has been swal-
lowed up in the purchase Of vessels and
munitions Of war.
The total number OF voters registered
ia Virginia is 2I6 600. The ratio Is eleven
whites to nine blacks.
by the suspension OF the great iron
works in South Wales nine thousand
persons are thrown out of employment.
The Michigan city hsrboT is now so
far completed as to admit large vessels,
and a lively trade is springing up.
The New York Herald, ii anybody
could believe what it says, thinks we are
on the verge of another civil war.
1t is reported that one of the col
| lectors Of internal revenue in New YORK
has been arrested for connivRnce in gil
gantic whisky frauds.
The light-foOted maidens of Kenosha,
Wis, are to dance for prizes at tour
nament."
"A gold (or brass chain on the para
sol for the lady to put her gloved hand
through, is the latest fashion on Broad
way.
Hon. John Morrissey won, it is said,
$50, coo on the last prize fight.
Twenty Of the prominent jour
nalists of New Orleans held commissions
in the Confederate army, and in Mem
phis of this class there are on the APPEAL
three the Avalanche three, and the
editor-in-chief of the Bulletin was an
admiral in the navy.
"A dispatch from Virginia City, Mon
tana, says that Cavanaugh, democrat,
has been elected by an overwhelming
majority.
"A Havana paper tsunts the United
States with the fact that of all the
monuments and statues proposed to the
memory Of Abraham Lincoln, not one
has beea erected.
Last week $50 immigrants passed
through Columbus, Ohio, 229 of them
intending to locate in Ohio, 296 in Indi-
ana, 233 in Missouri, rs in Kentucky,
and the remainder in other western
states.
Those members of the Irish police
force who distinguished themselves dur
ing the late Fenian troubles have been
rewarded by medal presented by the
lord lieutenant.
The New Orleans Crescent says:
The New York Tribune is fond of calling
its political opponents insecdverOus, 7"
not being aware, probably, that insec-
tiverous creatures are those which attack
insects.
The speeches of Napoleon in his
tour through France have had a tran
QUILTING effect in England, but are not
equally appreciated in France.
An American vessel rendering assist
anee to the Cretan refugees has been
compelled to desist by the Turkish
authorities, greatly to the surprise and
dispIeasure of the officials at Washing
ton.
The insurrection in Spain may be
considered quelled. The insurgents are
fleeing toward the French frontier and
disarming, and thousands in Catalonia,
taking advantage of the protfered am
nesty, have surrendered.
1t is reported from st. Thomas that
there has been an uprising of about three
hunC'ed negroes, which caused consid+
erable disorder in the streets. They
attacked the fort, but were quickly re-
pulsed, with five killed and several
wounded. About fifty of them have
been imprisoned.
The Scientific american, in recent
article, doubts the practicability of using
petroleum as a substitute for coal as q
fuel. It considers the experiments that
have been made with the former article
quite unsatisfactory as regards economy
of burning.
A young woman from st. Louis,
named Mary Hotter was suffOcsted with
Gas on Wednesday night, in her room,
at the Western hotel, Chicago. Sire
blew cut the gas, neglectiDg to turn it off.
In the national asylums for disabled
volunteer soldiers, at Augusta, Maine,
Columbus, Ohio, and Milwaukee, there
are now six hundred soldiers, and five
hundred more, with their families, re-
ceive relief at their homes.
1t is reported that the cholera has
broken out in Rotterdam and other
places in the neighborhood In an epi-
demic form. A severe outbreak has also
taken place on the southern slopes OF the
Alps.
The Paris exhibition palace Is an
nounced for sale, and all the constTuc-
tions of that marvellous park with 1t. 1t
/ seems to have been Of little use to have
made so much effort TO describe it, now
that it is TO be torn to pieces and sold to
| the highest bidder as so much old mate
rial fl only for firewood.
| The ties for the Kansas Pacific rail-
road have to be transported from the
| eastern border, and are estimated to cost,
| laid down, one dollar each. Fuel used
! for the locomotives has to be transported
| two hundred miles.
"A passenger train on the NaugatucB
railroad fei through bridge on Friday
I last. Sixteen persons in one car were
s,,-arf oyrar q dam and fen were after.
wards rescued, but a number were
drowned.
The spirituslIsts, in session at Cleve'
land, have adopted resolution recon-
meuding the founding of a secret order,
thing like the Odd Fellows organi'
zatiOu.
| "A meeting OF the radical governors ii
/ to be called in a few days, to take place
either at Philadelphia OF Washington
This convooation is desired in view o
the recent overwhelming defeat of th'
party in the late elections. There L
evidently crisis in the party.