Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-01-31
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Mr.. John G. Whittier has sent to press
his new poem, THE Tent on the Bea-
con-"
The Albany underwriters have made
p standing offer Of a reward Of $1,000 for
the conviction OF every incendiary in
that city.
When completed the Pacific railroad
will resemble a gigantic letter \, with
the expansion looking eastward.
A Philadelphia is Disguised with
I Rome because "its so plague full of
ruins there's nothing else to see; Arch
street could buy the whole out, and
spare enough 10 build them up again.
Colorado, if admitted with her twenty
seven thousand inhabitants, wjIf have
the same control over federal legislation
as New York, with her population Of
four million.
Colorado Jewett has written 4 letter,
placing himself on the extreme radical
platform in entire accord with Messrs.
Sumner aud Stevens.
Rev. Mr.. Mansfield, Of Butler county,
. Kentucky, who was a Cumberland Pres
byterian minister, applied for member
I ship in a Baptist church, was received,
baptized, ordained, marrisdaud preached
q sermOu-all in the same day.
A southern journal, in commenting on
the fact that Fred. Douglass enjoys the
reputation of a very talented man, says 4:
Il" OF course be is smart; he Is The son Of
q southern gentleman
Mrs. Charles Pennington, Of Meade
county, Kentucky, has given birth to
five children within a year. She started
of with twins last February, and last
week gave birth to three chiidren-twO
boys, weighing ten pounds each, and one
daughter, weighing six pounds.
Jerome, the Wall street broker, is
creating a sensation ia New York with
his monitor sleigh. Ii is described as
little else than q beautiful boat on run
Ders, with erect PROV and graceful stern,
miniature guns projecting on either side,
both an ornament and defense. The
crew consists Of twenty ladies.
The remains of a log cabin, composed
OF eve logs, were found at from twenty
20 twenty-six feet below the genersllevel
Of the country, in digging a well near
Waveiand, in Parke county, Indiana, on
the farm OF Mr.. John Spencer.
A young reprOhate at West Windsor.
Vt, induced a nice old lady, named
Martha Moulton, 10 dress a sore on his
neck, and while she was about it picked
her pocket Of S3l2. He went to prison.
It is said that there are bricks in the
Mosque Of st. Omar that retain as fully
The scent of the musk with which they
were originally i-mpregnated as on the
day the mason set them in the wall.
Some person lately played a practical
joke on the mayor Of Quebec by issuing
800 invitations to dinner in his name.
A physician az Bordeaux, France, has
succeeded in finding something good
even in the much-despised wasp. This
offensive insect is declared to be an
enemy to all poisonous flies, the sting of
which causes %caTbuncle it also destroys
an immense quantity Of minute worms
that get into fruit, and when introduced
the stomach may cause great incon-
veuience aud even diseases and its sting
is q sovereign remedy for govt, ~sciatica
and rheumatism, bat how to apply the
remedy he retains as a professional
secret.
This story, which IS rather good, comes
10 US from England. a sub-dean was
talking 20 a dean about the titles accord
ed to church diguitaries, in the tone Of "A
ms who feels himself ~aggfleved. An
archbishop said he, q" is q most rev.
erend, a bishop is a reverend, and a dean
is a very reverend. Don't you think a
sub-dean should have some prefix Of the
kind ~ We'll, yes,n answered his SUI
O. certainly agree with You.
How would rather reverend do p"
The Christmas dish in Austriais goose,
of which immense numbers are slaught-
8red on that occasion. At Vienna the
dealers decorate their shop win
with those birds dressed uD 10
represent in caricature individuals Of a
lIomentary notoriety. This season the
majority Of geese figured as Marshal
Beuedek Or Gen. Clam sllas. The great
.uccess o. the previous occasion was q"
French romance writer delivering a
cientiic lecture, p alluding 10 Alexandra
Dumas, then in the Austrian capital.
A man in Philadelphia Mortified the
lassers-by, a day or two since, by throw
ne himself ia front of a street car. In.
tead Of being a crazy creature, he was a
fr. $. ellison, inventor Of a railway
afeguari, by applying which 10 the ear
Wheel any movable obstruction is pushed
instead Of run over. He took this :
Of showing the efficacy Of his q,
1ventiOn. Z
Ezekiel Webster, brother Of Daniel, .
Tho was considered the hands0mest man :
D the United States, had a skin of SIM
ular fairness, and light hair. He is
ividly remembered in New Hampshire
" his marvellous beauty of form apdl J
his c0urtly and winning manners,
&c hbiBlA anu maJtSte oA us tlb1cACts %
lie was asignal refutatiOn Of DIR. Holmes
leory, that grand manners and high Il
are the result OF several gene D
lIiOns Of culture. Until lac WAS nine C
en, this peerless gentleman worked on
rough mountain farm on the outskirts :
civilization. {
At a meeting Of the Ohio Dental asso- =
alton DIR. VIM. HerriOtt, of GAINESVILLE, z
a very interesting case of res y
ration Of q lost nose and upper lip car
ed away by a abell AZ Mission Ridge,