Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-27
GENERAL TINS.


The Louisville Courier publishes a
list Of all the bsnkrupts in Kentucky.
The list includes about two thousand
names.
Dispatches from Belgrade report
that the secretary and servants Of Prince
Karageorgewick are on trial on charge
of completely in the plot for the murder
OF Prince Michael.
Hon. George H. Pendleton has con-
scented to address 8 Democratic meeting
at Lafayette, Ind, on the 30th inst.
Jefferson Davis and family will
srend the summer in Nova Scotia. A
large number of Southerners are already
there.
The members Of the Alabama Leg
islature have consented to legislate for
the benefit Of the negroes at s. per day.
The Scientific American says that
the military telegraph system now used
by the United States is probably the
most perfect in the world.
Miss Csllie Hewitt, an accomplished
young lady, was killed by lightning
near Huntsville, Ala, recently.
-One-ffth Of the inhabitants Of that
part Of Algeria visited by the cholera
have been carried off by the epidemic.
1t it said that the present is the
longest session OF the French Chambers
on record. It has lasted eight months.
A large number Of MormOns are now
on their way across the plains to their
New Jerusalem. A party Of them landed
from a steamer on the west banks Of the
Missouri, opposite Council Bluffs, on
Monday last, and before night seventeen
Of the party were sunstruck.
General R0secrans is at the AstoT
House. He remains in New York a
week or ten days, on private business.
A land slide occurred on Friday nesr
Gosport, killing three men and seriously
injuring several others.
The Inebriate Asylum, on Wards
Island, costing four hundred thousand
dollars, was paid for by licenses under
the excise law.
The principal activity on Wall street
Is in Western stocks. Eastern stocks
and Governments are quiet.
The New Bedford Standard says the
whale ships are bringing in full cargoes,
and an abundant yield Of oil is expected.
Parties are organizing q company
and raising money to develope the quartz
gold mine recently discovered near West
Point. A rich vein has been traced there
for 8 thousand feet.
George NJ. Day, an extensive miller
Of Peru, Illinois, committed suicide on
Thursday evening, by shooting himself
through the heart.
The Chase House, the pride and
boast Of PithoIe in its palmy days, is
now being taken down and removed to
PleasantyilIe, the new Pennsylvania OIL
dorado. 1t was erected in 1865, at cost
OF $50, 600.
Fifty dollars will hereafter be
charged to the soldier vino Loses or dis
poses OF the Springfield breeeh-loading
musket.
The printers in the Toronto Leader
Office are on strike because they were
offered American silver in payment Of
their wages. They demand that ten per
cent. discount be allowed.
"A Richmond dispatch says Lieut..
VIM. S. Msckey, Of the Twenty-ninth
Infantry, fed from LyDchburg on Wed
nesdsy with q considerable amount CT
,,,opav ohtainei nv fraud
The city Of Boston owns public
parks and squares which would sell for
SIS, OOO,OOO, which is enough TO pay the
city debt.
The Democrats Of the Evansville
(Indians) district, rs-nominsted Hon.
w. E. Niblsck for Congress.
The British House Of Commons has
passed the bill providing for the puF-
chase Of all the telegraph lines in the
country, and connecting the telegraph
business with that Of the post office.