Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-30

-AotOuito SuaEus 20 tne rope.
A general mseting Of Freemasons
announced 10 take place ia HavTe
France, on the 18th OF September next
Ia All French and foreign Lodges will re
- eeive invitations.
A band Of brigsnds recently made !
raid on a sheep farm AZ Feazs. Syuth
er Italy, and killed loco sheen, stating a
=, the time thar It would serve as a lesson
Sc to the proprietor, who previously took
active steps against them.
o. According to the Bombay Gazette, the
= pearl hsherles at the extreme southern
q coasts OF India have for o considerable
" time produced nothing, and il Is feared
that the pearl oyster has deserted them.
:, Anton Rubinstsin, the greatest living
Y pianist who Is about to MAKE a trip 20
+ the United States, was born on the 18th
! OF November, 1899, in q small village
n near Jsssy, on the Russian frontier. He
h married, Two years ago, Russian lady
OF noble birth.
a The duel between Mr.. Jecker and Mr..
a Odysse BarOt, editor Of ths Li6erte, of
Paris, terminated in the latter receiving
a bullet on the last button of his waist
o coat, causing severe confusion, but no
{ wound. Tne ball was fiS.teBed on the
Q outton and glanciog OF slipped int the
a waistcoas pocket, where il was found.
2 Mr.. Barot Is evidently intended to die by
other means than 8 pistol shot.
, In examining the papers OF NJ. de Cor
menin, Counsellor OF stale, recently de-
) Ceased the following note, dated Jsnu-
arg l, 1868, was found: 81 desire ex-
pressly that nsthing which l leave shall
be published after my death, as / have
made noise enough while alive. Silence
ls the epitaph which suits me best.-De
Cormenin.H His heirs have, Ii eonse-
quence, abandoned their intention OF
publishing his correspondence and lite
rary remains.
The garden Inspector of Biebrich, who
boxed the ears of Aristarchi Bey, the
Turkish EmbssssdOr at Berlin, has been
sentenced to four weeks imprisonment.
The public consider this sentence unjust,
and expect that the higher court, 70
which shs inspector has appealed, viii
aequit MIN. The Embasssdor behaved
Ike fOel and blsekguard, and the cas-
ugatlon which he received was richly
deserved.
A letter from Ems relates that the
hlDg OF Prussia, while walking under
the coionnade In that town q few days
oaekI with his aides-de-eamp, Count de !
HehndorH and Count de Hymnea, per-
ceiVed In shop marble bust of himself, |
crowned with 3 wreath of laurel. Going |
I'D, ne said to the dealer: Take of the /
poor mans head. dress; he does not like
70 see himself made such show"
! New gold discoveries on the CinarFen I
/ FlVeT, Near the corner Of Colorado, Kan
sas, New Mexico and Texas, are creating
great excitem slt and miners are rushing
INTO the new Gigglngs. The mineral belt
Is the same that mas 6ireSdy been opened
and worked rom Montana to Mexico.
Inere can be no doubt OF the existence
or valuable mines on the Cimsrron az
well as OF the Canadian and other forks
70 the Arkansas heading in the Rocky
Mountains. The new diggiDgs are on
the line OF the proposed extension OF the
Eastern Division. of the Union Pacific
Railroad to Santa Fe.
The mysterious disappearance of a for
mer hoGOred General AZ Pesth has Gre
ated great sen sstion. He was told by
q stranger that one Of his old soldiers
was st the point Of death, and wished to
intrust important papers to him. He
accompanied the stranger, and that was
the last that was seen Of him. 1t Is
believed that he was asssssinatsd. LErge ,
rewards bave been offered to those who
will give information about his fate.
The Calsbar bean, one OF the Paris !
Journals asserts, has been found to bs an ]
antidote to strychnis. The Istter de-
strOys by spssLnOdic contraction; the
former, when taken alone, parslyzes and !
and consequently neutraiIZss the action {
of stryehnIa if gwen after that poison.
The Calabar Is the ordeal bean used by n
the negroes OF Western Africa in de {
termining the guilt or innocence of ac-
cused individusls-a test the effect of [
which ia to immensely swell the erimi- '
no lia4a II q II i1kl Z
fatal, the Individual only escaping when 7
vomiting is prOduced-a rare occurrence. i
The most interesting effect of the Gala 8
bar bean is that of contracting the pupil ]
Of the eye, whereby distant objects are I
apparently magnided and seen nearer, q
and it is now considerably used for in
creasing the power Of accommodating the '
eye to distances 8
Victor Hugo travels on the continent q
with British passport, in which he is 1
described ss "Victor Hugo, house. owner, q
Island Of Guernsey" When he first sent =
to London for it, the intelligent clerk e
who had charge Of the passport depart =
ment, replied 60 him that he must ex-
actly state who and what he was. This, =
however, was not the first time when .
Victor Hugo found that his illustrious =
name was by no means as well known =
as ne thought. He Was once in Paris, .
together with Alexsnder Dumas, as the y
Marie OF the sixth arTORdisseDlellt, in Il
order to witness document. After both j
be and Dumas had signed it, the clerk
asked: Victor Hugo, what is your bus " y
iness? Are you g public fuuetiOnary?' u
81 No. Did you never hear OF me?u te
- Never in my life." "HOld On,u inter-
posed Dumss' al am sure YOU must have II
heard of me, my frieRd?' "DumssI"
said the clerk, Struggling his shoulders, ~ ~
' there are great many persons bearing L.
that name" The two poets left without -
trying to enllghten the clerk as to who ~ ~
hey were. =
A curious discovery has recently been %
made at Breuil-le-Ssc, Hesr Clermont,
Frsnoe. During several years the turf
cutters of that district have continually sti
ound faggOts tied in peculiar manRer, ar
md the attention of some scientific gem iD
lemen having been called to the cireum- CC
taBce, il Is now proved that Roman su
,ridge formerly existed there, which was sp
brown across the marsh TO the foot of in
be hill now called Ls Ohattelier, oppo- fir
lite Breuil-le-Vsrt, where the lsgfons Of
Iulius Ce sar were eneamped. Its length
vas about four thousand feet, and the
,readth about thirteen feet; the beams rie
Fere still undisturbad amid fascines laid th,
own Ia regular straits. On referring to
he fourteenth chapter Of '.Csessr's Com tee
nentsries" it is easily recognized as the los
ite whsre be was preparing to surprise thl
be Bellovaci (pdtude poRti6us con- bp
trdtd). 1t would appear that this bridge -
7ss thrown across IN one night, without ma
be euemy's knowledge. The Romans 4
sd first driven piles into the marshy De
oil, over which were laid plauks of birch wh
nd oak, without mailing, in order not to res
tract the attention of the enemy by the hlr
oise Of the hammers. This bridge en- lat
bled the Romans to surprise the Bello- i'm
aei, who were commanded by Correus. Ind
everal other articles of Roman manu-. arn
.cture were found among the exeRva- bee
Ons and deposited in the local museum. Il
The Black Cabinet still hourishes in 70
aris, as Messrs. Rouher and Pinard TN
ere compelled to confess at the last sue
tting of the Corps Legislstiff. NJ. de iml
andal is the gentleman who presides gre
YER the department to which this hon. iosi
.sbie business Is intrusted. The modus stsl
,araudi is as follows: The police prefet lie
Paris, and the prefets Of every depart mo
ent, furnish to the pOstoff1ces lists of turf
| suspicious persons whose letters srs to eas'
retained. These letters are sent to q cess