Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-02-05
GENERAL NEWS.

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" Occasionally Presidential candidate Is
seen flddlsd in the streets but as this
usually haypeUs on Sunday, it does not
obstruct public business or attract gene
rsl attention" We said several weeks
ag1, when the Radicals had no further
use for Grsnt they would cast him aside
Ike an old shoe.
Dick Yates, at present Senator from
Tlinoisand former Governor Ofthat State,
Is said 60 have abandoned the temperance
cause, and himself to the joys of "old
g. rban - his conscience is i'll at ease,
about he thousands Of widows and or
phsss cgused by his letting Illinois ex-
ceed Der quota in the late war, by from
thirty To forty thousand men.
BY Issuing tickets the soup house at
Nashville reduced its tCarde7s from 600
10 3T5. One hundred gailcps Of soup Is
he daily distribution. OF the S75 regu-
larry tic6eted, about loo are white.
Tho Nashville Press and Times has
the Kirklux Kiann on the brain. It is
constantly getting up some dreadful
story, without the shadow Of foundation,
or is yrestly imposed on "iust for the fun
OF the lhing.u It's object is evidently to
friga.eu the negroes from joining some
sort Of covenant thSt has possibly been
formed t) Cffset the Loyal Leagues.
"A Democratic Convention will be
held at Harrisburg, Pa, on the 4Lh OF
NsIch. The PiClsbuTg Post IS out Tor
PpndIetCn, and says: There is really no
other candidate in the lield, and no man
can venture to that position without
sdCntiue the platform which has given
Mr.. PendletoD his great prominence.
-FollOwirg the suicidal example OF
Rev. q. W. Bush, cf Delaware, Ohio,
Rev. BIr Ryan, q superanpusted
preacher, attempted suicide, on Satur.
| tav. st Nsrysville, Union county, and
on Monday, J. D. Brsyfcgle, an old resi-
dent OF Delaware, ended his existence by
| 3 pistol ball through his hesd
Gen. A. Med. McCroOk has been sp'
/ pointed to the eommaud Of the sub-dls-
l trict Of the Rio Gr2ude, with hesdquar-
| ters st Brownsville.
The Connecticut Democratic State
/ Convention at New Haven, yesterday,
reuomiuated Gov. English and all the
! present State officers.
"A shipment q 200 600 salmon ovs,
packed in ice, has been made from Lon
/ don 70 Dunedin, New Zealand, Tor the
purpose Of stocking the rivers in that
/ Colony.
-Bsuiamin +. Beech went to the resi-.
| depce Of Annie GTshsm, in Brooklyn, n.
/ Y. on Wednesday night, and, after
/ attempting to shoot her, put reyoiveT
/ 10 his head and blew out his brains.
! Jealousy was the cause.
/ Judge Black is said to be prepaTir 9
an application to the Supreme Court OF
I the United States for an order restrain
! ing Gen. Meade from illegally approprl'
ating money in the Treasury Of Georgia,
! The point involved being, OF course, the
validity Of the powers conferred upon
the General by the reconstruction laws.
TIE Minneapolis MIMI Tribune
savs that there are great destitUtiOn and
| suffering in that city. and that dozens
of families are Sctually unprovlded with
the means OF svertiug hunger and the
| frogt,U and that numbers OF men, wo-
| men ard children are actually in danger
Of starving or freezing to death"
In Herold d LOeb's brewery, st
I,auiz, on Tuesda Michsel Johann was
/ engaged in throwing some hops from 8
Dialfjrun iRto a huge cistern containing
boiling water, when be lost his balance
and fell headlong into the tank. de
was rescued as soon as possible, but sc
terribly sealded that he died the same
evening.
The State Treasurer of North Caro-
! lima has refused TO pay the per diem o
the members OF the Convention.
A Swiss brewer committed suicide
by cutting his throat with rsz0r, a
Mokelumne Hill, Cal, December 18th.
"A negro named Fuller fractured the
skull Of another named Jack Williams
at Selma, Ala, on Tuesday evening.
There WAS a !all of snow at Selma OF
the morning of the 29.h ult. 1t fell t
the depth OF an inch, and then, like th'
voice in the "soldier's dTesm," melteC
away.
Mrs. WOOdGD, who resided abou
five miles from Athens, Ala, Will
plsying with her little boy, some fourteen
maaths' cid, with her back to the fire
few days since, was suddenly envelopes
80 flames by her clothes taking fire. Sh
3 fingered in great agony till the mex
evening.
The New York Mail says: "May
nsrd, of Tennessee is the leanest man il
the House" Just another letter if yo
please.
The New York Mail says: "Ther
; are foar men in the House named re
spectively-Butler, Baker, Cook an
Cake" They might set up boArdin
house on a small scale. r
The New York Mail says: ga u
p in East st. Louis was arrested for setf
FIRE to his own house, on which there
: no insurance." The presumption is
such q fool should not be permitteDU
run at large.
; The New York Mail says: ''Ben
laday has given Gov. Haight big pg
bowl worth $1,000 We should baPnh
drink its contents" That would def In
: entirely upon what they are. II edJ
rie, you'd 20 to the bottom.
The Huntsville Ala Ladepe11d q,
of the 30th, says: Freezing cold ak
Yesterday. Thermometer down TO abol
3Oo of zero last night" That's SOM
where in the neighborhood Of the freezin
/ nOint