Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-11-20
APPEAL
FRIDAY MoRNlNG. NOv. 20. 1855
THE NEWS.

Door markEman, anu a worse sNoIOaAHaA'
Dumas best year produced him 125,OOO
francs
Literary papers in Germany have cut
into the book ursds fearfnlly.
The "Girl Of the Period articles were
written by an English clergyman.
George Wilkes wants TO make natHfal-
ization easier.
The mother Of Alexander Dumas, Jr.,
was q sesmstress.
Gottsehslk has played himself out OF
Buenos Ayres into Brazil
NJ. Levidi, the oldest journalist Of
Athens, Greece, has Just died.
The Federal garrison hiss been re-
moved from Augusta, Ca
On Tuesday Of lsst week 9 fire in Nav
asots, Texas, destroyed several large stores.
Miss Bateman is erowding the London
Hsymarket theater as in Macrssdy's day.
y memorial concert to Artemus Ward
Is 70 be given in Portland fer q monument
fund.
James Brooks represented the Portland
CMel Advertiser, as Washington correspondent,
thirty years sgo.
The successor Of Mr.. Douglas Cooke,
ss editor OF the London Saturday Rsrte1S, Is
MI. Phillip HarwOod.
AID E1ELsu SuEIebuAs ABuNaAI ~
DratIngToOrs almanac, contains lists OF al the
presentations 70 the Queen.
Sir Percey Shelley, son of the poet, Is
is one OF the best yachtsmen in England. His
other speciality is private tbeatr1csls
The Temperance Association Of the
District OF Columbia VIII urge Congress to en-
act a prohibitsry law In December.
The house Of Harper Brothers consists
of James. born I7s5 John, -ITy7 Joseph Wee
ley, Is0l; and Fletcher, ls&.
The richest Chinese library in the
world is now In st. Petersburg. It consists Of
u.s7 volumes
At the cheap booksellers shops, in
London as in America, there is a large steady
sale for Byron.
The levees Of ~Thebodeaux, Ls., are
being strengthened SO Is TO Withstand the
foods Of winter.
Col Stephen Ferrell, D Of the most
gallant officers OF the celebrated Texas Rangers,
died at LaGrange, Texas, s few days ago.
Adolph Susie, q German, was arrested
in Galveston, Texas, last Wednesday, charged
with stealing $500 in geld, in Brenham.
A nugget of gold weighing 200 pe my
weights wss found in White county, Ca, re-
Gently.
The engineers who sre to survey the
LEalA u -A[ SAA@
road have commenced operations
The Lewis snd SprsgUe gold mines in
Northeastern Georgia are being reoPened by a
company Of Northern capitalists They antic-
ipate q ucb reward for their labocs.
Three lines Of French snd German
steamers are demonstrating the possibility OF
keeping up direct trade with New Orleans and
Europe.
The annual session Of the Alabama
Baptist state Convention closed at Marion
Ala. on the 9Th inst. The next session viii be
held in Oxford Ala, in Ovemoer next.
Col. D. Wyatt Aiken, Of Abbeville
district, 5. C., who was arrested a short time
ago and taken TO Columbia, charged with be
ing accessory 10 the murder Of Randolph, has
been released on 5000 bail.
The new State p~enitentisry Of North
Carolina viii be located st LOczville, on Deep
river, Chatham county. The building material
Is there abundant and ga immense water
power for machinery, and It Is said 70 be =
healthy region and abundsnt in provisions.
The planters OF Lsfourche parish, La,
CON plain Of the appearance IN the Standing
ST gar cane Of what they call The bore worm.
This insect bores mo The sugar cane, causing it
10 soften below where it operates and n ateri-
ally Injuries the plant
The latest proposition Of the New
York Radicals is 70 divide the state. The new
creation is 20 be called the state Of Manhattan,
and is to include The counties Of suffolk. Rock
land, Richmond, QueeDs, Orange, Putnam and
West Chester.
The Hampstead COUltrgm an, speak
Ing Of the universal use OF specie in Texas.
outside Of Galveston, says in some towns Of
tie State gTeen5acks are never seen at all. and
would be as greats curiosity as Bank Of Eng
land notes.
T. --.-a--I =. a. -
from portions Of Halifax and Martin counties,
NC Application 70 this end viii be submit
ted for the consideration Of the General As
sembiy. Il is proposed to call the county thus
formed Roanoke.
w. w. Richardson, OF Coosa county,
Ala, 8 Radical justice OF the Peace, hung HIM
self On the ubh inst BE left "a letter stating
that one Of the causes which Led him 20 com
Bit the act. WIS remsrse for the manner in
which he had treated the white people Of his
Deighborhood.
Adelaide Ristori recently said to some
friends Ia Venice, that during her Eojourn in
America she received every day several love
letters but the sentimental gentlemen who
addressed her were PROBABLY ignorant OF the
fact that her husband opened an Der letters,
and that the biIet-douX always exhlarated
the family al t1s breakfast table.
There is a young Irish boy, ten years
OI1t u Southampton MASS VINO has been kent
henoing COWS, and, while TINS employed, has
devoted his time in modelling animals, COWS.
oxen, sheep, dogs and cstsL in clay, and the
Likeness Of some Of them Is very striking. with
the aid Of brick dust, charcoal and chalk he
mskes perfect DUrhsms.
They have peace" Ia Poland. The
Gar has given Ten oo1fscated farms e Gen.
NaooEoH, ms personal representative, for the
affairs OF tbst unhappy land. On quitting the
county The Gar signed a ukase fntsrdietnr /
mustaebess nd ioperals. Henoeforward Poles
are permitted 70 wear only vhtskers, He has
also forbidden the women OF Poland to wear
the Polish toquet.
At Fayetteville, Texas, a few DAYS
ago, 8 singular phenomenon was seen in the
heavens. The sun shone brightly, and IN It's
direction, at the hight Of several hundred feat
were 70 be seen hosting in the air fnnumerable
substances somewhat resembling stars il ap-
p~earsnce, though Of a bright slIvery cast. and
also thoussnos OF long silver threads, some o.
them seemingly ten or fifteen faet in length.
Speaking Of Maggie Mitchell. an upro-
mantle savage, writing in the Pittsburg On
n1eTcial, says; Probably two-tairds or those
who are attracted by her style are fssoinafad
By her youth as much as anything alse and
this il where the Joke comes in, sit sbovys bow
deceptive the shades Of the 5ootllgbts &C
Maggie was not particularly youthful ten wears
ago; today she can look buck upos her
m~aidenhOod, at q time before most OF me
young men, vine are " struck " after ber. were
born. she IS about forty three years old Just
hink Of that
The PrUssiaH Parliament now IN ses-
sion will have under consideration some very
important measures. The questions Of tax
alton, the reduction Of the army. and the in
crease Of the navy, viii require careful examI-
nation. The success OF Bismarck in carrying
out his plans, which were adopted in defiance
OF constitutional restrictions, has hso such an
Influence upon the public mind and upon the
Prussian love Of glory, that his political enc
mics lave ceased TO exert a formal opposition
70 his measures In thu presens political posi-
tlon Of Prussia, however, Bismarck has to be
IN any move he may make, for at the
approaching election one Of those rapid
changes Of public opinion may at once raise
Or q poYarful and aciiua nnnoaifLon IL