Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-04
THE NEWS.


Forty new freight cars are building
st Minneapolis, to be completed Ia time
to be used in moving the wheat crop Of
this fall.
-Phis season the rice crop will prob
ably reach sixty thousand barrels, against
forty-fiVe thousand barrels In 1867.
Wild horses are now found in great
mum bers on Llachian plains, In New
South Wales, aud have become scourge.
At some seasons they are dangerous TO
approach. ~.
According to the recently issued
register OF the United States navy, it sp-
pears that we have now In the navy two
hundred and twenty vessels, Of which
fifty are iron-clsd.
There viii be another concession OF
prices for dispatches over the Atlantic
cable after the Ist Of September. The
rate will then be Sl2 so In geld for ten
words between any part of Great Britain,
and New England and New York.
The city councils of Baltimore have
appropriated $50. .000 to the reiiefof the
sufferers in the city by the late food,
Sl50,O00 toward repairing streets and
bridges, and $40. 600 for removing the
rubbish.
"A firm IN New Bedford is making
three-Bheeled wagons and carriages,
which are much liked by those who have
tried them. They are said to turn in less
space and with less danger OF upsetting
thsn four wheeled vehicles.
Rev. J. d. King, CT Fall River, Mass,
whose house has twice been entered by
thieves, publishes g card, informing the
burglars that he never leaves anything
In his house worth stealing, and advising
them 10 desist from bootless raids upon
II,
The Springfield Mass. Republican
Of q recent date says: Col. Berdan, Of
sharp shooter fspe, was In town yester-
day, superiutending at the srmory trial
Of bis new breech-loader, thirty thousand
~hieh are now making at Colts in
OF I'D, for the Russian government
Ii,sI HartI% T., ~eI will sail for Europe next
week. 90 couptu Mich ovar
,oo dan IN romnds IF :, 'Hol have been bought
I,O tb;s Season, the hight@ t@st price reported
haing forty-five cents. At 4~'ount S5eIno Ii d0c
ems. Macomb county, about !l9,VOV
mounds have been purchased, elg-'Iy-
eight cents beirg the highest price. A.
Niles. in Berrien county, 81, coo pounds
have been bought at prices ranging rom
thirty.three to thirty-eight cents.
"A large diamond found By Griqus,
naar the Vssl river, 10 Africa, has been
forwarded TO the Colonial Office at the
Cane II weighs fifteen and half carAts
and il valued at about &4Oe. several
others have been found in the neighbor-
hood of the Vsai river.
The German philosophy ia begin
nirg to react upon the popular tastes,
According to recent statistics, novels
and other works Of light literature are
much less called for than formerly, while
the demand for works upon science IL
largely increased.
"A gold vein has been discovered In
the town OF C,iutOn, \. y. The vein is
traceable on the surfsee for 5OOO feeti and
varies in width from six inches to one
foot. The quartz Is bluish, and portion
Of 1t next the walls deoomposed. 1t is
we'll defined, and pitches at an angle OF
seventy-fiye degrees. An assay of sam
pies of the quartz rock by competent
no me, allurgists, shows that it contains
SIS. As Of gold to the ton, and about twen-
ty per cent. Of silver.
Prussia has shown her determine
ton to become first-rate maritime pow
or, by making an extraordinary sppro-
pristion OF s., l52, ,374 for the year 1859, to
e expended ~ the construction OF forti-
fications st the seaports she has Just OBJ
tanned, and In manufacturing heavy ar.
tiIlery and Rrmored vessels. The amount
to be expended at Kiel alone. is stated to
amount TO 81, All t, l24, or $2,5l4 $40 more
than in 1886.
"A purse has been arrested st Gene
va. Switzerland, on q charge Of poison
log successfully eight persons whom she
had had under her care. The only eX-
PLANTATION given for the crime is sort OF
homicidal monomania, as she does not
appear 10 have derived any profit from
the death of these persons.
Some time since we published an ac-
count of "suttee" in India. The CAL
cutta Eaglishmdn has the following 80
the final chapter of the story: rs )me
adverse criticism has been excited by |
the severity of sentence In a recent
suttee' case ct Cawnpore. Fourteen !
men wore transported for life, and thirty
for ten years, and eleven others were TO
be imprisoned for five years6
The mental condition OF the Em. |
press Csrlotta has lately become so Sc
rious that double guards have been |
placed around the palace Of Lsecken,
Brussels, TO prevent her escape.
E-FrOm one of our German exchanges |
we copy a statement that transparent
metal has been discovered, the compo- |
nent parts Of which are water, glass and |
copper: at is Of a deep orange hue,
can be melted ard cast, wrought under
the hammer, and rolled. Files will not
scratch it; II is translucent, and capable
OF being wrought into ornaments OF rare
beauty"
The woods on the north shore OF
Lake Superior are reported to be rapidly
burning. Fires are raging through the
standing pine timber with intense rapid I
fly. Millions of dollars worth have al
ready been destroyed, and millions
more will be before the consuming ele.
ment can exhaust ltself. -