Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-08
THE NEWS.

The trains on the Manassas Gap RoaC
now run to Mount Jackson, in shenandoah
county.
The Ohio river trade at Cincinnati il
not one-sixth OF what it was twenty year1
ago.
The Madison and indianapolis Railway
stock. which was worth $50 fifteen years since
can now be bought at SO a share.
Six thousand trees are required Il
build one Of the old style seventy-gour CUR
ships OF the line.
Ex-Attorney General Richardson O
Ohio is out for Seymour u Blair. He wa
Tonga leading Republican of his State.
The Columbia and Augusta Railroad
Will be finished to Granitsvine, S. C., sometime
next month, and viii reach Augusta by March
next.
Lamsrtine is still declsred dying. He
is the most vigorous invalid Of the century,
and bids fair, if he continues dan gerously III, to
live 8 hundred years,
A valuable jewel, stolen from the royal
treasury, at Lisbon, two years ago, was recent.
IL recovered a. Athens. Il was a diamond
worth sl50,OOO. Portugal needs. Just now, any
thing that can be converted into money.
A feet of SIS vessels is now on its way
from the Blask Sea with grain for Western
Europe, most Of which will be discharged in
England. The quantity is estimated at not
less than 100000 bushels.
"Let us have peace" The negro
loyal lesguers In st. Augustine, Florida, anu
sed themselves on Saturday evening, 18th ulti-
mo, by firing into a Democratic torchlIght pro
c~ession, and a~sSailing a Democratic meeting
and shooting the speaker.
Preparations for the Grand Knights
Templar demonstration at ST. Louis on the
18th, are actively going on. Over 5000 members
are expected from the leading cities Of the
country. The rooms Of every leading hotel
there have been engaged for the occasion.
The land along the track Of the Della
ware, L-ackRwSnna and Western railway, be-
longing to the company, which cost in 1887 but
SO au acre. it IS stated, now commands $3.50,
making the assets OF the road over $40 OOO,0O.
The Lynn (Mass) Manuscript of the
18th 0! August ssy 5: The shoe trade Fas been
active this week, the number OF cases shipped
from Lynn for the week ending yesterday be-
ing S5O5-sheving q good trade for this season OF
The year.
At a special Communication of Belle
Point Lodge No. ~, F. & A. M, Fort Smith,
Ark. held on the evening Of the 18th ult., BIO.
Michael Mayors, s Master Mason, was expelled
from all the rights, privileges and BENEFITS Of
Masonry, for gross unmEsonic conduct.
hePresident has issued q proclamation
announcing the ratification or the treaty ef
friendship, and navigation between
the United States and the Republic or Nicara-
qua. There IS to be s reciprocal freedom OF
commerce. but by this the privilege OF carry
ing on the cOasting trade is not understood.
The manufacture eff wood-soIed bOots
and shoes is one Of the latest Boston novelties.
q d claimed thai Thaw will Lost rn-oA l.
are lmperyiOUs 10 water, and only cost ABOUT
o1e-halfR as much as leather. Several hundreds
have already gone into use IN Boston, and or
ders nave been filed for New Orleans and s..
Louis.
The exodus Of people from the Allan
tic states TO California within the past nine
months has be=n something surprising. The
ships Ofthe Pacific Mail company carried forty
thousand persons 70 san Francisco during
that time. "a ships OF the opposition line
must have carried about half as many. The
former company dispatches four steamers q
month, and the latter company two,
Jesse, father Of his son Ulysses Simp-
son, Sam, Smith Grant, is writing his life for
the Shoe and Leather Reporter. The last num-.
Der OF that paper, before Us, contains a portrait
OF MIS- Jesse, the mother OF the uIustrious
" silent" Neither age nor sex prevents the
Rails making capital OF q good old lady who
HIS - AEA j. ALHl III na
permitted TO go to The grave in peace.
The New York Daily Sun, edited by
Dana, former Assistant Secretary Of War1 Is
still trying TO defend Grant from conviction by
the people that he slons is guilty Of the nom
exchange OF prisoners Of war and responsible
for the deaths at AndersonviIls and other pris.
ons. The thing is settled, Mr.. Sun. And though
you shine for all. yen cannot throw light
upon this matter that will exone-ate Grant
Mr.. A. B, Andrews, from North Caro-
lima, IS at Columbia, 8. C, 70 secure a Charter
for the Chatham Road from the Legislature.
It is proposed that the road shall run Directly |
from Columbia 10 Raleigh, by the way OF Cam
den and Cheraw, making almost an airline
road. The road does not ask q dollar Of mopev
frore South Carolina; on tee contrary. Il has
already over 100000 az ITS command. All fl
asks Is a charter.
Col. Thomas S. Flournoy, President of
the Norfolk and Great Western Railroad. was
In Norfolk last week endeavoriug 70 get The
Court Of that city to submit TO the
people OF Norfolk the question Of a subscrip-
ton to the capital stOcE OF the company, but
sc far a. We learn was unsuccessful. The last
heckleaburg tVa)C11Tt ordered a county levy
Of 5000 TO aid ia paying the expenses OF a sur
yey for the Norfolk and Great Western.
The details Of the recent evacuation Of
and the subsequent action Of Press.
Lopez in taxing up a new position on the
r%ebicuart, confirm the opinion that the war
With Paraguay IS not al an end. The allie
met with severe losses In the successive IepuIses
hey have suffered. and may yet be compelled
% give up the struggle. The dist received
rom Brazilian sources had a ~coloring not w.r-
by the situation. but recent DISPATCHES
modify these reports to the honor and prove
II the ~araguaysns.
Statistics Of the FIRST fruit business In
Francisco are sufficiently startling. From
/ pril 18Th 70 July 25th, more than a thousand
ons OF strswberries, %currsnts, peaches, cher
rsspberries and sprioots were consumed
nd nearly thres million oranges. 10000 lem
ms more than q million lines, 2l.GD pine an {
lies, 5000 punches Of bananas and plaatsins I
nd $4,000 c~OcoaDuts, imported. The fruit
sised and imported, not including grapes, was !
Worth about three quarters OF q million dol I
arE.