Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-14
THE NEWS.

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homeopathy In Russia.
"A man is on trial in Cincinnati for
forging street-car tickets.
Malta and Alexandria have a subma.
rine telegraph snd likeit.
The famous cattle yards of Chicago
pen l30, coo cattle at once.
The proper dance for q tin we'd
ding-can-cRn.
-Bslnlont's picture gallery is valued
at $500. 600. -.
The Alabama river Is In excellent
boating order.
The British royal family cost the
country S35, ,OeO. 600 annually.
Mobile is uneasy concerning the
humber Of incendiary fires In her limits.
1t viii take 80 900 barrels of sugar to
sweeten New Jerseys cranberry crop.
There have been I5s, ,6S4 404 feet of
lumber surveyed in Bangor since Jsnu-
sry. e-
"A machine has bsen invented which
will manufacture about one thousand
cigars daily. u. .u-a
The "captlve balloon ia London
cost $3.50, 600, and is owned and worked
by Frenehmen.
a Lady Franklin, now eighty, has re-
turned from Asia to France.
Queen Victoria is in her fftieth year,
and has nine children and thirteen
grandchildren.
-Alrs. Payne, of Alfalfa county, Mis-
sissippi, recently shot and killed negro
who attempted an outrage on her.
John Allen announces his intention
to reopen his dance house on Water
stree, New York.
Judge Hilton, of New York, gets q
salary OF S25 000 year for attending to
4. 7. SswRrt's law business.
1t is said that The fashion at we'd
dings this winter will be to give the
groom presents as well as the bride.
An English jury decides that it is
not murder Tor man to stamp his mis-
tress TO death With spiked boots.
"A Boston house lately received g dis
patch from Calcutta in less than twenty
one hours.
An American is driving an omnibus
over the new maeadsmized road from
Jaffa 70 Jerusalem.
-TRe run from Nashville TO Cbstta-
nooss, $50 miles,l which now occupies
ten hours, Is 10 be reduced to eight and q
half
The directors of the s.. Louis and st.
Joseph railroad have elected Col. Z. M.
Lawson, en- old citizen of st. Joseph,
President of the road.
C-Gen. VIM. p. Innes has resigned the
Presidency of the Tennessee aud Pacific
railroad, and viii return TO Michigan
about the let OF January.
-Thirty-three Swiss emigrants ar
rived st NewberD, n. c., q few days
since. They are mostly mechanics, and
will establish themselves at GOldsbOro.
-Longfellow's new book was pub
lished on the same day, namely, tie 10Th
of October, in London, Leipsie, Paris
and Boston.
Calvin Shaw, town constable of
J0nesborO, Tenn, was shot dead 3 few
nights ago by Matt. McIntuTff, FOR cali
Ing his wife liar. Ea
The Cleveland PZ1i,ae- Dealer says q
hospital for women who have become
disgusted with theiF husbands is to be
established in that city.
Boston manufactures three Thousand
barrels Of sugar daily. There is good
demand from the West, and two tnOu-
sand barrels were shipped last week.
It is stated that James L. Orr, Of
South Carolina, hiss determined to take
up his residence at st. Joseph, No., and
to resume the practise Of law.
in 6 recent examination Of sn old
desk belonging to the late Joseph Robin
son, of Beverly, Mass, about $1,000 were
found, 500 OF which were in gold.
Many English gentlemen, living in
the suburbs Of the railway Companies,
have purchased velociPedes, and declare
their Independence OF steam.
Father JahH, the great apostle of
gymnastics in Germany, is to have q
bronze statue In Berlin, to be erected on
the great TurnpiatE in the Hasenhaide.
"A double track OF steel rails Is being
rapidly laid along the Delaware division
OF the Erie railway, which includes the
vicinity of Carr's Rock, thus bringing
the road 70 4 condition OF safety.
DIR. Psui +. Eve, of Nashville, is go
ing to st. Louis 70 occupy the chair Ofsur-
gerry in the Missouri Medical College,
recently made vacant by the death OF
DR.. Mcdowell.
DIR. GTus, German physician, was
tie first to introduce the homeopathic
practice into the United States. At
present the number of homeopathic prac-
titioners in this country is 36S7.
Montreal Journals claim that ststis-
tics show the per eentage of persons at
tending school In that Province to be
greater than that Of any other country,
not even excepting the United States.
Commissioned Rollins has written to
8 resident Of Lexington, Va, stating his
want OF authority TO sllOw the applicant
to distil fifteen or twenty gallons of ap.
pie randy from his own orcksrd for his
own use.
The Paris Li6erte ssys, that from the
Amphictyonic League f1498 B.C.) to the
Treaty of Zurich, in 1859, not less than
1897 treaties have been concluded, out OF
which one only has been respected. e.,
the Metbusn Treaty between England
and Portugal.
Dumas has made a contract with
Mr.. Ullmsnn TO come to this country
and give readings. As he prides himself
on his ability TO cook, he is to cook 8
dinner for The public at IS a head. He
is 10 receive 25 600 francs per month and
q share Of the profits.
=" What kind OF a time had you IN
the penftentiary 2" said man TO a ne
gro who had just returned from one and
a half years. service for stealing. "Oh %
replied Sambo, Z" a bully good time, ssh.
Three hundred and seventy-six Of as in
there, and only one Democrat IN the
whole crowd"
In the Episcopsl General Conven.
tion, in New York, on Saturday, the
new diocese Of Nebraska was admitted
to representation. The matter of hav-
ing boys in surplices in the choir Of the
church where the Convention met was
die subject OF rather warm debate, but
vas ultimately dropped, with the under
| standing that that feature is to be omit
] ted while the Convention lasts.
-ImpenetrabIe insensibiIity is one Of
| the characteristics Of Ben Butler. The
other day gentleman introduced Ia 9
| private telegram about Butler these
| iines:
| Whom Eisnds and foes alike despisa
4 Whosssoul quipts through his devious ey es
/ In which, ana IN his fare you see
Toe devils likeliest effgy.
These complimentary verses probably
would never have reached the public
eve had not Butler discovered them and
printed them with glad elRcrlty,
William Parker, the chief superin.
ttendent of the Panama Railroad, whose
assassination was reported a few days
since, was the principal builder and fret