Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-11-26
INTERESTING ITEsIs.
Personal, Art, New. and Literary.

-Ihe METHODIST Church hss 70, AZ
ministers.
-Iu Bohemia, In 1920, there was only
one Catholic to thirty-nlne Protestan;s.
Florida has negro Presidential
electer.
The Omaha street railway is under
/ construction.
The Yale College libraries have now
81 900 volumes.
West Point has pts graduates and
2447 non-graduates.
Connecticut has 253 and New York
l5S students at Yale.
The total cost of the West Point
Academy to date is IS, ,2S6 ,372.
"A hundred prayeF-bOoks were re-
Gently stolen in Chicago.
Clay County, No, boasts of a negro
woman lis years old.
Ecuador, China, India, and South
Africa have representatives. at Yale.
The salary OF the Bishop OF Central
New York is to be $4,000, besides house
Mr.. John Brown, an American at
Valparaiso, is now worth $500 0G0
The Democratic. Clarion Argus is
the elongated name of an Illinois jour-
nal.
The German AbeaG, Post of San
Francisco, had its form piel by the earth
quake.
-Sorghum-seed pancakes are g Mis-
souri, institution, and beat buekwheat
cakes.
The profits Of the Portland Memo
rial Concert to Artemus Ward were 500
the wrong way.
The total number Of students now
ct Yale in the various departments is
724.
An American citlzsu of African de-
scent has been admitted to the Law school
at Ann Arbor.
Mrs. Hole-in-the-Day is IN Mime
spOlis applying for chance to do house
work.
Nasty says that Grants fret battle
was at Belmont, and his last igith Bel
mont.
Daniel Pratt's new journal will bear
the alarming title Of the Pratt Hercules
GTidirOn.
Sum S. Fifeld, Of the Polk county
Press, is called the handsomest editor in
Wisconsin.
The Cretans maintain 8 small week
" newspaper in Paris under the name Of
L'LndependeHce HeHeRiqtts.
-TeuDysou, from the proceeds of
/" Enoch Arden" has added field to his
estate.
Our American sculptor, Story, has
just finished, In Rome, q fne bust OF
Elizabeth Browning.
The death OF Edward Hlldebrandt,
2 celebrated landscape painter Of Ger
many, is announced.
One hundred and thirty clergymen
of the Church Of England Hre eonvert' Il
Jews.
Calvary Church, San Francisco, Cal,
Is erecting a new church edifice st cost
Of S12 600.
The number Of Preshyteries now On
the roll OF the General Presbyterian As
ssmbly is l42.
They make gas by steam, and are
building two steamDosts In Owenboro,
KY.
John w. Coleman, az ol4 citizen of
CoviDgton, KY, died at that place on
Thursday.
David McCsrty was fatally injured
by falling from riding piow in Christian
county, KY, few days ago.
Rev. Alyn0n Peyton, just dead, held
foS 81 years the richest liViEg in England,
worth -. eco year.
The n Insjitction o' Protestant Des-
has three hospitals and four
orphan houses under it's care,
Col. Gilbert, . fieres editor, instead
OF Col. Gilbert A. Pierce, editor, was in
q telegram to the Cincinnati CaTo7ilcte.
Herman Grimm's UDconquersble
Powers "has been translated into EEench,
Dutch, Swedish snd Italian.
A concordance Of Shakspssre's
poems and sonnets is tn be compiled un-
der Grant Whites superinteEdence.
The Boston artists have Just held
their first monthly Saturday afternoon
reception in the Studio Building.
"A way Of giving an elegant polish to
Quincy granite has been discovered AID
is being utilized FER works OF art.
One thousand five hundred mission
aries are AZ work in Asia and the Pacific
isles, and 7500 native agents.
The Synod Of the Russian Greek
Church is drawing up a reply TO the
Pope's Gcumenieal Council.
The gas went out during a sermon
in Cleveland lately, and the doxOlsgy
was sung in the dark.
Twelve thousand rat skins have
already been purchased by the mer-
chsnts Of FaiTmOunt, Indiana.
The Lafayette Ind journal asks
The city fathers which have the right to
the sidewalks, the pigs or the citizens.
Some valuable essays Of Humboldt
have just been discovered, and are being
prepared for the press.
Robert BroEning's new poem will
be called "The Ring aad the BOok."
II is q narrative, and its Ecsne is laid in
Italy.
Mr.. II V. Walker was elect ed Pres
ident Of the Western Associated Press st
Its meeting in Cleveland on "Wednesday.
Die Neue Wei, q Conservative Ger
man daily. has been started at st. Louis
in opposition to Carl SchuIz's Radical
WestlicIse Post.
Twenty five ysars ago the frst Cath
Ollie Bishop in Wisconsin was cOnsecrHted
with four priests in his diocese, where
nov there are four bishops.
The Methodist Episcopal Church for
the past year show an increase of Sunday
schools OF 1895 OF Oincers ana teRcnefsl
Y, 2,754 OF scholars, l0l 1853.
"A convention Of al the Sunday
schools In the District Of Maryland, will
be held at Hagerstown, on the first Tues
day In December.
Ten thousand first and second cad.
ers for the schools OF Utah, .printed In
the new Mormon alphabet, have arrived
at Salt Lake City.
Gotta, the great Stuttgart publisher,
paid Humboldt $50 600 for tbs privilege
Of publishing his Cosmos for twenty
Eve years.
-WidGieton hssrepFintsd Mrs. .Crowe's
entertaining book Of ghost stories, "The
Night Side OF Nature" which first APP
peared in 1850.
Nelson Buckner, negro, has been
committed to jail at HopkInsville for
committing 3 rape upon Peggy Ware,
negro girl elsven years OF age.
The liabilities Of the Union Coal on
Company, Of Msysville, are S504 ,374 81,
OF which Sl2, ,239 so are owing TO the
Bank Of Kentucky, Louisville. The con-
eern has taken the benefit Of the bank
rupt act.
Boston rtjoices In HIPS 1" YO Semitic
Valley" George L. Browns "Crown Of