Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-20

GENERAL ITEMS.
1t costs England $1,000 each TO ties
her guns.
-Round-tOed boots and shoes ar
going cut Of fashion.
CIV. III. Evarts was confirmed Attor
ney General by vote of twenty-five Il
five.
Philadelphia il to spend four mil
lions on Paramount Park.
Secretary Seward has certainly pur.
chased the Bay OF SANTANA.
The New Hampshire Legislature, OIL
the day Of its adjournment met at
O'Clock in the morning.
"A disgrsceiul row was the closing
scene Of the Cincinnati tobacco fair.
Chicago is to have q wool and WOOL
en- goods exposition the first week in
August.
Passenger trains on the Central Pa
ciic railroad now rua to Wadsworth,
one hundred miles east Of Sacramento.
-Freshen salt fish by laying the flesh
down. With the skin down, the salt
escapes only in part.
"A Vienns letter writer tells OF seeing
8 lady in the first circles there drink four
quarts Of beer at one sitting.
In heavy thunderstorm yesterday
at Chattanooga, man was killed by
lightning. The Catholic church was
struck and two men iH it fatally
wounded.
An exchange ssys that acids pro-
mote the separation Of the bile from the
blood, which is then passed of from the
system, thus preventing feveTs, the pre-
vRiling diseases Of summer. All fevers
are 4" bilious" that is, the bile is in the
blood. Whatever is sntagonisic Of fever
is cooling.
The Alabama Legislature has or
dered the negro chaplain to shorten his
prayers.
Gov. Seymour is fitty.seven years Of
age. Frank Blair is forty. eight years of
age.
-Lydis Howard, the four year-oId
baby actress" OF London, speaks four
lsnguages-one for each year.
Schneider declines Pixies offer Of
$1,000 q month, and says she wouldn't
cross the ocean for 3 million, cash.
The ex-Confederste and Federal sol
diers organized a Seymour and Blair
club in Nashville on Friday. Col. Frank
2. CahiIl was elected President.
Arthur Clark, formerly prominent
and wealthy citizen of Memphis, died in
the New Orleans Jail Of delirium tTemens
on Tuesday.
Near Toledo, H., there is herd Of
$1,000 Texas cattle, grazing and fsttening
for the Eastern market.
-AtSt. Louis, John c. NOgle, ex-sher-
i'll, and a prominent Radical, has pub
licly declared adhesion to Seymour and
Blair; also, Gen. Babcock, Radical
Alderman.
The Radicals Of the Sixth Iowa
District have nominated Charles Pome-
roy for Congress, after seventy-seven
ballots,
Governor Stevenson, Of Kentucky,
has succeeded in redseming vehuudred
thousand dollars worth Of State bonds
which mstured on July let. The re-
mainder will also soon be redeemed.
The mountains and sea coasts of Viz
gInia will present, this summer, throng
of visitors and scenes Of festivity IN
equsled since the beginning Of the war.
Wade Hampton is about to take edi-
torial charge Of a newspaper in Column
bla, South Carolina.
AT Munich, on June 9th, Count
ChOrinski was found guilty of completely
In the poisoning Of the Countess Chorin-
ski, and was sentenced to twenty years
imprisonment in q fortress, and to exile
If he survives.
AT a picnic party the other day,
gathered on the banks OF the Bronx, at
Fordhsm, with their families around
them, were John Mitchell, the Irish
patriot Of As, John Savage, the poet and
" Head Center" Hon. John 3, Haskin,
the distinguished lawyer, Colonel Sam.
Reid, Of New Orleans, VIM. J. Reid, Of
New York, and BARRY Gray" Of
WOodbine Cottage.
-Bostonisns enjoyed an original feslh-
er in their Fourth Of July celebration,
namely, the appearance of Mayor Shurt-
left on horseback. Since the days Of
Theodore Lyman they have not had a
chief-magistrate who could sit on horse
back.
The Nashville Banner Of Saturday
says: By a gentleman from Chattanooga,
we learn that a terrific thunder storm
visited that place day before yesterday.
During the storm a man, a mule and a
dog were instantaneously struck dead bv
lightning. A portion Of the Catholic
church was shivered by the terrible ele-
ment, and two men, who had been work
ing on the new parsonage near, and who
had sought shelter in the church, were
struck, and one of them was thought 10
be fatally injured.
Fact for Farmers.
1t may not be generally known that
the seed Of the sunfiOwer is the most in
fallihla ramadW vat dfso,w.rol