Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-21
III NEWS.

s. n. Pike has given up al business in
Cincinnati.
A steam ire-eDgIne has just exploded
In Portland, Msiue.
The corn ereps in Kentucky this sea-
son viii be prodiglous.
Jean Ingelow's father was q barber,
and her mother was a SeotchWOman-
Beecher refuses TO lecture. He is busy
on his lite OF Christ"
Louis E. Nugent is q New York mill
iionsire. He has 10000 pocket money.
Mrs. Gaines is not likely to recover
enough of her New Orleans property 10 pay
the expenses Of recovering It..
The ~discoverer OF gold in California,
John A. suffer, now lives on a State bounty Of
$500 a year.
Eastman Johnson, the painter, WIS
born and raised in the mcst rustic part Of
Maine
There pzss between London and Bonn
bay thirty thoussHd teiegraphie n essagss per
snnun.
Salt Lake City is to have 8 course Of
lectures. 1t is thought the woman question"
would be a good title for one OF them.
The railway from Suez TO Ismsils was
opened on August Is, and in homer OF the occa-
sion, n. Sc Lesseps gave 8 grand banquet.
The latest from the Union Pacific RsiI-
toad is 70 the effect that It is now 1877 miles
west OF Chicago.
An exchange says that the Chicago,
Burlington and quincy Railrosd run forty
trains a day between Chicago and Aurora.
James NJ. Oliver, who is said to be
peddling q method for preserving fruits in their
natural state, IS said to be q swindler, and the
press is passing him around.
A Michigan psper says there was
never. perhaps. a Stste which required 50 many
pioneers as Ohio 10 settle IT, OF where they
lived so long OF died 50 often.
AT q meeting Of the General Council OF
Louisville, the other Gay, It was resolved 20
permit the right of way t~hrougathe city. 10 be
secured tor the proposed connection Of the
Louisville and Nashville, and Louisville, Gin
cinnsu and Lexington railroads.
A fire in Lynchburg, Virginia, on
Thursday, burned seven tobacco warehouses on
Main and West Streets, together with alRrge
amount OF tobacco; also, a dwelling house.
Miss Hins field was severely injured by jump
ing from the window Of a dwelling. The prop
erty Was al insured.
Two thousand and eleven buildings
are in process OF erection, or have just been
completed, in St. L.uis, AZ a cost Of about
100000. OF these buildings, I5Li are dwell
ings, 40S are stores, n~fty-four are manufactO-
nes, twenty are school-hessss, and eleven are
churches. Only 25 OF these buildings are Of
wood.
The Wisconsin State Journal says the
wheat crop, which is now harvested and rarity
thresbed, proves both IN yfsld and quality 10 be
better than was anticipated al The beginning Of
the harvest. In Jefferson comfy, gentleman
engaged in the Touring business, says the yield
Will average twenty bushels TO the ac-e, where
it was but twelve bushels last yesT, while the
wheat IS much better. A considerable larger
breadth Of wheat was sown last spring than in
the previous year.
The Independence Beige saws the forth
fostions on the lower Rhine are eingstrength
ened. Belfort is receiving two hundred ard
afty pieces OF artillery, and other places in pro-
portion. AK Ia Chapeue letters mention that
the city Of EIeFes, 10 Rheuish Prussia, is fully
armed and prepared to sustain a siege, tue gar
rison numbering 1900 men. Rasuish PRO sa
is alive with troops, and s0.O00 men are ready 10
seize Luxembourg anu fortify themselves there.
should a telegram from Ber5in order them %
do 30.
A letter to the st. Louis Republican,
dated walnut Grove. Ark September sta, says
On the previous Sunday at the conclusion PRE-
iig1Ous services at the church in that place, the
congregation was assaulted and i've OF their
number shot down, one OF whom died instantly,
and on tbs next day another was not expected
70 live, but the remaining two wounded will
probably recover. The shooting is said to have
been done by Radicals-the persons shot eiug
Conservatives or Democrats. No arrests were
made.
A Washington Special dispatch OF the
says: Nj. Alexander II. stephens arrived
here tonight, from the North. He appears to
be in excellent health ana spirits. Inths course
of a long conversation, he expressed nothing
particularly new in reference to The South. Hs
reitgrafed his Efafpnont thai In bod -ostv.4
from pubic life, ana wished TO take 10 part in ,
the political discussions OF the day. Heis in
certain measure, satisfied with the condition Of I
things in his own State, and exp esses the Z
abhorrsncs OF secret Organizations.
He visits Washington merely FOR the purpose Of
some Of the archives OF the late [
70 aid him In the completion Of
the history OF the rebellion. :
Says the Davenport Gazette of the 18Th. l
In accordance with instructions received from [
he War Department On saturday last. work ON
ms co1er-dams for abufmentsa and piers on Inc
bridge across the minor or soutb G
ohannel Of the Mississippi, al the lower end on 1
The island, will begin tomorrow. II isintsuded
10 have the material Of The bridge itself resdv
% put into position by the time The abptment 3
md pier work is completed. The supersiruc- Y
ure viii be Of iron, and Will consist Of fonr =
pans, OF $50 feet each. The ROADWAY Of fbs {
fridge Is TO be twenty-four feet in the clear 4
10Th 20 be properly covered or noored. the 4,
OsdWsy with two and one-half inch tbick ana a
be sidewalks with one and a half inch thick r.
ak flooring" N
The San Francisco Bulletin of he 0fb r
IL, says: The Central Pacific Railroad is com :
'leted 10 a poinL2S miles east Of Sacramento O
md nearly 800 miles from san Francisco a. .
lssh inst, ever six Iailes OF track were 1atd -
'robably stlesst eight or zen milesoftrack Der q
lay Is now being regularly laid by the Two "
ernpanles. Eight days ago about seven nun. Fl
red and seventeen milea remained 10 be h,U,
etween the terHini ofihe Genital and unIon u
'acinc. fonly six miles oftrack Der dsv 10 @,
cen aid, this distances Is reduced 10 go r,flos
Il this rate Of track laying only So miles Of IL
taglng are necessary to-day. II is safe 10 SIS a
1me that there Will be al least thirty sad,- u,
IOnRl workingdays before winter SO IN - "
nese Will give 20 miles additional OF co4nnle- a.
ID track, leaving only 3l7 miles to be oonanle. w
ID next season. Difficult as fl is TO comn-e- m
end the great fact, there seemslto be searoaIv a l.
oubt that by the 4to of July next the fouroev or
-om New York 20 San Francisco may be MADE n,
ntirely by rail. u
The New York Herald of the 18th
Iys: The Convention OF German Freemasons
le object Of which hiss already been fuIIv
ubiisbeo in the Herald, met last evening AZ to
o. q BoEery. The hall was pretty wen dUed p
ltn delegates OF German lodges and other N
embens OF the order Interested in the move -
snt, stoa nnmosr Of lodges Outside OF this Is
" as ron Patterson \. J., ~Poughkeepsie, j.
div1dual members, though some aisclsined
Ds empowered 10 act as delegates. Brother th
arian called the Convention 70 order and Rro n
Irtheimess was elected President; Brother
Llan' vice frssident, and Brothers q. Weber Ioi
@A% @ofsshtnaai ssefstaTass, After some thr