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


The Richings Opera Troupe are rusti-
eating In Cleveland.
Pennsylvania is building q hospital
for the insane La feet long.
New Sea- Island cotton has commenced
TO come into Charleston.
Mrs. Hoey, of New York, is said to be
writing her recolections OF the stage.
The receipts of the billisrd-tables in
Paris are s2.OOO.OJo per snnum.
About fifty tons of peaches are sent
out daily from the Miami Valley and the region
thereabout.
Wheat and coffee sent by mail is to be
charged letter postage; also umbrellas and
E-mOOthing-irons
Victor Hugo's new romance is entitled
49," The French publisher has given 100000
flames for it.
Two steamers are building on the
Cfyde, 10 run between Savannah and Liver
pool.
Bonner is to engage, 1t is said, twelve
distinguished Generals of the South to write a
series of twelve articles for the Ledge.
The Chinese fashion of wearing the
fan in belt has been adopted by American la
dies since the arrival Ofthe Embassy.
Within a period of about five years,
hANtI mas invested IN manufacturing gG-
Establishments within its Limits nearly ssyCOO,OOO.
Eight blast furnaces at youngstown,
Ohio, which have been idle all summer for
want OF coal, are blowing this week.
A workingmen's convention is called
10 assemble in London. One object It has in
view is 70 sid IN returning, II possible, at least a
dozen bona Jfds workiDgmen to Parliament.
Besides the annoyance OF bad water,
Cleveland is threatened with fire from the coal
oil rehneries. The river took nre on Saturday
last.
new magazine to be called the Gen.
trGl Park Magazine, is being talked about. II
viii not be unlike London SOcsety, but more
sprightly.
The losses to American marine in
surancs companies for August amounted 10
saSooO, aud for the hrst eight months of the
year, Sl0,600,5J
The Government paid to the Pacific
Railroad S699.60O for transportation. The same
services by wagon, at the usual rates, would
have cost $4,000.
The prospectus of the new Geographic
line to connect Portugal and the United States,
under the title OF the Peoples Cable" has
been issued,
The Japan war has had a remote
effect upon an inland town in Massachusetts.
~ ~ SaR1AE-E hAuutuLS VINO were IlEgGr
al school In that State have been called home,
to share in the Perils OF civil omoat.
The tunnel in progress under Chicago
river has been arched Cos feet, and only Is feet
remain TO be archsd, considerable of which Is
eIcavated. The work VIII cost haIfa million
and be ready for travel next spring.
Letters received in Washington from
Western Congressmen continue TO be strongly
against a meeting on the 2lst OF this month;
aud n - wa.,WF.a 49,
South for a session are becoming less urgenl.
T~birty-four millions ofdoIlars ofinternaI
taxes have been collected since the lt OF July.
Owing 10 tn change in the tax and in the sys-
tenn OF collection, il was not expected the col
lectiOns wGuld be so large.
Tw~eniy-three thousand two-hurdred
and ssventv-six emlgrants arrived at Toronto
during the present. yoRr, or whom only threa
thousand one hundred and one remained IN
Canada.
The Fourth Of July was ce celebrated in
sitks with a canOe-raee, a procession. Grafton.
dinner and fireworks, A young Russian girl
ceEssion.
George Hall, a wealthy citizen of
Hartford, formerly OF Savannah. has inst d,e5
leaving a large fortune. In his viii he he
queaihs $4,000 for charitable purposes in Hart
lord, and a like sum for the same object IN
Savannah.
Every n OF the eighteen mspufac-
turing establishments In Rockville. Conn. ev-
cept the works OF the Rose SIX Comnanv are
running on full time and with fun force.
Manufactures business has not been 40 brfsk
In that town since the war a. IL is now.
A New York paper says the German
sehutEenfes's are very grand, creditabIe and
successful affairs, save in one respect-they do I
not pay. The New York Fest left a deneit on
5000; the Imperial Fest OF Vienna expended
10000 forms more than it received.
An ambitious fellow in Connecticut
appeals over his own signature, Too thee /
miehannicks, aud laburing men OF my NATIVE
town, ] vii reprizent yew in the Stait assem-
bIee irrispectIf OF pollytics, religion, or eddyca-
shun." This chap ought TO come 10 Memphis
Andjoin Barbour Lewis and his crowd.
One Of the most successful swindles
prac:iced, is that OF leading somebody 10 be-
l!evs that a fortune awaits his or her CLAIMING
IN England or somewhere else. In nine cases
ont OF ten the I" agent " OF the estate seeks on
ly a liberal fee and a "Trip across the water al
his dupe'sexPsnses. Beware Of these swindIers
Here is q peculiarly French descrin-
ton OF the people OF Bavaria: "The Bavsr.
ans are a happy people. They have money.
which makes happiness, and a King Wbo
makes music. They drink much ana onen
and smoke a. they drink. They sleep long. eat
nve times day and make love between their
meals"
A new harvester has been invented
which cuts the grain, threshes, cleans and
sacks Il, all al one operation. It's WEIGHT ts
said TO be only 1914 pounds. does not contain al
many parts As the Kirby harvester, ana the in
ventor claims that with two men and four
horses it will do, IN a single day, as much WORT
as fourteen men and nineteen horses In The old
fashioned way. II is called Young America I
A New York fashion writer (fsmslel l
OF the pan!er, or " fashionable hump." s
and the Grecian bend, or "coic stoop," which
fashionable foo young ladies anscl. ,
says: I" We must confess that we never see the =
fashionable hump, and bend, and step. without
wishing that we could avail ourselves OF an :
old-fsshioned privilege, and give the exhibitor :
thsse doubtful airs and graces a good spank.
Ing" o
John Blyew and George Kinard were u
he men who murdered the negro fsnu,, [.
named Foster, near Nsnceburg, Kentuckv on -
saturday night week. They were s-urrenSared y
o the United States Marshal, and win be tried 81
u the United States Court, where negro tesu-
neny can be given against them. Fcstsr ~
wife and mother were killed outright. ana he "
died ofhis wounds on Thursday. The onIv Il
tnoWn cause for their murder is sop,e o,a--c
men had with the Foster family abont q ~
oflewd women. sy
ASt. Louis dispatch the 9TH says there 81
Information here that he State an cs
horities have brought into and distrfbuted
several counties, some eighty tbcn-
and stands ofarms- Last night nIeen tbon- tn
and stands we're quietely brought into this cr
ity across the river in skim, and are now
torsd somewhere near the arsenal. Thesa so
are quietly mads I'm anticipation ~ pr
n outbreak at the coming election. II Is re- -
orted that the Democrats are making similar ~
separations. Cd
The calico interest of the United States to
an important one. The total product OF the st
limited goods IN lsS was about S.OOO.OO0 yards
A ISS6, IL reached l2u,OO0.O00. In 1855. there
ere tWenty-seven print-works in the United lei
,ates, which produced In the aggregate $50
1000 yards per year. This amount. at an Va
'srsge OF ten cents per yard, was worth S. pl'
1000. There are 6,000 900 cotton spindles now ha
operation in the United States, OF which
or 100000 are running on cloths for print ms
3, and produce 450,00o,QQ yards no,