Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-02-12

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Q, izen Of POtosi, Washington county, Mo-,
= died on the 3lst ult,, OF apoplexy.
Edward DeLeou, ODe of the Confed-
crate agents 10 Europe, writing for the
+, New York Citizen q Secret History Of
F the Confederate Diplomacy Abroad"
s. On Friday morning, when the train
- on The Milwaukee and s.. PanI railroad
vra- three miIes west OF Lowell, H., the
slacpirg and Isdi0s' cars were thrown
from the track Icy broken rail, down an
embankment Of twenty feet. The cars
landed bottom up. Ga ladies' car took
o. fire, but was exlnt shed after several
. persons were more or less burned. Flf=
teen pe!soBs were Injured by the accident,
but noRe dangerously.
4 Says the Lawrence Tribune of the
G 3lst ult. The Union Pacific Railway
Company sell some tracts Of their lands
:. living in this vicinity almost daily. The
v,,ue of The lands surrounding the eunsold
tracts has more than doubled since the
snnraiseDlent, which causesa correspond
ing increase Ia the value Of the vacant
% tracts. though they stiIl sold at the ap-
} praised price. With the opening Of
sprlng their sales will undoubtedly be
heavy.
The forty six banks in Boston have
about forty-two millions oa deposit. Il
The Chinese claim to have discov-
cred America, from the west, a thousand
wears before Columbus.
The Germans in Cincinnati have
waNzing matches for barrels of lager
beer.
Printing with movable types was
known In India at least one thousand
wears ago, according to discoveries re-
Gently made by English savaRs.
Speak Of mems virtues, says Chi
nese noralist, as IL they were your OVID,
and Of their vices as If you were liable
to their punishment.
The game law of Ohio forbid the
shooting Of qusils, turkeys, rabbits, etc
between the Ist OF February and the 18th I
Of October. Good law that.
The increase Of the Baptist denomi- |
nation in this country, during the last /
/ twenty FIVE years, has been sixty mine
| per cent. in churches, seventy-seven per |
cent. ia ministers, and ninety-eight per
| cent. In members. The number received
by baptism during 1887, was 81 957; the
whole number OF meeting houses, IL, ,955;
OF members, ,09i.So8.
Rev. Newman Hall testifes, at Exc
ter Hall, that there is far less actual
drunkenness in America than Great
Britain. That Is self-evident to whom
s0ever hiss the chance of comparison.
There is more drunkenness in Glasgow
than in New York, and more in London
thau in any FIVE cities in the world. We
don't believe it, although America has
had but three wars aud Great Britain at
least three hundred, to demoralizs her
people.
In the Kentucky Legislature the
other day y petition for relief was pre-
sented by Daniel Freeman, who, disabled
In tba Federal service, had been unable
to get a pension because he had never
been formally mustered into the army.
His petition was supported ably and
eIcouently by Col Holt, late gallant
and msritoTious officer IN the Confederate
srmv.
The Gardiner (Xiaine) Reporter says
that citizen Of Richmond recently lost
valuable COW, which had Eeen sick
several weeks with what was supposed to
be horn all, out on e post nlortera e1Rmi-
nation her death proved to have re-
suited from a shinClo Aail found in her
heart II
The Supreme Court 1f Vermont
granted seventeen divorces, and refused
twenty four applications for divorce, al
Its recent session.
In the little town of Wolcottville,
Conn, there are 40 lass than eleven
churches, aud the hdventists are
building another.
A Grant Club hf5 oesn organized in
Bridgeport, Conn.,, but this was some
time ago.
There is some talk Of widening Court !
street Ia Boston. No one proposes to
straiehten it.
In Chicago, 36,394 6S5 letters were
received Tor distribution LAST year; 976l
money orders were sold, amounting 10
S2lI ,OG9 98, and Il ,5l6 money orders were
paid, amounting to $685., ,594 30.
The D1ver (Maine) Observer says l
Mrs. Barrows, wife Of Jsbez Barrows, of !
Foxcroft, aged seventy eight years, the {
past season has woven one hundred and
eighty-eight yards OF cloth, spun two :
hundred and fifty skeins of yarn, knit :
nineteen pairs OF mittens and thirteen i
pairs Of stockings, besides doing her !
housework. {
1t is said that there is enough Boston I
capital invested in Colorado to buy ten ! !
ocean steamships.
The Maine Legislature is having a :
lively fight over The repeal Of the State t
constabulory law.
A bill in regard to the law Of libel t
has been introduced in the Wisconsin l
Legislature, which protects newspapers /,
ia the publication of accurate reports Of ;
legal proceedings or Of public meetings. i
Prentice suggests new test oath for .
CongrtssmeB, that they shall swear to ,
support everything outside the Constitu-
tiOD.
A Detroit Justice the other day
married a couple whose united weight
was $50 p0unds-the bride scoring 400.
The LeavenWorJh mercantile library
was destroyed by the late disastrous fire
in that city. But another room has been 4
donations are flowing I
in, and with the insurance $4,000 on the :
lost stock, the company will soon restore
the library.
-" Most interesting revivals" are re-
ported in progress among the churches of A
Lawrence, Kansss-folloWing upon the T
holding Of the Christian Convention there \
in November last.
According to the Rochester Union
the average price of wheat ia that city =
wss 81 % a bushel from 1852 to 1864.
af r-ao fb.
There is talk in Rhode Island of in
the pay of judgesof the Supreme =
Court, who now get $4,000 apiece; the
chief justice receiving $1,000.
Among 'he emigrants who passed =
through Columbus, Ohio, last week,
were twelve who intended locating in
Tennessee.
If q man could make q noise like a
locust, corresponding TO the difference in
weight, ne could be heard one thousand
miles. 2
A large fire in Norfolk, on the 9TH l.
inst, destroyed eight brick and one
frame building. The Journal Office, Tele-
graph office, r. S. Burns liquor store, a
Merchants Exchange and Reading G
Rooms, I. J. Jones, suctioneer; T. R p
Smiths restaurant, +. +. Ferguson, auc- e,
tioueer, ". G.. Well provision store, Z
and few law offices were burned out e
Loss over $1,000, partly covered by in. q
suraDce.
LOUISIANA. q
G eU. Steedmsn rendered his rssigna. 3
tiol as Collector Of the Port Of New Or n
leaus, 10 take effect April lst. -
Gen. Hancock h6s ordered the pub y
lication Of the regis cred names ih Texas, Il
prior to the election 0u The 10Th inst. v
The Convention on the Sd, ordered :.
payment of bills for official printing to II
the amount OF $4,000. More robbery. o.
"A New Orleans paper says there are c
about six hundred houses vacant on the =
tbrae nriupinal streafs hAtwaAn povdras u