Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-11
CENTRAL ITENss.

-Hunnieutt has been acquitted. John
Brown WIS hung.
-Co''sx is not q printer, and never
was. be was & Know Nothing.
Wendell Phillips attacks Freems-
sorry in connection with the result Of
impeachment
Colorado offers husbands to g thou
sand girls this spring il they will come
and get them.
An Indiana Radical says that COlfax
wss nominated instead of Wade because
the Convention did not want to "mske
the tail of the ticket id sight bigger
than the head"
An entertainment was given at the
Metsirie Race Course, New Orleans, for
the benefit Of Lieut.. Brain, the last Con-
federate prisoner. A mile race was to
take place, in which eleven mules were
10 figure.
"A nsturslized cockney recently set
tied in Georgia thus parsphrsses the fs-
nous saying OF Gov. Troupe, of that
State: 1.-THE h'argument is h'exhausted,
we must stand by our HARMS"
As an Offset to the two-horse omni-
bus the One.hOrse " minnibus " has been
introduced in New York. 1t is a Scotch
cab or shay" comfortably carrying six
persons, and having the drivers box sep
Arate from the body on the springs of the
front wheels.
Philadelphia proposes to reduce the
fare upon the street cars. The Cincin-
natl Common Council reduced the rates
in that city TO five cents. Won't the
Memphis City Railroad do likewise?
"A Southampton county, Va, man
has sold the strawberry produce Of ten
acres, in advance, for 10000, the buyer
furnishing the boxes.
Paris, from having been the cheap
est, has become the dearest city in the
world to live in. Water there is paid for
by the gallon and wood is purchased by
the pound.
-Brevet Brig-Gen. Miller, having de-
clined to contribute toward the decora-
ton Of the soldiers graves in 2ad near
Washington, unless .he graves Of the
CoDfedersts~desdw were also honored, his
viey,s are q marvel to Forney, who is
sstonished "that any officer OF the
United States army who desires to re-
tain his commission should venture to
express them" which is the strictly
slOiln idea Of the matter.
There is about three millions Of dol.
lars due the city Of New Orleans for ar
rear taxes, the collection Of which has
beea postponed till 1870. Taxpayer.
could now buy three millions OF city
money at thirty-three Per cent discount
ana pay their taxes, thus realizing one
million between this and 1870, besides
relieving the city of its Indebtedness.
The ice made by the louisiana Ice
Manufacturing Company, Of New Or.
leans, is preferred by the cenfectioners
For making ice cream it is said it Will
20 nearly twice as far as Northern ice
perhaps because il is more uniformly pc.
rous, and the salt, closing up the pores
prevents it from melting. The bar
rooms, on the other hand, prefer North
ern ice, as it looks more clear, and doe
not, perhaps melt as quickly in water 8
the Louisiana ice.
-Wanted-Situation-By lite Barna
Gle, ESQ late Secretary of the UniteC
States Senate. Light work preferred
with plenty Of perquisites and no perspi
ration. Served several years in las
place, snd accounts positively only $40,
600 short. Refer to Edwin Forrest, th,
late James Buchanan, the High Court o
Impeachment and the greatest CTimina
Of the Age.
Maj. Giles M. Hillyer, in a graceful
and feeling valedictory in the Matches
Courier Of late date, severed his con
nectlon with that paper. For more thar
eighteen years he has been prominent a
Mississippi journalist, and the press o
he State will regret that he has left the
fell where he did SO constant and noble
service We wish him all success anC
prosperity wherever he goes, and il
whatever Profession or pursuit he may
embark.