Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-12-06
SUNDAY
SUNDAY MORNING. DEC. Q. 1855
III NEWS.

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They dub the Canadian Legislators
Dublin hiss an sight year Gid pianist
Ohio has $40, $50. O75 debt. She paid
of S4S9 208 the past year.
The last new potato is called the
Grecian Bend.
Helen Western is very Ill in Wash
ington.
Richmond churches are raising mon
ey by tsbisaux viYanUs.
The Christmas number Of Once =
Week" is 20 be called "ODce a Year"
The dsmsges by the earthquake in
San Francisco are appraised at S27l 900.
They have a bsllet with two hun
dred dancers st the Drury Lane Thester,
London.
The new suspension bridge in Mag
ara will be ready by New Years. It is
1884 ieet long.
"A new city fce-boat was launched
Wednesday in Philadelphia, built OF iron,
81 q cost Of Sl69, 600.
Chatham, Dat, is such s moral place
that the police magistrate has not had q
case FOR three weeks.
The King Of Siam was 3 Buddhist
monk before his accession and knew
many lsrgusges.
-Ex-King George, Of Hanover, de-
mics that ne intends 90 take his seat in
the House Of Lords.
-ReveTdy Johnson has forty snd more
grandchildren on whom be practices
hsndshsking.
The Frontier Index newspaper con-
stsntly move its Cfhce westward, keep
ing about sixty miles beyond the end Of
the Uuion Pacific Railroad.
The authorities of Jaszberney. 8
Hungarian town, have just hsd the fol-
loving notice published "Sseing that
Oaths and blsspbemies are the real cause
Of earthquakes, every one, no matter
who, Is forbidden to swear or use bad
language, under penalty Of receiving
twenty-five stripes with q rod and pay
ing q fine Of twenty-five FORMS"
The Nashville Press and Times stated
lately that the Hon. T. A. R. Nelson had
made some severe structures upon the
Southern h~ethOdists in the Knoxville
Chancery Court. The Press and Herald,
OF Rockville, contrsdicts the statement
and says that the Chancery Court of that
city, or any other Court, had not been in
session during the week referred TO.
-When European sovereigns present
diamond rings to American citizens,
they should be very particular and state
who they intended shall be hOnOred by
the present, for several people are apt to
claim it. The latest affair of this kind is
the Mitchell Wood diamond ring, a
present from the Gar OF Russia. This
affair is now being ventilated in the pa
pers.
A singular case has just come before
the French ~tribunsls. A young girl,
eleven years of sge, attempted succes-
sively the life OF her mother asd sister,
for the sole purpose OF drinking their
blood. The child has been examined by
competent physicians, and proved to be
attacked by the strange mania OF an
thropOpbsgy. Her extreme youth leads
her physicians 10 hope that her cure may
be accomplished.
There is q superstition among the
gamblers Of Baden that to touch bunch
back brings Isck. The other day q
huucbbsck entered a room where play
ing was going on 10 sested himself st a
table. Every one went up to him and
touched him lightly on the back, after
which they resumed their playing and
lost. Thereupon the hunchback arose
smid great laughter and withdrew his
hat from beneath his cloak, revealing q
fine figure.
-Agsssiz, the CREST naturalist, is the
most genuine and simplest hammered Of
men, too Lost in his beasts and bugs to be
conscious OF himself. The museum built
for him by the BostOnians is erammed
with specimens yet unpacked for want Of
room, and the old gentleman is never
weary in dspicring the apathy Of the
American people in the cause Of science.
He is married for the second time-his
first wife 3 gentle, simple, little German
iady-the second a woman who sympa-
thizes in al Of his pursuits.
"A Aiss Emma W, on q visit to
some relatives 10 Rochester, n. Y, one
day last week, dressed herself in male at
tire and entered a house on st. Paul
street, where, among other persons, she
met her uncle and her mother. Becom-
ing insane during the evening, she drew
8 large knife, killed an old man and her
uncle and swallowed q phial of strych-
nine, which killed her ia 8 few moments.
She was fODd Of romance, poetry and
"sieh," and is supposed TO be insane on
sensations. We know Of nothing like
her taking off."
in 8 plain, shabbily- furnished brick
house, set in q grove OF pine Just out OF
Concord, lives Emerson. He is q tall,
lsnk man, the very conventional type OF
the Yankee, with q largely moulded,
reflective face. He has a family OF
two daughters and one son, all
grown. HIS income is small, and
his habits Of the most severe simplici-
". With his insight into the hidden
mysteries OF nature and thought, be
adds 8 sharp, practical knowledge, aud =
great deal Of what Yankees call capacity
In daily affairs; and is, therefore, q IA
with his plain neighbors.
"A remarkable continuation Of physi-
cal forces, applied to purposes OF war has ]
lately been mEde the subject OF expert {
ment st Antwerp with q view 10 the de- 8
tense Of the passes Of the Scheldt. Tor !,
pedOes are plscsd in the river, auS !
cameras similsr TO those used by photo
grsphers are adjusted, 50 that an object I
directly over u OF them will present It's >
image ~ the instrument situated IDOL :
Lbe shore at any convenient distance. I
AZ soon IS the image OF an approaching {
hostile vessel appears in the camera. an II
current is sent through q wire to :.
he torpedo which undeTlies it, and the I
explosion takes place. {
The Vienna correspondent OF the c
London Times, writing on the 18th No G
gives the following "a shock O.
railway accident has occurred in Bo- N
lemis. A night passenger train con. .
aiming some two hundred and hfty men g
4 the % b Hungarian regiment, who ei
we're goirg on Through, having eomplet- cl
q their drill with the breecklOaders, got
nto q snoEdTift near the station OF Horo-
pilz, and WIS ran into by a luggage train 'e
oming sitter II. The three hiDdmost 10
arrisges, where the unfortunate soldiers 81
,ere packed, were broken to atoms, and n,
early oBs-half of the inmates killed and =
,ore or less severely wounded. As the ="
'reuk has not yet been clesred swsy (t 81
the fourth day the number Of cssusI- III
81 has not been exactly sscertained, but IN
20 what is known until nov, =
thiFty-thTee men have lost their 70
YES mine we're found dead an the spot, 81
ar nave died since, and twenty men