Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-01-03

ofState in that capacity on Saturday.
"A beautiful rainbow on Christmas
afternoon, was me of the events at At
lsnta, Ga.
In Washington City the leaders OF
fashion have very sensibly decided that
evening parties shall hereafter commence
at half pastseven o'clock.s
The estimated value of buildings
erected in Chicago during the year Just
closed, foots US S9,00O,O 900, against ST.
0O0,o coo last year.
There is said to be fully as much dis
tress and restitution in North and South
Carolina as in Mississippi and Louisi-
ana.
Thus far the Government has col
lected an average tax of eighteen cents
per gallon on the amount Of whisky
actually distilled, 4nstead of two dollars.
The tax is to be reduced to fifty cents.
The Savannah Republican, edited by
an ex-Federal.oficer, has lost the Con-
gressional printing, because it didn't
believe in Pope,
BY special order the British and
American West India fleets are to CO.
operate in preventing the revival of the
slave trade in Cuba, which has been
planned.
The receipts Of grain at Chicago for
the year just ended amount to within 3
fraction OF 90, OOe, 900 bushels. OF flour,
l,sl4,O00 barrels were,received.
Miss Minnie Sackett, the lady to
whom Col. Parker, the Indian, was mar
ried, is a daughter Of Amodio, the singer.
The great powers have determined to
ask Of the Emperor Napoleon the basis Of
the conference to which they have been
invited by him, and through which
France seeks to negotiate a treaty for the
settlement OF the troubles of Italy.
Two more incendiary fires occurred
in Vicksburg on Sunday, 4 at three q.
m. and the other at 9 P. m. The loss is
estimated at $4,000. There is an insur-
ance OfSl5,000.
lie Ploy, the distinguished French
engineer, who vas at the head of the
Imperial Commission of the Universal
Exposition, has been made a Senator of
France.
The new British Minister, Mr..
Thornton, is expected in Washington
early in January.
The Secretary of the Navy has or
derCd a reduction of thirty. three per
cent. in the salaries of all mechanics af-
ter yesterday.
-The.total number of deaths in Gin
c~innati, during the past twelve months,
was 3,635-an average Of nearly ten each
day.
The President and other prominent
men in Washington are confident that
the Reconstruction acts will be decided
to be unconstitutional.
"A tunnel under the river Indus, al
Attock, India, is in progress. 1t will be
a mile and 6 quarter long, and its lowest
point will be 1872 feet below the surface.
Cincinnati is looking at a new fruit
called Phllodenphon Pergaosum, which
belongs to the pawpsw family, but tastes
like essence of banana and pineapple.
1t is reported that all of the mem
bers Of the Republican National Com
mittee, except Horace Greeley and two
others, are in favor of Grant for
President.
Several heavy failures are reported
in st. Louis, and a large house in Gin
cinnsti is said to have suspended.
A convention is called to meet at
Trenton, n. ], on the I'D, to organize
an opposition party to the Camden and
Amboy railroad monopoly.
The new volcano in the neighbour
hood of Leon, Nicaragua, was in erup-
ton at the last advices, vomiting fire,
cinders, and fine black sand from two
craters.
-Brevet Maj. Gen. Thomas w. Sher-
man, Colonel of the Third artillery, sta
toned at Fort Adams, Newport, Rhode
Island, assunes command Of the De-
partment of the East in the absence Of
Gen. Meade.
It is said that Gen. Banks, who is
Chairman of the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs, is willing to go one
hundred millions on Cuba, provided we
secure satisfactory terms of payment,
and that be claims he has a majorsty of
the House with him.
"A French paper supposes that a whale
may be only an antediluvian sardine,
but thinks it fortunate that men are de-
prived of this faculty o! unlimited growth,
"At the present price of bread" it says,
ga ma eighty feet high would be the
ruin Of any family"
"A most ~scandalous divorce case is
now on trial in Chicago, where every
thing that is peculiarly immoral, revolt
ing and offensive seems to occur. AL
though totally unfit for publication, it IS
being reported In full by the Chicago
papers.
Alexander Gibson, Of Nashwaax, C.
w, will have in the woods this winter
1900 men and 800 horses. Last season
he exported s5,0d0, OG6 feet of number.
A man in Hillsborough, n. H, has
bet 500 that he can draw five sleighs Of
lS5 pounds each, hifched together. six
miles. He is 10 have six consecutive
days to do it in.
The editor Of the Bennington (Vt.)
Banner is the happy possessor of half q
crown OF old Continental money, issued
in 1776, duly signed by the proper au-
thotities, VIM. Clifton and James Red.
man. 1t is dated at Philadelphia, "April
25, 1776, in the 10Th year of the reign of
his Majesty George fII.N
The death of the eminent Italian COM
poser Paeinis is announced as having
occurred at Pescia. He was born at
Catania in 1896.
1t is said that Admiral Goldsbogoagh
refuses to be retired on account Of age,
according to law, and this creates quite
an excitement in naval circles,
The train from Chattanooga TO Nash
vile was detained several hours, Tues
day, by the falling Of heavy rocks on
the track, which had to be removed by
gpR-Gcwdsg,
Mr.. Davis and family will winter in
their old Mississippi home, but not in his
former mansion, which was destroyed
by the Federal army.
king Theodore, in anticipation Of
the arrival of the English forces, has re-
leased all his English captiYes.
Rome.
The government of Rome has recently
published the vital statistics of the city
for the year. Rome and the suburbs are
divided into SO parishes, containing q
population Of 2l5.6z3 persons, being an
increase since 1865 Of ASP. There are
on -..;ao,t oardfnaIa lE hfzhops I AQ0