Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-01-28

J NtuuOu5 tthOS PhNoo L SS4 III 1Vh
and 9th.
-samp. L. Vswter, prominent piti-
zen of Minnesota, died in st. Paul on the
18th.
The State Democratic Coavention Of
Iowa meets in Das Moines. on the 2Gth
Of February.
The Corperhead IS the title of a new
Democratic paper started in Peiia, Iowa,
on the 1st E - O.. s--
Peter Eicber, one of The oldest clti-
zens of Keokuk, Iowa, died in that city
on Thursday last.
The St. Paul (Nlinn.) Library AssO-
citation nas 1894 volumes, and is increas-
. ing stea lily.
AT Cincinnati on the morning Of the
/ Dist, 3 cigar store was demolished by the
/ snow on the roof, and a Mrs. Lepere was
/ knocked senseless by q slide Of snow
/ from a steep roof
The snow that fell on the IeveI of the
Sixth street market hay-scales, nine by
sixteen feet weighed six hundred and
seventy pounds, at a depth OF say six
/ inches.
Elizabeth Graham, who was shot by
her husband, il Philadelphia, on Thurs
dsv, wss slive on Saturday, and woman
like foTgsye him.
1t is thought that the Senate will
confirm S. S. Cox to tie Austrian mis-
siou-may-be, as there,is still the report
Of & COMMITTEES in the way, and Sumner
/ IS chairman.
Mrs. Nancy Cooley died at Dsrr-
town, Butler county, Ohio, on the 10th
/ inst, at the age of one hundred and
/ seven years and seventeen days. She was
born in Virginia in 1888.
The deputy revenue collector at
Cairo, one Hays, while collecting bill OF
twenty cents the other day, insulted the
clerk, who bent a large telescope over
his head.
The Chicago Times OF the 2lst, in q
double.leaded leader, says: In Mr..
Pendieton, In our Judgment, lie the
highest and best hopes Of the patriots Of
of this nation. The popular masses in
stinctively feel this, and hence the sub
lime spontaneous rising in his behalf
| Hence the already solid Northwest pro
nouncing for his nomination. Hence
! the movements for him which are
breaking out here and there and every
where in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
and New York and New England. AL
this is the work, not of politicians, ba
Of tie people. II the people shall noml
nate him, it need not be doubted thai
thev win elect him"
1F-,.F.E, frppo Havana tla
/ Santa Anna and his companions arr
very busiIy occupied, and some curiou
developments in regard to his scheme
sad intrigues are looked for.
Mr.. Hodges, 8 colored member Of th'
Virginia Convention, favOrs the abolition
oftbe freedmen's bureau. He "dOes no
want negroes to stand around the freed
mems burenu, squealing like hogs for
few grains of corn, but to go to work lfkI
men and make their iviGg."
DR.. E. c. King, Of Philadelphia,
surgeon in the department Of the freed
mea's bureau, has been making free b.
entering mems houses near Rome, Ga
whilst they were away.
The Bangor Wing says the locally
well-kRown ancient relic of the Penob
scot tribe, "Old Molly" or Moli.
Molasses," as properly styled, died at tn
Indian island Of Oldtown on Tuesday, a
an age known to exceed century, an
supposed TO reach from l05 to llO years
The Grand Charity Ball at Chicago
got up by Gilmore, Of Boston, came o.
at last. ami is said to have exceeded i
spIendnr any festival that ever took plsc
on this continent. The Opera Hous
was fioored over, and the whole theatr
was magnificently draped and adorned
Mrs. Robt. Conner, of Louisville, KY
was the most superbly dressed lady pres
eDt. The Chicago Times, of the 2ls
takes nine and half columns to descrit
the festival, and the RepW6hcdn devote
four columns to it.
The Tallahassee Sentinel of the lot
says, as q sign of the times, at no tim
{. since the close of the war have thel
been so many idle freedmen on OF
streets, as at present. The city, for se'
eraI days past, has been literally throDge
=, with them, and most of them have
> thriftless and ragged appearance. Th
Is an evil which, we fear, is destine
greatly to increase, now that SO many
the sources of employment are dried u
: The Montgomery Md1 OF the. l7t
mentions the death Of Mr. Joseph !
HOPPER, one of the Oldest citizsns OF th
pse.cl
The New York Herald of the 81
saws: AS to the War Department mu
die. every one tells his own story-Gral
one story, johnson another, and StantC
stiII another, each, Of course, justifyiI
, himself. Would it not be well for Co
gress to appoint committee of inves
- cation, and have the case fully al
r.. minutely Inquired into, and all the qu'
tious and answers published in
volume? The doing this might ke
Congress from doing something worse
"A lot of whisky in a distillery
Kingston, Canada, took fire on Sunds
y, and running through an undergrou
drain, set fire to a wharf, which v
destroyed, with three large warehous
n and partly damaged vessel which v
lying at the dock.
"A eabmsn in Quebec on Sund
& night shot two young men fatally, IN
quarrel which ensued from q discuss
! an the relative merits of their horses.
Indications Of q supposed plot to bl
No the magazine, at Toronto, Cana
- have been discovered.
,, Two passenger cars were thro
from the Bsston and Providence railr
track, near Mansfield, Mass, on Sund
q and nine persons were injured.
DIR. Haughey, a Radical spoute
Alabama, says he was not arrested
stealing, but for perjury. The Ath
= Post says: On arriving at Decatur
Us Mopday evening he was immedis
arrested for defrsunding the Governm
Il. of money.
Alexander Stadfelt, boy Of #
= teen years, hanged himself on the
in New York City, with towel
mes pended from nail.
tS Two night watchmen, OF the
i by railway, Martin Samand and Ephr
In p Coon, at the foot Of Duanestreet,
YORK. ouarreled on the morning of
:, 90tb. about the Protestant and Catt
y religion. They fred two shots at
90 30 other. and Samand, the Catholic
wounded In the thigh.
An old lady, Mts. Wills, was SD
Y. ,nOIv burnt by Aurora oil in Louis'
Ky-. on Sunday evening last.
EOn Friday last, three distillerie
Larne county, KY, engaged In defr
Per- a., rt,a Government, were destroyed