Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-24
eENERAL IrENs ANn NEws.

1t is reported that Lamartine Is in q
eying way, and that it Is no longer af-
fectation.
Ripe watermelons have made their
appearance at Macon, Ca, and we pre-
sume we shall have them here, ere this
cold weather brings on frost.
The Atlanta hstelSigenceT OF the 10 b
says: Joseph Oliver, (ex-reb., J Company
k.S 7th Georgia regiment, is lying Ill at
the corner Of Broad and Walton streets,
from the effects of q wound received in
! the thigh st Jonesboro. He is in des-
titute condition and fit subject for
charity. Oliver Is originally FROM
Texas, and entered the army from that
State.
Plus TX entered on his seventy
seventh year on the 25th of May. He is
fond OF mentioning thathis father, Count
Jerome, died st eighty-fOur his mother,
the Countess Catherine, at eighty-tWo
bis paternal ancestor, Count Hercules, at
ninety-six mis- brother Gabriel at
eighty-seven; his second brother at
eighty-three.
Mrs. Eunice Warner, formerly Of
Great Darlington, Mass, became q
mother at thirteen years, a grand
mother at tEenty-seven, great grand
mother at forty, great-great-gra
mother at fif6y-six, a gTeat-great-great-
grandmother at seventy after which
she lived several years.
Joseph s. Cain, Clerk Of Mobile
market for ten years, WAS removed the
other day hy military authority, and his
place filled with man named Lucknow
OF unknown pedigree.
The funeral of DR.. Lingen, at Mo-
bile, who died on Sunday the 14th, was
most nUmerously attended.
"A heavy blow was recently inflicted
on the President, when the other even
ing, according to the Tribune the name
Of Andrew johnson was stricken from
the New York Union League.
The new paper, an elegant and able
sheet, issued at Atlanta, Ga, entitled
The Constellation, by Carey W. Styles u
Co., affords the following illustration OF
the barbar0us: A portion Of the Column
bus prisoners sre confined in cells SX34
feet at the military barracks. These
cells are located on the sunny-siGe Of the
barracks. IL men are melting in the
open air, God only knows how the poor
fellows can Withstand it.
According TO the latest special of
the Louisville Journal, Grant and But
Ter dined together, and q compact has
been formed between them with 3 for
eign mission, or the c0llectOrship of New
YORK IN the background.
The special to the Louisville Journal
Of the 18th says: The Reconstruction
Committee is not agreed on Binghsm's
bill shutting out Is 900 VTginiaDs VINO
have registered. IL is thought, however,
that the measure will be pushed through
Congress in spite Of deeency, and the
wOuld-5e-decenE Republicans, The Rad
zeal Vi.ginians say they are lost without
it. The Senate had before it to-day
bill to give s. 000, 600 to the branch OF
the Pacific Railroad from Atchison to
Fort Riley. Its huge swindle. POme-
roy il q director and stakeholder, and
Harlan, Pomeroy'5 henchman, is its ad-
vOcate. The thing will hardly work.
Even the most unblushing of the Radi
Gals can hardly 60 such an open JOB.
The Louisville Journal says " We
are authorized to say that Gen. Grant
will make no harsngues this summer.
de Will smoke mis- cigar, and COlfax can
take the stump"
The Louisville Journal in its lead
lag article Oh the 10Th, says: Zone man
mas been honest enough, and bold
enough, and penetrating enough to
pierce the labyrinth Of Radlcal abomina-
lions, anG hold up before the people .
just and practicable method OF Kidding
the country Of it; and this he did in due
tiEe for their reflection aad criticism,
and, ike pure gold, the more his plan is
rubbed the brighter It shines. That man
has p spotless record, public as we'll as
private. he has been tried il many
trusts and put to the highest tests, and
was never found wanting in the sterling
qualities Of a statesman and a patriot.
Ih&J man, in short, is PendleUoI, Of
Ohio, aud Kentucky wants him for a
President"