Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-12-05
THE NEWS.
Detroit is to tunnel It's river.

-Keokuk hiss organized a st. Al
drew Society.
stephen Msssett Is said to be yer
fond Of bis "pipes."
H. w. Beecher Is hard at work o
his Life OF Christ.
Agricultural papers are springing u
all over the country.
The United States rejoioes in IOO, 90
4 school marms.
There are 1000, 900 school children Il
this country.
The Philadelphia schools will COS
81, ,20e, ,9S2 next year.
Nearly all the Spanish railways az
insolyent.
Paris finds coekroach oil excellen
wheel grease.
The Metternich rose, a violet purple
is the new color in Paris.
San Francisco is overrun with Gsa
Of huge sizs.
| Louisville is to spend $3.50, 900 on (
new hall.
Fort Leavenworth is to be Western
West Point.
Oak wood is fifteen cents pound IL
Wisconsin.
The "Grand Duohesse " In English
is announced for Toronto.
"A society has been formed in Pari:
for the propagation of useful insects.
"A comet is travelling by lust now al
the rate OF 1000, 900 miles a day.
The Treasury receives S1OO, worth
ot worn out money every week.
One million sacks of wheat eTestored
in the warehouses Of San Francisco.
The Pennsylvania Railroad last year
carried l, $50, 733 tons Of bitumlnOus coal.
-Vesuvius hss set fire to q whole
forest of chestnut trees, destroying them.
About q. 600 tons of mari were mar
keted from the West Jersey pits last
year.
School children throughout the coun-
try use 100000 books, which cost
SIS 150, coo.
The schools of Normandy are all
closed, the whole population being en-
gsged making cider.
In one district Of Belgium seventy,
and in many others, fifty per cent. can
neither read nor write.
london ate one million and & uusE-
ter rabbits mot counting Welsh Cnes,)
lsst year.
Turkey has been dabbling iu earth
quskes while we have been dabbiing In
turkey.
The fret electric light ever used in
Italy is to shine from the lighthouse Of
Brindisi.
Hartford is to have = Greetsn bend
ball, with 3 premium ef $40 for the
largest bend.
"A sewer on Broadway, Cleveland,
caved in lately, causing number Of cas-
Gslties.
Fifteen drunksrds In G one horse-o8r
afforded lively midnight scese in Bos-
ton lately.
"A gentleman Of Terrs Hsute has
given 800 600 20 establish irst-cIass fe-
male seminary in that place:
The colored people of Washington
intend naming their two school houses
in honor Of Lincoln and Stevens.
-Sojourner Truth, now eighty-two
years old, is leetuTing to crowded houses
in northern New York.
1t is said that Olive Logan has not
visited Elmira, her birthplace, for thirty
years.
"A feIlsW In Houston gets his living
by diving for scraps thrown overheard
from vessels.
Two thousand letters containing
notices to creditors in bankruptcy were
mailed at Jackson, Miss, last week.
AT Birmingham, England, receut tly,
E meteor was ssen at three m, while
the sun was shining.
-Chsttsnoogs is thriving. New houses
sad new business enterprises are the evil
iencss.
The business of fruit packing is the
third in proportions and returns in Balti-
more.
Chicago is talking about the gran dest
hotel in the country, and expects the
Hon. John Y. Sosmmon to build it.
No passenger has ever been injured
)n the Maine Central. It is twenty
years old and one hundred miles long.
Mrs. Stow calls Lucy Lsreom the |
Mrs. Browning on this side OF the water. !
That water " is well put in.
"A Stockton, Cal, apple tree has
yielded three crops of fruit this yesr,
and is again in blossom.
"A firm in Boston publishes twenty
two directories OF cities and large tawDs,
nineteen Of which are in New England. |
Chicago has shundred iron factories, |
employing fifteen millions capital, 15,0 900 |
men, and a million tons OF coal yearly. |
Springfield and Dayton are quarrel |
ing SIS to which have had the most bur- !
ylaries. The latter has lost " four dol |
lars and six bits."
The horse railroad in Rio Janeizo |
was opened by the Emperor and En- |
press Of Brazil In person, and Is a great
success.
November, this year at least, was
not "piOus friend of the Almanac,D
and Hoods celebrated lines to the dreary
month are not applicable.
"A part OF Artemus Wards fortune Is |
invested in real estate at YOnkers on the !
Hudson. The idea Of 8 monument 70 |
him seems to have been given up.
Mr.. Whittier, the poet, is frequently |
mistaken for Lucy Larcom, and people |
are constantly calling upon him to re-
turn thanks for her poems.
Pictures are not in much demand IN |
New York just now. A proposed sale at
a Broadway art gallery last Saturday
evening was complete fiZzle.
We learn that Mr.. Amos Cummings,
the author Of the Tribune article in
PackGrd's Monthly, is just recovering
from q severe sickness.
"A New York boot black has ak
Thousand dOllsrs In the bank, the pro-
cetds Of the labor OF many shining
hour"
Hon. Henry c. Dsming is one Of the
heirs of the late Eliza Goodrich, OF
Hartford, whose entire estate amounts 70
more than $500. 900.
Three blocks OF fine East Tennessee
marble, intended for the Washington
National monument, passed through
Lynohburg on Friday.
1t is said in Indiana thst Senator
Morton declares that Reid (Democrai)
vas fairly elected over Julian, and is
Justly entitled to his seat IN Congress.
The Chattanooga Republican is glad
IN Iesrn that Mr.. bryant, worthy
French gentleman, has purchased lsnds
on Missionary Ridge, and that 1t Is in
tended to locate on that ridge, colony
of French wine-gTowers.
The Pioneer, Of Assumption, Ls says
the planters OF that parish have nearly
all commenced making sugar, and the
results, SO far, have been satisfaetory
The cane Is yielding from 1850 to 1000
pounds per acre, and In some instances
5000 pounds per acre.
We have one more convert ia the
female suffrage question. Rev. II. w.