Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-16

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this year, from New York city.
Thomas J. Key, Esq, has started a
staunch and live Democratic journal at
Corlntb, Miss. called the Caucasian, and
adopts as its motto, "Any one belonging
to the white race aud the white races
originating near Mount Caucasus We
wish the new paper all success, politi-
, eslly and pecuniarily.
r An anchor dropped from the car of
q balloon as it cut loose from New Bed
, ford on the 4th, and, striking a boy
f named Maltrsn, fractued his skull. 1t
then caught in the clothing Of two
other boys and carried them up about
T forty feet, when the eConaut cut the
line. They fell in some trees, and
though taken up insensible, win proba-
bly, recover.
During the thunder storm IN the vi
cinity of Shelbyville, Tenn, LAST Wednes-
day evening, Mr.. Elisha Williams and
his wife, living a. Fiat Creek, some eight
miles east Of that place, were struck by
lightning and killed.
The New Orleans Pclyfae asks:
"Can any reasonable doubt be entertain
ed of the stability of bank whose direct
ors always show great reserve when
questioned about its affairs"
Missouri has gained $4,000 in popu-
lation since the war.
A Londoner wants to bet SIC. coo that
omnibuses will run with balloons within
a year.
Miles sSharkey, an Collector oflevee
dues in New Orleans, has been arrested
for embezzling $4,000.
The Prince of Wales is growing bald
so bald, it is said, there will soon be no
hair apparent.
The Government Commissioners ac-
eepted forty miles OF chs Union Pacific
Railroad Saturday. Six hundred and
eighty-fve miles of the road are now
completed.
FELTON,, who was associated with
Cashier Martin, of the Hide and Leather
Bank, at Boston, for defrauding that in
stitution, was held for trial in default of
S35,C0O bail.
"A Yankee having a bill against
neighbor for $50, made it for $40 SO, so
IS to save one cent in not being obliged
to use a two cent revenue stamp.
The tobacco factory of George Z !
Hutchinson, at st, Louis, was seized on
Monday for Noncompliance with the
revenue law.
Trains unsatisfactory statement in |
bankruptcy reads as follows: "I owe |
el2 773, and the way 1 account for it is |
by telling you that spent $4,000 on my
55li, on travelling expenses, Offices, and |
other things. / cannot tell you where |
the balance went, aud you may find it
out the best way you cam
Mr. William Kipp, wealthy farm
er Of Pennington, New York, commit
ted suicide on Saturday last, because he
imagined he hsd a cancer in his stomach,
an apprehension which post mortem
examination proved to be entirely
grouud'ess.
In Illinois the courts have decided
that the system of "sslling short" or
selling to deliver what you have not got,
and really only betting what the price
of stocks or grain shall be on some future
day, is gambling, and therefore viola
ton OF the State statutes.
The Vernon (Ya) Banner records
the fact that there is living in that
county a colored man, named Grigg
Harper, who was born in Virginia in
1916, and is, consequently, one hundred
and twenty-five years age. 1t is q re-
marksble fact that the eolored person in
question was not Washington's body
servant.n
-Adviees from New Mexico report
that the KiOwa and Comanehe Indians
are at war with each other. Captives
taken on either side are barbafously pns
to death. Both tribes are hostile to the
whites, and threaten to drive settlers out
of New Mexico and Northern Texas.
"A rubber carriage, weighing l25
pounds, the entire body of which is made
of one piece of hard rubber, one-eight of
an inch in thickness, has made its ap-
pearADce on Broadway. 1t is without
the usual carriage bolts and screws, and
presents a perfectly smooth surface,
which is not soiled or tarnished by rub
bing or handling.
The Washington Chronicle is for sale.
So has always been its owner.
"A. w. Griswold, Cashier of the Bur-
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Hudson river train OF sec, OGO in Govern
ment bonds, on the 18th inst.
Gen. Mauk, formerly registering
clerk of the New Orleans Postoffice, was
arrested il St. Louis on the 18th, charged
with robbing the mail while in the New
Orleans office, and abstraeting large
sums Of money. He is on his way South
in charge of an officer.
The Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad Company have leased the
Nashville and Northwestern Railroad.
Trains commenced running regularly
yesterday.
The case Of Col. Boone, for shooting
and wCuading J. H. H. Woodward in
Louisville was called in the City Court
Monday morning and continued to the
9th inst. Col. Boone was required to
give bonds in the sum Of $1,000 to answer.
An immense torch light procession
came off in Vicksburg Saturday even
ing. The Conservatives were out in
force.
"A telegram received by Gov. Geary,
from Pottsvilte, Pa, shows that the re-
ports of outbreaks in the mining regions
are all false. 1t seems almost positive
that the reports are sll circulated by in
terested parties to raise the price Of coal.