Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-24
GENERAL NEWS.

Buffers Gloucester tax is 1904. Is it
on those spoons?
One Napoleon Young has recently
walked 100 miles in twenty-five hours.
Full returns in Kentucky give the
Democratic majority st S., 24O.
Mount Hood, Oregon, is said to show
symptoms Of eruption.
Maggie Mitchell is building block
Of seven houses in New York, near
Central Park.
W. P. Howard, for a long time the
agent Of blind Tom, died recently at
Athens, Ala.
Its ascertained that the wheat crop
of Minnesota will average twenty-five
bushels to the acre.
The " Wickedest Man in New York"
is said to have had RELAPSE.
The grssshoppers OF Utah are so vo-
racious a. to eat window curtains.
The Mississippi Valley National
TeIe0ranh has reached Rock Island, and
Is pushing on down the river.
A famous Indian chief in Washing
ton Territory has buried the Ratchet, but
il was in the head of a trapper,
1.-THE President has officially pro-
Claimed that the Legislature Of Georgia
has ratified the fourteenth amendment
TO the Constitution Of the United States.
General Reynolds, commanding in
Texas, has appointed migratory milf
tAry commission TO visit various pafJs OF
that State, and try people charged with
crime.
The United States were not beaten
in their suit in the French courts TO re-
cover funds paid by the Confederstes for
iron- Glade The verdict wasin the Gov
ernmsnt's favor, but 81 appeal has been
taken.
Samuel Webb, o. Westchester, Pa,
fireman OF an engine on the Pennsylvs-
MS Railroad, was cleaning out the
smokestaek OF his engine, on Thursday,
when he fell head first IN, and was sufO-
Gated before he could be got out.
The old Washington Theater, used
as headquarters by the Democrats of the
capital in Jaekson's time, was rededi-
Gated to the service Of the Tarty by 8
public meeting.
Three little girls Of 3 Patterson, n.
7 family recently murdered neighbor
about their own sge, by throwing her in
8 well, to obtain her fine clothes. One
~ the murderesses, Sarah Long, ten
wears old, is arrested now for larceny, at
Newark.
Secretary Browning has received an
affidavit from the President Of the Union
Pacific Railway, announcing that an ad-
ditionRl section Of twenty miles Of the
road, extending to the 76Oth mile west
from OmShs, has been completed. The
Government Commissioners have been /
instructed by telegraph TO make an ex-
animation OF the section.
Information has been received at the
Postofice Department, warrantiBg the
belief that the British Postoff1ce Depart |
ment will assent to the proposed modifi- |
cation Of the new postal convention be-
tween the two countries, by which, /
smong other things, the postage on small |
1smphlets viii be reduced. The con- /
ventiou is an Improvement, IN various /
psrticulars, over the one now in force. |
Postal negotiations are now pending be- /
tween the United ; sstes and France for 4
more liberal exchange Of mails.
The disposition to evsde the whisky |
tax still exists, notwithstanding the re-
duction Of fifty cents q gsllon-a rate |
fixed upon as the exact compromise line /
upon which the cUpidity and conscience /
Of distilIers could harmonic. The latest 4
device to swindle the government on this /
article is Veneerirg the heads Of casks /
with q thin lsyer Of false heading, upon /
which the stamp is placed. This veneer /
ing, when carefully handled, can be re- 1
moved and, with the undefaced stamp, /
made to serve fer an indefinite number .
of casks.
"A dispatch from Lancaster says 1
" On Tsesday an election was held in .
this district for the nomination OF 8 can /
didate for the FOrty-frst Congress. Ii |
had been previously recommended by I
the Republican Committee Of the county I
that, notwithstanding the death of Mr.. .
Stevens, his name should stand at the .
head Of the ticket, and that he should be .
nominated IS il he wss living. For the .
first time in the political history Of the .
country q man, already passed beyond |
the confines of time, wss nominated for |
Congress without opposition " Another I
nomination will be made before the cleo .
ton.
Gen. Schofield has issued an order |
which includes an extract from the army /
appropriation bill passed last year, pro-
hibitiDg military organizations in the .
Southern States. IL is done to quiet the 4
clsunor Of the Radicals over SchOfeld's |
refusal to furnish arms to the militia /
South on the application OF their Gov
errors, and also for information TO Off .
GERS Of those departments.
About four weeks ago, st the residence
of Mrs. Young, in McCrseken county,
Ky, q negro woman gave birth to three
children, two Of whom were white and
Lffe DAneE lnlchstiy bidChs 4 Nc UlOtHcE
is also quite black. The children lived
but few days.
A bill in the Georgia House of Rep
resentatives 10 exempt from taxation
foreign capital invested in the nsnufac-
ture Of WOODEN and cotton goods and
other fibrcus material for five years, wss
defeated.
Many bears have had to take up
their beds and walk because Of the fires
in Gutinesu woods in Canada. They
couldn't bear it.
They managed to get along in the
Repub licRn Congressional Convention OF
the Twenty-third District OF Pennsylvs-
mis-, with 213 ballots. The general re-
suit was the defeat Of the Hon. Thomas
Williams, one Of the managers Of the
impeachment Of Andrew johnson, on
behalf Of the House Of Representatives.
On the two hundred and thirteenth bal
lot, Darwin Philips was unanimously
nominated.
The Hartford, Conn, Live Stock In
sursncs Company has been suspended,
having lost S4lO, 900 within the last tWeD-
ty-two months. The Treasurer Of Con-
necticut holds Sl00 600 Of the capital OF
the company, which Will be used for pay
ing the losses, etc.
The people Of Indiana are beginning
to think that something must be done to
relieve them OF the stigma Of living in
- the great divorce State" The divorces
granted in Indiana under present lsws,
number, on the average, about 5000 per
EnDUm.
"A letter containing an Indian scalp,
and addressed to 3 woman in Maine,
was lately stopped for postage IN st.
Louis.
"A writer IN Minnesota has come
across q nine months old baby, whose
g measurements " be gives as follows %
inches in height, "A inches around the
chest and q at the hips, 104 inches ct
the muscles OF the arms, 81 at the wrist,
q inches ct the thighs, and IL inches st
the calf Estimated weight, so pounds.
TIE Upton Record says: "We have
had good deal Of rain recently, which
is not of much advantage TO cotton, al
though rs yet Nc harm has been done.
The plant looks in fine condition, and
has geRsEally more blooms and bolIs
than usual. We predict fine yield this
nur IA rao-aI LII -. l.. Q