Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-12-24
THE NEWS.

-"Msz sppA" is thrilling Atlanta.
Wild cats are abundant in Canada
Collecting buttons is the latest manis
Mcguire lost $1,000 on Parepa in San
Francisco.
Victor Hugoreads English, but can
not speak If.
--MiddletowD, Conn, rides veioei.
pedes.
-Rothschild left a ton of deeds and
stock certificates.
Patti will visit America next sum-
mer with her husband.
Bishop Payne, of Liberia, has been
in that country thirty one years.
Bishop MeIIvaine is very severe
upon operstic church musie.
Milwaukee saw fifteen smallpox
funerals In one day recently.
Fifteen thousand tourists and inva-
lids visited Florida last season.
"A colony Of Swiss have bought 40,
600 acres of land in Coffee county, Tenn
. Horse railroads are failure In Har-.
rishurg. and very nearly so in Me mphis.
Texas has now fifty beef packing
establish ments.
This latest rUmor about Commodore
Vanderbilt is seventy millions.
-Bismarekis disorder is slanderously
stated ss delirium tremens.
jamestown Island, on the James
river, Va, containing 1891 acres, has
lately been sold for 81 4, 900.
French capitalists are going heavily
iutO beef curing at Houston, Texas, for
the European market.
One gentleman gave 100000 to-
wsrts the new Presbyterian church in
Rittsburg.
There are 26f Baptist Sunday-schools
10 Virginia, with "a 600 teachers and
.scholars.
"A conference of coiored bishops of
the M. EsChureh meets ia Philadelphia
next week,
Gov. GiIpln, of Arizona. thinks of
selling little farm of his. It contains
1850 600 acres.
Some one says that Alboni is losing
hssh and growing into corporeai consis-
tsney with her name.
The veteran fiter, Josiah Smith, Of
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery OF
Boston, has done it seventy years.
-VietnTia has recovered from her
grief sufficiently to use 3 monogram en-
note paper.
AT ST. Clemsnps, Cambridge, Eng
land, the other day, requiem mss was
said for the Archbishop Of CauterS6Fy.
Asa ". Brown. of Cincinnati, de-
sires a divorce from Mrs. Brown because
she hates babies.
MIR. Hickey, of ShaTpsburg, performs
the classic part OF skating on mis- ears "
to delighted Cincinnati.
The Lutheran denomination in the
houses OF worship, snd nearly 100000
communicate.
Bishop Eastenrn, OF Massachusetts,
issues az emphatic protest to his clergy
against the "Popish practices that
pertain to ritualism.
All but two of the eight churches in
the Pittsburg Presbytery have with
drawn from the Synod, until It shall re-
seind its action in suspending Mr.. Geo.
H. Stuart,
The Church OF the Good Shepherd,
said to be the hsndsomest in Connecti-
cut, now osing built in Hartford, Conn.,,
by Mrs. Samuel Colt, as 8 memorial to
her husband and deceased children, win
be finished by Christmas.
The Hoosac tunnel Is now In fair
way to be completed, the contract for the
entire work having been taken by firm
of Canadian engineers, who are 10 be
paid 81, $50, 600. The terms OF the secu-
Tity for the completion oftbs tunnel have
bssn changed. Instead of giving bonds
the contractors are to be paid in instai-
ments Of $500, 900, after expending that
amount in their operations.
Magistrates thieken. A million in
gold has been discovered by. Govern
ment agent at Mobile-wheFe. Is not
stated, nor under what circumstances.
Is it part OF the coin accumulated at
Richmond, which the heads Of the Con-
federate Government attempted to run
cut OF the country? Has some Southern
Croesus died, and in tha plethora OF his
weslth forgotten about this odd million
Of dollars? The announcement borders
on the marvellous,