Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-06
THE NEWS.


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A direct line of steamers is about to bl
established between Bremen and New Orleans
John Plat is writing up Prentice fol
the Cincinnati CbrOHie1s-
Thurlow Weed is going TO Switzerland
with DR.. Holland and the Counties OF Kent.
Prof. Agsssiz is looking st the Iron
Mountain, in Missouri.
Two ladies Of the highest social Iosi.
ton were recently briokbstted by some Radical
negroes IN Charleston, C.
Water is so scarce in the vicinity Of
Fort Laramie that Il Is sometimes carried I0l
miles. Bad w~hisky-that is a different matter.
The anti-Aldenite wing Of the Radical
party have nominated II. H. ThoFnburk for
The Msyoralty OF Nashville.
The body Of Eliza Burns, q once noted
horse thief Of Middle Tennessee, was found a
day OF two since in EIk river, bearing evident
marks OF decessed having been lynehea for his
crimes.
The army of Switzerland numbers
soS,6OS men, of whom 7s belong to the s;sn, S.
80 70 the active contingent, 1870 to the reserve,
and $3.50 20 the lsndwehr.
Lsst year the English p~ostofice carried
thirty letters 10 each inhabitsnt; IN Scotland
the Letters numbered tweDty-eigat, and In Ire
land ten 10 each person.
The machine company at Taunton,
Mass, are about to build the largest pulley in
the State for their own use. L viii be thirty
feet in diameter, and the lathe IN which 1t is to
be constructed will cost over 5000.
Moscow, Russia, IL in a bsd way. a
drOuth deprives the surrounding country OF
vegetation; the woods in the ~neighborhood are
on IRE, and the streets ofthe city are filed with
smoke.
Niblo's Garden Thester, New York, is
Eubletby Mr.. Wneatley to Mr.. Palmer for three
years. Mr.. whesuey, fOr merely transferring
the lease, gets $4,000.
The publication Of the correspondence
Ct Napoleon I, goes on, and has reached the
tweGty-fourth volume. This refers entirely to
the fatal Moscow campaign, and is probably
the best history oft thst is sttainable.
1t is estimated that the leading crops
Of California, now maturing, will yield OF
wheat, 20,05O,O9 bushels oats, 2,2OO, O0s bushels
barley, J0.u6J.00O bushels hay, $50 90 tons.
The cars are now running DetWeen ST.
Joseph, Cornell Bluffs an Omaha, puttiugst
Louis IN direct connection with the Pacific
Railroad, now being pushed across the COati-
neut.
A French paper mentions that q gem
tleman, whose cellar has been greatly infested
with rats, found that they disappeared very
soon after he had placed c cssk OF petroleum
in the place.
John c. Calhoun, when a law student,
at Liteh6eld, used TO write his name on the
walls OF his room. Recently, several thick
nesses OF paper-hanEing we're torn from the
walls, and his signature was found In many
places.
E. a. Pollsrd is editing 8 new political
paper in New York, entitled "The Political
Pamphlet" the nrst number Of which is con-
spiCuOUs for an outrageous and msanIy maIig-
nant attack on Mr. jefferson Davis.
A French journalist seriously suggests
what he terms the propristy OF mounting the
police Of Paris on velocipedes. They Will. he
argues, enable the guardians Of the pubic
morals TO ove-take any fleeing THIEF without
difficulty.
At Lansing, Michigan, on Saturday,
s ught-rope walker stretched his rope across
the strssL, and attempted 70 walk Il while mn
der the influence OF liquor, but on his way
across the second time, fell from a distance ~
forty fest, striking on his shoulder. He lies At
The point OF death.
DR.. GibbOu, of North Carolina, read a
a paper st the Chicago Scientific Couren.
ton, IN which he sought % show that a civil
izsd people dHelt IN North America anterior
TO the Indian races. His theory Is based on The
discovery Of fossil human bones, and also OF
eleven Punic Characters In Wisconsin.
The New Orleans Pcayuae of Friday
gives the particulars OF the shootingof a man
named WRldeck. = brakeman on Tie Opelousss
railroad, who was shot on the lop Of q box car
by some person concealed in the canebrake. 1t
l. supposed be was murdered because Of his be
ing q Democrat.
We learn from the Fort Smith ARK ,
Herald that a party Of engineers are now
mazing a reconnaissance Of the route morn
Little Rock to Fort Smith. with a view to the
immediate construction OF what Is to be called
the Southside Railroad, 70 inning between these
points.
The Boston city government Is 8 lib
ersl pSsrOn OF the Photographic art. Durfng 7,
the past year I; expended SIPS for photographs
and frames; the various com mittees OF the
Boston Councils very generously getting their
own portraits taken al the public expense.
Upon 3 whaling bark which sailed :
nom New London The other day, Il Is reported. I
was a young man who arrived in New YorK :
nom q ten years residence In China and Cali. 4,
fornts on the 10Th, having in his possession
$3.50. He took 70 gambling, and In one month {
was Psnniless. I
A new married couple were robbed at 8
The hotel in Savannah a day or two since. The
robbers INST Administered chloroform, and so
much ofuthet the groom did not swske until 1
late next dsy, and the bride was not expected '
20 recover. q,
The Nashville Banner Of Friday saws :
AT a meeting Of the Directors o. the NashyUs u
Chattanooga Railroad "Wednesday tbs Il
ease OF the Nashville and NORTHWESTERN RafI- n
Dad was sgreed 70, and Mr.. A. LRnaes elecfed
superintendent OF that road. An the neees- 3
airy papers IN regard TO the turning over tbe
Northwestern rOsd 20 the managemsnt 81 ~ .
Of the Chattanooga Railroad Was N
ignsd yesterday, and possession taken OF the q
Ormsr. h,
Near Johnstown, on the Pennsylvania n
last week, a locomotive ran away. n =
vas on a steep grade-sbout ninety feet to > x
a s1esm-chest exploded, and the b
began descending the hfl a. : co.
al pacs. The engineer and fireman wsra con.
eled TO jump on when Il was running fortv
allies an hour, and fortunately escaped yTitbont CO
srious Injury. The runaway engine, with con- sa
LanLy Seceserated speed, rushed down the TO
III, and coli5ed With q freight train. q nnn. ct
er OF the cars Of which wers oonntssalr an
yrecked- OF
The Fort Smith Herald, of AuSusf "a
J, says: We learn from Major E. c. Boudinot
lat the Cherokeeo eleEation conelueed a trsotv To
nth the Government. In which a ARE amen, -
( land lying west Of the Nation proper. known
the outlet. which vas granted to the Cbero- so
ses by Gen. Jscksco, In the treaty OF ~ -. tn
I'D to the United States 10 settle the Tndtans tic
Z Kansas upon; and also, the treaty proviTas al
u toe settlement Of ali monies now dps 49, or
adians under the various treaties made with 81
ae CherOkees since 1917. Taking the treaty a.
together. IT is a satisfactory one to the GOV -
tent and the Cnerokses. -
A W~ell-known Chicago merchant d,
AIMED Peck Ia under 5000 bonds, for trial at tn
ext term OF Court, charged with an ATTEMPT %
poison his wife. In The legal invessigstion m
transpired that Mr.. Peck came home 8 few AZ
Tenings ago with a powder which he said was ! :
7t up by an eminent physician, and which ~
, desired his wife would take, saying 1t would ~
sal her at once. HIS uneasy manner and his TIC
,xiety that she should take 1t at once. made
II Suspicious, ana on some pretext she got :
Of the powder and refused 10 give II :,
|, Nsrt day she had it analysed, and dis !
1850 that there was enough morphine in IL "a
IN 20 msn. A magistrate was sent for IL
d tooS ssr seposidoo the sPOthecary was O.
% ss,o nensa' and Peek arrested and pus Ed
soaes ~ Essd' 'Tor