Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-01-04

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The Georgia Conservative papers are
in s~cstacies over the removal Of Pope.
On New Years day, five years ago,
Abe Lincoln opened Psndors's box in the
guise Of the emancipation proclamation.
One Of the Maine courts has just
granted forty divorces 10 a single term.
The London papers want the police
force increased from 1000 to I6. 600. Fe-
MAN scare.
The bewitching AdeliBa Patti Is to
be married to the Marquis de Coux, oil
Napoleon's household.
The Lawrence, Kansas, and Calves
ton, Texas, railroad was opened on the
1st inst. 1t has been buiIt with Chicago
capital.
"A meeting Of the Kansas state Demo
cratic Central Committee Is called for
January I'D.
Oysters are increasing in price at
London in consequences of the daily con-
sumption Of ten quarts by the walrus in
the Geological Gardens.
Among the e~nigrants who passed
through Columbus, Ohio. last week, were
thirty-nine who intend locating in Ten
nessee.
-Confiuent smallpox Is alsrmingly
prevalent in Chicago, and, the Post Of
that city says, is nearly as fatal a was
the cholera.
The sperm oil business Is ~stagnant In
New Bedford, Massachusetts,, and there
has not been 3 transaction in oil or
w~hslebons, from first hands, in q month
past.
The negroes IN South Carolina have
got to stealing loaded wagons on the
road and appropriatIng contents, wagons
and mules to their own use.
"A Richmond, Virginia, butcher on
Christmas day presented sixty widows OF
that place with splendid Toasts Of beef.
Ten persons were killed, and a large
number injured, by the explosion Of e
powder mill at Faversham, fifty miles
from London, on Saturday. The cause
OF the occurrence is unknown.
The wife Of Rev. Mr.. Matchett was
detected in a theft from a dry goods store
in Washington, last week. She is above
want, and stole merely because she IL
cursed with a dspraved disposition.
The ST. Louis and Chicago papers
publish four aud ak column reports Of
local events during the past year, chro-
nologically arranged.
The Nashville street cars were SUI
perceded by sIeighs during the recent
snow, rugged by the street railroad COM
pany, who thus exhibited commendable
energy and enterprise which might very
well have been initiated in Memphis.
The Nashville Union and Dispatch
learns that East Tennessee Is improving
educationslly, socially aud politically !
There certainly was no portion Of the
State that more needed reform in each
and all Of these particulars.
Prominent Democrats express the
opinion that the President means ag-
gressive action henceforth with Congress,
and believe he will not allow the South
to be Africanized if it can be averted by
Executive power.
The Winchester va Netcs says
is pouring in upon us, chiefly
from Southern Pennsylvania. These
are generally of the right stripe,
and come to farm on our land.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Era contains four
columns Of Sheriff sales of city property
non-payment OF taxes for 1867. What
q comment on Radical misrule.
Eighty millions Of people, or more
than double the population Of the Usited
crossed the New York ferries last
year.
The large painting Of Gustave Dore,
Of the gambling saloons in Baden, on
exhibition st the Paris Exposition, has
been sold to an American for the sum Of
fHy-fve thousand francs.
-Ex-Brigadier and ex Provisional
Governor A. ]. Hamilton, Of Texas,
made a speech at Austin on the 18th
instant, disappointing, according to the
all parties by his mildness and
moderation, and the Radicals by the
neglect to sustain their ultra views and
expectations.
-Elated with their victories over
Austria, the Prussians are meddllng
with everyone's affairs. Thus in Berlin
: petition against the cession of the
Danish West India islands, Is receiving
numerous signatures.
"A citizen Of PerryviIle, Mo-, Is san.
that he has found the secret OF
perpetual motion. He expects 1t to
'upersede the use Of steam and water as
powers
The late elections show that more
are cast in Montana than In either
Nevada or Nebraska, yet the two latter
ire States, while the former remains a
Territory.
The general postofiee IL now engaged
n a revision Of the affairs of a large
Of p~ostoficss throughout the
and making q finsl settlement
II their accounts. 1t is discovered that
u many Of the offices business has
increased, which being shown TO
he satisfaction Of the department, the
Of postmssters at such offices
will be increased. In other Offices where
he business has decreased, a correspond
ng deduction will be made in the sala-
les Of the postmasters.
The New York Herald is colIating the
urrent news Of the day, from the South
m States, to show the deplorable condi.
ION Of society there, as resulting direct