Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-07
THE NEWS.

The Trinity river Is 20 be rendered
nsvigable Is high up IS Dallas Texas.
The lightning has been very destructive
IN Chattanooga this summer.
A Japanese newspaper has been
started in London.
Brigham Young is having seven costly
carriages buIltin New York.
Dumas, jr., and Edmund About are to
t-v bankingtn Paris.
Ths cutting Of the new rice crop on the
oz.scbes river. Georgia, has commenced.
4 wire suspension bridge Is to be erect
"A over the BrazOs at Waco, Texas
The Nashville ~Benitentiary has 859
Inmates. = majority OF whom sre negroes,
4 hve-foot vein Of fne coal has lately
nsen discovered ia Rosne county. Tenn.
The boil-worm has utterly devastated
,bs cotton crops in Autaugs county Alabama.
large number Of troops have passed
IN re- Georgia rsilrOadin the past few days
This wears cotton crop in Alabama
he be,+er and larger than that OF ,.v vsar
A Nashville man has sold over three
thousand Seymour badges since the opening OF
the canvas,
New Orleans merchants insist upon
two muiOn bsles cotton as the maximum OF
production This year.
The corn crop Of East Tennessee prom
iIss better in quantity and quality than for the
last forty years.
The trial of Wbslen, the supposed
murderer Of Darcy McGhee. viii commence 81
Ottawa, Canada, OF Monday.
The cattle disease hss made It's sppear-
snce IN Many county, Tennessee, and many
fstaI cases nave occurred,
Something terrible is said to have been
suddenly hushed up 81 Long Branch. A fash.
tonapIs woman, q young swell, deceived hus-
band. etc, were the actors in TIE affair.
The Committee of the National Board
cfUnderwdteu, appointed 70 revise and equal
lie the rates OF insurance throughout the
Western SIstes, Is IN session 81 lafayette, Ind
Rev. John c. Reeves, of Somerville,
Tenn. shows, with iast pride, sn apple, raised
On his farm this season, which weighs a poUud
and t~hree-quartsus-
Gen. John E. Wool publishes, In the
Albany papers. r denial OF the story that be re-
fused 70 shaEe ba-ds with Gov. Seymour, tell
ing him that he did not snake hands with
traitors"
Mr.. PeDdleton said, when speaking,
recsRtly: 81 don't see where you ell came
from Excuse me, yer r~iversnce," promptly
responded an Individual In the crowd, 1.-THE
most OF Us came from Oald Ireland"
The Kelley's Island Wine Company
have contracted for the wine OF the grapes
grown on two hundred acres OF vineyard on
EeIey's Island, at I'VE and a half cents pei
pound, spirit gravity eighrv-dve degrees.
Joseph McDsvitt, who was q member
OF the Baltimore Convention OF 1881, AID voted
for TIE secession o: Maryland, Is now the Demo-
cratic candidate for the Pennsylvania Senate
IN Adams county.
Chicago Is now receiving immense
quantities OF grain, but the shipments thence
are small, buyers holding OF FOR lower prices.
On Saturday the receipts were i've hundred
and ninsty-eight thousand bushels, and the
shipments about half that amount.
The capitalists Of Minnesots are in
vesting largely in wheat-prCduciDg lands, and
Commodore Wm. F. Davidson. ef st. Paul, has
purchased 1890 acres OF the Sioux reservation.
IN RedwOod county, which be proposes to cult
YRts extensively next year.
The wheat harvest In Wisconsin Is
ended, and generally turns out better than was
anticipated. TIE yield per acre VIII average
twenty bushels against twelve last year, and
the grain viii hold out Welght-sixty pounds
per oushsl.
A young girl, while visiting 8 cotton
mil, near Mexico, Missouri. a few DAYS since.
bad her clothes caught in the machinery and
was dragged along until msngled IN a most
shocking manner. She only lived about two
hours after the accident
Five negroes, confined in the Albany
(Ga) jail, tire s a bucket OF water in the face
OF the jailoT, IS he entered their cell, a few
days since, and before he could recover, Effected
their escape. Two Of them were shot and, It is
believed, seriously wounded.
The shipments OF GOAL from Phi ilsdel-
phis for the season smount 10 7g5S,I6l tuns, a
decrease OF 4,5s7 40 tuns from the aggregate OF
last year up 70 tnis time. The annual Increase
has hitherto been about ten per cent, which
shOuld bring this years total up 10 100000
tuns.
The overland mail coach wss lately
robbed OF $500 belonging 70 TIE Adams Ex-
press Company, when near Pelican Ranch.
Idaho. The Passengers were searched. bet
MAJ. Mesrs, United States Paymaster, mansgsd
70 secreJeR large amount Of Government funds
which was IA lis possession.
The Fenisn picnic advertised in Mon
teal, for bsnsht OF Whalsn, was to have
come OF on Wednesday but the antf Fepians
had made preparations 20 break II up in a row
and 70 avoid bieOdshed, the grounds were
closed and guarded by a strong fOres Of police
and the picnic was therefore -ahsn5ons,.
A convention Of the EPISCOPAL Cbpr,b
In Missouri, met IN 81 Louis. F1ssv 60
etece1 hsN. Charles F. Robertson. Of Malone
New York, Bishop or the diocese ~ 49,
70 nj the vacancy oc,ssioned bv : aaasgl
bsh'P Hawk, Bishop Tattle, OF MoDtanS -
sAs elected last May 70 the sans position bsy.
ms declined. nav
hr. James DeNott. the daring have
back rider ofDeAott & Wards circus. met win
q serious accident on last Tbursday, near Lev
1ngton, KY. Mr. DeMott was Performing bts
great feat o turning a double somerset. mount.
cd on his dsshing Ara5ian charger. when tbe
horse became unmansgeable. and the rider I
was thrown with great violence, breaking hts !
les and seriously i~Rjuring him Otherwise
The Nashville Medical College dim-
Guilty has been settled. The Banner Of satur-
day says the hItgati8n and other mafters -
difference touching this institution. nave 49,
compromised satisfactorily to an partiss -
the faculty, IS advertised, will oopduct tbe
school hereafter. They are ". x. goy,,Dr
Chas. h. winston. J. b. Lindsey. Gn ~
Briggs. Tnos L. Madden, Jno. H. Calender
VIM. L. Nlenoi, mos. y. Brakeman, Van 5
Lindsey, Paul I. Eve, Thoz. r.. Jepnines -
Jones
Ex-Governor Thomas b. Seymour dad
ST bis re idenoe, IN Hartfort, Connecticut a few
DAYS siDcs, Of typhoid fever. his ACE ~ go
years. BE was born in Hartford IN lSox -
educated IN the Middletown Military Aeaden-
prsctieed law IN his native city, was foT so-
time Auditor, served in Congress from lesS -
IsB, went TO Mexico In 1875. whers be corr.
mandsd the New England regiment, was =
Presidential Elector IN 1851, was aust electsd
governor In 1850, AID served four terms. and
was Minister 10 Russia under Pisrce's adminis
tration.
Both Houses Of the legislative body.
saws the linton GSd Anacrisan Of Saturday. were
Yesterday hammering away at the state debt
md the Ku-Kluk-one g terrible reality ana
ne other a preposterous and shadOwy myth.
n would seem that the hours Of the day were
alternately spent IL contriving means TO pay
the over due interests on q debt already
aacsssariiy larger. And all this napdoodle and
1iscbiefs At an expense TO the taxpayer, OF
our dollars . dag in gold for each man engaged
II. and asmach more for suDdries. At this
sts. they had better go home, and let the debt
axe saEe OF Itself, and let ~ hsYs peace" y