Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-09

year, with 333 slaves on board.
The electric fluid recently killed
fifteen sheep in Oxford, N. H, ct one
''strike."
-Alonzo Goselors, of Lewiston, Maine,
was nominated for Congress by the DEM
cratic Convention Of the Second district.
-Oae thousand cattle pass through the
Seminole agency daily, bound eastward.
The gold clearings in New York on
Wednesday snd Thursday were about
sl03 eco, GOO.
Gases of yellow fever have APP
peared on shipDoard at New York quar-
antine.
The United States steamer Kea~sage
has been heard OF in the Straits Of Ma
geilaa, and was expected 81 Valparaiso
in few days.
An Old citiZsn Of Manchester n. H.,
has cieer in his cellar bottled the year
Gen Taylor was elected President.
TIE Comm issioner Of Streets in Bal
timore estimates the damage to streets,
bridges, eie., by the late flood at S2I5 GOO
The gold receipts ia Denver during
June ard July exceeded those OF the en-
tire year preceding.
The eX-COniederate Admiral Frank
lin Buchanan, hss been elected President
Of the Maryland AgTicn tural College.
gold to the expected action OF foreign
0cldholders, ard the possible politicsl
occurrences here in the next two months.
Grant and COlfax are Immediately
threatened with the support of Stanton
Oh the stump.
1t has been generally agreed upon
that as SOON as the new tax bill has le-
climate effect on the liquor market, the
nricss OF drinks to consumers shall be re-
duced.
"A wealthy New York play-goer,
with public split which does infinite
credit to bis head and heart. offers to
give Maggie Mitchell $40 eco if she will
sgree never to play F,1achon again.
The Coasul al Porto RIc0 wriLeg to
the State Department thst the require
ment f8E passports has been re-estsbIish-
ed on that island.
A Eaymaster Of the regular array,
Who has oeen in the service twenty years,
saws every thousand men costs ROW one
million and q half per Gig7una.
Vernon paid Sue so 600 for the
1" Wandering Jew" to publish in the
feuilleton Of ais paper, TIE C01st5tutj07s-
aeI. and gained a 900 subsCl iOers in
month.
"A poQr widow at Newburn, Virginia,
who rec ives S270 salary rs pOstRistress,
is assessed 81 by the Radical cOTmOrants.
She has three children 70 support.
The New York city papers unite in
q recon mendaLiOa that Horace Greeley
be appointed 10 the Office Of Recorder,
and tGat the fees 90 TO Gen. Halpine's
family the remainder of the term.
The King OF the Sandwich Islands
has sent his Minister OF Foreign Affairs
TO negotiate new treaties with the Euro
DeaB UowCrs. The Minister arrived ct
San Francisco On Wednesday night.
The Boise City, Idaho, stage was re-
Gently stopped Gu Blue Mobntsins by
hiShwaymen, and the mails rihed of ali
registered letters. Wells, Fargo & Co. Is
Express was robbed o. $1,000,
a dispatch from Bombay reports
tha5 the American bark Effort went
ashore near Point de Gaile, CeylOn, and
would probably become total loss.
The Portuguese Council OF State have
concluded not TO prohibit the royal eziles |
Frcn1 remaining in Portugal, and the
Dgke and Duchess cf MCutpsnsier have |
taken I'D their residence at LisboD.
The solitary occupant OF the Rob I
Roy canoe * making the trip down the /
Lake Of Galilce, the jordan and Dead F..
Sea, snd will thence 60 through the /
Suez Canal 10 the Red Sea and return By /
the way Of the Nile.
The Mexican dent, now gcknOwi- /
edged by the present Govern ueut, fU0ts !
UP 500 600 900. This ~ Sl2 30 per capita .
for the whole population. OF the whole .
sim, 500 600. 900 are due to English cred 1
itoFs, about 81 coo, 900 to Spain, S., 000, /
900 to France, and a small sum to the /
United States.
The Dlke OF EdinbuTg will shortly
leave for fereigB service. Il 10 expected
that during els cruise bis Royal High
ness viii visit China, japan, and New
z 3slsnd.
--O1e thoassnd eight hundred and
ffty seven fire escapes have been erected
In the city OF New York, by order Of the
Of Buildings, since the
first Of January, Including bulkheads.
Nearly three thousand houses have been
provided with the means Of escape il
Ease Of fires.
The entire district swept by the great
hood il Baltimore is coated with a sticky,
shiny mud 70 the depth # six or eight
Dcbes, aud the smell arising from the
mixture IS beginning 60 be very offensive
and dangerous 20 the health Of the cili-
,sus.
"A labor congress, with delegates from
81 parts OF the Union, viii meet in New
for6 on the third Monday Of September,
% discuss re eight-hour law, and other
matters affecting w0rkingmen.
Orders have been issued from mill
airy headquarters in Rich mOnd, directing
hat Methodist Churches ia Virginia.
hereafter, ard until the legal right 10
ownership Of which shall have been !
definitely determined, shall be occupied
IN alternate Sundays by the cOngrega-
ions OF the Msth0disS Episcopal Church
south and the Methodist Episcopal !
lhurch
"A farmer in Putnam county, Illinois, {
committed suicide on the 24th ult., be- {
ause the grssshoppers had injured his
wheat.
-The hop growers in Wisconsin esti-
nate the yield this year at 500 pounds an
ere or less, on which it il thought the
'ield will not exceed $4,000 or IS coo
.aIes. '
"A train on the Columbus, Chicago !
nd Indiana Central Railroad recently =,
AZ ore hundred and lightweight miles
o four hours and twelve minutes, which |
; equivalent to forty-fve miles an hour.
his is the fastest time ever made on a {
Western road.
AT Probate Court in Ohio, upon s
ompiaiDt Of father that he had never 4
eeD permitted TO see his first born, two (
lonths cid, the Court gave him permis- e
ION to zee ths child at al reasonable /
mes aad places. The Judge declined /
} interfere in the further complaint Of 1
be father, that the child was chrstened j
iecrge II. PendletOn, without his con- 4
snt. .
The Madison wisconsin, Journal c
sys: 1t has become quite fashionable o
late for ladies to visit our quiet beer I
sloons with gentlemen, and psrtske of 1
cooling glass Of beer" b
The Smith gold mine, in SpOisylvs- 5
ia county, Va, containing one hundred {
cres, was sold at trust sale last week Il
II 5I4O0. a year or two ago Northern Il
lpitaiists bought it for S15, 600. c
A Precious Lot. Z
q. S. Grant is the man who, in cold .
Iood, demanded Of the War Department