Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-ANG GSllCDd4S Dl Nsdildltlt COAiNiliut
to desert in large numbers.
Turkish Protestant communitie,
are increasing in number.
The Expenses of the New York
police force for the past year were
$4,000, ,000.
The grass crop ia the eastern part
of Maine IS very heavy, and promises
more hay than last year.
: Surgeons caught in Delaware are
sent to New York and canned for eX-
Ep0rt as Kennebec salmon.
T The strike in the Pennsylvania
coal regions has greatly increased the
. trade from the Maryland mines.
The claims of American citizens
on Mexico, it is said, foot up to the
Z total Of sixty millions Of dollars.
/ Bismarck says that he always in
trusts difficult commissions to men
with spirited and ambitious wives.
There was an eruption of the vol
cano of COlima, in Mexico, on June
( 18th, and the whole crown of the
mountain fell i'm. at
John c. Breckenridge is 10 accom-
pany the surveying expedition for the
Northern Pacific railroad from st.
Paul.
Coy. Randolph of New Jersey,
1 it is said, will probably succeed A. O..
Cattell as United States Senator from
that State.
Extremes meet in Chicago, where
now wife has sued to obtain possess
= 4. trsI,r hos hnRT
carried off by brother.
1t Is believed by Senator Cameron
that if the Democrats of Pennsylvania
nominate Gen. Hancock for Governor
they will carry the State.
H. II. BO0dY, Of New York, has
recently paid his subscription of SJD,-
600 and interest, amounting TO s62, ,0GU,
to BOwdOin College.
The largest lot of Red river furs
ever sold in st. Paul, Minn., was dis
posed oflaSt week. Among the num-
Der were one thousand two hundred
wool skins.
The Connecticut Mutual Life In
surance Company's policy 1888, for
$1,000, is issued at age 33, and is paya-
ble in the third month of the year.
All this was purely accidental.
in Jersey county, Ill, seven per-
sons have been hanged or shot by un-
authorized persons, and without a le-
gal trial, within the last two years, for
the ealleged crime Of horse stealing.
All the printing plates Of the
Treasury have been destroyed, in pre-
sence of the commission selected TO
sunerintend their destruction. The
steel plates were melted at the Wash
ingt0n Navy Yardia few days ago.
The Earl Of Zetland was lately in-
stalled, for the twenty-siXth time,
Grand Master, for the year, of the
English FreemasOns. Earls de Gray
and Percy were Installed as Deputy
Grand Master and Senior Grand
Warden
The Mayor of Boston .'ted' nu
less than three hundred representa-
lives of the press the other day
nine-tenths of whom we suspect, were
either " supcs or subs rife ''press,
properly speaking, does not rush in
droves to every trough when called
from their pens ily pnhlie oNhihitors.
The . personals Of the New York
Eis.Old have q rival minded are
eclipsed by those of the Boston Her
Cld. Some of the nstiees-iIf- the natter
would, anywhere except III Boston,
subject the paper that contained them
to prosecution for issuing indecent
publications.
giH iyurteen years Of age,
whose parents Keep house Of bad
repute in Washington, Ind, was
rescued from the house by a vigilance
committee, after a sharp fight. 8ne
day last week. The gfrl was found
fastened ap, With nothing but her
night clothes, TO prevent her escaping.
Col. sam. Pike, the veteran jour
nalist, who has published some
eighteen or twenty different papers,
in a half dozen or more different
States, has settled dOwnina hardware
store. at Leesburg, Highland county,
Ohio, and has his residence ON the
identical lot on which his father first
settled IN that town in 1918.
"A small iron steamer isnow being
fitted up at Wilmington, n. G., by q
number Of Southern Capitalists, and
viii shortly sail from that port, with
4 number of scientific men on board,
to explore the head waters of the
Amazon, with a view Of attracting
attention to the commercial resources
Of that country.
The Minneapolis (Alinn6sota) Tfi-
5tale having published a statement
that disturbances were threatened by
the Chippewas in Otter Tail county, q
member of that trihe-ap educated
man, who Is stpcsying for the EpiscO
tiaT ninistry-Writes that I" the Chip
peWas are now industriOusly engaged
in the pursuits Of farming, and will
never raise war WhOOp against this
Government" +" :
The Spanish Journals are clrculat-
ing a curious report to the effect that
the Prince Of ASturias is to marry the
! English Princess Beatrice, lady of
his own age; that he is to be King land
she Queen of Spain-DQnna Isabella
sbdicating-an and that jn consequence
af such very prOpitiOus alliance the
British Government will surrender
Gibaraltar to the Spanish monarchy.
-Rev. DIR. John Todd. of Pittsfeld,
Mass, arrived home from California
and his summer vacation on Saturday,
having been absent nearly two
months, and having travelled nearly
| 1000 miles in each week Of that time,
and been within fourteen days of the
Sandwich Islands, seventeen of ia
pan, and twenty-five of China. He
| preached on Sunday, the 10th Ult., to
over 1000 Mormons, at the tabernacle
nj Salt Lake City.
"A correspondent writes as follows
from Lexington, (Ga.,) June 18th,
two p.m.: Daniel Dupree johnson,
| Esq. the foreman of the last grand
/ Jury in this county, and highly res
pected citizen, died this forenoon very
| suddenly while engaged in his busi-
ness. Mr.. j. was a member of the
Secession Convention, and held high
place in the Baptist Church, of which
he was an exemplary member. 1t Is
supposed that apopleXy was the cause
Of his sudden death.
Commissioner DelaBo has received
letter from the assessor at Cleveland,
Ohio, inquiring as to the mode of tax
ing the excess of dealers sales, under
paragraph ,, section 70, act Of June 30,
1854; and OF sales of liquor dealers,
under section 50, act of July 20, 1858
as amended by act Of April 10, 1863,
and replies: Upon careful examin-
alton Of the provisions Of the law re.
ferred to, and comparing the same,
am of opinion that Congress intended
bv the act of April 10, 1859. to impose
tax on all sales IL excess OF ths
amounts specified, at proper rates, ip,