Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-18
MEMPHIS kPPEAh
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1863.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

London has a new contraltO-GeOrgi.
Sunday; the 23d, is Lection day in
France.
A shower of worms fell in Oregon
the other day.
Minnie Hauck is making a pot of
none in Amsterdam.
The sandwich Islands are to import
$1,000 worth of Coolies.
Potatoes are selling in Indiana at
sixteen cents a bushel.
The Hot Springs (Ark.) Courier will
soon make its appearance.
DuIce has almost finished the Cuban
Internationally telegraph.
Chicago has discovered that clothes
can be washed for fifteen cents a dozen.
The ladies of the Sultan's seragliO
are said to be much given to croquet.
A hundred and ffty-four dollars, in
currency, from the Atlantic to the Pacific!
Crop prospects are by no means
fattering in h vicinity of Tuscaloosa,
Ala.
Polish ladies are raising money to
help female c%onvicts to escape from ST.
IBERIA.
The prima donna Volpini gets nine
tv thousand francs a month at st. Peters
burg.
Archbishop Spalding advises that
separate schools he established for the
blacks.
Bismarck has ordered the male bal
let dancers in Berlin TO cut of their mus
taches.
Mrs. Stanton says wOman's dress is
a "sheeri invention of the devil 10 befool
and belhtle her
A political victim of ex-Gov.
Fletcher, of Missouri, has sued him for
$4,000 damages.
The recent overflow of the Alabama
river destroyed thousands Of acres of cot
ton and corn.
Gen. Lee arrived at Lexington Sat
urday evening last, very much gratifed
with the result of his trip North.
The number of emigrants who left
the Irish ports in 1865 was @, l9O, being a
decrease of 1854 compared with 1857.
There have been 763 snOw-storms in
Boston the past twenty-siN years, the
depth OF snow a~ggregatmg III feet 3ls
inches.
The ladies of Rochester, y. Y, have
organized a secret society for the express
purpose Of putting an end 10 the social
evil. f.
The Portland AdreTtiser was a few
days since printed on paper made OF a
new kind Of material-zi-aaia aqnatieo,
or water rice.
A son of Mr.. Levi Windham, OF
windham Springs, Ala, was dangerously
State, last weeNEny a rowdy. The latter
escaped.
Rev. W. II. Felix, the retiring pas
tor Of the Baptist Church in Lexington,
was presented with = beautiful service Of
silver last Thursday, by the members Of
that Church.
Gov. Thomas p. Porter has sent his
thoroughbred colt, Parson Dudley, to
Lexington, and VIII sell him at public
sale on Monday next, in front of The Pie
nix Hotel.
Owing doubtless to the wetweather,
the cut worms are more numerous this
spring than usual, and are doing serious
injury TO gardens. Cotton is being injured
by the pests, too.
In the Monroe La.) Gric Guard, of
the sth, il is stated that the water from the
Lafourche crevasse was running over the
BAYOU Blue Ridge, and that some Of the
small plantations were unde water. The
Lafourehe is still rising.
In the Nova Scotia House of Repre-
sentatfves, on Wednesday, the Attorney
General submitted an abstract Of the pro-
vincial policy respecting confederation,
increased subsidies and increased repre-
sentation in the Dominion Parliament.
and a modification Of the arrangements
regardingthe taxation, trade and fisheries
Of Nova Scotia are demanded, an approx
ing vote of the people to be had before
any final settlement is accepted.
The spring meeting over the Asso-
citation Course at Lexington commences
on Monday. Il is expected to be the
largest and best ever held there. Nearly
forty horseg will run, aud they are all
frst-class racers, most of them winnersin
fast time. Monday is the grand mile-heat
day, having such noble animals as Yer
s%ailes, Pompey PAYNE and Hersog en-
tered. Let the weather he fair and the
managers promise the rest. a.
The State Temperance Alliance in
Massachusetts, is in a peck of trouble
about its President, Bfr. Spooner, who has
been invited TO resign, but has concluded
not to comply with the proposition. The
cause of abe rumpHs is some point con-
nected with intolerance" and "pro-
scription." 1t seems, then, that the New
England fanatics are beginning to appre-
ciate the fact that there is such a word as
eintoIeranee,' - and that its definition can
be found in NoaE Webster's Dictionary.