Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-01
MEMPHIS Appeal
TUESDAY MORNING, =: : JUNE I, 1869
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS or IHE DA I.
Dubuque, Iowa, has 24,6SS inhab,
itants.
Titiens is said to be suffering from
erysipelas.
The average value of land in Mis-
souri is 500 per acre.
Beets "as large as hams" grow in
Colorado.
The new Mayor of Charleston, S.
c., is a brother OF Parker Piusbury.
San Francisco is examining a gun
that fires five hundred shots in a minute.
The British soldiers in Canada con-
tinue to desert, it is said, in large numbers.
A Ritualist funeral at Falmouth,
England, was broken up by a mob.
Earthquakes and smallpox cost the
San Francisco authorities $4,000 last
year.
A French lady of honor al the I'M
perial Court of Paris is paid s24OO per an
mum.
The debris of the funeral piles of the
InquisitiOn have been unearthed at Mad
rid.
The Paris mint is to strike off a
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Of Napoleon the First.
So great is the emigration from
Cornwall that it is feared the mines en-
not be supplied with labor.
The French and English iron-clads
are to race to decide a bet between Lord
Lyons and Marshal Mel.
During the year 1868, there were
1916 births and 4S0,6T deaths in Eng
land and Wales.
All the sovereigns of Europe have
contributed to the Trieste monument il
honor of Macmillan.
The great Melbourne telescope, re-
Gently purchased by the Colony of Nicto-
ria, Australia, cost $4,000 in gold.
a HindOO physician at Bombay has
a cure for leprOsy, and the English doc
tons are quarrehng with him about it.
a sturgeon was lately taken in the
Wisconsin river, weighing eighty-four
pounds when dressed.
The lawyers in St. Louis have
adopted a new fashion-that Of wearing
swallOw-tailed coats.
a Democrat of Indianapolis has
BACKED the boots of a cOlored barber as
the penalty OF a bet on the city election.
New York ferry thieves have
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from q sound sleeper in the cabin.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
pounds of chickory have been imported
INTO San Francisco within six months.
Among the prizes recently drawn in
a Vermont lottery were 5000 gilt rings
worth half a cent each, and $50 empty
hour barrels.
One Wisconsin firm sold the past year
$4,000 worth Of reaping machines, and
have ordered COCO machines for the COM
ing season.
Between two and three hundred
Germans and N~Orwegians arrived at Osh- |
kOsh, Wis, last week, destined for the
country bordering on the Wolf river and
fts tributaries.
The towns of Concord and Water
town, Mass, each send one thousand
punches of asparagus daily to Boston.
This crop is a large source OF revenue 10 /
the farming districts near Boston.
Omaha objects strongly to being
spoken Of by papers east of il as in the
far West" The Republican says that
Omaha Is onlyt the point al which travel
ers gather for the purpose of starting /
West.
Three steamships from Liverpool
are detained at the New York quarantine
on account Of having smallpox on board.
Ihe disease H~Nmrevailing among large
numpers OF Swedlsh emigrants who were
brought oyer in these vessels.
The Italian merchants take much
interest in the new steamer lines estab-
hshed between Naples, Messina, Palermo.
and New York. Eight new steamers will
shortly ply between New York and those
three Italian cities. /,
The California Democratic Statel |,
Convention viii meet at Sacramento .June |.
18th, 10 nominate candidates for Supreme
Court Justices. Judge Crockett. Ger.
Wallace, and S. b. Mckee are named i'm
this connection.
Mrs. Anna Gregory died in Pulaski. {
Mich, a few days since, at the residence '
her son, Mr.. Russell Gregory. at the {
age OF one hundred and eleven wears and p,
eight months. She was born in DnteheSs I
n. L., in the year I757. I
Last fall a firm in Detroit offered !
400 in three premiums for the best winter /
wheat, the product of Michigan. The en- I
'ries are closed, and il is found that there \
ire twenty-six- competitors, representing !
EN- counties. The competitors are re- '
lulred TO give their method Of growing j
treating the crop. e
A convention Of the German Turn !
rs OF the Northern Mississippi district is 4
o be held at Rock Island on the 9th and q
SNAC A0Ats. OcttEdlfouS are CN-
'eeted from Quincy, Burlington, Du- ,
Keokuk, Des Moines, Museatine L
~ ''onne- has q
Inc Selma Times of Friday last says: I
We are glad to learn that there is q project ~
n foot, with fair prospects OF success, TO :
stabIlsh a cotton factory in Selma. One Il
arty proposes to invest $50, 00 in such an
Undertaking, and we have no doubt that
Tiers can be induced TO join HIM in it. Il
There is a man near Kansas CITY. II
named Jacob Fernance, who is over !,
hundred and eighteen years old. He W
Ill shows considerable activity, and cul- x
Yates q little garden, in which he takes IN
delight. His eyesight is better than
was years ago; his voice Is not strong. %
= he ~converses freely and apparently so
labor. +.
Inc Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Monitor, Of -.
1s1hnit-, SAYS that on last SATURDAY. tlS
enlng, the I'D, "the Virginia arrived "
70 q company of United Sfatae 4roane 4,
board, composed of h,ndr III
en-, rank and file. They brine 49, tel
onths' supply of provisional e e. :.
ey seem well behaved and under good TIC
Gonjectures as to wherefore trs
70 whose influence they came. ara ~
raous Sul1e believe that thew were orr
RED QLrecty by Grant, because OF the IN
mes Proceedings of Old Dicks & Coz ies
rough tina thieYing so-ealled Senator
o1es very probable. They are West III
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