Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-10
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.
-Oliva I,ogan Is in Mlcblran.

nent"
-Q1ailG are fast disappearing from the
prairies.
Indiana has one insane person to
every "A in sanity.
"A Celtic Association will soon be
formed at Pittsburg.
"A Buffalo baker glories in the appro-
pirate name Of Ovens.
The word hats " occurs but once In
the Bible. See Daniel iii, 81.
The Atomizad Medico Erisn sys-
tem Is the latest for killing people.
Cincinnati has given a five years
Iesse OF its lamp posts for advertising.
-Psreps-Rosa goes to England In the
spring, en- route for q trip around the
world.
Chicago proposes a "Glass Insurance
Company" to take risks on windows and
beer glasses.
1t is said that the income of Mrs.
! Lincoln from her husbands estate is
about $1,000 year.
DIR. Cobb, the retiring Mayor OF
/ Clarksville, Tenn, gave q grand supper
( last Saturday night,
One hundred millions dollars has
been invested in the Superior copper
/ mines.
The Rsdemptorist Fathers of Savau-
nah, Ga, have opened mission for the
/ benefit of the oolored people of that city.
An English woman, formerly a pu-
oil in the London Orphan Asylum, has
given S25, 600 towards the new building.
The Georgia Legislature has been
asked to appropriate S10,0 600 to give sp-
propriate burial to Confederate dead.
-Mecklen burg has been confirmed in
the possession Of the SuZsrsinty of w Wolde,
which it has been disputing with Prussia
for 26e years.
There is q man down L Ast ninety
four years Of age, who has lived in four
towns, and yet has never changed his
residence.
Tho admirers OF President Lincoln
at Fran nkfort-on-tha.M Main have presented
Mrs. Lincoln with handsome set Of
plate.
-Chioago finds her magnificent Bou-
levSFd project impeTtiDently checked by
the opposition OF her little rural suburb,
Colfax.
-R0sensu, Upper Hungary, is infested
by band Of brigands, commanded by
monk Who WEs recently En inmate Of
Capauchin monastery.
On dit, that the Car and the Prus-
sian King privately signed an offensive
and defensive treaty unknown to Bis.
msrck and Gortschakoff.
"A London pauper destroyed the
clothes furnished him by public charity,
because they we're not fit for a gentle
msn 10 wear"
The Detroit Tribune says that HOr-
ace Greeley is again despOndent; news
comes from South Carolina that ThurloW
Weed is gaining health,
g sorge W. Harper, OF Alexandria,
Va, while having new boot removed
from his foot, had the knee pan or UaD
broken and pulled into two pieces.
"A little girl in Wisconsin made q
breakfast on percussion caps, of which
she swallowed forty. Her parents were
fortunately opposed to eorpOreal punish
ment.
Some one poured water into tie let
ter box IN the p0stofiice at Pennington,
a few nights since, and In the morning
all the letters were frozen into a solid
mass.
"A beautiful crypt Of the twelfth CEN
tury mss just been discovered at Grau,
near the Cathedral. Eight !
granite columns support the roof, each !
with different capital.
"A woman in Cincinnati, arrested I
while walking of with fifty pounds of |
beef, spologised for taking so much by |
stating that she had no knife to cut il |
with.
While Benjamin Franklin WAS alive
he purchased his paper from the Ivy |
Mil IN Delaware county, Pa. The mill /
was erected In l772, and is still in ope- 1
ration.
At q recent ball at the Tuileries, the
guests consumed IL, 600 ices, 1900 glasses
OF punch, 600 of sherbert, 500 chickens,
500 bottles OF champagne, and 1900 bot.
ties of Bordeaux.
"A Council Bluffsr has inherited a
His father decided 1t 10 Kali
sms2OO, Mich, with q reYersion in case
OF abandonment as q cemetery. The
grounds are wanted now for q public
park by the city.
-Kossuth passes every day several
hours at the graves Of his wife and daugh.
ter, in the Genoa Cemetery. He is too
poor to erect monuments on them, and
hss refused all the offers of his friends to
give him money for this purpose.
The Boston Traveller says that house
rents must come down in that city next
spring, or the population of suburban
towns will be very largely increased.
Thousands have already been driven out
5f the city from this cause alone.
"A man in Connecticut hes invented
. four y heeled veiocipeds which, it Is
will travel on any ground
mile in two minutes. We understand
that man in Springfield has given
Sl5 600 for the privilege TO manufacture
hem.
Gen. Robart Z. Lee has been elected
President Of the Bible Society Of Rock
bridge county, Va, and has Issued a
short address to ths citizens OF that
county ia behalf of the Society, which
IS to supply every family Ia the county
with a copy Of the Bible.
The Lynchburg (Va.) Republican
says thet opium esting prevails in that
to o much greater extent
han most people free from the habit sup
pose. II Is also believed to be INDUCED
IA By many ladies, which is surely most
1itiable and unfortunate.
We are making progress, Xes.er-
lay, Mr.. Holbrook, delegate from Idaho,
old Gen. Butler, on the floor Of the I
House, that the latter gentleman lied.
dr. H. was promptly called to order,
md properly leclured by Speaker CoIfax.
We wish he had been equally prompt
when Washburne and DOhnelly last year
hurled hltb az each other By the hour.
Don Piatt refuses TO take sides In the
between Mrs. s gisshelm and
Mics Winnie ReaI1, and thinks the lat
er's plaster cast OF Mother Eve threw {
some discredit on the received theolo-
glCal opinion IS TO her personal expert.
,nce," but says that after giving that
louss painter, VIM. Powell, S25, 900 for !
mother hIdeons abortion in the wav of
,sint, think we could spare Miss Vim. !
he $40, 600 by which TO complete her ar {
istic education"
The Emperor Napoleon used to re- |
'elve every day from the publisher OF the
I'D Monitsitr, three copies Of the paper {
printed on vellum. The new
Journal Q6icieI sends also three copies to
he Emperor, only they are like any
lody else'si on common papss. Ths ]
irst day 1t came in that vulgar shane. {
Napoleon the Third said nothing. bnt :
wisted his mustache, this being the
reatest sign Of establishment Ia the !
uler Of the French.
Matt. II. Carpenter, the new Senator Z
rom Wisconsin, hes come out uneouiv- r
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