Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-23
CURRENT GOSSIP.

leans, 0leG few dRys since.
-Translations Of Cooper's novels ar
having an extensive run in Greece.
The Brignoli Opera Troape will op
crate in Montgomery, Ala, next week.
The City Council of Petersburg, Va.
has decided TO tax velocipedes s. each.
Hon. Robert Ridgwsy, Of Amherst
is talked of as q candidate for Governor
of Virginia.
John Antrey was killed hy Andrew
Mayer, Sr., near Edgefeld, 5. C., few
days since.
George Aagustus Ssls is engaged on s
work on Spain, which will be illustrated
by Gustsvs DOre.
France now has $40 Protestant Sun
day Schools, Germany 80, Switzerland
250, and Holland 2s6.
One hundred thousand volumes oi
the work Of Hugh Miller, the geologist,
have been published in Edinburg up to
the present time.
The airy, fairly Lillian" 4" Of Ten
nyson's esrly, dainty muse, is now 8
Mrs. R1Tnesley, mother Of seven chill
dren.
"A bookseller OF the Rue Lafayette,
Paris, stands his books out for sale in his
windows, eseh surmOunted by the photo
graph Of It's author.
Lay delegation is b bs voted on next
June by the entire membership Cf the
Methodist Church, N ale and female,
above the age OF twenty years.
The town Of Union Springs, Ala,
voted unanimously, on Monday last, in
favor Of subscribing 25,0O0 TO the Mont
gomery ana Eufs!a Railroad.
The Episcopal Diocese OF Missouri,
has bought a cOmmOdious residence fST
Rev. Dr.. Robertson, their new Bishop,
in St. Louis.
Joseph Jobnston, Of Lee county, Va,
was shot snd killed last week By james
and Rsdman Colston. They fired ten
bslls into his body.
-VermilliOn Parish, La, was visited
by violent gsle few DAYS ago. Seven
teen houses were blown down, and sew
ersl persons dangerously wounded and
one killed.
A missionary in Brownsville, Texas,
has succeeded in uniting all the Protest
snts- Episcopslisus, Methodists, Bsp-
fists, Pfesbyterians, Luthersus-in one
Congregational Church.
Green peas, shipped from Charles
ton, {. c., we're sold 10 New York last
Saturday, at from s. TO s. 25 per busbel;
aud lettuce from Savannah sold IN NeW
York for IS so per barrel.
The Virginia Sunday School Society
Of the Methodist Church is in session at
Petersburg. Bishop Daggett presides,
and 3 number Of ministers are in attend
snce.
The May number OF the GALAXY
which will be published on today, will
contain 81 able article by Col. ) e.
wards Clarke on James I. Brady. "A
Great Advocate"
"A tragedy by the Prince Hereditary
of SAKE MeininEen, q youth Of eighteen,
entitled The Emperor Henry w Is
about to be performed st the Royal thea
ter, ia Berlin.
John Bonner, Of Carroll county, Ca,
had bis barn ard gin house burned some
weeks since. One night last week some
Radical, black or white, cut the thrOsts
OF five OF bis horses.
E The Atlanta Constitution SAYS: The
City Council sTe fitting up in style an
Agricultural Bureau in the room over the
market, at the corner Of Pryor and Mich
ell streets. Ii viii be under tie charge
of Hon. d. W. Lewis, Secretary Of the
Safe Agricultural Society, and will be
open all the time.
The American Booksellers Guide
for April, continues its articles against
subs criptiOn publishing. The ground IA
ken is that the system iDtei fsres with the
regular trade aid prevents tIse establish
nSut Of lOesl b CkstOres, and thst the
books sre mostly # little real value, and
are s0.d 81 price higher than that which
would be charged in the regular way.
On the suJhogity Of the New York
Sun, We learn that but eight thousand
copies Of Mr.. Greeiey's " Reccllec5iGns "
have been sold, although Psrton's life o.
the Tribune philosopher, when first is
sued, bad = run Of 10000. This il per-
hsps 8 very fair sample Of the l. flneDce
of periodical literature, almost every one
having read the A" RecOllections in the
Ledger.
The Richmond, Va. steel works are
beipg rebuilt by q Northern gentleman
OF large means-8 Mr.. Strong. IL will
be Esmem beTed that these works, situated
On the river bank, aim st under the
Petersburg RAILROAD bridge, were des-
trOyed by the falling Of ths blazing tim
bere ~ that structure in the 81 Of April /
corfI sgt stiOn. Improved machinery and |
every moGs-n facility for turning out
good work viii bs put in.
The New Orleans PscGysuqe OF the
j. h ssys " The newly eppOInted S1r
VeyOr fer this port. james LODgstFeet, I
Lieutenant General Cf the late C0nfed-
crate States army, yesterday forwarded
his bond to Washil gtOn for approval.
The amount Of the bond is 5000, and
the bondsmen are c. CbenOwetb, J.
F. Casey and LsngaP Gen. LoDgstreet
arrived ia the city Thursday morning
last"
A letter dsted Lske City, Florida,
April 18Th, ssys: We have had strangely
cold weather since this month came 10,
and / siill think We shall have frost to
irjure lRtton. Corn was badly burt ten
days sgO; the sane mey be Eaid OF cot
ton that Was %. To-day J have been
told by a number Of residents OF the
county, who are here attending court,
inst much Of the cotton that came no is
dead, aud hesps dying A gloomy feel
ing prevRils thrOu gh the country.
The articles on 4" Words and Their
Uses,D written by Richard Grant White,
which have been published in the Gal.
an from time TO time, and which have
already attracted much attention, are
nov undergoing q careful revision by the
author, and viii soon be published by
Sheldon q TO. 40 DOCK IOTn1. MI. Wnlle
has attacked the whole school Of 4" tech
niesl English RrsmmaTians, and the
publication Of bis book will revive the
excitement among the critics.
The AppTentices' Library in Phils-
delphia loaned the you Of the city do
ring the last year "a S97 volumes. o.
these 10 793 volumes were given out from
the boysi department, and IA l04 from
the girls department.. It would appear,
therefore that the girls are more sssidu-
Gus readers than the boys, since the dii-
ference in their nun bers is not in pro-
portion to the difference between tire
volumes read, there having been 739
boys supplied with books and S77 girls.
The Richmond va } Enquirer Of
Friday says: We learned yesterday that
the directory Of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad Company have in con-
Temptation the scheme Of ceiling out to
the PenDsyivsnis Railroad commonly
known g. the Pennsylvania Central) the
states interest in the Virginia Central
Railroad (2Z OO0. 900 J, and the States ia
terest in the B ue Ridge r abroad 81
674 000D and that II the sale were made