Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-01

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per, The Rocky Mountain Press.
|, "A pcsthumOus romance 10y Eugene
Sne has been discovered, and is TO be
printed.
d "A New Yorker says be recently
8 heard nine different languages spoken ~
one time on Hobokes ferry-bOat.
The Saints at Salt Lake city are in
tFibulatiOD. They have to pay twenty
i've cents for their lager.
SNOW has covered St Petersburg snd
vicinity to The depth Of twelve test.
Whole villages are covered.
Not . month ago, s. welI-krown oiti-
z7n Of Boston took out policy fer $780,,
eco He died Wsek before lest.
There ere now twenty-five Isgisla-
lures in EessiOn-more than were ever
before assembled at one time.
Chicago eats Sl,500 600 worth Of
candy. annually, a third Of which is
masufaetured by one house.
Sheriff Meade, Of CayUga, n. Y.
has sued the Auburn Nesgs for 5000 for
saying that he kept a dirty jsi'.
A Berkshire girl walked fourteen
miles through the snow the other day TO
marry 3 young man who was forbidden
the house"
At 3 recent Jste given by the Pore
the saloons Of the Vatican were crowded
with ladies, whose presence is saij to
have been an incident without example,
and TO have grestly sCandsizsd the old
prslstgs.
A well -Informsd gentleman, long
I residen5in in Cuba, and thoroughly familiar
with the resources, operations and inten-
tOns Of the rev0luuOuis.s, predicts thst
"Spsin viii never regain power in the
Eastern department and Caba is lost TO
her within year or eighteen months
4 -Advices from Rome state that the
/ preparations fcr the QE,u-aeuicsl Coun-
ell sre being sctively carried o.. The
/ Assembly viii be held in St. Peters, aGi
already the arrangements sre be-rg
made in the nave, at the part where the
/ Pope each year washes the poor mems
. feet.
The Rev. J. Z. ". Wsre, e Uaita- .
ria1 clergyman Of baltimore is Cf the /
opinion that Mstho0ism Is to be the Teli-
gi0n Of the South, but is 20 become more .
broad ia its faith aud charity" Units .
riaDism, he says, cannot be popular there. f.
It will suecsed in the West, but not ia
the South, where creeds and pref udices .
are inherited.
When an officer OF the American
navy reaches the age Of sixty. and his .
further usefulness becomes doubtful he .
Is placed upon the retired LIST. Il he has .
STAINED to the rank Of Rear Admiral as .
wei as TO gray hair his country be- /.
slows on bin the sum Of two tnOLs sand .
dollars year; IL g Com mCdore, his in /
come Is eighteen hundred dollars; white .
If he has the misfortune to bs only s Post .
T. 81 * h.. a
dollars.
The New York jewellers from whom
Mr.. COl'aX purchased his bridal presents
have given his wife q porcelain vase, s
foot 10 diameter, holding an assortment I
OF artificial flowers. The tOp is Of apple
blossoms and nestled among them is
blue-blrd. This bird siDgs Tor half sn
hour st time, with g loud and clear
note, turning his head, using bis mouth
and performing other antics simiisT 10
those specimens of Swiss mechanism so
common at Geneva and exhibited there,
to the great delight Of sh0ddy Ameri-
csns.
The New York Society for the Pre-
yeution OF Gam bling received during the
year 1858 S23, ,S75, ami expended S23 S95
The numbsT 81 mplOyCes reported 85 hsv-
ing freQuented gambling houses Is 1885,
The ngmber of public gambling houses
claimed t0 have been closed during the
year through the workings Of the sss0ci-
alton is 3I7. The object Of ihe sssocia-
ton, as set forth in the report, is To mod
crate and place q check upon the great
and growing evil OF gambling, while it +
confesses its inability TO stop the practice
per Sc.
-AIrs. Grant doesn't wish the 4" Gene
rsl commanding our Armies % become
the victim of oTtioe-huBters She, there
fore, insists that the General shall use the
executive mansion only s5 a place for
business receptions, and that the rest OF
his time shall be spent in the bosom OF
his family az private house expressly
selected TO be the abiding place and dOmi-
cile Of the domestic bosom. Mrs. Grant
Is said to have chronic dread that the
fate q Presidents HSrrisOu AMI Taylor
will overtaKe her hu band II be should
run the gauntlet oi the office seekers.
Daniel D. Pratt, elected to the Sen
ate from Indiana, is not the great Ameri- ,
can traveller, but q member Of Congress
elect. He was not in Indianapolis when
he was chosen. he was dominated by !
both factions OF the Radicals sad re- /
eeived eigbty-thTae votes 90 sixty for
Hendricks, Democrat. 1lr. Pratt Is said
70 be q conservative Republican, Gud an
honest man. It's remarkable that about
sixty Radicals persisted Ia voting for
Cumbsck after the crushing exposures OF g
his conduct which we're made In the !
body over which be presided.
A colored man met with an awful {
death ia the neighbOThOOd of New Paris,
KY, few nights since. = neighb0T q 5
white man, had killed his hogs aud left
them out al night. The negro undertook
to steal one, and was in su0h hurry to
secure the pork thst ne forgot 90 remove
the gambFel stick. To reach his home J
Il was necessary to cross q fence. In do :
ing so he plseed the hog on the top rail,
snd It is supposed that il slipged-st any
rate, the negTo's hesd was csUght in the '
opening OF the hind legs, and his meek :
was broken by the stick. he was found
the next morning dead, the hog OB one Q
side Of the fence and be on the other, !
with his head fast, as described. 7
No less than nine Jaws ran for Par :
lament at the late elections in England, : :
namely, Baron Rothschild, for the city :
Df London Baron Meyer Rothschild,
Tor Hythe Mr.. Nathaniel R5thschiid, 1,
'or Aylesbury; Mr.. Alderman Solo, :,
mons, for Greenwich; Sir Francis Gold :
mid, for Reading; Mr.. G.. Sss5si, Q G. !,
or Dover; Mr.. Sarjeant Simon, for !.
Dewsbury Mr. Julian Goldsmid, for y
Mid Surrey and Ir. II. Worms, for "
sandwich. Seven out OF the nine (en =
lberals) have been returned, AMI two !,
iefeRted-Baron ROthschild. for the I,
oity Of London, aud Mr.. Worms who n
stood on the conservative side. &
Tine following comparative statistics
II the great cities of the world are en- .
'ious: London possesses the greatest !.
NUMBER OF engineers, carriages on hire, y
printers, booksellers aud cooks; Amster. Y
lam the greatest number OF usurers, col. u
ectors OF curiOsities and amateur paint v
re st. Petersburg takes pTeeedence for 10
,oachmen Brussels for boys Whosmoks; II
Naples for pOrters and guides; Madrid
or idlers Berlin for beer-drinkers:
Florence for her flo yer girls; Dablin for
hieves; Geneva for watchmakers; LIS
t. haa I n