Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-21
TIE NEWS.

Balfe is sick with a cold.
Green peas are seasonable in Flori-
da.
The city treasury of Richmond is
empty.
The Rev. DIR. Osgood is home from
Europe,
Russell, the balladist, denies that
he is dead.
Libby Prison in Richmond is now
a sumach factory.
Deer are unusually plentiful in Min
nesota this winter.
The expenses of the North Carolina
Assembly are $500 per day.
Eastern chestnuts are sold at seven
ty-hve cents pound in San Fran
cisco.
Omaha boasts to have the handsom--
est billiard saloon in the United
States.
The City Council of Omaha has pro-
hibited all leg drama at places of
amusement.
The Uruguayan government mas re-
called all the political eXiles except
Gen. Flores.
/
All the necessary measures have
been taken to proclaim the Duke of
Genoa King of Spain.
An editor of an Ohio weekly, after
brief absence, says: " We'll, - reader,
we are again upon our own dung-hlll."
A lady in Paris is mourning the loss
| Of her eleventh husband, but expects
to complete the dozen this season.
1t is proposed TO erect in Edinburgh
a statue or other suitable monument,
to DIR. Chalmers, the great pulpit
orator.
A negro was arrested the other day
in Petersburg, Va, for stealing a mill
wheel which weighed four hundred
EOunGs.
Nine. Camille-Urse proposes to or
ganize a grand musical festival in San
Francisco similar to the Boston Peace
Jubilee.
George P. Barlow, of Florida, COM
mitted suicide recently in Terre Haute,
Ind. The deceased was of intemper-
ate habits.
A bill regulating the quantity and
weight of a barrel of crude turpentine
is pending in the South Carolina Leg
islature.
Bishop Kavanaugh presides at the
South Carolina Conference of the NJ.
E. Church, which met at Cheraw on
Wednesday,.
The Duchess d'Aumale is danger
Ously Ill at TWickenham, in the Or
leans Palace. There is little hope of
her recovery.
The Clarksville Standard, speaking
Of the arrival Of emigrants to. Texas,
says that the tide continues to pour
through by that pass.
A Massachusetts man went to New
York last week and suffocated himself
to death in his own hat. He should
have stayed at home.
The New York Herald says pam
dering to popular fancy is question
able taste. Its experience renders it
a competent judge,
Sir Isaac Newton's house and OBJ
serVatOry in London are for sale, the
church which owns it having fallen
into pecuniary straits.
The celebrated African traveller.
Werner .Munzinger, was attacked by
robbers on his way to AbYssInia and
dangerously wounded.
An Englishman drowned himself
near Derby, having become " de-
pressed on account of the great in-
crease in his business"
The Episcopal Bishop of Cashel,
Ireland, DIR, Daily, is preparing to
make to every curate in his diocese a
Christmas present of $50.
The British Government viii receive
over 5000, 009 as legacy duty from the
estates Of the Marquis of Westminster,
Earl Derby and Mr.. Peabody.
Mr.. Taylor, clerk of the Bancroft
House, Aaysville, KY, was shot and
killed by a stranger in a quarrel about
cards in gambling house on Tuesday
night
President Woolsey, of Yale College,
Rev. Leonard Bacon, DID, and ali
the classical supporters of the Repub-
lican party=in New Haven, sign call
for a free trade meeting.
One of The fashionable fabrics in
wooden goods for gentlemen's wear is
Identical with an article made extern
Sively, thirty years ago, for clothing
negroes on the rice plantations.
Our great American prima donna,
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, has de-
clined the offer of the Khedive of
Egypt, Of $4,000 for fourteen per-
formances in his new opera house.
A letter from Fort Worth, TIE Xas,
says that lands have advanced tn ere
fifty per cent. in six months, and that
considerable immigration has stopped
there, principally from Missouri.
There wasa desperate fight on Mon
day night between party Of negroes
and whites in Maiden, West Virginia,
in which several persons on both
sides were wounded, including Gen.
Ruiiner.
An industrious sculptor of Rich
mOnd, named Valentine, has just
completed a life-size bust of Robert
Burns, and has orders already for
about dozen copies from Scotchmen
of that city.
DR.. P. B. McKelYy, of New Orleans,
late Medical Director on Gen. Dick
Taylor's staff, c. S. A, died at his
home on the 8th inst. He was a ma
tive of Albany, n. Y, and about GO
years of age.
On Thursday, the 9th, there left Au-
gusta, on the Georgia Railroad pas
senger train, one hundred and sixty
nine through passengers, and one hum
dred North Carolina amigrants on
their way to Missouri.
Mr.. Sinclair, who is styled the
fighting parson, has introduced in the
North Carolina House of Commons 9
bill legalizing marriages between
blacks and whites in his county from
1866 to 1868, inclusive.