Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-15

I uNAAH ElEdHFAAACAlAN uNHAfESEuT GVuLLSulDr
good and prime; scandal overstocked.
b~eHes.plenty; beaux scarce and of poor
quality.
Hartford is horribly afflicted with
mnaties. The last quarters police report
saws q. five crazy persons were detained til
called for by friends, and 5I7 accommO-
dated without lodgings at the station
house.
a gentleman just returned from
Cincinnati informs the Macon GA TeIe-
graph, that the crops from Marietta
northward, as far a Murfreesbor0. Tenn,
are literally burnt up. From Murfrees-
bOro to Cincinnati they are very fair.
Mr.. John NJ. Smith, of OWensville,
Dino, writes: " have ten acres OF sixty
years cultivation, and / have harvested
this season twenty-seyen bushels TO the
acre of it," He asks, with iustifiable
pride, can anybody beat that?"
The Hudson Bay Company is now
taking up a three years supply Of pfO-
visions and goods. This is because the
present four per cent. duty viii, by reason
of the transfer Of the Hudson Bay Com
pany, hereafter be twenty per cent.
-Four hundred thieves, pickpockets.
prostitutes and confidence operators have
been released from the Bridewel in Chi
cagO 10y the acting Mayor the last six
weeks. The RepWbHcuR SAYS this IS the
golden age of the law-breakers."
There are at present some eighteen.
or twenty prisoners in Litchheld county
Conn. Jail, among whom are two repre-
sentatiVes Of the press, and the Rev. W.
II. Greene, who i patiently waiting his
third trial for the murder OF his wife.
Commissioner Delano has decided
that shingles are not taxable; that they
80. - a-a -.
laths and boards dc, before their manu-
facture is complete. This is in accordance
with the decision. Of eA-CGmnissioner
Rollins.
The people of Washington county,
Ohio, exasperated bE the recent murder
and arson at Farrabe's station, and bv
many previous crimes, have formed a
vigilance committee. which holds regular
secret meetings to prepare measures Of
vengeance on the villains.
There is a large tribe of Indians liv-
ing in the central part of Iowa. They are
the Musquawkies, and number about four
hundred. They " about three hundred
acres OF land, near Oxford, in Talna conn
~. The squaws cultivate the land. while
the men lounge At their ease.
\ ferociOus SOW, in Newark, Ohio,
a few evenings ago, seizeda child, stripped
its clothing of, broke one Of its arms in
three places, severely cut its face and
head, aud was only prevented from kill
ing il by the iuterpOSition Of a Young
woman who Was near at hand, and came
10 its rescue.
The last Legislature of Connecticut
passed a law for the protection of the
creeping fern which grows so abundantly
at South Windsor. Trespassers have been
in the habit of going there and carrying
Of oil #hau~ -n0HA Nh a-mTa- -
lHting the law is fixed at seven dollars
fine, or twenty days in jail.
4 French bathing dress for females
Is thus described: Something tight and
short, not lover than the knee, and clasp
ing the figure with equal grace and firm
ness II this wave Of sea nudeness
dashes upon our shores Lydia Thompson
may hope that her tormenters viii haye
their attention divided, al least.
The Sears Building in Boston has
cost over three hundred thousand dollars,
and Is the handsOmest and most conve-
nient edihee for mercantile purposes in
the city The building contains one hun
dred rooms, with the largest elevatoreVe |
put into a business building. and is to be
occupied by insurance companies and
banking firms.
Last week, on the Jacksonville |
Railroad. in Illinois, one Of the route
in handling the mail, came across
q bundle Of letters which he pitched 1
across the car to an assistant, in whose
hands the bundle exploded, some cxplO-
siye material having been enclosed in the
pack. Hhe letters were entirely des- 1
troyed. The agents were not seriously
There are 100,0 900 men In New York
Who receive wages for either manual OF
mental labor. Ifthey take each one drink
a day at ten cents each, the sotal expendi-
,ure Is $4,000, and for cigars and tobacco.
ten cents each, SiO,000. making $50. COO
day, Sl40,0O0 "a week, $4,000 a month.
S6,720,O00 a year for drinking and
smoking and chewing. and they neither
ave strength 70 the body, yigOr TO the
nerves, nor health to the brain.
A young Woman in New Haven,
recently suffered from the total loss
4 one eye and the serious injury Of the
lther. She had placed q bottle Of amonla
n warm wafer with the object ~ofloOsen-
nc the cork. When heated, the natural
Xpansion suddenly forced the cork and {,
from the bottle fun in her face.
The liquid penetrated the eyes, causing
intense pain. SkilfUl surgery saved one
We, but the other is entirely gone.
Ocean accidents have trodden on
ach others heels within the past seventy
hours. On Saturday night last the
teamer Germania was lost in Cape Race, :
. sunday the Cleopatra run on the sam !
ocks, and was DESTROYED, and. to finish I
he chapter, the San Jacinto was cast ,
way on Body's Island at an early hour I
N monday morning, No lives were lost {
n either vessel. The two former will be
otaliE destroyed, the latter NAV be saved
n a damaged condition. This is paving i
toll TO the ridented Sea God.
Mules are said to beIoOking up. and :,
extraordinary saleshave lately been '
IN Kentucky. Large lots have been I
oio AZ iroln $50 TO Sl65 the head. and ~
iNeiy mule sales are always considered =
Of the prosperity Of plantations L
q the South. There is a verv LARGE de- ,
a for these animals for use on tho 4
treet railways in Western and Southern q
tiles. They are especially useful in sum h
ler. ssthey endure heat and fatigue bet
ar than horses can, and it j. surprising. d
onsiderng their cheapness and endur- Z
nee, that Lhey are not more generally +
sed on street railways. =
Last March, and frequently since. y
avs the Boston IrdoeAer, several clair I
and trance mediums IN East Bos- I
1t have personated the death agonies Of
Young man whose spirit informed them 4
lat he had fallen from alOft on board the r
Nehemiah Gibson, then ON her :
from Melbourne to san Francisco. I
d its fall the spirit stated that its body C
al struck the rail Of the vessel, and after n
few hours had expired in great agony. :
he young mans family and all the lead G
* Sp~iritualists Of East Boston believed Z
lese revelations; but the Young man ar
we'd in san Francisco still in the body, Z
nd with a fair prospect OF living. tg