Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-10
IHENEHS,

Ii is reported that at a recent meet
ing Of prominent New Workers at SaratO-
ga, VIM. b. Astor expressed an intention
10 complete the Washington monument
al his own expense.
The ground los the new p~OstOfice in
the New Yorl; City Hall Park, opposite
the broadway Bank, was broken yester-
dag. Tho street-yailrOads arc trying to
secure ths remainder ofthe park for a gen
eral depot.
The Post says many eXPedicnts are
devised in Boston for the secresy Of IL
4uors in the saloons, which arc kept open,
and in several saloons tho ardent Is drawn
from water faweets, which, at the will Of
the proprietor, Will spout either wine or
water, but viii invariably spout water to
an inexperienced operator.
\ large black beetle, wearing upon
it, broad back rows OF most brilliant gold
dots, IS the friend of the farmer. From
its eggs are produced the corn grub killer,
the most inveterate foe of the cut worm,
with which it gorges Itself until it can
hardly stir. lis jaws are very strong.
~Ploughman, spare that bug!
IL is said that the Presidents eX-
penses 10 Long Branch, Saratoga, and
other points TO be visited By the Chief
Magistrate during his summer festivities,
are footed by the Union League. The old
story over again. Some outside party
has been paying the expenses Of this
chief Of dead-bests for the last twenty
years.
At the Confederate cemetery al
Winchester, Va, is a shaft with this in
scripiiOnE
Eight hundred aud fheen -
Unknown and ~unre0orded dead
Lie beneath this moHad.l'
What u volume of tender and meian-
choly suggestiyeness-what q wealth Of
mourrul eloquenee in the simplicity Of
these three brief lines.
The great Peruvian earthquakes,
pradiCted by Professor Falb. are 10 take
place all along from the 18th Of August TO
The close Of the month, terminating with
a grand catastrophe. Everybody in Cal
lao and Lima, able to 90 so. is leaving for
the country, on the strength of the Pro
f~essor's prophecy. This visitation OF
earthquakes ~ an epidemic form is by no
means Il comfortable anticipation.
The whisky war in adrian, Mich,
has endod, and the hotels and saloons are
open and in mi blast again. The saloon
license has been raised TO $50 for the bal
ance OF the year, to May.IsT9. The Coun-
ell passed a resolution declaring that the
license shall he forfeited without chance
Of renewal during the year, if the holder
sells to a minor, pauper, a person Of we'll
known incorporate habits. or 10 any per-
son, any member of whose family has for
hidden said holder 50 to do.
A Swedenborgian named Parker is
attracting some notice in Toronto 10y the
relation OF his curious spiritual expert
euces. He declares that he was taken up
into Heaven, which is divided into
like the earth. The frigid zone is peopled
by Unitarians, who wear lions skins on
their head, tigers skins Pm their bodies,
and bears skins on their feet, and ride in
chariOts of ice drawn by horses without
any tails.
The plan Of the late Nh. ROebling
for a suspension bridge across the East
River, at New York city, has at last been
made public. The plan proposes a bridge
sixteen hundred feet span and one nun
dred aud thirty-five feet high. This is op-
posed by Mr.. Nolan, civil engineer, who
contends u suspension bridge is impracti-
cable, and submits the specification for a
tubular bridge, with arches hve hundred
feet span and two hundred feet above
high water mark.
a New York dispatch says: It is
understood that the National Convention
Of Liquor Dealers, which viii undoubted-
" be convened in this city during the lat
ter part Of mex December, will urge Con-
gress 10 repeal the present tax on whisky
and re-enact the old law requiring a tax
Of two dollars per gallon. The friends of
this movement claim that, under the
present effective system Of collecting the
revenue, the two dollar tax can be col
leeted.
TheTcNas cotton crop, according TO
adyices received y The Agricultural Blu
rcau, is larger this year than that of n
preceding year, eithar before or since the
war. The same authority asserts that the
material prosperity Of the State, in all
branches Of its purely commercial affairs,
is assured for several years to come. bv
lie unprecedented success of farming
operations, during the season lust closing.
An unusually large amount Of sugar has
also been produced this year.
The Chicago Times, of Thursday,
saws: THE Chicago commercial party,
| iust returned from San Francisco, brought
with them two distinguished representa-
dves of Chinese enterprise and affiuenc-
the one, Sing Man, being 3 merchant
J worth over q, 10000, and the other, Choy
| Chow, q partner in a. lrm, which repre-