Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-15
SUNDAY APPEAL
SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST IS, 1863.
TIE NEH&.
Galveston uses New orleans ice.

Galveston uses New Orleans ice.
Wehli, the pianist, will revisit US
in the fail.
Omaha boasts I42 new buildings in
progress.
Mr.. H. F. Chorley is writing alife
OF Rossini.
Bale, the composer, is at present re-
siding in Paris.
Alboni sang a lew nights ago at
Dore's reception.
WatermelOns are only Eve cents
each in Charleston.
The Episcopal assessment in Ohio
this year Is $40, 200.
GRAHAM is i'll, and has given up his
London engagements.
Charlottesville, Indiana, has q pop
ulaIion o. five Thousand.
The Lynn shoe manufacturers talk
OF eluPl0ying Chinese labor.
OF the eighty-four European steam
ers only 1--WE are owned here.
The eight Hartford fire insurance
companies employ 1924 agents.
Some fine plumbago mines near Ra-
leigh, y. G.. are to DE worked.
Boston consumes S300,O 900 worth of.
gas a year for municipal purposes.
There are in China about four thou
q Protestant native Christians.
The Merimac river Is 80 low as to
seriously Inconvenience the mills.
Kansas anticipates that the next
census viii show 450,000 population.
Locomotives are hereafter to burn
coke in passing through Pittsburg.
Theodore Thomas Is soon to havea
Deueut ~ The Central Park Garden.
The jewelry worn by Schneider in
" Barbe Bleue is valued at SlN0, O00.
Jacques Blumenthal has given $3.50
10 the ROYAL Society Of Musicians.
There j. but one Protestant place of
worship IN the whole Of New Mexico.
\ son Of Lablache is the director of
the Niceroy'- new opera house in Cairo.
There are GGl0 dwelling houses in
Boston assessed at less than 5000 each.
\ new opera house has been built
ia Madrid, which is said 10 Ice the finest in
Europe.
Five hundred and eighty ounces of
gold dust were sent in one day to a Kan
sas bank.
There are only i2i acres of public
land remaining undisposed ofinthe State
oflllinois.
A herd of 225 cattle, p~asturing near
Omaha, gained on an average six pounds
a day each.
Prof. Seelye, of Amherst, is reported
10 have a good chance for the Michigan
presidency.
The sales of shoes in Dover, y. H.
for the quarter ending with june amount
ed 10 S57l ,I64.
The first new oats of the season
were received at the Boston Corn Ex-
change, Monday.
There are now one hundred and
forty-ssveD Pullman cars on the principal
railroads OF the West.
The leading members of the San
Francisco 9liustrels are singing ut St.
James Hall, London.
a tree in Boston is almost covered
with small green bugs, which are deadly
enemies to house dies.
Hon. Lafayette S. Foster has re-
celved an offer OF the Kent Professorship
At the Yale law school.
Ricci has resigned the position,
which he has long held, OF Director Of the
Russian Conseryatoire.
1t Is estimated that 224,0O0 more
acres oil wheat a been sOwn in Iowa Tor
this year thanever before.
The first Treasurer of Madison
county. Iowa, kept the funds Of the
county in his wife's stocking.
Chicago is to have a great Chinese
laundry, and a hundred Celestials are 10
be specially imPOrtedtherefor.
Over twelve hundred emigTants !
have settled in Polk and Bennett coun- .
ties, Wisconsin, this wear so far. :
At the Massachusetts, Agricultural i
College commencement there was an cx-
h1bitiOn OF moving by the students. 4
The Geumenical Council viii COM .
prise 92 bishops and archbishOps, of q
whom Go belong 10 the Latin races. i
Another horse fair IS talked of in j
New Haven, Ct, and il is proposed e Of e
lei premiums 10 the amount Of = 600 j.
The Concord grapes in some OF the /
vineyards ia Alton, H., are blighting >
badly, the result ofthe wet weather.
Reports from TWENTY-FIVE counties q
In Indiana say the hay and cat crops will +
be the heaviest ever cut la that state. :
Mr.. Ehen TOurice, OF Boston Jubilee O
fame, has received the degree of Doctor of n
Music from the Wesleyan University. g
A German has invented a clock =
work apparatus which with one winding I
will run a sewing machine there hours. !
-Four bass-singers, two baritones, il
half a dozen tenors and a dozen soprsni b
are IN this city, waiting for engagements.
An essay on Counterpart Canon 5
and Fugue in Cherubini's system by u
Mr.. Gore Ouseley, is soon 20 be published $
Ohenbach is actuaIlytrying to write I
grand opera. The story Of William Tell {,
Is the subject Of the libretto Of the new 4
work. =
Herr Albert PiecZOnka is the name C
Of q new pianist whose name is beginning a
10 be favOrahly mentioned by the London &
critics. a.
Mile. Nilsson lately visited the q
Queen al Windsor Castle, and sing !
several morceau2 greatly 10 her NIaiesty's
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Flower thieves frequent S%pringlN
Grove Cemetery, ia Hartford, Connectf- =
cut, and rob graves and lot, of flowers q,
shrubs. y
The a~ppraisement of real estate for n
fOOts up SAB. ~. 65S, being an in /,
crease Of l64 per cent. over that of FIVE b
wears ago.. la
The hay crop in Maine viii be an #
average one throughout the State, il
although not up 10 that Of last year and n
1867, both Of which gave unusually large ri
Yields and it is too much 10 expectthre a.