Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-23
THE NEWS.

Missouri has thirty co%al-bearing
counties.
Macon is called the City of Mock
ing Birds.
The Massachusetts, tobacco crop Is
f~ourishing.
Potatoes are selling at fifty cents per
barrel in Baltimore.
Vermont has 81 Masonic lodges and
lis of Good Templars.
Twelve distinct railroads are in
course of construction in Illinois.
A stratum of quicksand renders
building difficult in St. Paul, MINI.
A child in Pennsylvania blew out
his cheeks while trying TO eat a torpedo.
The champion paper folder is a
bow in Albany. he wants TO bet $50 on IT,
The Pope has decided to holds uni
Nyersal exhibition of Christian art next
war.
FSu river manufacturers have or
dered 1000 tons of bitUninous coal from
Nova Scotia.
An old fisherman says that bass
will not bite Er six weeks after an eclipse
Of the sun.
Eansas City Is to have a wholesale
Gea h0Hse, with a stock imported direct
from Cana.
The female suffrage question IS to be
submitted to tAs Vermont CONSTITUTIONS
Convention next February.
Al aarOIite has fSllen in Cleveland
which was s. hot thai The person who
foundi it could scarcely Aq4stt-
In Massachusetts,, last gear, one
hundred and seventy persons changed
their nsmes, not including brides.
The Common Council Of Washing
ton prohibits the raising Of mosquitoes by
afne of froBa - 10 50 upon those allowing
water 10 stand uncovered.
Shoes with the customary high heels
and with large uOsettes Of BRILLIANT eolored
ribbon, witffor without ornameatal buck
les, are very generally worn.
Eugene, Oregon, has a law against
any person Living drunk across the side
walk" 4 man was recently discharged on
The ground that he was lying lengthways.
Brignoli, the 'SsiIver-voiced " tenor,
is at Long Branch shifting the salt sea y
air, prior TO an operate tour across the
piains 10 San Francisco, whittier he in
tendsFinging his way at an early day
with an operate troupe Of his own.
The authorities at Richmond, Ind,
must lie of Milesian extraction. Witness
che following gorgeous bull: " In case OF
<he death Of any policeman, he shall I'M
mediately deliver his emblems and other
insignia Of ofiCe 70 the Mayorl'
Cincinnati has 10000 inhabitants,
10 churches, three morning and two
evening papers, besides two German
dailies, and 10 weeklies, 20 mOnthlies
ADD one quarterly. It's suspension bridge
mas the longest span in the world, anC
cost S2,00O,O00.
The Sim calls e~X-Secretary BOrie''
present OF a medal 10 c. d. Grant, con.
sisting of the heads OF Washington, Abra
ham Lincoln and his Hiramness, a "suc
eessive iuxtaposition it may be, but w
A1e sure of one thing, it is not a success
faL iuxtaposition.
II IS thought that within the mex
6EelYe months Leavenworth Will have
bridge across the Missouri, at a cost o
100000, ulder a contract just made witt
Boomer, of Chicago, add that by the tim
the work is finished there viii be from
the city six radiating railways.
Flowers are still the favorite Orna
meuL Of the couture. More hair than eve
appears to be worn in frisettes, ringlets
Mats. bandeaux and Alexandria curls, 0
which latter as many as four are frequent
" 10 be seen, falling over more or les
rounded shoulders Of alabaster, or soml
ruddieF tint.
We learn from TIE Charleston IS. G.
NeCs that an immigratloH agent there ha
contracted TO deliver a large humble o
Chinese laborers next January. IN
planters are universally DESTROYS Of get
ling these cheap and docile laborers. The.
will have to raise their wages, however
50 compete with California.
California Chinaman, haVinI
---L---- h. he rarg#ra-u hnwr 40 NAL
a pudding containing three eggs, but haY
ing seen her throw a one away
continued for months after, whenever b
made the pudding, to use our eggs, regU
farIv breaking, examining, and THROWN
one away as he had seen her do.
The SIN gives some interesting fact
aba7t the famous Forrest divorce suit.
seems that Mrs. Forrest has received bu
5000 out of the $4,000 alimony paid b
Mr.. Forrest The rest has peen aosoroe
9n costs and in counselfees, MI. OConnol
- course. taking the lions share. Ar
other illustration Of the unprohtablenes
of litigation.
Bottines a barrettes-that IS, ha
boots. open wide from the instep upward
the intervening space being ~trayersed I
bars arranged either zigZag or crossWls
fashion, SO as to show the dehcately tlnte
silk stockings beneath-prOmise, howe'
eF, 70 be h mode at the bans dc mef n
coming season.
Bottines, toO> Of fine grey checl
with narrow scarlet, binding, and close
with white buttons, are largely in fave
for light costumes.
Mr.. J. Lester Wallack and famil
and Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Florence arrive
al New York in the steamer Scotia O
Tnesday afternoon from Europe. III
formef brings a number Of new eomediG
and dramas from London, of whic
will be the opening sensation ct the Wa
lackfan temple, while the latter brint
three or four new plays from the BIRTHS
metropolis and one or two dramatic SCI
sations from staid old Holland, vii
which he proposes starring from there
California.
A dispatch from Washington Oft
I'D 4nsl., SAYS: An.oTder has been ISSUE
from the War Department forbidding u
residence of settlers on the military reese