Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-23
NEWS or THE DAY.

Florida is going into the grape cul-
The cattle disease has appeared in
Virginia.
Ex-President johnson is in Wash
ington.
A Georgia freedman has invented a
cotton pillow.
The Texas wheat crop promises bet
Ter than for many years past.
The Ficksburg and Meridian Rail-
road is now thoroughly repaired.
A running spring of petroleum has
been found on a Kansas farm.
The custom receipts, from MAY 10th
10 May 10Th, inclusive, were 1886, S5S.
Nearly 1000 persons are said to have
starved 70 death ia London last year.
The annual examination of the ma
val cadets took place on the 10th.
A letter from Havana reports de-
sertions among the Spanish volunteers.
A French doctor prescribes spark
ling MOselle as a certain cure for govt.
The Departments at Washington
viii be closed on Decoration Day. the 29th
inst.
Failure to pay a hotel bill is deci-
ded TO be a penitentiary offenso i'm New
York.
The Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany has discharged about 2OOO men al
ready.
Capital punishment was lately en-
forced in Peru for the first time in fifteen
years.
A Hartford lady is said to be the
best chess and bacgammon player in Con-
necticut.
Two colored men were appointed to
positions IN the Baltimore Customhouse
on Thursday.
Only two-thirds Of the last years
wheat crop in some parts of Wisconsin
has yet gone to market.
A cargo of go tons Of hard coal was
sold at Savannah last "Wednesday for six
dollars per ten.
Z. Overall has retired from the
editorial chariot the oxford Miss Oto-
man, on account of bad health.
Later advices concerning the late
battle in Cuba places the Spanish loss Al
LOG, and the i~nsurgent loss at 1000.
W. Kryanowski has been commits
stoned Supervisor Of internal Revenue
for Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.
John G. SAKE will be the poet for
the young women Of the Dread Institute,
at Worcester, at the July commencement.
The iron-clad ATLANTA, at PhiIadel-
phia, which was reported sold to the Gu
bans, was really purchased by Salnave.
In IJ6 Libel suits now pending
against American editors the aggregate
damages to character are estimated at
s47, 500, 600. n
The New York Post says "D0n't"
is the advice 1t " may properly now give
to persons about TO lay in their next win !
ter's stock Of coal"
King William, although a Protest
ant, SEN the Pope a rich porcelain vase
from the Berlin mandatory, on the Oc-
cssion Of his fete.
-Four political conventions are TO be
held by colOred men before the lst of
Sune-one inNew York, TWO in Maryland. /
and one in Virginia.
Twenty-Five tons Of strawberries
were brought into San Francisco in APRIL |
q retailed At twelve to fifteen cents a
Sherr1es sold al a dollar and n
half per pound
II is reported by a Washington cor
respondents that an expedition Of one
succeeded IN landing on he western coast
Of Cuba, on the Sth inst.
Accompany has been organized, with
the capital subscribed, to CONSTRUCTED tele-
graph line from St. Louis, through Texas.
70 the Pacific coast. Some or the parties
were recently in Washington 10 perfect
the arrangements.
The Chicago Tribune grayely asserts
mat the circumstances under which the
amendment Efficiently was ratified In In
Qlana, are somewhat peculiar" We
should say they were, veryi
The Jackson, Miss, Clarion suggests
names 20 the Pilot, Radical paper
mere, ior Governor: j. w. G. Watson. DR.. 1
~. N. SomPstOH, Joshua Green. j.. M.
"esson' or Gen. Itobt. Lowry.
Henry Brown, ofSpringfeid, Mass.
lost a sixty dollar COW by leaving his
back Q open. The COW walked IN I
drank enough maple syrup 10 make about
nIty pounds Of sugar, and died.
About Lexington, Va, the croD
ars reported good. The wheat
WnlcB y SDe largest on record. IL said IL
De me HON one end OF the valley 10 the Z
otnef, anoenc altfcipated Yield enormous.
It is Questionable whetbar
abolishine the ration Of rum in tbe 49, {
i were wise to take any steps tavrs .
furnishing q substitute. Even the oldest
soakers think they are given too
much Porter.
# is known thatothe eight-hour
question created some lively and earnest
discussion at the last cabinet meeting,
no one Ontsi5e can tell how the mem ,
1ers were divided OF who they were /