Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-19
The NEWS.

Herbert Spencer comes next spring.
Chicago contains thirty-five square
miles.
Ofenbach has lately had his silver
wedding.
Brigham Young has fifteen thousand
drilled militia.
Lamartine's coupe brought sixty
dollars in Paris.
Bright is said to be threatened with
his own disease.
California consumes fifty per cent.
OF her own wine.
Lucas, the Paris lion tanner, got but
three dollars a day.
Nashville elects seven Justices of
the Peace on the 18th.
An Orleans jeweller sues Queen IS
abella for an old debt.
Cape May claims that over $780,
OOO is left there annually.
Chicago is TO spend three years and
81 500 600 on a new tunnel.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has
been quite i'll at Stockbridge.
A Tennessee editor is credited with
" fort y-devil power" of swearing.
A. weed possessing all the properties
OF hax has been discovered in Iowa.
India rubber decoy ducks are taking
edAdrds with the wild fowl Of Alabama.
White Sulphur Springs paid its pro-
prietors $4,000 apiece this season, IL is
said.
Wade Hampton viii deliver the adj
dress at the Georgia state Agricultural
Fair.
Mobile is so healthy that a sexton
,1-a-Ff-a1 fV-a,H- r..r aanF .QFaanpanf n
his patrons.
Impending crisis" Helper can't
get anybody TO hear him lecture, even in
Connecticut.
A Yankee by the name of New
second Nothing.
The Emperoro Of Brazil stood up and
too of his hat when verses were read in
honor of Ristori.
The dumb girls of the Jacksonville
Asylum go of quicker in marriage than
the talking article.
The tea plant is cultivated to some
extent in South Carolina, bur it is still a
matter of experiment.
Soap taken internally is the New
Orleans cure for freckles. 1t is supposed
TO clean out the blood.
BrOugham, being presented in 'Fris-
90 with a cigar case, has seen the nine
teenth "proudest day of his life
A Boston paper advises Wendell
Phillips TO be less temperate in his living,
and more temperate in his language.
The original Benny Havens lives a
few miles from COzzeRs, is e~ighty-hye
years OF age, and enjoys good health.
The wives of two negro Aldermen
of Mississippi nearly killed each other
over a question Of official precedence.
A smoking match is suggested be-
tween Grant and Napoleon. The pipe Of
peace will be in order on such an OCCASION.
Omaha having boarded five Indians
at her Jail for some time, purpOsely left
the bars down one night TO get rid Of them.
Mr.. GOulding was shot through the
head and instantly killed, at Gordon, Ga,
Monday morning, by a man named Mel
SOL
Tom Thumb and party advertised
in San Francisco in Chinese as well as
in English, and took, intwO weeks, $4,000
gold.
Henry county, Tenn, win raise one
NTH more tobacco than last wear, One-
fourth less corn, and an average crop of
cotton.
a six year old in Boston was lately
run over, whose last words were: &" Don't
whip me, father, IN never do 50 again.
A sad lesson.
A toad has been found inclosed in
the heart OF a large maple tree in Massa-
ehusetts. It climed in at an augur hole
half a century ago.
Rev. DIR. Berkeley, Of st. Louis. gave
adramatic reading in GAINESVILLE. Mo, on
Monday, for the beneft OF the Episcopal
Church in that city.
Fannie Janauschek recited a poem
AT the Humboldt festival in New York.
written by Emil Rittershaus. one of Ger
many's favOrite poets.
A fine copy Of the first edition of
Shakespeare, printed in 1923, sold the other
day ina London for three hundred and thir-
ty-three pounds sterling.
Henry Wilson has ceased to take
any further interest in Tennessee politics.
1.-The violent and INSCRIPTIONS persons
there +" excite his horror.
A Mr.. Robertson, Of South Carolina,
was prospecting in Alexandria, Va. last
week. for a site upon which to establish a
large boot and shoe factory.
An Illinois paper cOnsOls sportsmen
for the light crop Of prairie chickens by re-
marking thai they will make hunting
better, for it will take ~longerto ind Them.
Inc L4Unuon AthbfttWHt BiNNH NNllSh-
cy to an American VulgaFismthus: Even
benefit concerts have at length been
played out, to use a fitting Americanism
The drouth that prevailed a short
time since has cut short the growing crop
in Arkansas. yet the prospects are still
good for a fair yield Of both cotton and
corn.
The shipping tonnage of London
mounts to a fifth of the entire tonnage of
England and Wales. More than half the
customs duties of the United Kingdom
are paid by London.
The Charleston Courier gives a de-
scription Of a new quality Of cotton in
troduced into Alabama and the Carolinas
during the present season. The seed was
brought from California, and is said TO
9ossess many qualities advantageous TO