Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-30

The suicide Of the Lord Chief JUS
tiee Clerk, Of Scotland, was caused by
chagrin AT the discovery that he owed
his seat in Parliament to bribery.
The fashiouabIes Of Providence,
Rhode Island, ara considerably agita-
led over a grand weddiug-the groom
being q member Of the Sprague fam
lHy.
The route Of Sherman's march
through Georgia, where almost every
~, thing was destroyed, Is built up anew,
.Spd the people raised hne crops this
YEAR.
Tha Alabama State Fair has been
postp9aed until the sd Of November.
The Slate Fair at Jackson, Miss, has
also beSp postponed until the 10th Of
November.
Frederick Hudson refused to take
charge Of the New York Times, eX-
eept on salary Of $4,000 a year and
the exclusive control of the editorial
page.
Prot. Lane las introduced the Con-
tinental pronunciation of Latin and
Greek at Harvard, and il is to be used
hereafter in the instruction Of all the
classes.
The Georgia editors, who were 50
very desirOus that General Butler
should not attend their State Fair,
were extremely anxious that jeff.
Davis should come.
The Hon. Moses Mcdonald, who
represented one of the districts Of
Maine in the Thirty-iirst and Thirty
second Congresses, died at SacO, in
that State, a few days ago.
Mrs. Eva Lancaster, Of Navas0ta,
Texas, Is now running three institu-
tions herseit-the NavasOta Rmger
lneW-pappr,1 n miliiuer shop, and q
cradle with a fresh incumbent.
DR.. John Cosby, Senator elect from
Davies, NCLa.n aud Butler counties,
Kentucky, died AT Owens5OrO, Ken
tucky, ON Sunday last. He was 4 rel
ative OF the famOn5 John c. Calhoun.
Robert c. Yates, who WAS Gov.
TOdd's secretary, while he was minis
ter to Brazil. and subsequently was
for a time Consul aU ASuuciOu, Para
quay, died in Cleveland, on Friday.
Frank P. Blair, Sr., was recently
arrested III Washington for hucksteT-
ing potatoes without a license. He
proved that he Was an amateur, and
not amenable 90 the internal revenue
laws relating to permanent hucksters.
Promontory Point, on the Union
Pacific Railroad, Is a nice little place
Of four hundred inhabitants, with no
water nearer than nine miles, where
prize fights are conducted in big cam
Vas tents, admission 81 %, front seats
reserved iU- ladies.
Some people in Maine say that just
before they Ielt the shock of the earth
quake on Friday morning, they no.
tlced livid glare suddenly appear in
the sky, although the heavens at the
time We're quite dark, and it was rain
ing.
Col. Alex. Cummings, q Philadel-
phia politician aud Oiiice-hOller of es-
tablished tame, announces that he
proposes in a short time to start a
new daily newspaper, Of moderate
size and independent views. IL will
doubtless be published in the Cameron
interest.
Cathariue Baechcr, the Oldest Of the
race, Is siNIy-nine years old. She was
betTOthed >cariy IL youth 10 very
brilliant Young scholar, who is still
remembered Prot. Fisher, Of Yale
College; and he having been lost at
sea, Miss Bcecher remained single all
her life.
Mr-. Rankin, Of New York, who in
consequence OF troubles brought on in
her family by the late monetary
crisis, took her children into the
street. abandoned them there and at
tempted 10 drown herself, but was
rescued b. the police, again attempted
sel.-de-tructian by hanging herself
last night in the statiOnhOuSe. She
has been sent 10 the Insane Asylum.
The latest advices from this country
are very various. Some declare that
the Duke De M0ntpensier will be
elected King, and others that Espar-
terO viii be raised to that high Office
for life The late iHsurrectiOnists of
the Republicans have shown that the
present regency cannot carry on the
government; that the country re-
quircs "a strong hand TO rule it; and
that nothing viii DO for such people
as the Spauiards but a King.
The Amerioa1, CHJucGajal, Of Chi
eago, says that the knaves of Utah
are nearly al Yankees, including the
" apostles, bishops and elders"
and all who get the tithes; while the
dupes are mainly very degraded Eu-
ropean peasants, many OF them from
England and Wales, and members b.
baptism of the English Church. II
saws: There never existed but one
Mormon irishman, and a Norman
Irish woman is something totally un-
known to naturalists."
There was one occasion when Mr.
Forrest received from one Of the su-
pernumeraries of a theater an answer
which seemed to satisfy him. IL was
the mans duty IA say simply, " The
enemy Is upon uS," which he uttered
at rehearsal IN poor, whining way.
" Can't you say il better than that?'
said Forrest. Repeat il as ! dol!
and he gave the words with all the
force and richness Of his magnificent
voice. " If | could say il like that, J."
replied the man, % wouldn't BE-
working for three dollars a week"
" Is that al you get2' 'sNes." "Weil,
then, say it a you please"
An institution known as Levi J.
North's circus, has got into trouble at
Joliet, Ills, and the proprietor has
been arrested on charge OF deirauding
the Government by an evasion idutv
on imported stock. 1t is alleged that
the circus passed over into Canada
some time since with a lot of scrubby
horses worth from SO to $50 each, at
most; and il is further alleged that the
same circus returned TO the States with
improved stock, the horses being
worth from $500 to 800 each. The
proprietor claims that they are the
same h0rsesj a Government detective
does not believe it, and hence the
trouble.
The next steamer for st. Domingo
which leaves New York expects to
take out visiting party Of Congress
men, to survey the State which Is to
add another star to our national gal
axy. Gen. Banks is expected to
return from his European trip
in season TO join this party.
In addition to these steps, which
have already almost practically an
neXed the island to this country, a
party Of our most eminent capitalists
have obtained a charter for a bank, to
be established in the city of st. Do
mingO, with capital of one million
dollars. This institution has always
been much needed there, as there Is
no bank on the island, a fact which
will doubtless explain 10 commercial
men the reason Tor the great back
wardness of the export trade. The
bills fOr this bank are now nearly all
printed and viii be shipped BY the
next steamer, which starts next week.
A gentleman well known in financial
Circles viii take charge of the bank,
and the building for the occupancy OF
the bank has already been prepared
for its business. Col. Robertson TOpp
nof this city is an active participant, il
4 : said, in this annexation scheme.