Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

-Prim is so prim as to be called the
Spanish Sphynx.
-Uucle Sam still owns 100000 acres
Of Iowa.
One Portland dollhouse sold 10, 900
roses Easter eve.
There are fourteen persons in Maine
under sentence of death.
Vermont has fewer foreigners than
any other State.
Jane Eyre hiss been repuolishej in q
French translation at COnstantinOple.
"A Rochester man adveriises a lest
i" pup" which weighs 100 pounds.
Punch says that the bsss check for
pauperism is n Of George P~eabody's.
The great German ocnlist, Won
Graefe, has q professional income of
$3.50. 600 a year.
"A new knspssck, in the form of a
gsme.bag, has been introduced into the
British army.
Ten per cent. of the population of
the city OF Mexico have been in prison
the pact year.
Russia has sent an entire " salt ringn
10 Siberia, with a government official at
the head OF it.
Two English gentlemen, one of
whom is blind, are preparing a concord
snce Of Ksble's poems.
Portable thsee-room houses, 1890,
are sold at Cleveland to emigIants fer
$500, deliverable to order.
An Englishman has bsen fined e3
for annoying passengers by q political
controversy in q railway car,
The present crop OF wheat in Aus
tralis is estimated st Sc, SOC, 600 bushels,
Of which tWo-thiris can be exported.
An italian translation of that un-
transis.abie German poet, Heinrich
Heine, has been published in Milan.
The London Telegraph says that the
new English court Dress is s copy of the
favorite costume worn by George Wash
iDgtOD.
The Q1cen Of Hanover is monoma-
MAC on the subject CT spIrilu4lisu, and
declares that Gcd appears to her every
Friday.
"A poet genius named WOrsIey has
inscribed a work Of his to 9 Gen. Robert
E Lee, the most stainless OF modern
commaGders and, except in fortune, the
greatest"
Mime. De Chauaron, of Mobile, the
earliest translator OF the Muhlbach nov.
els, has translated, and Darby d Miller
will soon publish, De Lamothe's Lies
Fsuchers de la Mort" 1.-The Rsapers Of
Death ~.
-MessIs. Hurst & Blackett have With
drawn from circulation Capt. C~lsytsA's
work, The Sunny South, as "some pas
ssges in 1t appear to be an Infringement
Of Mr.. O'Shea's Guide to Spdinn
Sales translation Of the Koran is
likely to be superseded by a new rendi
ton into Edgiish, with introduction,
notes and index, by the Rev. J. NJ. Rod
well, q London rector.
1t is understood that our new Consul
General at Havana, Mr.. Plumb, has re-
ceived instructions to demand full and
entire satisfaction for all injuries sus-
tanned by American citizens at the hands
of the Spaniards.
"A new volume of DR.. S~prspue's
"Annsls of the American Pulpit" com.
prisiug biographies of eminent MIMIC
tiers in the Lutheran, Reformed Dutch,
and several Presbyterian branches, is
published by Robert Carter & Bros.
The Supreme Court on Thursday
postponed decision in the legal tender
cases till October. The opinion is quite
general that q majority Of the Court are
averse to the constitutionaIity of the
legal tender acts, but fear that the effect
on business matters will be too sudden
to render o decision now.
-A.case has just been decided in the
Superior Court Of New York which Is of
interest to those whose lives are insured.
1t appears that the plaintiffs hus-
hand had insured his life for
10000, for the benefit of his wife,