Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-16

The pioneer settlers Of California
contemplate an excursion to the At
lantie when the Pacific railway ID COM
pleted.
The CIeTkof Prince Edward county,
Va, nas Just been removed after a ser-
vice in that capacity Of sixty years
duration.
AT late meeting Of the California
Academy Of Science, a translucent agate
containing a drop Of water was exhiO-
tied.
President Roberts, Of Liberia, dined
st Senator Summers last week, the first
time a negro has sat at q Senatorial ma
hogaDy.
A daughter Of Hon. Z. Fo0te, Of
Milwaukee, bas hair which measures
five feet and seven inches in length"
So says the Sentinel,
The Dominican Father, Minjssrd, a.
whose preaching ladies tore cd their
jewels and put them into the plate, has
become insane.
Miss lone Burke, who was such 8
fsvoTits st WallscK's, msrries a British
army captain and Cs1iTes from the stage.
For how long?
-Nsth. Fullerton, Dinety-four years
of age, Of the National Bank OF Bellows
Falls, is the oldest bank president IN the
country.
Il idoc Kuhn, the new Grand Rabbi at
Paris, is thirty years ol6-the youngest
Grand Rabbi since the prophet Jeremiah,
the Jewish records say.
The society to propagate the Catholic
faith received 3 million dollars last year,
Of which niDe-tenths was from one cent
per week subscriptions.
Thomas Dutton, now centenarian,
Is the only living person who heard the
bell Of Independence Hall " proclaim
liberty throughout all the land.n
The latest Paris fashion is the "Con-
ference hat" an Astrschan iez, with
the bssk and eyes OF an imperial eagle II
front, and Grecian borders ali round.
"A physician in Lexington, Ky, has
been sentenced to pay a fine OF 5000 for
dealing faro. He is working it out in
the penitenJiary ct fifty cents a day.
"A New Orleans sharper made of
with pair Of pantslOOns which he was
trying on in q clothing store, and left
his old ones with $50 in the pockets.
Sharp, that
-Twenty-foUr students OF Columbia
University in Missouri, have Organiz ID
" boarding cluO," and, for 81 8 week
esch, have a separate c)ttgge, and get
their meals, washing and ironing.
The Dsnbury EpisccpaIians are put
ting q French roof on their old Church,
which queer cOnceit, it has bsen sug-
gested, should be balanced by putting q
tower on the tavern.
The Protestant College at Beirut,
l. 81 Il
literary and twenty-ODe in the medical
department. The latter all psy their
ices in full-S45 in gold.
The theological school in Marsoysn,
q little south OF the Back Sea, under the
control Of the American Board has just
licensed its first graduating class OF
seven young men,
"A coquette is apt to fascinate only
the sterner sex, but both ladies and gen.
tlemen unite ia acknowledging Toe
Coquetts" to be lovely, charming, be-
wltchiDg, What is it?
The Cincinnati Commercial says
that Edwin Booth has sold the Salt Pond
Mountain, In Giles county, Virginia,
containing y 900 srces, 10 q company Of
TeBnesseeans, for Sl00 000 They intend
TO found watering place there.
"A Minnesota steer recently hsd the
misfortune to have hay stack cave 10
over bim. His owner discovered bin
two weeks afterwards, fat and hearty,
having eaten his way thirty feet through
the stack.
California mining news is good
Many are preparing 10 go TO Black Canon
diggiBgs, hydraulic claims, Lynx Creek.
The valleys OF the Gila and Salt rivers
are rapidly filing with settlers from the
Southern States thirteen families from
Texas recently located in one valley.
-Hoosick Falls, \. Y, claims TO have
produced the first velOcipede. 1t was
built in 1921, by David Ball and J JasOn
Burrill, and was an undoubted success.
1t was ia existence as late as 1856, when
it was destroyed by fire, together with
the building ia which it was kept.
The HerGld's London correspondent
writes, American managers are now
engaging the dancing and singing girls
OF London by the hundreds, ana are paw
ing salaries which fairly staTtle the Brit.
ish professionals. @. w. TayIeure is
here for Pixies Opera House Cassidy for
Woods Museum, and John s. Clarke for
Booths theater, and between them we
snail soon be without a dancer at our
tbe8ters."
Mr.. Edmund Yates, in bis weekly
gossip, says that the "Girl OF the Pc
Tiod p and other essays Of the same class,
which nave appeared and are appearing
ia the Saturday Reviea0, and which