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

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Ashland, Pa, is paving her streets
with slate.
An Illinois grazier has a herd OF
800 mustang Texas horses.
On dit that silver gOblets lined with
gold are now used in Boston beer saloons
The Omaha Republican has a :" War
Denartment. under which prize fights are
chronicled.
Gouge-eye Gulch is the euphoniOus
name of a place at the head of the Platte,
Colorado.
Lowell has had sixteen suicides,
mostly Of young girls, within eight
A New Haven man has just in
vented a machine which viii cut 100000
| slate pencils a DAY.
The first Democratic vote in An
\ dover, VI, for many years was east last
week by a " carpet-bagger."
In the case of headless body found
near some water in Arkansas, the jury re-
turned a verdict of accidental drown
The W0rkiRqmen's Journal, a new
weekly in San Francisco, is remarkable
for the great number of liquor saloon adj
refreshments.
A Sweetwater, Wyoming, deputy
| sheriff holds Office for twenty-fOur hours.
At the expiration of that time he usually
happens to be shot.
Two cripples-one with a shortened
leg and one with a club fOot-ran a race IN
South Boston on Thursday for $50 a side.
The club-fOOted won.
The Association of the Defenders of
Baltimore in 1914 attended divine worship
] - D.. n-T-- Gur~Hav tho 81 v-E II u GnTnfN-nr-
/ sary ofthe battle of North Point, a. usual.
In the SOOaheIce language of Africa,
"GOd" is MOoigniaZimOOngO; original
sin" in the Ottomi-Indian, tlacatzintit-
iztlatlacOlli; and repentance" in the
Delaware, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Atthe last meeting of the Putnam,
Fla, Agricultural Club, the gratifyingin in
telIigence was announced that the orange
crop on the ST. Johns river Will he largely
above the usual average.
Musical Paris is in mourning for the
loss of its two best tenors-CaPoul, en-
gagged for New York, and Michot. who
| goes to New Orleans for six months, AZ
p 600 francs a month.
Four bags of the new crop of South
/ Carolina Sea Island cotton were received
in Charleston on Saturday. The Bermuca
bee cotton, a very prolific variety of the
heecv staple, is a native of Marlboro, ;. L.
The Charleston Is. c. Chamber OF
/ Commerce, on Tuesday, passed resolu-
ton offering a silver goblet to the state
Agricultural Society, TO be given As q
premium for the best ten bales OF upland
cotton
Speaker Blaine is the most probable
successor to the late Senator Fessenden.
There is every prospect of a fierce fight
/ over the seat. The feUd between HGmliI
and Morrill, win be carried into the cen
test also.
The two military commissions that
have been in session in Jefferson, Texas,
have closed thir business and adjourned.
The result of course is unknown. An
other military court VIII assemble, short
", for the trial OF Lieut,-CoL Gordon.
Hon. o. H. Browning, late secre-
tarv of the Interior, who has not hitherto
been identified with the Democratic party,
has signiied bis willingness to accept The
Democratic nomination fOT delegate to the
Illinois Constitutional Convention from
Adams county.
\ Missouri girl lately shot at ana
missed a young man who had I~nYelgled
her awav from her home, taken her TO
Omaha and then deserted her. She had
three more shots left. but the young man
~eapitulated, and compromised the UNI
p-ieasantness by cleaving to her again.
The prOfessOrShip of modern lam
guages in PriucstSR College, has been
offered to Professor Joseph karge, at
present an officer in the Eighth lnited
states cavalry. ON the Pacific coast, but
before the war a noted pathological scholar
Of New York.
Several hundred green turtles,
weighing from twenty 10 eight hundred
pounds. have inst been received at Jack-
sonville, Fla, from the Indian river, des-
tined for New York. The trade must be
a profitable one. for they are only found
on {he coast from smyrna To Key West.
The Milwaukee Sentinel is urging
the abolition of the Office of Vice Presi-
dent. In case Of the death of the Presi.
dent it would have the Secretary Of State
act as President until A new election could
be held. II would also have the people
vote directly for President, and the sen
ate elect its own President, to serve fol
two years.
The receipts Of cotton at Macon.
Ga. up to the 10th were 24s0 bales, con
siderabfv in excess of last year during
the corresponding period. Five hundred
and hftv-fOur bales have been received al
Americas. Sumter county, and brought
an average price Of 2SI5 cents. The re.
ceipts at Savannah and Augusta have
been very large, and the prices 3lll TO 3.
cents.
An English gentleman has Offered
the MeSsrs. HurXthal So 80 per acre ~
cash for their fine farm Of so acres, oH|
mile west Of Warrenton; or 500 per acre
paving $4,000 down in cash % the re
mainder in twelve and eighteen months
Both offers were refused. Three years
AGO these gentlemen bought this estate
from Mrs. Margaret Lee, paying $4,000 fol-
ii.
The women sutlragistS are making
a heavy combination for a gigantic SAT
frage convention, TO be held in Washing.
ton early in the coming session of Con.
QreSs. TO be followed mp sharply by peti
tions for their immediate recognition IN
the capacity of voters. Billie have beer
prepared 10 try the experiment, ANA sen
ator Pomeroy is named as its advocate.
The administration, and especially
the postal and evenu portions, have de
cided at last to make the support OF the
Radical candidates in Texas and MisSiS
sippi a test for political pFefarment in ap
pOintments. This removes al doubts
over the Presidents recently expressed
views in the premises. In all the mine
appointmentS considered in the PostoiiicC
Department to-day this rule was adhered
to.
Mr.. T. Burke, living on the White
plantation, near Napoleon, Ark, wa!
brutallv murdered by some unknown per
/ son while sitting in his house. The assas
sin shot through the back door Of his housC
while Mr.. Burke was playing the fiddle
After the fatal shot, Mr.. Burke ran about
iftv wards TO where Mr.. L. Curtin lived
and fell dead at his dOor. Suspicion tel
upon Benjamin Wing, with whom MF
Burke had a difficulty a few days previ
Gus.
The Atlanta Constitution recon-.
mends that the Democratic State EXecu.
tive Committee should meet for the pur
pose Of considering the question Of The
representation of Georgia in Congress
and seeing whether the election, for Con.
gressmen, NAV not be held this fall, not
w~ithstanding Gov. Bullock's desire Il
deprive the state Of representation by
pretending that the members Of the For
tieth have a right to sit in the Forty-firsl
Congress without an other election.
Petersburg, Va, is about to enter
vigorously on the enterprise Of opening
up navigation 10 its doors. The feasible
ty Of the project has just been pronounced
upon by Mr.. Byrd, AN able engineer, who
has prepared a plan, with specification
and estimated cost, for the permanent
strengthening and deepening OF the chan.
mel Of the Appomattox from Petersburg
to a distance of eight miles, where a sufi-
cient depth of water is already found fol
all ordinary craft.
FrCra the Allentown (Pa.O Reqiste,
we learn chat ON Tuesday morning, abou.
1 O'Clock, fire broke out in the Allentown
Iron works, situated in the Sixth ward
and superintendent by Samuel Lewis
Esq. The works were among the mOs