Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-24
THE NEWS.

The college at Pekin, China, is said
to be a failure.
Mrs. O'DonOvan Rosa, the Fenian
reader, is in Boston.
Indiana has 1905 pensioners, who
receive annually s. ,079,4S9 II.
Boston sells twenty million dollars
worth of ready made clothing annually.
The Countess de BOsier is the first
Parisienne who has mounted Mont Blanc.
Edinburgh University will allow
ladies to study medicine, but in separate
classes.
The new Yale Theological School,
now building. will be l64 by A, n cost
Sl25, 600.
The Arkansas negroes pre-empt
lands, and hire Chinese laborers to work
them. Hi!
1t rained SO hard in st. Peters,
Mimi, that in an hour or two the streets
were navigable for canoes.
The artenldlde, ofLeipsic, a weekly
something similar to Hdrper's Magazine,
has a circulation of $4,000.
The Hon. \. II. Stephens is conva-
lescing and working on his History OF
the Wa between the States"
The term of the Medical Depart
ment of Dartmouth opens very auspi-
ciously with over fifty students.
1.-THE Chicago party" have brought
home from California a last years water
melon in perfectly good condition.
Rev. Miss 4. j. Chaplin, Universal
list, has been made a Professor in the JEFF
ferson Liberal Institute of Wisconsin.
Eighty newly arrived Cinnamon
haH thai hondEnnnn nfu-rQIlg gnr off nv
hair thieves, in San Francisco, the other
day.
Le-pO-tai, the celebrated Chinese
physician of California. has some seven
hundred patients, and an income of $1,000
per week.
A brother of ex-Confederate Gen.
JEFF. Thompson, is writing a novel found
ed on local history, for a paper in st. Joe,
Missouri.
The students of the University of
Naples, sacked the University, two Col
leges and a Church, because the Faculty
would impose NenOphOn upon them.
TennysOn and his party were fear
fully bothered by hero-Worshippers while
in Switzerland. They stole all their note
books, etc, not to speak umbrellas and
hats.
The Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial, for want of
anything else TO do, has been recently I'M
earthing the liasOns and miscalliances of
the Washington rOughs who occupy high
places.
A Cincinnati jury found 3 verdict of
death by compression Of the brain and
eXtravasation of blood into the cFaniHm,
caused by the rupture of vessels from ex-
element brought on by alteration" I'm
FIa ,nco Of O man AIN hha1 m Aoafh hu
r%ufiians.
The New York correspondent OF the
Washington Express saws that if the ap-
plication OF the oiron-clad" test oath is
Insisted on in Virginia, Gov. Walker viii
resign. The fear of this is having a great
effect on the reviving material interests
Of the State.
Parton, in his article in the Septem-
Der AHdntic on Log Rolling in Wash
ington," tells how Alexander Hamilton
managed TO get the Capital moved first TO
Philadelphia and then to Washington by
L" log rolling with Thomas Jefferson.
There's where the business began.
Additional to unique names of places
in our Territory, such as Shirttail Canyon,
Buzzard's Glory, Frying Pan, Slaughter
house Gulch, and such like, the following
come from New Mexico and Texas: Wa
~ L1AaaAEH [aANN HRANAAAANH A@8H = - y u
Up, Poverty Slant, Righteous Ridge, Flat
Horns, louisville and Chile Colorado.
The late Lady Duff Gordon, the
translator of Ranke. Niebuhr. Feurbach,
Moltke and other German works, and the
author of remarkable works on Egypt,
inherited the best of the intellect and
qualities of her mother. the accomplished
Sarah Austin, and her father, the we'll
known author of Jurisprudence.
At the recent sale of billions collec-
ton of autographs in London, George
Washington's letter to Newenham, in
which he deplores the condition of Ire
land, sold for $500; one from Bacon
brought $50, and one from Oliver CrOm-
well, S495; Queen Elizabeth's instructions
concerning the Anjou marriage brought
$3.50.
The Selma Times and Messenger, in
an article reviewing one of Fornev'S, in
which that gentleman is opposed to a Con
EtitutionalConvention for Tennessee SAYS
" But these Tennessee rebels will surely
be enfranchised whether Col. Forney likes
Il or not; and another thing is equally
true, that in 1872 they will support the
nominee of the Democratic party for Pres
ident of the United States, and they viii
control the electoral vote of the State"
The Supreme Court of California
mas rendered an important ueclSiOn IN
support OF the real rights of woman. 4
wife was driven from her home by her
husband, and had no means Of support.
She brought suit TO compel him TO set
aside out of his property acquired since
their marriage, a sufficient amount to sus-
tain her and her child. Under the old
English law, such an action would not
lie, but a majority of the Court decided
in favor of the wife, holding that adher-
900 ., a. EA.Ffah Iarr - sB4s - esp,sI,H
eases, would be a reproach to civilization.