Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-10
TIE NEHIS.

The Gar interdicts a SoT0sis at st.
Petersburg.
The italian name Of strawberry is
FT0gOla-fragrant.
Austria and Siam have concluded a
navigation treaty.
Ia France denies that the French
troops are to evacuate Rome.
The grain shovelers Of Buffalo r
lighting a Understanding machine.
The dredges below Norwich remove
nine hundred tons of mud daily from the
Thames.
An English astronomer thinks that
our day is increasing and Will ultimately
be a year long.
Wells, Fargo d co. have 1000 letters
in their White Pine Office for deserters
from that region.
Wagner's Judaism in Music " has
brought out 80 pamphlets in condemna-
ton of his ideas.
An attempt to make preaching legal
inthe Liverpool parks has been defeated
by the Town Council.
The rumOr of an alliance between
Spain and Great Britain, hostile to the
United States, Is again revived in Wash
ington.
Edmond About has received twenty
thousand francs, il is said, from the En-
perOr Napoleon, to write work on Work
ingmen's Unions.
There is a rUmOr in Washington
that Secretary Cox is 10 be relieved from
the Interior Department, and shelved on
the Supreme bench.
a Scotch church warden WAS unac-
countably absent the other Sunday. He
was in Paris, where he rode one of the
horses for the Grand Prix.
Gen. Butterfield has been granted
leave of absence, in order to allow him to
accept the office Of Assistant United
States Treasurer at New York.
Admiral HOf, now ommandingt the
North Atlantic squadron, will sOOn be re-
leased by Admiral Poorc, now command
ing at the Washington Navy Yard.
a New York editor, on a wager, has
recently been attempting to write in an
hour matter enough to fill a column Of
small type, hut was unsuccessful.
A Connecticut clergyman says that
only one person in fifty believes in the
doctrine Of eternal punishment for him
self whilst all believe in it for others.
The project O; bringing an ocean
steamer from New York TO St. Louis has
been abandoned for the present, the
terms not meeting the views of merchants
here.
The Massachusetts, Legislature, after
passing the prollhitory liquor law. imme-
diately defeated q bin introducing water
into Lynn. The Lynn people are getting
alarmed.
The friends Of Cuban independence,
IN this country, are bringing q tremen-
deus pressure 10 bear upon the adminis-
traiion to induce the recognition Of bel
ligerent rights, Ct least. They say that
there is a crisis pending in the affairs of
the insurgents.
An agent Of a dental ~vulcunite com
pany visited burlington, Iowa, a few days
ago, and politely invited the members Of
the dental profession 10 pay the sum. Of
TWO hundred dollars each to pav for usino
the y~ulcanite preparation in the past and
up 70 the close Of the present wear. Tho
dentists paid.
Kentucky. Alabama, Tennessee, and
Montana hold elections in August; Yer
mont, and Maine in September; Colorado.
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa. and California
IN October; and Now York, New Jersey. .
Massachusetts, Minnesota, and WiscOn-
sln in November. Mississippi and Texas
viii probably hold their elections in
August.
The PittsbUg Led1er has determined
TO observe strictly the Lords dav. and for
that purpose VIII 60 10 press at an early
hour on Saturday evening, FL order that
its edition may be printed before mid
night. 1t is said that a number Of the
morning dailies Of that city viii close
their composition rooms on Sunday until
after midnight. Such q course will bring
a blessing with IL.
\ prim old maid, after several ex-
ertions, recently procured a presentation
At Paris 70 the NabObO Of Bengal. She was
introduced to the NabOb and his son.
What a charming youth" said sine
d" Has your Highness any more children!"
Madame" replied the NabOb, 81 have
eleven sons and nineteen daughters still
living: but. then, TO he sure, ] have thir-
teen wivos!'' Exit the lady, in hyster-
les.
The forty-seventh annual commence
ment OF the University Of Virginia took
place on Saturday last, in the large audi
ence cbalnber attached to the institu-
ton, and was attended bv a large andi-
tory, a large and conspicuous norton Of
whom were ladies. Among those present
were Coy. Stevenson, OF Kentuckv. Jud0a
Tuck, of Maryland, and other proniDe1t
gentlemen. The ceremonies commenced
on Monday evening, with the annual eel
ebration of the Washington Literary A.
sOciation, William Marshall. of Miss. de-
hvering the Grafton, and p. F. Smith. of
Ga, receiving the society medal as the
best dehater.
Novel weapons were lately used by
a husband and wife, in Trenton, n. J., in