Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-05
NEWS ITEMs.

-MuIberries are ripe at Tampa, Fla.
The Selma and Montgomery Rail
road is to be finished this year.
The hogs in Rutherford county
Tenn, are dying Of strange disease.
Scarlet fever is prevailing extensive
| ly in Norfolk. Va.
--E. A. Pollard is i'll in Richmond with
| congestion of the luugs.
The cold wet weather has greatly re-
| tarded planting operations in Louisians
=" Go Devil " ia the ST. Louis name
| for velocipedes.
John B. Cough is lecturing in New
York and Brooklyn.
With regard to the odd hot
story" Bsecher says he "never said any
such id thing.n
The manufacture Of ice is TO be COM
menced at Montgomery, Ala, in few
wseks.
Gov. Wise has two sons new living
in Richmond, Va, one a physician, the
other lawyer.
Augusta. Ga, to February 18Th, had
received 81 1893 bales against st, ,956 bales
the same time last season; stock l9, 400.
The courthouse of Buckingham
county, Virginia, was burned last FRI
day. All the papers and records ST.
The Hon. John n. Washington,
grandson Of Gen. Georges uncle Lewis,
died in Newbern, N. c., last week. He
graduated at Yale in 1S41.
Gen. Klapks, the great Hungarian
general, is living at Nice on q small PEN
sion which the Prussian Goyernment is
paying to him.
"A new society is arising in Paris
among tie opulent Americans travelling
or sojourning there, in behalf OF their
necessitOus cOmpstriots.
Lucille Western is in Salt Lake.
She may show the many-wived Nor
mons what young, unaided woman can
do in the way of many husbands.
-Pdncess Bsceioehi, who broke one
Of the two prettiest legs in Europe last
year, has died of disgust at having
spoiled the set, and left all her money to
the Prince Imperial.
M. Wm. Taylor Burwell, son of Mr..
Geo. Barwell, of Clarke county, Va,
was shot and instantly killed by q man
named Wood, in Clarke county, on Mon
day last.
bb CAEy Vi 4 Cu5aGOAas L A6sg Win It's
magnificent harbor, and only awaiting
the completion OF the Selma and Gulf
Railroad to be great city, is now with
out q hotel.
Norfolk thieves are the champions
Of the heavy weights. Not long ago
they stole an iron safe, and on Sunday
distracted two steam engines from the
Tunis warehouse, valued at $500.
Mark Twain's "Open letter to Com
mOdore Vanderbilt" puslished in Pack
ard s Monthly, is SO very open as to be
considered an abuse OF the frGnking
privilege.
1t is said that Blanche Butler, the
sister Of Senator Pomeroy's wife, and
other young ladies Of standing and in
fuence, are taking up the refrain OF
woman suffrage at the Federal capital.
"A Boston paper is sorry Weston
stopped his western march for want OF
funds, declaring that the E astern people
would have furnished any money to
have kept him going West.
"A velocipedist in New Haven, while
crossing a street, ran into 8 horse and
knocked him down. The horse was so
injurded by the fall that the owner was
obliged to kill him, and he now holds
the velocipede rider responsible to the
extent OF $500.
Mexican Buchanan once called on a
lawyer in San Francisco to try a suit for
him. the lawyer, Coffroth his name
was, refused, because he corsi Tered him.
self permanently retained against Bu-
chauan, in the interest Of the heirs OF
The Count of Paris has Just had born
to him another son at the Twickenham
chateau, on the banks OF the Thames.
TIE youngster has already been bsp-
tiz sd, at York House, and titled Louis
Philippe Robert, Duke Of Orleans, in the
presence Of all the English sristocracy.
Hernandez, the pantomimist, al
ready in Nebraska prisoa for fourteen
years, for attempting to kill his wife, has
been additionally sentenced to seven
years for shooting at r iinforth. Her
nandtz will be old enough to vote after
serving both these terms.
With regard to Gen. Rufus King.
the Milwaukee Sentinel saws; We
hereby publish snd make known for
the benefit of the Generals numerous
friends and admirers, that he at present
enjoys fine health and q lucrative posi-
tion in the New York Custom-houst.
Probably one Of the most polished
men in the Senate is Senator Salisbury.
of Delaware. He is Incorporate, but
always q gentleman. He is drunken
Salisbury" in Radical eyes. Dick Yates.
of Illinois, is always drunk, and nearly
always disgusting, He is ''poor, kind
hearted, erTing Dick Ystes.n Politics
makes the difference.
The METROPOLITAN Methodist Eoisco-
pal Church in Washington was dedicated
last Sabbath by Bishop Simpson. Among
the noted characters present were G sn.
Grant, Schuyler Colfax, Chief Justice
Chase, and q large number OF both
Houses of Congress. More than $4,000
was subscribed to relieve the church OF
debt It will seat q larger number of
persons than any church in Washington.
"A Havana letter says: "Senator
Henderson, and some other distinguished
Americans who arrived here recently,
psid visit to the country after Gen.
Dulee had furnished them with q "safe
conduct" The former gentleman has
returned from MataDz9s, and leaves to-
day in the steamer Columbia. Gov.
Gardner also takes passage in her. Gen.
McGibbons is still in the country. Gen.
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