Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-01-13
INTERESTING ITEMS


-Chiosgo churches have oyster sOcI
Alaska cost "a lees than two cents Al
acre.
North Carolina wants State Agri
cultural Fair.
The "o1ly surviving Revolutionary
soldier lives st Friendship, N. Y.
-Oger 27,0o0 emigrsnts arrived II
/ Chicago last yesr.
/ r Sb0its in Australia are 80 numerous
as to le considered verEIin.
TIE debt Of Liverpool Is twentS
/ million, and still increasing.
a lodge Of coIored TempIars has beer
! instituted in Philadelphia.
/ Liverpool Is building three new pub.
/ lie parks, upon which it spent 81 $40, ,00C
| last year.
An Illinois county, with voting
/ population OF 10 900 has produced ninety
elk divorces within month.
The annual meeting Of the American
Social Science Association will be held
at Albany Ia February.
The pecuniary loss by the recent
earthquake ct San Francisco will, it Is
said, exceed three millions Of dollars.
-Abous loo 600 bushels Of peanuts
have been exported from North Carolina
this year.
Three quarters Of million barrels
Of -four were manufactured 10 Chicago
in ls65.
So scaudaI0us were the proceedings
at late masquerade in the Loadol Al
hambTa, that the police will license no
more.
The new Parliament includes ninety
eight military and nine naval gentle
men, 1I2 lawyers, 12i e0nmercislists,
aud seventeen bankers.
-Twenty-four million bushels wheat,
twenty-five million bushels of corn, and
seventeen million bushels of other gralh
were received Ia Chicago the last year.
The Boston Journal found the follow
ing about its ancestors Ia an old book
printed in 1888: "The inhabitants seem
very religious, showing many outward
anu visible signs of an inward and spir-
i.uai grace. But though they wear in
their aces the innocence OF doves, you
viii iiud them in their dealings as subtle
as aerpents. Interest is their faith, money
their god, aud large possessions the only
heaven they eovet."
The HsTGid's { uba correspondent
writes: The greatest enthusiasm and
determination prevails among all classes
of Cubans. A popular subscription has
been started, the Subscribers engaging
each to pay ten cents per day to form
iulG for war purposes You may
imagine what \ large part Of the popula-
tiCn takes part in this patriotic scheme
when / Inform you that by this means
about $3.50, coo are collected monthly in
The Island. The fair sex have taken
usrt, ard ara the best and most active
collectors" The Cuban revolt is cot
suppressed yet, or even repressed TO any
extent, in spite Of the silly
vis the Cuba cable.
Who says that great political talent
does not descend from generation 10 gen
ration, in America We have the
brilliant instance to the contrary Of the
Aiamsee, snd nov We learn that Thomas
+. BayaTd is lisely tU be chosen to sue
ceed his father, James A. Bsysrd, as
Senator fcom D=llware. HIS grand
father, James A. Baya was = prOmi-
Gsnt statesman Of our revolutionary
-iuss, q Senstor, hn Ambassador, and
lus Of tBa ueg3EistoTs OF (be famous
treaty ~ Ghens His father the present
leegmp i,hed Senator frOm Delaware,
was fret elected 70 the Senate in 1850,
zud sEsIn in 1856. Thus for three gen.
sratious the Bsysris have maintained
positions Of high honor.