Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-02
THE NEWS.

Last week nearly 2,0O0,0OO pounds
of wool were sold at Selma, Ala.
Admiral Farragut and wife arrived
at san Francisco night before last.
A tribe of gypsie5 have made their
appearance at Duvalls Bluff, Ark
Peanuts, it is said, will take the
place of tobacco IN Eastern Virginia next
wear.
1t Is reported that Brigham Young
was lately married toa Miss ~Follansbee,
of Boston
Iron dipped in the water Of a GER
tain well al GratiOt, Mich, becomes mag
netized.
The cotton catterpiller has made its
appsarance in the caHebrake region OF
Alabama.
The Little Rock, Ark, authorities
are breaking mp the keno banks IN
that city.
DIR. Daniel Read has been reelected
President of the University of Missouri,
at Columbia.
Extensive bcefPacking establish
Iuents are in course Of construction at
Shreveport, La.
Some Of the MOrmOns who lately
LETT Virginia and North Carolina for Utah
are returning.
The natural Turkish baths OF Cali
fornia are one of the great attractions Of
The Pacific coast.
Miss Mary Putnam, daughter Of the
publisher, or this city, Is a medical stu
lent al Havre, France.
An emigrant chest went to pieces at
Dayton, Ohio, the other day, and SGOO0 ina
specie were scattered over the floor.
Henry W. Longfellow was on Mon
dag invested with the honorary degree of
Doctor OF Laws by oxford University at
a special conv0cation.
George Francis Train is said to have
offered to take n contract to sack London
in sixty DAYS with Fenian soldiers, free of
all cost but that OF transportation.
a cable dispatch says: 60 fault has
been discovered in the Atlantic cable Of
1866 Il does not suggest how much
fault has been found with the manage
ment Of that cable.
In the case Of the man found in his
room with his neck broken, a Cincinnati
fury returned averdict "that the deceased
came to his death from excessive heat,
and. from drinking too much water
The authorities and people of
Hampstead, New York, are both disposed
O. AB " AAlN lily al ~ AAAaA fNAtAh AAAN AAAH
fer of the Hampstead Plains property TO
Mr.. Stewart, although Mr.. Harvey, the
rival bidder, threatens iuterminable hti-
cation.
a Conservative old human miracle
OF DanvilIe, Massachusetts, in his eighty
fifth year, who never rode in a stage or
car, or attended a lecture OF circus in his
life. and never got drunk, recently
walked 10 Hanover. New Hampshire, a
distance Of L5 miles.
The Hon. VIM. Z. Dodge, of this
city, the Hon. Felix r. Brunt, of Pitts
burg, the Hon. Nathan Bishop, Of this
city, and Charles PendlaY, of Baltimore,
United States Commissioners appointed
10y General Grant TO examine the South
ern Pacific Railroad, were at st. Joseph,
No, on Saturday.
The London Telegraph suggests that
the only wager dependent upon so noble
and antique a matter as the "inter-hem-
ispheral" boat race of Harvard boys
with the English university crew should
be a grand one. " the Alabama claims,
double or quits"
The following notice was found
pasted on a large box which passed over
The Sioux City and Pacific Railroad a few
days since: " Baggage smashers are re-
quested 10 handle this box with care, as
"a @sAtHa-Ao AaAAD ~ mt tANFh nv
gun cotton, and two live g~Orillas." The
box was not broken.
The Topeka Record says that the
population Of Kansas will reach 100000
when the census OflS7U is taken. We had
not supposed il WOuld be 50 large. The
vote al the last election WAS 43,G47. and az
the usual rate for that State 10 would not
indicate o poPulationO Of more than 10000:
but the Record states that the immGyra-
Hfar. arar-a FEa mar hna Ha-r -..s1 H8
all precedent.
The New York ECeHiag Mail saws:
Secretary Boutwell, has diverged some
what from the strict line of his business
IA duty to tell the Tennessee Republi-
cans to vote for Stokes, who was a REBEL i'm
ia leOl, against Senter, who has been lOval
all the time. II Mr.. Boutwell, knew no
more about our finances thar he appears
10 know about Tennessee politics, his
monthly balances would hardly look as
well as they do now.
Looking forward 10 the next census.
ia 1870. the old Northwestern Territorv
which embraces the five States Of Ohio.
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wiscon-
sin. viii probably show nine millions Of
peoplei The States on the west bank Of
The Mississippi, VIZ: Minnesota. iowa.
Missouri. Kansas and Nebraska, will
probably grow al an equally rapid rate.
These States had. IN the census Of 1850,
in round nunbefs, 100000 people. They
viii have, 10 the census Of 1870, about
3.500.OO0. Their growth hereafter viii be
greater than it has been.
The New York EUeliRg Mail says
Of Frank W. Ballard, the %defaulting
cashier Of the Security Fire Insurance
Company Of New York, who used upover
sixty thousand dollars of money not his
own in stock gambling, and is still at
hberty-that he is deeply mortified at
the position in which he finds himself, y
and adds We ave known men out West
who, for the trihing matter Of taking a
horse and saddle-have been so efmOrti-
fed" bat they never got over it,. The
modification was caused by an accidental
fall from the limb Of a tree.
The New York MoH Of Thursday
saws Gov. Clayton, Of Arkansas, who has
been stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel
for the past few days, viii remain in town
until the Ist of August, in order to give
his personal attention 10 the funding Of
the outstanding debt Of his State. The
new bonds, which viii take the place Of
the old ones, are beautiful specimens Of