Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-01-30
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--Greely IN his lecture opposes the idea
Of life Insurance.
The last stRke upon the California
Pacific railroad has been driven.
Tho Wegtern pork crop consisted of
$50 900 "oritters.n
-Chiesgo has 2000 men employed in
the manufacture OF tobacco.
Annie Folsom is the favorite Mrs.
Brigham Young out Of seventy-four Of
them.
The Daily Oregonian. OF Portland,
oregon, refers 70 Brick Pomeroy as the
noted obscanist."
IN the city OF Boston women are
taxed upon SIS, 600, coo OF real estate, and
$40 000,0 Of personal property.
-Patrucini, the famous nun who had
/ the control Of Isabella, Queen OF Spain,
has deposited s225. 600 Ia the Bank OF
/ England
/ Count Mllilntine, the Russian Minis
+ Ter, who il obliterating Poland, is 8 mild
msnnefed man who writes sentimental
/ p9ems.
: Gen. Thayer the first Superintend-
I ent or West Point, is still living, at the
age OF eighty -four. Millmore has " bus
ted him.
Hobart Paeha, the chief officer OF
the Turkish navy, IL an EngIishmsn,
ana ls allng the Turkish wRr-ships with
Englishmen.
Mr.. Arthur PembeT, an English gen
tieman visiting Ia New York, is the
author OF the defence Of rituslism 10 the
last atlantic.
The Princess de LssoHr d'Auverppe
mas bought the Mount Of Olives, built 8
chapel on 1t, and given it, with her COM
pliments. to Napoleon.
Anna Gargsrin Is the veaIthiest
neiress "a Russia We may say for the
L,l MORN a'lQO 0f enterprlsiDg young men
thAE aer address is MOSCOW, aBf that her
pa is merchant with 100, 900, 600 roubles.
ALBERT Brisbane, the WeIl-known Fou.
rlsrltei has bought large tract OF land
IN Kansas, for colony Of Frenchmsn,
who will cultivate the land on the CO.
operative principle, and also manufac-
ture s-lk goods.
Gen, Mssruder, who took up arms
with a4ximiiisn when the Confederaey
was Crushed QLf, asserts as q fact that
Cariotte's Insanity is caused by the pol
eoa administered to her by Mexican
woman.
The album OF the Crown Princess
Victoria, Ct Prussia, is said TO be a per-
fecs literary treasure. Il contains un-
published poems, sketches, etc, by Ten
nyson and nearly sil the illustrious poets |
and prose writer's Of England.
Madame Audou9rd does not ike the |
American habit of putting ones feet on |
mantle pieces and table,. Here is q dis |
Ike indigenous to sil Europeans. The !
habit, We are sorry 70 say, is not the only 4
American one that embraces improper |
elevation.
The Central Pacific Railroad is COM !
pieted twenty-One miles beyond EikO, |
four hundred and eighty-one miles east
OF !crsmento, and within one hundred /
ana eighty miles OF Monument Point, al /
the head Of Salt Lake. The track is be. !
Ing lald ct t3e rate OK two miles q day,
satin risbon for sashes now comes in !
al col0Cs, with double face, the same on /
one side a5 the other. The width is |
twenty inches. Algerian sashes, striped /
with many colOrs, are newer than the
3otch plaid, and are handsome with |
dark dresses, for the day time, though
not considered full dress.
An informal meeting was held in
Boston, last week. TO consider the project
of holding grand International exhibi-
ton ia this country, commencing on
July A, 1T76 in honor Of the one hun
dredth birthday OF the nation. Dr. Geo.
b. LoriDg, OF Salem, presided, and q
committee appointed TO report on (
the subject at some future meeting.
The new favorite shade for full dress
is 8 warm tint Of salmon, known as
melon, or, more correctly, cantelope
color, The splendid uncut velvet is to
be had ia cant9lOpe, rose color, and
SevrGs blue, fOr reception dresses, at
seven dollars yard. They are by no
means adapted to young ladies, though
they have been chosen even for bridal
dresses,
"A correspondent of the New York
Times describes the Mikado OF Japan Rs
a youth of sixteen with a sensual and va
can't cOuDtenance, a hard head and false
eyebrows painted half way up the fore
head. Ten years ago he was considered
e God, and his existence doubted by
japanese; now be appears in
public, and is to be the real ruler of the
people.
-Tne German papers mention = mel
snchOly case OF suicids and Alial devO-
ton. q widow had two Sons, the eldest
1f whom supported the family. He re-
Gently was ordered to join the army,
having fallen into the ccnscriptiOn. The
younger brother feeling himself unable
to support his aged mother, shot himself |
through the heart, thereby llberstiRg
he elder from military service, on ae- {
count Of his being widows only son.
Gen. MeMahon, our new Minister to .
Paraguay, says in effect that the Bra
iilians know so little, or lie so much,
about the Parsgusgan war, that It is i'm :
possible to get at the truth. It is some :
comfort to learn, from the same dis
patch, that the General thinks that
Bliss and hlsstern3sn have suffered at
he hands Of the PRrsguaysn authorities
10 personal discomfort other than their
orced detention, and that they soon will
% restored to the protection Of the ma.
iensl flag.
The Humboldt (Csll Register says 4
hSs If the bitter rivalry between the
Central and Union Pacific Railroad COM
lanles continues to widen and deepen,
md finally results in the building of =
wo roads, instead OF one, across the con-
inent, the people will have great cause
o be thankful, as competition Is what
hey want, above all else. If the Union
Pacific attempt to pass on to the Central =
Pacific with an independent line, the =
central Pacific will find the means OF =
In an independent line s
y way OF -. Louis. Y
The address Of the King OF Portugal .
o the Cortes shows the finances Of the
ountry are in a very disordered condi-
ion. It is stated that for ten years past -
Portugal has been spending 81, ,250, 900 q
Tear on an income of SIT 800, 600. The
eficit IN 1857 was $5 587, 40: in
s67-'S it was Sc, ,492. $50. Portugal has
lot had budget without deficit for
hirty years. The expenditure has risen
very year during that period; the rev.
nue. has been stationary all that time. Z
he public debt has increased from $780,
90, 600 in 1854 to S235. .000. 600 in 1857. .
The purchase of Bateman's interest
q opera boufie and his contracts, by Mr..
smes Fisk, Jr., inspires the New York :
Herald to make the following schedule
/ property belonging to the Erie rail-
cad company "Erie railroad, main 7
Inc; six old branch roads; one city rail.
osd two steamboat lines; one line Of
reight barges; one ferry; one Opera
Iouse one French opera company; one
aIlet company; lot of old wardrobe:
wel7e lawsuits" !" The Tribune states that
ha prf0a Maid AR Pafanoan uuoo @pn 400