Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-16
APPEAL
MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST IS, 1869.
THE AEHS.

@@L
Hon. Robert Toombs has gone West
seeking health.
Lord Mayo has decided that Hin.
docs may be made Free Masons.
There are 100 male and 100 female
cOnvicts in Sing Sing ~penitentiary.
Mountain trout over two feet LONG
have been found in the inland streams o
California.
CovOde writes privately to Forney:
Luke Sharp for Copperhed frodes in fel,
edelfe! "
The Dubuque Herald says a census
Of that city, recently completed, shows
the population 23,543.
The Emperor of China is to be mar
ried this year. he is fourteen years old,
and has been engaged a good while.
Aduel between two prominent ply
sicians OF Montgomery was recently stop
ped by the interference of the authorities.
Loving wife at Long Branch: "The
horrid surf makes me keep my mouth
shut" Sarcastic husband: Take some
of it home with you"
Gov. Senter is now in East Ten
nessee. After a brief visit to his family,
he viii visit Washington and the princi-
pal Northern cities.
Chicago has started a subscription
which already fOots up $50, 600 for the pur-
pose OF organizing a base ball nine to beat
Cincinnati next year.
The old Confederate Notifications at
Opelika, Alabama, are being shoveled
down 20 get them out of the way of the
streets Of the rising city.
Only one man in Florida returned
an income for 1865 ofover $4,000, and but
seven had over 5000. The total number
taxed is less than two hundred.
The cadet encampment at West
Point will to-day be removed to the
mountains. The cadets will live in shelter
tents and be fed on army fare.
T~herevenue from tobacco, in three
districts in Virginia. from February to
August LIST, Is over SL,UOO,OOO in excess of
the receipts for the corresponding tin4o
last year.
A tunnel of the Marietta (Ohio)
railroad is cut under a well of excellent
water. The well is as good as ever, and
not "a drop leaks through, although
crowded trains pass directly under it.
81 the depots in New York are
cumbared with immense quantities of
Western bound freight, and the offices
are besieeed with shippers anxious to get
their goods eff before the prices raise.
Judge McCQnn, Of New York, has
appointed Chas. N. Barr receiver Of ali
moneys placed IN The hands of August
Belmont and Peter 3. Sweeney by John
O'Mahony, arising from tie sale of Fenian
bonds.
So many deaths from sHp-strOke
have taken place on the East Indian rail-
way, India, that the directors have ordered
asupply Of collins 10 be kept at the various
stations on the line.
At a Radical barbecue in Alabama,
The other day. a cOlored women was
crowned as the Goddess of Liberty. II is
out justice 10 decent negresses to say
that this particular object OF Radical
worship was a of the town.
The Jefferson, Texas, military com
mission is stHl in session. Colonel Starr,
one of the commission, being objected to
by the prisoners. he was relieved. The
friends Of the accused are hopeful Of their
acquittal a they msy now get an impair
tial trial.
The brag acre OF cotton belonging to
MAJ. l. T. Johnston, near Eufaula, had |
been counted within the last day or two, |
and by = close mathematical calculation, /
the acre Bill yield az least five, and prob
.ablyeight, 45e pound bales o fcotton. Old
and experienced planters who were pres
H-@ ain EAAA II
that the acre would certainly Weld five
bales, and with favorable weather and
close picking sever bales would probably
be obtained.
The Columbia Herald SAWS of Maury
county lands: The confidence given all |
manner Of business enterprise and invest
meut by the recent Inauguration Of peace,
Is manifested by the recent purchase of a
tract Of land, four miles from Columbia
on the Mt. Pleasant pike. bv Mr.. James
Jones at slO0 per acre, cash. We learn
that Mr.. J, has been e~ndeavoring 10 buv
more lana near him at the same price.
Dut mas been unsuccessful 50 far. Nearly
All the "a lying on the Mt. Pleasant
Plkels yal9e9 az $500 and upwards, and
The military commission at Jack
son, mississippi, IS engaged on the Esau-
murder case. The murderer and
the murdered man were both negroes
The father-in-l9w murdered his sSn-in-
law the father-in-law is a good man the
murdered man was an ou~trageously bad
one. Esa1, 70 save his life. shoots the
Who falls IN his knees with
his head on the ground. While in this
position, and half an hour after the 6rst
shot, Esau returns, with his horse-pistoll
reloaded, n fires a second shot into
must have been a ~lifeless carcass.
The James river rises in Webster
county, Missouri, and flows through
Green and Christian counties into Stone
where il empties into the White river
This may be ranked among the finest
rivers of its size in Southwest Missouri
for the numerous ard beautiful springs
by whichit IL fed, and the extensive valley
of beautiful land through which Il flows.
The valley is thickly settled and adorned
with respectable improvements, and con-
tsins substantial people, generally from
the State Of Virginia, Tennessee and North
Carolina. There IS considerable tobacco
raised in this valley by North Carolinisns,
which Is said TO bring the highest prices
in the tobacco market.
A suicide has just been committed
nhueI SAlraordlnaIy circumstances as st.
petersburg. Col. Hunnins. a German by
DiIIn was tately engaged in discussing !
with the Gzarevitch a financial onerafio5 Il
concerning The armament of nc froons /,
and the grand duke, considerin0tbe terms :
proposed TOO high, exclaimed aEifb
Germans one Is always sure To he Z
cheated" On the colonel civilly ~reopast- 4.
his ~highness TO withdraw so Offensive !
an expression, the latter so far foroot
himself as TO strike the officer in the face A..
The Colonel Immediately applied to tbe =
Emperor, who ordered his son To \
apologize, but this he positively refused I
% do. Despairing Of Obtaining any salts
and smarting under an insult he I
unable 10 resent, the unfortunate
oficer committed suicide by blowing out