Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-09

was so genuinely good, humble and be
nevolent, so tolerant with his fellow-be-
ings' faults, that all who were well ac-
Quainted with him venerated him like 9
saint. Peace TO the soul OF this good
man!
Missouri has I34S1 miles of railroad
now in operation, and will have 54l more
LRfIes that the cars will be running over
before the year is ended. Z
A Jamaica negro fell asleep in the
hold of a vessel just leaving Aspinwall,
and remained there without food or water
until reaching New York, nine days. He
had a hard and hungry time of it, as the
matches were fastened down so that MS
cries could not be heard, and the cargo
cosisting of wool, hides, mother-of-pearl
and india rubber, did not affordmuch sus-
tenance
The Knoxville Press and Herald
saws: Mr.. James ID. Renshaw, of this city,
has a very full list of the Confederate dead
buried in and about Knoxville. The aist
comprises about three thousand names
Persons desiring information concerning
lost friends, may possibly obtain mpor-
tant intelligence by applying to Mr.. Rem
shaw. His list indicates places Of resi-
dence as well as names
A case came before Commissioner
Van Aernam Saturday, in which a claim
ant for a widows pension showed that she
had been charged an eXtortionate fee by a
claim agent. The Commissioner at once
ordered the agents name to be stricken
from the list of agents now practicing be-
fore the Bureau, and that the papers be
sent directly TO the claimant. Since as
Stunning his present position, DR.. Van
Aernam has had occasion to treat several
agents in the same way for similar Of
lenses.
Indiana is becoming important as a
tobacco-prOducing State. The soil is well
adapted to its growth, particularly in the
counties of Washington, Orange, Dubois,
Greene, Daviess, Martin, Gibson, Warrick,
Pike, Knox, Spencer, Perry, Crawford,
and Harrison. where it is cultivated upon
almost every farm. At the little town of
Huntington, Dubois county,, there are
four extensive tobacco stenmeries, from
which were shipped the past year 200
hogsheads OF tobacco, valued at S35O,OOO.
Havana Journals assert that the in
surgents are surrendering by thousands.
Admiral Hoff writes TO the Navy Depart
ment that the landing of recent eXpedi-
tions has infused new life in the insurrec-
ton; that in a recent engagement near
Guatememas the Spaniards were defeated;
that Trinidad is besieged by the insur-
gents, and reported to have fallen; and
that the Cubans recently attacked the
convoy of a train, defeated the Spaniards
aud captured forty-three officers and men,
including a Colonel. Rather mixed, we
should say.
The President issued a brief prOcla-
nation last Saturday, stating that the ex-
change of ratiications of the convention
for regulating the jurisdiction of cOnsuls
between the United States andHis Majesty
the King of Italy, which was signed on
the Sth of February, 1865, having been
unavoidablv DELAYED beyond the period
stipulated in article II, it is agreed be-
tween the high contracting parties that
the convention shall have the same force
and effect as it would have had if the ex-
change had been effected within the slip
ulated period.
A shocking accident occurred at
Venable's sawmill, in st. Joseph, Mo-, at
l o'clock Saturday afternoon. A young
man, about twenty years old, had helped
place a log on the log-carriage, while the
circular saw was yet in motion, and was
in the act Of stepping back when he was
caught by the log and thrown against the
saws and instantly killed. The saws
struck him in the left side, passing trans
yersely across the body to the upper part
of the right shoulder. The body was cut
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different sides of the saws and presenting
a CHASTITY spectacle. The mans name
cannOt be learned. He came from Vir-
city here, and commenced work last
Thursday. He has an uncle living twelve
from Chicago.
The irish are a wonderful people.
They gave Wellington to England, O'DOn-
nell to Spain, O'Neil to France, and now
learn of the death Of Gen. Patrick
0'Malley, Ofthe French army, who served
in Algeria and Magenta with great dis
tits considered to have
been owing to the bayOnet charge of
O'Malley's regiment on an Austrian brig |
lde that the Emperor Napoleon III was
prevented being taken prisoner. For this
he was made a Brigadier General.
subsequently he served in China, and
present at the capture of Tientsin,
and the sacking of the Emperor's summer
Gen. O'AIalley was n Mayo
man by origin, if not by birth. Col.
Austin O'Nalley, of BurrishoOle, in the
county of Mayo, his father, had many rel
who were distinguished in the
English army.