Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-20
TIE NEWS.

If You wish to be praised-die.
y friendly suit-A Quaker's dress.
The Havana opera lost 100000 last
season.
Chee-AIah, a Chinaman, Is singing
in London.
The second crop of figs is ripening
in Louisiana.
Oscar Pfeiffer is playing the piano
i'm BuenOs Ayres.
There are nearly 200, 600 Italians in
the United States.
New Orleans represents less than
1000 taxable incomes.
There are said to be 10000 people,
out of work in Chicago.
The California Chinese counterfeit
gOld.dust at a great rate.
Seventy-fve thousand Swedes will
settle in Minnesota this year.
A grand musical festivals to inaug-
urate a Belgian railway station.
Florida plants sweet potatoes in the
fall and gathers them in the spring.
Mile. Rosario Zapater, a Spanish
singer, is making a sensation in Paris.
The centennial of the birth of Bee
thoven viii be celebrated at Bonn in 1870.
Lord LyttOn has accepted the Pres
idency of the archaeological Association.
London is very much pleased with
new soprano named Ruggiere AntOni-
oil.
The lager beer dealers of Lewiston,
Ne, have been notified to stop their
traffic.
There are 10Y in Ohio about 400
tu~rnpikes, with a length of perhaps $500
miles.
An opera house, with a seating ca
pacity Of 1000, is nearly completed at
Akron, Ohio.
The Connecticut Legislature refuses
to charter a Total Abstinence Life Insu-
rance Company.
Admiral Hoff has asked to be re-
lieved of command in Cuban waters, Ow-
ing to i'll health.
Michigan is TO have a factory to
make Damascus blades and pOcket-knives
that viii cut glass.
Rubinstein and Thalberg lately
played a duet for two pianos at a sOiree in
Paris given by Nine. Erard.
1t is said that nearly one-third of
the people of Maryland are suffering from
the effects Of intemperance.
The strike Of the Philadelphia car
pet weavers has ended; the employers
have acceded TO their demands.
"Vaillance" is about to be made an
opera e0BliqHe book by its authors, Mons.
Jules Sardeau and Mons. st. Georges.
Miss IngelOw's new story, Mopsa,
the Fairy just published in England,
Will soon be reproduced in this country.
''Nydia," a new opera founded on
The Last Days Of POmpeii," has been
accepted by the Theater Lyrique, Paris.
Mr.. Charles Babb, of st. Louis, has |
commenced a suit against his son to re-
V q balance due ON pTOmIssOry notes.
Mr.. Ruskin has in the press a new
work, entitled 1.-THE Queen Of the Air; an
Attempt 10 interpret the Myths Of
Athena"
Three murderers under penalty of
death in Utah have been permitted TO /
select their mode Of execution, and have
chosen to be shot.
A man in Illinois has been fined
hfty dollars and costs, "for attempting to
steal a kiss, etc, from a Mrs. slippery"
He slipped up" in il.
ON the return OF the Great Eastern
TO England she viii Immediately start
iOf Inala with a fresh cable which has to
~ A~N~ lPpAihdN ana SueZ. ]
The President has received reports
from Gen. Terry, commanding in Georgia.
concerning the murder of the late Senator
Adkins, Of thai State, in May last.
The Requiem Mass for Rossini TO
occupy only half an hour in all, has been
distributed among thirteen Italian COM
pOsers with instructions as to time, etc.
The man RisdOn who reported him
self as the only survivor OF the Powell
exploring expedition, has been arrested
in Logon coaaty, Chic, for horse stealing.
One of the aristOcratic bellies of st.
Louis has fallen in love with Gallagher,
the prize fighter, and has sent him a rose
note inviting him to call and see
her.
Prayers in opera were first intro
duced by Winter, perfected by Rossini,
successfully by Auber and Verdi,
and carried almost to excess by Meyer
A man in Omaha has been chal-
lenged by another in Sacramento to shoot
ducks with him. The one who shoots the
greater number during four months is to
have $4,000.
Swinburneis abOutto publish a new
poem, Boutwell," He has also under
10 edit Coleridge's "ChriStabal -
and the Lyrical Poems, - with an intro
iuctory essay.
1t is affirmed (says the Presse) that
theF French Government has an intention
Of reducing the effective force of the army
to q figure of strict necessity, and as a
proof are cited the measures decided on
by the Minister of War after the raising of