Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-24

twenty-five cents now in circulation, and
establish a series extending from n to
ten cents, similar to and embracing the
present metallic three cent and five cent
pieces.
Among French hats, the Partisan is
a novelty, being very small and resting
more conspieuously on the nose than any
hat.of the season, so far. This style has
come back to us from the time of I7l0, and
deserves to rest again for a hundred years
or so.
A bonnet of black tuIle and lace is
also composed of a diadem the lace being
placed upwards and lappets. But a SINAI
square veil is added at the back. 1t Is or
nameuted in front with a small bird and
a bunch of white narcissus.
A White Piner writes that they
have considerable difficulty GU there in
burying a man; fOrwhenever they under
take TO dig a hole for the grave it is in
stantlY claimed as a mine, for valuable
looking ore is invariably thrown out,
II - thought that there will be over
one hundred race horses at Saratoga all
season, and more than n hundred dash
ing ladies' a great deal faster than race
horses. A Cuban heiress has appeared at
Saratoga wearing Sl00,0 0 in diamonds.
They blew up a steamboat lately on
a lake in Mexico on which President Jua-
rez and his Cabinet were enjoying them
selves. Nobody hurt. They don't know
how to do those thing in the land of the
Aztees as well as on the Mississippi river
The splendid racer, Louisville"
who split his hoOfin a race at Nashville,
has entirely recovered, and Lee Paul has
him in training at Lexington, Ky. Lee
saws he is the best three year old he ever
handled, with the exception only of Her
zog.
The San Francisco NeWS Letter is
certain thai within a year the Californians
win travel habitually to New York, Eu-
rope and China by aerial carriages. The
Ne0s Letter is sure hat the recent exper-
iment was an unqualified success. Hence
its jubilsnt production.
A Maintenon bonnet is composed of
a putting of white tulle and a deep white
blonde border. This forms a diadem and
lappets. A branch of roses, with buds
and foliage, is laid across the diadem,
above the forehead, and a small humming
bird is placed as an aigrette in the center.
A bonnet of white plated straw is
made with a bandeau in front, trimmed
with rOuleaux of green silk. Above this
comes a diamond rucha of green silk and
a plated border, edged with black lace,
and continued into lappets, fastened in
front with a bow of green ribbon. One
large white rose is placed on one side of
the diadem.
InJuly, 1868, the wife of Mr.. Joseph
Johnson, living in Jefferson township,
Morgan county, Indiana, gave birth to
three children, and in less han eleven
months thereafter she gave birth TO three
more. The children were all perfectly
1890 -
the present time.
The flow of immigrants still con-
tinues. The numbers arriving each week
by steamers and sailing vessels are as
founding. We wish the majority of these
could be induced to leave New York,
where suffering only awaits them, and
make their homes in the West, where
prosperity and happiness are the sure re-
turns of labor.
The colOred population of Columbus,
Texas, and the boys in blue, in garrison at
that post, do not pull well together. On
Sunday, the 18th inst, they had a hand to
hand conflict, Sticks, rocks, etc., were
freely used on both sides. The police,
not being able to stop them, stood there
TO act as referee. The freedmen, having
the advantage in numbers, compelled the
soldiers to retire. 1.-The negro troops
nobly." Let us have peace.
The Louisville COurier-JOugRGL saws:
There is an anomalous state of aff;airs in
0 nthe n hand, we see la
borers striking because their wages are
too low, and, on the other, We behold
mines abandoned, machinery n~lotionless,
mills and factories mute, railroads incOm-
pIete, and workshops closed, because the
owners cannot afford to pay present
Meanwhile the Chinese, who
do all the work at half the present
and do it well, never striking ex-
with their hammers, axes and NAL
lets, are pelted in the streets and taxed for
the right to work.
There is on exhibition at Lexington, |
Va, a handsome portrait of Gen. Wash
when about thirty years of age,
taken when in full uniform; also a por-
trait of Mrs. Martha Washington. copied
from a portrait taken when she was
young, both from portraits now in possess
sion of the Washington family; also a
photograph of Gen. Lee and Mrs. Gen.
Lee, in colOrs, taken when young. These
paintings are by Mrs. Gen. Lee, and are all
pronounced excellent lkenesses. They are |
for sale at 500 each, the proceeds to be
applied for the benefit of the Episcopal
in Lexington, Va.