Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-18
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Opera House.
The New York Legislature meets
Janury 3, 1870.
Only six cents on letters to England
after lst January.
Political and press offenses are now
tried by jury in Prussia.
Mcfarland will be adiudicated sin
sane" Mark our words!
Cholera, small pox and yellow fever
are fighting Spanish troops in Cuba.
The Emperor of China is the real
managing editor of the Pellin Gazette.
Miss Strickland is exercising her
genius on the lives of the Tudor Prin-
ceSSas.
Chicago boasts of one day last week
when it had no murders and only one
suicide.
Adaughter Of Prot. Agassiz is in the
insane asylum at SOmerYille, Mass,
mOnOmaniac,
A family Of Eve persons were ar
rested in Buffalo the other day for eat
ing rats.
Pneumatic tubes are to connect the
ent newspaper offices.
DR.. George Grote, f. r. s., the emil
nent historian Of Greece, has declined
the offer ofsa Peerage.
The Coc0s Island silver, amounting
to $40, 600, 600, has been discovered at
last, according to the Panama cores
pondence Of the New York San. The
story is that it was buried years ago
by pirates.
Olive green cloth dress and high felt
hat was the walking of some
of the ladies who took part in the Suez
Canal festivities.
A velocipede race, from Paris to
Rouen, seventy-eight miles, was won
by an Englishman, against eight COM
petitOrs, in ten and g half hours.
The aggregate membership Of the
various branches of the Odd Fellows
In all parts Of the world is COnsidera-
bly, over ], ,000, 600. In Great Britain
alone there are more than 500,0 600 Odd
Fellows.
Efforts are making to establish in
New York an asylum where the in
sane can be treated according to the
homeopathic system OF medicine.
Beecher's insanity is g mere qUes-
ton Of time. He has already con-
fessed that he believes God is full as
wise as he is,
Winnie Ream, before going to Eu-
rope, declined an offer OF marriage
from Senator Trumbull, of Illinois.
Mrs. Z. Oakes Smith sues a New
v,,,hIfrhov f,- G1ln0 for fhp man
uscript of a book he was examining
and lost.
II was all a mistake about George
Alfred Townsend being at the we'd
ding Of the diplomatic chevalier and
the colOred lady in Washington,
few evenings since. George Is not
progressive to that extent.
Two enormous blocks of marble
have arrived in st. Petersburg, each
weighing 1900 pounds. They will
form the pedestal to the statue of the
Empress Catherine II.
1t is said that s., 100000 of Northern
capital is being expended this year in
improvements In Georgia.
Or. Livingstone has discovered un-
dergrOund cities, where thousands of
people live, in Africa. Some eXcava-
tions are said to be thirty miles long,
and have running rills in them.
There is quite a movement in Rus
sia to establish a system of public
school instruction, for the poorest class
of the children. AT present they are
sunk in the deepest ignorance.
The use of horse-hesh as food is in
of Rng1n0nX
Angler, HavTe, Florence and other
cities markets have been opened for
its sale.
The long-Ieaf pines in and around
Houston are attractions of which but
few places in Texas can boast.
There is already in Louisiana rep
etition Of the excitement and rush to
secure labor for another year.
The ex-King of Naples, who has
lust returned from a visit to Germany,
SAYS: 81 have brought back one con-
viction, and that is-there are no more
kings"
Nineteen miles of sewers have been
built this year at Chicago. Its total
length of sewers is now one hundred
and thirty miles.
The New York Commercial AdUer-
HSer shrewdly suggests that the suf-
frage be granted to all women over
forty.
/. Mcfarland may as well make up
his mind to the Postoffice as his des-
tination. Cole and Miss Harris are
both there, and Sickles ought to be,
rather than in Spain,
Radical Congressman, on a salary
Of $1,000 a year, live extravagantly,
visit Europe, build palaces, become
milliOnaire5, count their lands by the
thousand acres, and their bonds by
/ the ten thousand.
II we place equal reliance upon the
New York and Albany papers, the
/ CardM giant is now on exhibition at
both Of those places.
The German papers confirm an ac-
count of the falling of a new bridge
| in construction on the Rhine in con-
! sequence of a vessel having come into
collision with a scaffOlding, About
/ forty wOrkmen were killed and twenty
badly wounded,
A newspaper article has been going
/ the rounds ofthe press headed Where
! is your boy at night?" a brilliant
urchin suggests the propriety of an
other article, inquiring "Where is the
old man at night2"
Many ladies in this city are said to
be in the habit of taking chlorOform
to relieve nervous headaches, 1t is a
pernicious and dangerous habit, and
will result, if followed long, by to-
tai wreck of the nervous system,
A Connecticut woman wrapped up
her dead baby and took it in her arms
TO a photographers to secure a picture
of what all the neighbors assured her
was beautiful corpse"
A writer in the Chicago Legal NeirS
urges the holding of "annuaI meet.
ings" of members OF the legal profes
sion from every part of the United
States, for the discussion of law re
forms, similar to meetings held by
members of other learned professions
both in this country and in Europe.
, Capt. Charles Bryant, of Fairhaven
late special Treasury Agent in Alaska
spent the winter Of 1859 at Sitka, il
( latitude 81. He states that two inche
: was the most snow on the ground a
2 any time, and only once were tn
+ ponds frozen hard enough to admit c
skating,