Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-01
MEMPHIS APPEAL
THURSDAY MORNING, July I, 1869.
THE NEWS.
Punshon is sick in Canada.
Dent has gone to Missouri.

Punshon is sick in Canada.
Dent has gone to Missouri.
LOngfellow is to return next month
Gen. LeavenwOrth, L. S. A, is an.
other originator of the Pacific Railroad.
Mrs. Segundi owes Spain 100000 Ol
reals.
Ex-Mrs. Ruskin is now the wife o
MiIlais.
Professor Blot is to teach Spring
field cooking.
Southwestern Georgia Will raise al
immense corn crop.
An Americas (Ga) citizen is ship,
ping ~alligators to New York.
The crops in Holmes and Attala
counties, Miss, are doing well.
Covington, KY, refuses to grant IL
cense to negroes TO keep beer saloons.
Twenty-eight hundred emigrants
left Liverpool for America last week.
Jose Lacunza, one of Maximilian's
Ministers, has died at Havana of vomitO.
Oliver Barthelet, of Montreal, has
been made a member of the Order of Plus
TX. for recruiting Papal ZoozOOs.
Capt. Fields, Of Gen. Ames' staff,
has been appointed Mayor of Jackson,
Miss, vice Col. Crane, deceased.
Florida can now boast of a negro
lawyer. One was admitted 70 practice at
Alachua, in that State, the other day.
A negro secret society rescue their
members from the police in Richmond,
Va.
A drunken man shot and killed a
negro boy in Denmark, Tenn, a few days
ago.
St. Joseph, No, has just been Wis
tied with another deluge-the second this
season.
Seven thousand lambs were shipped
from C~ovingtOn, Ky. TO Boston and New
York during the past week.
A violent storm occurred at Buffalo
on Saturday night. II is feared the ship
ping on the Lake was damaged.
1t is estimated that the receipts of
internal revenue fer the year viii reach
SIS, 1000.
John c. Breckenridge sold a piece of
land al st. Paul at the beginning Of the
war for 81 which is o worth $4,000.
Mcsmer's one hundred and thirty
fifth birthday was celebrated in Paris with
a dinner.
Carl Schurz has been invited TO de-
liver an Grafton in German at the lnterna-
tional Saengerfest at Baltimore in July.
Prayers for rain by the churches Of
st. Augustine, Fla, have been answered
by visits Of refreshing showers.
Palatka, Fla, talks of shipping cot
ton direct TO Liverpool. Palatka NAV
ship in-the course OF fifty years.
The Live Oak (Fla.) AdrerGSer sus-
pended gone up the spout Where
abOuts Of the editor not known.
DR.. McNuIty and Mr.. Dubois, in
diCted in New York, the other dav, for
their connection with Cuban expeditions.
have been set at liberty.
Henry L. Raymond, night telegraph
operator at Dixon, H., while working i'm
his office yesterday was struck by light
ming and badly injured.
Barget, the Ascending paymaster
who carried away $500 o OF Government
funds from the navy yard at Brooklyn,
has been arrested in Texas.
The remains Of John Wilkes Booth
were inferred in the family vault at Balti-
more on Sunday, in the presence Of the
members Of the family and a few friends.
Anna Smith, a girl nineteen years
old, Of Mills county, Iowa, is working a
farm of one hundred acres on her own ac-
count.
Archbishop Hajnald is said to be
the most learned bOtanist in Hungary,
and to have the most complete herbarium
in Europe.
Sacramento papers give long ac-
counts Of the funeral of John c. Heenan,
the "Benicia Boz" A New York paper
saws he is keeping a liquor store ON Madi-
son square, in that city.
Victoria celebrated her tftieth birth
day by creating six new Knights Of the
Grand Cross, t~wenty-one Knights Com
manders, and sixty-fve Companions of
the Order Of the Bath.
There were six successful woman
candidates al the recent examination of
the University Of London. The prejudice
against young women pursuing their
studies with youngmen appears To be get
ing less over there.
Mr.. John Mitchell arrived in BAN
gOr, Ne, recently, h~avinglefg Hong Kong
on the second day of Nav, and made Ole
passage in twenty-nine DAYS. He made a
trip from San Francisco 10 New York in
six days.
The London Times yesterday re-
views our Indian policy, and thinks lie
best course the United States can adopt is
TO wage a war OF determination cRainst
the savages. How is that for civilization2
The members Of several Fenian Cir
cles in New York have passed resolutions
OF sympathy for Cuba. Some of their
leaders have been in consultation with
the Cuban chiefs with . view to Offering
their services in the Cuban cause.
It is asserted that the grasshoppers
are so thick in Utah that they stop trains
II - - HLnW
times TO get out and SAND the track that
the train may pass over the rails. The
hoppers have eaten the field crops, and are
now going for the peaches.
It is said that Michigan is making
about $4,000 a year out OF the funds of the
University. The fund in gold is $500, 600,
which has been worth ST00,0 600 in green
backs. The State only pays the interest
on the s50Q,000- If this is true, Michigan
Is engaged IN a very small style Of BUSH
ness, and ought to be ashamed Of her
self.
A shreWd Yankee Mr.. Packard.
of Fall River, Mass.-has shown what can
be done in the way Of wine and silk cnI-
ture. Some years ago he bought a rancho
Of two hundred acres in Santa Rarbera az
a dollar an acre. He has now co. coo zines
producing 10000 gallons Of wine; il en-,
gagged in silk culture, last year PRODUCING
100000 cocoons, and is also %cultivating the
olive. Let other shrewd Yankees 70 and
do likewise.
Miss Kate Fields says ] have heard
a great deal about the BOhemianism Of
the Press, how its members look like
Mexican bandits, snd how they disregard
every law, human and divine. If the 200.