Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-24
NEHS OF THE DAY

Florida is going into the grape cul-
ture.
The cattle disease has appeared in
Virginia.
Ex-President Johnson IS in Wash
ington.
A Georgia freedman has invented a
cotton pillow.
The Texas wheat crop promises bet
ter than for many years past.
The Nicksburg and Meridian Rail
rOad is now thoroughly repaired.
A running spring Of petroleum has
been found on a Kansas farm.
The custom receipts, from May 10th
70 May 18th, inclusive, were S,595,S5S.
Nearly 1000 persons are said to have
starved to death in London last wear.
The annual examination Of the ma
val cadets took place on the Goth.
a letter from Havana reports de
sertions among the Spanish volunteers.
\ French doctor prescribes spark
ling Moselle as a certain cure for govt.
The Departments at Washington
viii be closed on Decoration Day, the 2th
inst.
Failure to pay a hotel bill is deci-
ded TO bea pcnitentiary ofense in New
York.
The Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany has discharged about 2OO0 men al
ready.
Capital punishment was lately en-
forced in Peru for the first time in fifteen
years.
A Hartford lady is said to be the
bat rhucu and haawavrrnan p1aEar in Com
necticut.
Two cOlOred lei were appointed to
positions in the Baltimore CustomhOuse
on Thursday.
Only two-thirds Of the hast years
wheat crop in some parts Of Wisconsin
las yet gone 10 market.
A cargo Of $50 tons of hard coal was
sold at Savannah last Wednesday for six
dollars per ton.
E. z. Overall has retired from the
editorial chariot the Oxford Miss ORC
aiaR, o. account Of bad health.
Later advices concerning the late
battle in Cubs places the Spanish loss al
1905, and the insurgent loss at 1000.
W. Kryanowski has been commits
stoned Supervisor Of Internal Revenue
FOR Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.
John G.. SAKE viii be the poet foI
the Young ome of the Dread Institute,
At Worcest@ st the July commencement
The iron-cTad Atlanta, at Philadel-
phia, which was reported sold 60 the Gu
bans, was really purchased by Salnave.
In 7JG libel suits now pending
against American editors the aggregate
damages TO character are estimated at
S47,500,000.
The New York Post says DON'T
is the advice il "may properly now give
to persons about to lay in their next win.
fer's stock Of coal"
King William, although a Protest.
ant, sent the Pope a rich porcelain vase
from the Berlin mandatory, ON the oc.
casion Of his fete.
-Four political conventions are 20 be
held by colored men before the lst Of
June-onei nNew York, two in Maryland,
and enc in Virginia.
twenty-five tons Of Strawberries
were brought into San Francisco in April
and retailed at twelve TO fifteen cents
pound. Cherries Sold At a dollar and Z
half per pound.
1t is reported by a Washington cor.
respondent that an expedition Of ono
thousand weIl-armed men from Yucatau
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Of Cuba, on the sth inst.
a company has been organized, with
the capital subscribed, 10 construct n tele.
graph line from st. Louis, through Texas,
to the Pacific coast. Some Of the parties
were recently in Washington TO perfect
the arrangements.
The Chicago Tribune gravely asserts
that b circumstances under which the
amendment lifteenthl was ratified in In
diana, are somewhat peculiar" We
should say they were, yeryi
The Jackson, Miss, Clarion suggests
some names to the Plot, Radical paper
there, for Governor: J. W. G. Watson. DIR.
Wesson, OF Gen. RObt. Lowry.
Henry Brown, Of Springfield, Mass,
lost a sixty dollar cow by leaving his
back door open. The COW walked in,
drank enough maple syrup to mako about
my pounds o. sugar, and died.
About Lexington, Va, the crop
prospects are reported good. The wheat,
which is he largest on record, - said q
be inc from ~ end OF the valley 70 The
other, and the anticipated Weld enormous.
Tobacco looks aoarishing.
1t is questionable whether. aher
abolisbing the ration of rum ia the Navy
it we're wise to take any steps toward
furnishing a substitute. Even the oldest
Aoating soakers think they are given too
much Porter.
It Is known that the eight-houE
question created some lively and earnest
discussion ct the last cabinet meeting,
but nc one outside can tell how the mem
ber were divided or who they were.