Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-02
THE NEWS.

/ Schneider returns to London IN June
-BnfaIo and Oswego are to play chess
by telegraph.
So. Valentines Day falls on Sunday
this year.
The only female in Boise City, Idaho
s physician.
Cincinnati has q secret anti-dog soei
ETY..
A happy bridegroom st Glen's Falls
n. H, is only ninety-twc.
Nilsson viii appear in London mex
season as Ophelis.
-PetrelIa's opera, ;" Coufessa d Amalfi, u
hiss proved failure at Venice.
The Christian Advocate has subscri.
Der Of forty five years standing.
The woman who had upon her but
q single rosebud was not Overdressed.
California hgs are displscing the I'M
ported article on the Pacific coast.
AT late Charleston wedding there
were only twenty-five bridesmaids.
-Philadelphis is enjoying another o.
fenbschism, in the marriage Of Lanterns.
One Hoochststter has written a
three act opera for ; uttgaTt, called
" Elsa"
The ice gorge IN the st. Croix river,
Minnesota, is forty feet high, and still in
creasing.
Camilla Crso gets S14,0O in gold for
six months in California from February
lst.
Or 500 students in the Congrega-
tionsl College at GTinnell, Iowa, 200 are
young women,
The French Courts hsve decided that
the Government cannot call its new Of
fetal paper Montteur.
5 .rakosch, il is stated, pays Miss Eel-
logg the sum Of $500 per night for one
hundred nights. de is all right, 50 far.
50 astonishing a comet is announced
for August that we snail then have no
dark 10 go to sleep by.
A cartoon in CtGriUari represents
Death on veloeipede, going his rounds
with notebook Ia the cemetery of 1868.
Electro. o.magnetism is used in France
for running sewing machines. 1t is said
TO give very satisfactory results.
-Adela'ds Phillips took the place OF
Parepa st the opening OF Farwell Hall,
Chicago, the latter being prevented by
uGA AsAAttlApAG 2 S-rSANSAN'
london is to haVs neE weekly
called the AsiGtic, To be devoted to the
interests cf Great Britsin's Oriental pos
sessions.
Austin, Nevada, heard sleigh bells
lsst month for the first time ia its his
tory. The snow was made OF frozen
mud.
"A minister in Minnesota has been
presented with hair watch-gUaTd, every
lady in the congregation having plucked
out ons hair as contribution.
The Je,oi8h Times, a weekly of Round
Table size, is coon to be published by Mr..
Morris + linger, in the interest of the
Reform Synsgogues.
-Minnesota farmers are adopting live
fences, three to ave years giving q sufti-
cient growth Of cotton wood, gray will
low, white maple, and other trees.
Beethoven, the most careless of ma
estrOs once wrapped the score OF the
an old pair OF boots.
France owes debt of 81, 226, ,000, 900,
has a standing army Of $50 600 men, and
her annual expenditures in peace amount
to S5l5 00O, coo.
II chloroform be poured into liquor,
It combines with the alcohol, and the
water with which the liquor is sdulters-
ted betFsys Itself on top.
-Madsme Izors Elder made her debut
Thursday evening in the Boston Thea
ter as ZsTliuA, in Era Dlavolo." She
is poor singer, but good actress.
-Saroff 8 Russian composer of the
Wagner eGstnOl, has written an opera
called Bagneds, which has been favor
ably received at Moscow.
Among the articles on hand at the
dissolution OF the AleRandris (Vs.)
Freedmsn's Bureau were fifty cctfins,
which were kindly turned over to the
Mayor.
Mr.. J. r Osgooi, OF Fields, Osgood
). Co., is s. natural born publisher. He
is 5 man of education, Of business tact,
of fine taste, wide knowledge OF liters-
ture and liberal views.
- "A play dill for the first production of
Don Giovanni in Leipsie was lately sold.
1t commenced: Tonight will be given
Herrn Capellmeister Mozsrt's fine Sing
spiel, The Rake's Doom, or the Licen-
tiOus Don JUAN
There Is to be an Inauguration ball,
after all the talk to the contrary. At
least the LnteHigeRoer, the stsid organ OF
Washington Tespecta6ility, says so, and
that the ball will be managed by "eiti-
zens OF social position, without respect
to party"
Anton Rnbenstein, the greatest liv-
ing PIANIST, who Is now on his way TO
ths United s ates, Is passionate smoker.
L kra II and auanlrao NIty
Russian cigarettes. His recent tour
through Northern Germany was q con-
tinued ovation.
"A lectu er says that he assisted in the
post moTtum examination of a man who
died OF drunkenness, and from the cavi-
ties Of whose brain y tablespoonful ol
alcohol was collected, which burned
rspidly when touched by lighted
mstch,
The, Erie road is pushing on, its latest
acquisition being the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, which is to be
widenea to the six foot gusge, It is
promised that within year New York
and New Orleans will be connected by q
continuous wide guage road.
"A few days since, at country vii.
lsge in Georgia, Bishop Beck with, be-
fore officiating In negro church, put on
bis robes In the graveyard adjoining
While 10 the act he was spied by some OF
the negroes and taken for Ku Klux,
whereupon the whole crowd, men,
women and children, stRmpeded, leav.
ing The wondering Bishop withouta q con.
ersgstiOn.
Some years ago the city Of Augusta,
Msine, appreciatiDg the value OF mills
and factories rs means OF Increasing
trade and population, bought tract o.
land with water power, at cost OF about
4 $3.50 600, and presented it TO Senator
4 SpTague ss site for cotton mills. Three
years has given to Augusta mills run