Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-08
HEMPHHS APPEAL
TUESDAY MORNING, 90: JUNE 8, 1869.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
The proprietor of the Sadowa farm
holds it at a tremendous price.
Passage from Calais to Dover is two
dollars, but Wales was charged $3.50.
Mint julep is known in Paris as the
grog Americana dUr fines herbeS,
The Catholic Publication Society has
printed 597, 900 tracts during the past
year.
Frank Drake has been sent to the
insane asvlum of Iowa, for trying to get
up a religious phrenology."
Minnesota is Overrun with agents
Of wheat buyers, who are engaged in buy
ing up all the wheat they can get hold of.
The big Prince of the little State of
Monaco has banished a French poet - for
having meddled with the affairs OF State
and caused trouble in the cOuntryT'
The Maternal Association of Paris
is composed Of aristocratic ladies who
have agreed to nurse their own children.
1t numbers at present nearly 200 members.
Flowtow, the celebrated German
composer, has applied for a divorce from
his second wife. She is asister of his first
wife, from whom he was divorced.
Of the forty-twO distilleries in the
CLALu hEukuChA DlSLElCL. Twelve have
ceased operations for the season since the
LIST of May.
The vote upon the question Of "Lay
Delegates /" in the Methodist Episcopal
Church is being taken all over the coun-
try. A vast majority Of the membership
favor the change.
Plus the Ninth, it is said, Is en-
ploying an Italian G%tteTdtelr for the pur-
pose of writing "reminiscences from his
early life. The Pope dictates to him
often for two or three hours daily.
The quantity of wheat sent from
Russia TO England increases every year,
England draws moro wheat from Russia
than from any other country; more even
than from the United States.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad Com
pany have ordered &c new engines, $50
freight cars, and 1909 tons of new rails, |
preparatory to the change to the narrow
gauge, which viii be made in June.
The conservatory of the Austrian
Embassy in Paris is a perfect marvel of
beauty. A statue Of Baechus and a bust
Of Apollo have been added to its artistic
decorations. and the rare eNOtics ii con-
ain are now in full bloom.
A member of the Nova Scotia Par
lament speaks of I" Annexation or Star
vation" as the policy of the United States
"AAL NACANuN W DAlAAoAa -AAllEA4ids lt /
annexation resolutions had not yet come
up in that body.
The June number Of the OreyZdRdl
Monthly was sent from San Francisco by
the through railway; the Nav number
came by the old route: and the two
reached New York within three DAYS of
each other.
The Sacramento Bee says that {" the
new industry called sericulture promises
10 be quite extensive and remuuerative
this season. Many large mulberry plan
tations nave been set out. and there are
supposed to be an abundance of silkwOrm
eggs on hand for present needs"
Mrs. j. HallOck, the wifeOfaworthy
and esteemed farmer of Worthwhile, s. L.
eloped a few nights ago with StiIlwell
Raynor, a man in her husbands employ.
leaving behind her several small children.
70 whom she always appeared fundly at
tached.
Work has begun on the hotel and
station of the Mount Washington Rail
way in the White Mountains. Work on
the road viii not begin until June. Only
800 feet OF the road remains TO be built. |
and by July cars Will run from the foot to !
the summit. |,
A gentleman named Mitchell ar
rived in Bangor Monday evening. who
left Hong Kong on the I'd of MAY, hay
lng made the paTsge in the unpreceden- ]
TED time Of t~t1efs4aiR ddySg He made +,
the trip from San Francisco to New York !
IN SIX days. and reports the road 10 be in {
good condition. Z
1t is stated that the Emperor Napo- :
leon has set the stvie of "a ~one-buttoned :
vest, = whatever that may be. If the let l
ter Of our friend and townsman. Menken.
an extract Of which we published vester-
day, is trne, Nap. may soon thank God if 1
he has avest left on1ghieh to put a but
ton.
Mr.. d. Swigert has sold his fine :
race horse, King Tom, to Mr.. A. L. Chap )
lin, Of Detroit. King Tom was by Lex
lngton, and won for his owner two races Z
this spring. He will, most probably. be :
heard Of again on he turf, for there is q
great mettie in him. Is
The business Of the Denver. COLL
mint, for the first four months of 1865.
l32 bars Of gold, worth SSAsjO II.
in 1869, 39l bars, WORTH 249.7OG SIAN {
Increase Of 259 bars, worth Sl64,S $50 90, orl 7
200 per cent. IT is said S7GOO0 of L
this was from New Mexico. a
At Enterprise, Iowa, the other day. a
woman entered a beersh0p where her G
husband was, and with a substantial piece
board padded him into the street. As q
they proceeded bOmewards she continued I
20 ply the lumber industriously, and par :
.icularly emphatic was the last whack she 0
gave him as he disappeared e the v
threshold. .
White men cannot vote in Rhode =
ISLAND unless they are possessed of one =
hundred and thirtv-four dollars worth Of Z
estate, yet at the next session of the 2
legislature the Radicals win adopt the
XVIII Amendment, by which an the II
worthless negroes in the State can nut 10
heir vote in the ballot box. They hka q
but despise "poorwhi trash." q
Judge Brady, of New York, decided IL
asst week, that a gas company has no legal a.
light TO threaten the removal Of meter y
T 10 cut of the gas supply ola house in IL
rider to enforce the payment OF a claim
py the consumer; and that mon ~
y paid under such circumstances could :,
'e recovered IN the courts. 4sa GCs Pl
concert Hall, st the corner of Court OF
hanover streets, Boston, now about pl
o De partially demolished. was erected !.
D l756, and is perhaps the Oldest building W
evoted 10 public entertainments i'm the III
United States. For many years II was =.
he most popular place of resort in Boston "
,r dancing assemblies, public dinners.
aucuses, club meetings, and exhibitions :,
{ varions kinds l LTut1i las es1
N. Lespian reports to tho French .
cademy that he ~inoeulated himself, last "
ctober with the gay matter from the di
lngs Of a c~onsumptiye patient, just dead nc
the hospital of G~ros-Caiilon. The haz- Pt
'dous experimept vas made to satisfy 81