Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-17
MEMPHIS APPEAL
TUESDAY MORNING, : AUGUST II, 1853.
The NEWS.

Gen. Eben Swift has been appointed
Mayor Of Vicksburg.
Political affairs South are troubling
the RAIDS in Washington.
Secretary Fletcher is yet at his
home in Cleveland, Bradley county.
The last company of Tennessee
militia was mustered out at Nashvill on
Friday.
The drinking, smoking and chewing
of the laboring men in New YORK costs
them Sc, 10000 per annum
The merchants of Bowling Green,
Ky, are about to establish a Board OF
Trade.
Brigham Young and his wife r
having their portraits painted. They after
viii be done in q group.
The M~urfreesbOro fair commences
on Monday September 9th. The fair
grounds are within two miles of the geo
graphical center Of the State.
Hon. J. E. Rust, State Treasurer, is
in Washington upon business connected
with the dsfunct Tennessee National
Bank OF this city.
The Commissioner decides that
medicated bitters are not rectiied spirits,
and are not subject to the manufacturers
license and stamp tax.
The marriage robe worn by the
Princess Louisa ar Sweden, at her recent
marriage 10 the Prince Royal of Den
mark. was manufactured at Berlin, and
cost $4,000.
Many people think themselves per-
feCtly VirtuOus, because, being well-fed,
they have no temptation 10 vice. They
don't distinguish between virtue and
victuals.
Or. Albert P. Weaver, of Laramie,
Ill, Is quite a bigamist. Returns from
nine counties give him six wives, and the
balance CT the State to hear from. He is
in Jail in defzglt of $1,000 bail. Numerous
sympathizing feQales cheer his lonely cell
by their visits.
Rear Admiral Charles II. Davis, re-
Gently returned to the United States in the
United States steamer Guerrero, from the
command of the South Atlantic feet, has
been ordered to make arrangements for q
survey across the Isthmus of Darien, to
ascertain the propriety Of cutting a canal
across said Isthmus.
The saltwater Minn.) Republican
saws the Naein St. Croix boom has closed
business for Gwhile, and discharged 30
men. Over I55yS90, 600 feet of logs hav
been turned out OF :he boom during the
present season, leaving from 100000 to
5000, 900 feet Of logs still remaining in the
boom.
Commissioner DelanO has decided
that revenue stamps can not, under any
circumstance, be redeemed. A dealer in
tobacco applied for the privilege Of trans
ferring stamps from a lot of boxes, the
contents of which had been rendered
worthless. The request was denied under
the above decision.
Every year almost, the long sought
perfect type-setting machine is invented.
Gbe latest is the invention of a mar in
HaLRigh, y. C., and it is approved by Mr..
SeatGA Gales and Gov. Holden, who as
SeTt thes belief in its practieability.
The name % the new instrument, which
IS called The Wild-Goose Type-setting
Machine excltes suspicion, but the in
ventcr IS sanguIne, and he promises to |
furnish forthwith an accompanying type |
distributor, the machine rst to cost more
than 500.
There is a gentleman in New Al
bauy, Ind, father Of several children, |
WhO is 50 polite that his wife has not seen
MIN in his shirt sleeves for twelve years.
de always remains in has room until he /
IS arrsYed in fun dress, and none of his
family have ever seen him in diShdbiIe.
The Tampa (FlOrida) P~eninslIdr
says: There will be more cotton raised in
this section this year than ever before. /
Persons who have planted the Mexican
cotton say that il produces more and does |
better here than the Sea Island.
The recent exhibition of textile fab
rics in Cincinnati, il is stated, shows that
the South is largely extending its cotton
manufactures. According to the latest
reports Georgia has forty-seyen cotton
mills; South Carolina, forty: Missouri.
twenty-seve1; Alabama. eleven; Tonnes
see forty; and there are also many mills
in North Carolina and South Carolina.
The product generally is fine shifting and
sheetlng, and the specimens exhibited at
Cincinnati compared favorably with the
goods from the New England m~anufacto-
ries.
The following figures give the
amount Of land entered through the Sioux
City Land Office for the quarter ending
June 3Oth: Entered by warrants, 24.Os0
acres entered by college scrip. 32,O43;
sold for cash, ls4,0f5; homesteaded, 1926;
pre-empted. l2l,930; making a total Of
1924 acres. The number of pre-emn-
lions and homesteads was 2l4I. Tie
amount received was S295.s SO 70. The
1924 acres taken up in three months
time for farms, divided up into so acre
tracts, VIII d 5492 farmers 10 the State:
equal to 2 1890 new inhabitants.
After a variety of experiments bv
the authorities of Gothenburg, Sweden, a
uAcLAoA HAS DIGn LII upon winch rs /
thought to promise good results. A re-
formation society Of gentlemen has OBJ
tanned entire control Of the traffic in spir-
its in the city, under an agreement to ap-
ply the whole Of the profits above expen-
ses for the benefit of the poor. The socie-
~ has reduced the number of licensed
houses 10 less than forty, one-third Of the
former number, and has bound the pro-
prietors TO sell only al fixed prices, giving
q profit Of only one and a half PEI cent,
with obligations 20 keep a supplyof all
harmless drinks, including beer, at what
ever profits they could command, thus
making IL the interest of the yenders to
sen these drinks instead of liquors. The
enect mas been an almost entire cessation
of drunkenness.
The Nicksburg Herald saws: There
is no longer much doubt thai AndreU
70 Will pe sent TO the United States
Senate from Tennessee. We All l-now
what amount of affection he enfertains
for President Grant and how vulnerable
the President has made himself for as-
sault. In Massachusetts, Butler is labor
ing ~assiduously TO have Wilson set aside
and himself sent to the United States
senate from that State. Buffers bosom
Is not bubbling over with brotherly az
lection for the Military Hero who a bot
tied - him up. and hence we may antici-
pate that Gen. Grant viii be soundly has
tinadoed by both of these gentlemen.
They hate each other as cordially as they