Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-17

-Plttsburg is to have paid fire de-
psrtmert,
Virginia has q negro postmaster.
Letters alone.
Paris has subscribed about 5000 for
q statue to Voltaire.
-Pripoeton Seminary has one hundred
and three students.
In England, even the Queen has to
pay postage on letters.
They have discarded groomsmen at
! Virginia weddings.
There is over 500 900, 900 invested In
daiTies In this country.
The Mayor of Philadelphia Is MAX
ing war upon the gamblers.
The Troy and Lsnsingburg horse
railroad lost S22, 600 last year.
! There is a split In the Chicago Soro-
| sis, and committees are in vain.
-Elmira Female College has now an
/ endowment fund of 100000.
st. Joseph wants the Missouri State
Agricultural college locsted in that city.
"A late landslide in the Mount Gents
/ tunnel injured forty men, but killed none.
1t is said that the surface of Salt
Lske, Utah, is rising about Ons foot .
| year.
The total circulating medium Of
/ England is put by Mr.. Jevons at sl34,-
000,0C0
France promises to make speedy
payment of one instsllmsnt of the Mexi-
can debt.
"A Partisan makes living by selling
street dust, which he makes into knife
cleaning bricks.
The French mistress Of the Sultan is
ssid to bs the most powerful politician in
Turkey,
There are 5000 printing houses in The
United ) .ates, of which New York State
has All.
The chief of the Berlin police ap-
proves of the matrimonial bureaus in
the Prussian capital.
Nearly ali the Japan tes exported
comes to this country. Z lglish people
will not buy it.
Goodrich, Canada, is the salt of the
earth, and don't like 1t. All its wells are
sRyored.
"A firm In Boston has received an
order from China for 600 cases Of boots
and shoes.
Three tons CT cheese from twenty
two COWS 10 the alarming achievement
of a Maine dsirymsn.
It is said that Stewart has sold twen-
ty shAwls this season worth $1,000 each.
and one worth $4,000.
"A number OF wealthy Cubans are In
New Orleans with view OF investing ID
Louisiana sugar lands.
There are 40 600 specimens in the
geological aud mineralogical cabinets OF
Rochester University,
The Baptist Seminary at Newton,
Macs, has SIG alumni. Tnrty-nine COL
leges contributed students.
Rochester University has eight pro-
fessOr5 and one hundred and sixteen stu
dsnts.
Virginia don't care e fig as to foreign
competition, aud will next year drive
Smyrna from the market.
The Xantic river, at Norwich, Ct,
was filled with dead ducks last Saturday.
No Que can tell what killed them.
-Prussian coal mines yield one hun
dred and five million tons year, and
give employment to 27S 900 people.
The United States produced twenty
five millions worth of cheese and hun
dred millions of butter last year.
The merchants OF st. Louis expect
to save $400, 900 per annum by having a
freight agent at New York.
The wooden mills OF California used
four or five mllliOnipounds OF wool last
year, and those OF Oregon one million.
AT q trial in London o model of a
building so large that 1t nearly filed the
courtroom was introduced as evidence.
If Winnie Ream Ia right, Mrs. Ann
s. Stephens has made success in lob |
bying. Her son is nominated Consul TO |
Manchester,
of European sovereigns, hye are
bachelors, tRenty-six married, especially |
the Sultan, six widOwers, and one has
been Chicsgoizsd.
Some New Jersey people were lately |
surprised by cat jumping out of the red !
hot stove. It had cr6wled up the stove. /
pipe bsfOre the fire was made,
"A set Of American coins, struck in |
aluminium at the United States mint, for /
presentation TO the Bank of England, Is /
missing,
Wisconsin burglars used six five |
dollar greenbaoks for lights to break open /
a safe, and were rewarded with-thirty 1
cents.
-Scribner d Co., will publish early in |
March Max Mueller's "Chips from q /
German Workshop" from the second |
(revised) London edition.
"A young French countess, niece of
NJ. de Lesseps, OF Suez Canal fame, has |
lately been 50 foolish as to die OF fly |
bite on her nose.
-RDbert Dale Owen, past grand mas.
ter, will deliver an address st the Odd !
Fellow seni-centennial celebration al /
indianapolis, April 10Th.
Five or six Dick Turpins Ia Texas |
Waylaid o Mexican, and after fierce |
struggle succeeded IN rifing his pockets |
of everything be had. Total receipts, 0.
Miss Kellogg. cannot complain of
lack OF appreciation in Chicago. Four
evening concerts brought In Sl2. 600, and /
a matinee sWelled the total receipts TO
$l5, 900.
The number of students In Michigan
University is 1l14, of whom 442 are In
the classical department. The decrease
from last year is chiefly among the med
ical.
Gen. Adam Bsdeau, private secre-
tary to the President elect, Is busy on the
second and concluding volume of bis
" Military History of G n. Ulysses s.
Grant"
1t is said that the key to the Iron
Mask mystery has been communicated
ia sealed letter to the president Of the
Academy of Moral and Political Sci
ences, Paris.
The exhibitor and agent Of q patent
gas generator, at Toledo,
was blown ap by his own machine, in
the presence of q large audience, the
other day.
AN Indiana unfortunate has been
blown up three times. His first wife was
killed week after marriage by car
riage runaway; bis third wife fell into
well, and was not found for two weeks.
Gen. Grant told friend the other
lay that he had made up his Cabinet,
and had no objections to telling him
who its members were to be, but, said he,
= II should tell you, you would be as
much bored as am by impairment ques-
IONS"