Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-01-22
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/ -B0uccicault lS SAID n nave written
new version Of East Lynne for th
Paris stage.
-Fl0tow, the musical composer, wa
lately divorced from his sixth wife, i
order to marry her sister.
The street railroads Of Savannah
Ga, are to be finished by the middle G
next month.
Brigham Young's Office is directl.
connected by telegraph with every vii
Isge in Utah.
-GOv. Geary, Of Pennsylvania, las
year, received 1923 applications for par
don; l06 were granted.
in Florida, land is worth fifty cent
an scre, and a $500 house is as good as
$500 one st the North.
In PensscOls, Fla, fine red fish sci
at five cents apiece, and luscious oyster
at twenty-five cents per hundred.
The through frejght over the GeOr
gis Railroad this season is very heavy
employing three daily trains each way
"A new Lodge Of Odd Fellows wa
! instituted at Savannah, Ga, on Thurs
day night last. It is called Hsupt LOdgl
No. IS.
The Cuthbert (Ga.) appeal says tht
late vsr between the Southwestern and
Atlantic and Gulf Roads hss cost the
former 500, 200.
"A man by the name Of Garner, o.
respectable connections in Franklin
/ county, Tenn, was arrested last week il
/ Alabama, for horse stealing.
The Georgia Memorial Concert CIut
/ has met with q decided success It has
| been invited to give 8 series of concerts
st Montgomery, Ala.
1t is ssid that little or no regret, but
rather a contrary feeling, was manifested
in Virginia on account of the death ot
John Minor Botts.
AT 8 recent fire in Concord, q stream
Of water from s steam fire engine struck
the left eye Of fireman with such force
as to drive il out Of its socket.
The negroes implicated in the burn
ing Of the Tuscumbis (Als.) Seminary
have been tried, convicted and SEN
fenced to the penitentisry for seven
years.
The Boston Transcript says: We
apprehend that proof readers are the
only persons who read every word of
vOluminOUs public documents, and they
are paid for doing it."
AT late dinner party given by Gen.
Grant, Gen. Wickhsm, the exEebel, was
the chief guest. The Radicals "think
damn" and look damn and feel
" damn" but say nothing.
Rev. BAIL MsnIey, an eminent d.
vine Of the Baptist Church, and for
many years President Of the University
of Alabama, died recently at the resi-
denee Of his son in GreenVille, 5. q.
Mr.. ThOs. Carlyle has lately been
much occupied in revising the whole Of
his works, which will shortly be issued
in an entirely new edition by Messrs.
Chapman & Hall.
1t is reported that Miss Evans, aU-
thor Of st. Elmo, ETC., who was lately
msrried at Mobile, expects soon to bring
forth q romance, the idea Of which was
inspired on arising from her prayers.
The old aichymists devoted them-
selves to efforts st the trSBsm tation OF
metals, but the idea Of transmitting rags
into gold by the use Of legal ensctments
instead Of crucibles, retOrts, ETC., never
occurred to them.
Mr.. Dinah Muloch Craig, the author
Of John Halifax, Gentleman" is re-
ported to be busy with a new story, to
sppsar serially in MscMillan's Maya
zine, and to commence duEiDg the ensu-
ing spring.
1t is an interesting fact that Texas,
under the influence Of the direct trade
she now carries on with Mexico, has re-
sumed specie payments, and currency is
only known there as " arrangement
to be taken st Q discount to be agreed on.
The valuation OF the personal estate
in theseveral counties Of Pennsylvania,
taxable for State purposes, amounts to
S2O2 S29 Gal 40. The population Of the
State for 1868 is 92l ,046, and the num-
Der of tsxsbles 773,2SS.
The Boston Journal states authori-
tstively that Gen. Banks will not allow
the use Of his name for the speskership
Of the FOTty-first Congress, but that the
Massachusetts, delegation viii unani-
DOusly sustain the nomination Of Mr..
Dawes.
Prof. James Russell Lowell is TO
have an elaborate article on the present
aspect or National affairs in the new
number Of the North american ReVisl0.
the appearance of which is still delayed
by The care with which he scrutinizes his
proof.
"A man has died in Washington from
" "glsndeIs." He had driven a horse suf-
fering from that disease, and the ply
sicians, after 3 post mOrtem eXaminR-
ton, and several scientific experiments,
have decided that be caught it fr5m the
horse.
The Florida orange trees have been
partially killed by the frost. At Green
Cove Springs the lemon and lime trees
appear TO be killed. It is too early yet,
however, TO tell the full extent OF the
damage done. The trees on the east
bank, to al appearances, were not in-
jured.
An Omaha paper says that "the
scene last night at a mass Daeeting 10 the
Academy Of Music, in one Of the pas
ssges OF Mr.. Trains speech, where, on
bended knee, he took an oath to devote
his energies, fortune and life to making
Ireland free, beggars all descriptive
powers"
The House Committee on Public
Buildings has agreed to report bill to
grant the use of the rotunda Of the cap
itOl and the old house for the inaugura-
ton ball. Not over 500 persons can be
accommodated, and tickets will conse-
quently be put at high figure.
The Alonzo Hawes, who wrote from
st. Albans, VT, to the New York Sun
the sensational story about the son Of
Mrs. SigoUrney who was supposed to be
drowned but Is alive, turns out to be q
maniac. The whole yarn Is q fabrics-
tion, IS Mrs. Sigourney never lost 3 son
by drowning.
The Atlanta (Gs.) Coa8titlstiOl learns
that the trustees Of the Georgia State
Lottery have purchased the Pope
Place." containing about twenty acres,
situated within the corporate limits Of
that city, for the purpose OF erecting
thereon an asylum for tue worthy indi-
gent widows and Orphans OF that State.
Some Radical tOady has sent to Gen.
Grant 3 naean-spirited and fulsOme note,
aecompsnied with a pair OF boots. Pity
the boots can't be fitted to the broadest
part Of the gIver's person. No doubt he
will, ia case Grant shall deign to wear
than, be glad Of every opportunity to
black and lick them.
"A prisoner created q panic IN the
Cincinnati Workhouse a few days since,
by walking out Of his cell with his face
tswBy red end pitted 81 over, sppar-
emily with snail pox. He had pricked
his face, neck and shoulders with 6 nee
dle and applied croton oil, In the hopes
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