Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-07

| RaulS CALHeuEAl was SftI,SOf Z. 81.
Howell Cobb's widow has collected
on q life insurance policy of $4,000.
The Mississippi State University at
Oxford is in q very furnishing condi-
ton.
Rev. Joseph Harper, D. D., has been
elected President Of the University Of
Alabama.
-Liebig has received seven calls from
American colleges, two Of which be was
inclined to accept.
Springfield, Ind, has discharged its
entire police force for completely with
thieves.
AT Ottawa, Canada, the thermome-
ter was seventeen degrees below zero on
Friday night.
Domestic cats have gone wild in San
joaquin county, Cal, and sre making
CREST trouble.
1t is expected that more than q MIL
lion acres OF new prairie will be- broken
in Iowa this year.
"A patent for the manufacture OF
" artificial champagne" has been taken
out in London.
-Enameled brick of various colors
have been introduced in Cincinnati for
store fronts.
The earnings OF the Union Pacific
Railroad for 1865, are officially reported
at IS, COG, 65l 81.
Mobile is discussing the propriety of
having twenty-five ~velOcipedes for each
fire company.
There are nineteen lighthouses on
the Pacific coast, and it is proposed to
erect sixteen others.
An old Spanish law recently forbade
the Importation of books published out
of the country.
The NeW Budget, the Echo and the
ShGdOtC, are the latest newspaper enter
prises IN London.
Henry Reed, lately of the Cincin-
natl .EaqUjUer, has taken an editorial
place on the st. Louis Republican.
Wisconsin paid last year ten dollars
bounty for each of 1921 wildcats, 1874
lyDXes, and 24l wolves.
The Pope recently gave a fete at the
Vatican, at which the saloons were
crowded with ladies.
French citizsns of New Orleans
have subscribed t95 00G to the stock OF q
cotton mill to be erected there.
-AhE WSAOAC AGAtAAb Va gram 8A1dAAJ
raieed in New England wCuid not supply
its inhabitants six weeks.
Chicago claims to have the largest
b~reed-bakery in the world. 1t con-
sumed last year SO, 1853 barrels of -four.
The students at the College dorml-
tory, at Lexington, KY, use ITO gallons
of sweet milk per week.
John Stuart Mil takes the ground
that criminals should be allowed to tes-
tify in their own behalf.
The codicil to Rossini's will was
discovered between the leaves Of his ac-
count book OF daily expenses.
The Toronto Globe claims to hava
increased its daily circulation from 1852
to 16, 800 in the space of three months.
Five Of the best Partisan detectives
have their eagle eye on the Prince Inn
perial, and attend to no other business.
The Spanish Cortes meets on the
I5th-there will be 800 MOnsrchists, IS
Republicans, and 10 fusel o~il-lsts.
-Meyhofer, q Prussian inventor, has
constructed a Zundmesssrgewehr which
is superior to the acknowledgements.
Prof. Fiske, assisted by twelve stu
dents. has finished the arrangement of
the Cornell Library, upon Brunet's plan.
DR.. MeCosh and the Princeton Pro-
fessors petition Congress to aid them in
observing the coming solar eclipse.
-Lemuel II. Elliott, for 6S years, end
ing 1864, the executive office and stew
ard OF Brown University, died last week.
Several Professors Of University Col
lege, London, have expressed their will
ing to give courses Of lectures to ladies.
"A man in Adair county, Mo-, ha
been sent to the penitentisry for two
years for altering the mark IN a sheep.
The first marriage certificate issued
in Boston this year was to q negro who
contemplated marriage for the sixth
time.
Forty years ago a man could carry
the Southern mail from New York to
Jersey City. Now it requires eight four
horse teams.
In the department Of phiIology,
classical literature and agriculture, the
Cornell library is unexeelled in the
United States.
Lafayette College is organizing a
Scientific Department upon a money
foundation of $1,000 granted by A.
Pardee, Ed, of Hazleton.
-Evsnstown, Ill, gives SIS 900 worth
of land to the Northwestern University,
in connection with q first-elsss female
to be started.
In a French town q man was lately
tried for msnslaughter, having smooth
cred his wife by huggiDg her too raptu-
rously.
From twenty to thirty persons, no
matter what the weather, still battle
avarv panrnfnn IN thu % SDpnon tim l.,
Park.
Red Wing, Mimi, has a new journal
in the Swedish language called the Sc
Minnesota BIadet. The Roman
type is used.
"A new monthly magazine has been
in London entitled Under the
CsoaOn, ali its contributors being servsnt
OF the Crown.
"A Maine man sells his potatoes for
fifty cents q bushel, and no more, He
says the Lord told him that his crop
should never fail.
"A Lowell grocer was frightened the
other day by an appsrition from
Omaha, who wanted to pay 3 bill four
teen years old.
The Scientific American says the
dispatches sent by the Atlantic cable
telegraph from London to-day, arrive in
New York to morrow.
No stone or mark OF any kind is
placed by the grave of William Penn,
is in q little c~hurch-yard q few
miles from London.
The Mikado Of Japan is a youth of
sixteen, with q sensual and vacant coun-
teusnee, a hard head, and false eye, and
painted half way up the forehead.
Baron Segnier, Procureur Imperial
81 Toulouse, France, has resigned be-
cause the Government attempted to
him into judicial decisions adverse
10 the press. '