Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Iotta cave 5000 to the Cuba fund

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Lolita gave 5000 to the Cuba fund.
Anna Dickinson has amassed one
hundred thousand dollars.
Long Branch is now styled the sum
mer green room.
New Jersey is already smarting un-
der a mosquito raid.
1t will cost New York three millions
10 open Hell Gate.
The Methodists are to erect $500, 900
house in Boston.
The salt Lake Daily Telegraph is to
be removed to Ogden.
Sugar cane is being planted extern
sively in the Shenandoah Valley.
White pongee parasols are both
stylish and fashionable.
Watermelons, brought from South
Carolina, are in the New York markets.
House rents in New York have adj
vanced ffty-nine per cent. in fqur years
There is still two feet and a half Of
snow in The woods near Lewiston, Me.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is named
as a candidate for Mayor Of Savannah.
Jeter Phillips, the Virginia wife
murderer, has been again respited until
July 10.
The a throughout Maine Is gen
orally reported as being at least three
weeks earlier than last year.
Gen. Robt. E. Lee is a delegate to
the Virginia Protestant Episcopal Con-
y~ention.
james NJ. Mason, so long an exile
from his country, has returned 10 WIN
chester, Va, where he viii reside.
Mr.. Robert B. Roosevelt has bought
the entire property Of the New YORK
CitizeR-
The Empress Carlotta has written
the inscriptions for her husbands monu-
ment at Trieste.
Nearly four thousand persons starved
10 death in the great city of London lasI
wear.
There are strikes of workmen in
Holland, and some serious disorders have
taken place.
The number Of seals landed at St.
Johns, Newfoundland, thus far during
the season, is nearly 10000.
"L'homme qui Baille," the man
who yawns,'' is announced in Paris by a
reader of " L'homme qui Rit.'
In Italy, out of a population Of 24,-
100000, $50 Q 600 were so totally unedu-
Gated as to be unable to read or write.
Poppy raising and opium manufac-
ture is becoming an important branch OF
manufacture in some parts Of Vermont.
Bridal receptions at the conclusion
of the wedding at church are going ont OF
fashion, superseded by family ~dcjeURcTS.
The shoemakers' 5trike in New
York has endedinth the success Of the work
men, who VIII now he enabled 10 earn %
per day.
IsabelIa's head still ornaments
Spanish postage stamps. II gives her
rebeIlious subjects IN opportunity TO
punch il.
A meeting of imperialists," who
favor a constitutional monarchy has
been called in Washington for next Tues
day.
Libel suits against the press are
again at a discount. since Mr.. Jas. Fisk
iT., and Mr.. J.. r. Young have manifested
a~disposition to retire from theirs.
The beautiful grounds of the La
Clede Racing Association, near st. Louis
will be subdivided and sold at auction
about the middle of next month.
Auber, the composer, who is now il
his eighty-sixth year, IS falling rapidly
and his physicians doubt if he can livl
An Englishman has invented a ma
chine which he calls a dessiccator, BY
which hay can be made independently Q
sunshine aad in spite Of rain.
The Nashville onion and AmericGl
of Wednesday. announces the death o
James Grey, aged eighty-three years,
Scotchman by birth, and a resident Of tina
vicinity since 1870.
The so-called Maternal Association
of Paris, composed of aristocratic Iadie
thai have agreed to nurse their own chill
dren, numbers at present nearly two hun
dred members. a.. E g
1t has rained for several days pas
throughout the entire Pacific coast, an
IL still continued on Saturday. II j
thought considerable damage viii be don
to the crops. e
Perry Fuller comes to the rescue G
Perry Fuller's character. Probably No
BODY is better qualified 10 give eyidenc
on that subject, or less likely TO be bC
lieved, says The New York Tribune.
Don Piatt says that this back-doo
interference in appointments is shameful
Had Andy johnson dom any Of thes
acts that Grant openly admits the IN
parchment would have been q sueces
b Is an.
There are more stores to rent o
Broadway, New York, than was eve
known before at this season Of the yea
and there are more new buildings bein
erected onthe same t~horoughfare than d'
ring any other season.
The members of the Grand Arm
ofthe Repubic at Buffalo have decline
t0comply With ther Request Of certain Gle
m Of that city to change the day f
decorating the soldiers graves from SUI
day. the 30th inst, to some week day.
A solemn protest against what
STYLED the growing sin Of the destTuctio
bv parents before birth of their own OF
spring. and n1easures for correspondent,
with the seeded Southern Presbyterian
were the leading features Of the Satu
days session of the Old School Presbyt
rian Assembly.
The New York EraHHg Post OF Il
22d inst, says that ga verdict was rel
dered last night In the Hudson Count
Supreme Court, against the defendants
the suit OF Mrs. Garharf against the Err
Railway Company. Tn suit was brougl
TO recover damages FOR the loss Of WI
Carhart's life. He was Killed by the ri
ing wavof a trestIe work under the weig
of a locomotive al the EriedepOt at Jers'
City. The damages were assessed
$3.50.
The Fair Of the Tennessee AgTicu
tural aud Mechanical Association af Mas
Vile promises TO be a handsome affai
The BcsRerr Of Wednesday says: II
fair grounds viii be enclosed with a su
stantial fence within the next ten day