Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Spanish Sphynx.
Uncle Sam still owns 1000 900 acres
OF Iowa.
--One Portland hot-house sold 10000
roses Easter eve.
There are fourteen persons in Maine
under sentence of death.
Vermont has fewer foreigners than
any other State.
Jane Eyre has been republished in a
French translation at Constantinople.
"A Rochester man advertises lost
"pupn which weighs 100 pounds,
Punch says that the best check for
pauperism is one of George Peabody's.
The great German oculist, Won
Grsefe, has a professional income OF
$l5O, 600 year. ----.-rr ~
"A new knspsaek, in the form of o
gsme-bag, has been introduced into the
British army.
Ten per cent. of the population Of
the city of Mexico have bsen in prison
the past year. s.Es5 Ia
Russia has sent an entire salt ring"
to Siberia, with government official at
the head Of it.
Two English gentlemen, ons Of
whom is blind, are preparing concord
ance Of Keble's pOens.
Portable thres-room houses, 12x20,
are sold at Cleveland to emigrants for
$500, deliverable to order. fat
An Englishman has been fined e9
for annoying passengers by political
controversy in railway car.
The present crop of wheat in Aus
tralia is estimated at S6 600, 600 bushels,
of which twO-thirds can be exported.
An Italian translation OF that uu-
translatshle German poet, Heinrich
Heine, has been published in Milan.
The London Telegraph says that the
new Eoglish court dress Is copy Of the
favorite costume worn by George Wash
ington.
The Queen of Hanover is monoma-
MAC on the subject Of splrituslism, and
declares that God appears to her every
Friday.
"A poet genius named Worsley has
inscribed q work of his to "Gen. Robert
E Lee, the most stainless of modern
commanders and, except in fortune, the
greatest"
Mime. De Chaudron, of Mobile, the
earliest translator of the Muhibach nov
els, has translated, aIN Darby q Miller
will soon publish, De LsmOthe's lies
Fauchers de la Mort" {" The Rsspers Of
Death ny.
-MessTs. Hurst s Biackett have with
drawn from circulation Capt. Claytsa's
work, The Sunny South, as some pas
sSges in it appear to be an infringement
Of Mr.. O'Shea's Guide to Spain"
-SaIe's translation Of the Koran is
likely to be superseded by new rendi-
ton into Eoglish, with introduction,
well, London rector.
1T is understood that our new Consul
General at Havana, MIR. Plumb, has re-
ceived instructions to demand full and
entire satisfaction for all injuries sus.
tanned by American citiZ3n5 at the hands
of the Spaniards.
The case Of Frank Blair, jr., against
the St. Leuis u ection Commissioners,
regarding the Missouri test oath, which
1t was expected would be decided to-day
by the Supreme Court, was postponed
until October next. er
"A new volume OF DR.. Sprague's
Annals of the American Pulpit,n com.
prisiDg biographies of eminent minis
ters in the Lutheran, Reformed Dutch,
and several Presbyterian branches, is
published by Robert Carter q Bros.
The Supreme Court on Thursday
postponed decision in the legal tender
cases till October. The opinion is quite
general that majority OF the Court are
averse to the constitutioDality of the
legal tender acts, but fear that the effect
on business matters will be too sudden
TO render decision now.
The Dardanelle Ark transcript oI
Thursday says We have seldom expe.
Tieneed a keener psDg of sorrow than on
learning of the death of our esteemed
fellow-eitizen, Judge james NJ. Beard
He died on last Sunday, the 4.h inst, ol
pneumonia. He started to Clsrksviile,
johnson county, On business, and STOP
ping at night with relative, Mr.. era.
vens, on Shoal Creek, he wss taken SC
violently i'll that be was unable to be
moved, and died after q very short i'll.
ness of only few days.
-A;case has just been decided in the
Superior Court of New York which is ol
interest to those whose lives are insured.
1t appears that the plaintiffs hus-
hand had insured bis life for
$40 600, for the benefit of his wife,
but instesd OF paying the premiums
in cash, he gave his notes for them. The
policy had a marginal memorandum
that If any notes given for premiums
should not be paid, the policy should be
void. When the first note became Gue
the insured obtained an extension oi
time, and, before paying any note, died
The Insurance Company refused pay.
ment Of the policy. The Court found
however, in favor Of the plaintiff, main.
ly on the ground that the Insurance
Company had given receipt for the
premium notes as for cash.
The Portland tMe.) argus OF Friday
says: Among the passengers on the B Is'
ton boat which arrived here yesterday
morning was an old woman eighty. five
years of age, dressed in black and shak
ing with the infrmities Of age. She wa
| in charge of the City Marshal OF Gardi
neT, In this State, who was taking hel
back to that city. They left on tht
morning train oveT the Kennebeck road
The charge on which she was arrested
we learn, is that Of numbering her hus
band. Suspicious circumstances arose q
the time of his death and post morten
examination OF his body proved that b.
had been poisoned, but his wife had pre-
viOusly left the State. This was thl
fourth husband the woman has had, anC
In reviewing the circumstances of thei
several deaths confirms the belief tina
she had poisoned them all.