Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-22
WITS OF ~ DIY.

There are four thousand pupils in
Nashville public schools.
All the Prisoners in the Hunting
don, Tenn, jail escaped last week.
The whole number Of volumes in
the Tennessee State Library is 1872.
Ice retails at two and a half cents
delivered in Nashville-rather steep.
The King Of Bavaria has been des-
cribed as an " amateur bug collector
The Empress Of Austria counts her
beads IN a rosary worth 5000 florins.
More horses are famed from bad
shoeing than from all other causes to-
gether.
One hundred bales ofcloth were for
warded from Lowell, Mass, on Monday,
direct TO China.
The Philadelphia carpenters held a
meeting Friday evening. TO fix a uniform
rate of wages, and agreed upon 50 50 per
day.
Hon. Ben. Wade has q life office as
Government Director of the Pacific Rail-
road-nOt a temporary ono as Commits
SiOner.
While some portions i'm the cotton
growing regions Of the South do not seem
10 have sustained any material injury,
others have not been similarly blest.
A man in Cairo, H., has invented
a spring TO be attached to the feet, by
means of which a person Is relieved Of the
labor of walking, to a great extent. He
claims his invention VIII enable o man to
walk ten miles per hour with ease.
Barron Timmoney, indicted for the
murder Of c.. {. Richardson. 40 Atlanta. q
so-called delegate Of the Georgia Consti-
tional Convention, from Baldwin county.
but hailing from Skowhegan, in the State
Of Maine, has been tried and acquitted.
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, has thirty-two
saw and shingle mill establishments,
which consume on an average 5.OO0.OOO feet
of logs each during the season. making an
aggregate OF 100, 600, 600 feet. The price of
logs per thousand feet viii be about two
dollars less than last year.
The crops look well near Baton
Rouge, La Despite all the untoward cir
cumstances that have DELAYED planting
operations, the crops Of cotton. corn. and
cane are all above ground, and the stand
generally promising. Planters have com
menced scraping out their cotton.
Many and able men have recently
come before the public, with arguments
for free trade; and now Horace Greeley is
once more coming out for protection. He
wants 90 show that he tries to eompre-
hend the re trade argument. Evil
dentIy THIS en- IS a new thing with him.
The remains of fifteen hundred
Confederate soldiers have been carefully
collected together from the battle-feIds
Of Franklin, Tenn. and reinforced in The
cemetery at Franklin, through the agency
and personal efforts of Miss Mary 4. ri.
Gay, OF Decatur, Ga. All honor 10 this
noble type Of Southern women.
In a case in which a policy of insu-
rance was issued through an agent. and
the person insured paid the preminm to
the agent but the agent never paid ID TO
h company, a New York court held that
the company must pay the policy. because
py delivery 10 the agent il had authorized
him TO receive the premium.
The Nashville Union and american
OF Thursday SAYS: "Quite q numerous
East, candidate for Chancellor, took place
AZ the markethOuse last night. Speeches
were made by H.. H.. Harrison. John Hugh
smith, Eugene Carey, f. II. East. d. W.
Peabody and others.
The Nashville Union d A0leySeao
Of Thursday saws: THE dele
CATION 70 the Radical State Convention
arrived in the city yesterday, in good
health and condition, physically. but
sadly out of fix IN point Of morals. The
delegation embraces q number Of colored
INDIVIDUALS, and is understood 10 be a
UNI on Stokes for Governor.
The New York Herald, of Tuesday.
says; By the suicide of a Radical politi-
can and correspondent at Atlanta, we get
q gAlnpse of the true character OF the ma
teri@i with which the Radical game Of re-
CONSTRUCTION Is played, and we find the
atmosphere nom which come the views of
me soclsi condition of the South taken
~ = hsuiedi press M~iseegenation is
'he least OF the Offences that appear.
Sambo has to fight his way. The
cisH rights bill c not take him into the
Printers Union; and 50 the printers
threaten 10 strike him out of the
Washington printing Offices. Wen. there |
is nothing that develops manhood like
fighting, and by the time the universal
niger has fought his way to the good
plaees he viii be fit to Gllthem. Let him
night il out.
The Indiana State Poard Of Agr;-
offer the folIovrino
the annua fair in 1870: Hrst n~ono+r
70 exceed TIVE hundred dolior 49,
best hye acres Of wheat grown in ~ Sa1
previous to the State Fair; second 49,
una, not exceeding one hundred an5
dollars, for the second best five acres. AMI
a third premium, not exceeding one bnn-
dred dollars, fer the best I'VE acres Of
As above.
In the Criminal Court Of st. Louis.
1n the l6fbiHst the prisoners recently in
By the grand jury, were arraigned
20 hear the charges against them. make /
heir pleas, and name their counsel. The