Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-15

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a controlling interest in the French cable.
The New York Herald calls upon Ameri-
can capitalists to lay a cable, to be owned
and operated by Americans.
Ayoung lady spends a part Of each
evening wandering about the streets of
Newark, n. j., and writing upon the
pavement in bold letters in chalk, warn
ings to the impenitent.
A man in BOsque, Texas, whose son
had been shot by pure accident, by an
other man, went to church where the lat
ter was engaged in worship and shot both
him and his little girl beside.
An old farmer in Ohio having read
that the State cleared over $1,000 by the
'laborof the convicts, suddenly exclaimed,
81 think we had better turn our Legisla-
ture into a penitentiary, by jingo.h
A London witness having told the
Magistrate thai he was 4 penman, was
asked in what part of literature he
welded the pen, replied that he penned
sheep in Smithfield market.
The Massachusetts Legislature,
which has just adjourned, chartered
twelve new railroads, with an aggregate
capital of six millions and fifty dollars.
II also chartered twenty savings banks.
A Yankee who has arrived in San
Francisco, via the Pacific Railway, writes
home that the distance between that city
and Boston is equal to oil games of
uchre, LIS drinks and III cigars.
Sing-Sing is finely managed. Pris-
oners 90 out on passes to enjoy a drunken
spree on holidays, and lately cases have
been reported in which outrageous as
saults have been made by them on ladies
residing in the vicinity.
The Amador (CaI.) Ledger of the Sd
saws: Yesterday morning Giuseppe Brag-
nolia, a native of Italy, was killed in the
Amador Company's mine. He fell a dis
lance of one hundred feet and was in
stantly killed.
Officers recently dismissed from the
New York CustOmhOuse say 1t has been
a common occurrence to overcharge labor
items and pocket the difference. The
amount of the alleged fraud is nearly a
quarter of a million dollars.
An ivory tusk, six feet three inches
long and twenty-five and one-fonrth
inches in circumference, has recently
been exhumed in Montana. 1t was found
buried in the sand twenty-five feet below
the surface.
The AmadOr (CaI.) Ledger of the
Sd saws: On Monday last John Scandling
was killed in the Oneida mine by falling
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was alone, and it is supposed that he came
out of the drift for the purpose of getting
into the bucket and coming up TO dinner.
He fell about thirty feet, narrowly miss
ing two men who were at work in the bot
tom of the shaft where he landed. He
lived about six hours, but never spoke.
He was twenty-five years of age, a native
of Cornwall, England, and leaves an aged
mother who was dependent upon him for
a support, in Michigan.
The San Francisco Times of the 9Th
inst. says: Reports from the Indian cOun-
try state that the Indians are not satisfied
with the Quaker agents, whom they can
not make out. These reports are not au-
thenticated in any way, and it is quite
possible that they have been put in circu-
latiOn by some of the old Indian agents,
who are doubtless considerably chagrined
by the change in the policy of the Gov
eminent, and who would be glad to cast
discredit upon the new plan. The Qua
kers have not yet had a fair trial, and it is
therefore premature to condemn them.
If they prove as incapable as the agents
they superseded, il will be time enough
TO hand over the Indian problem TO the
Military Department.