Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-03
SHORT PARAGRAPHS.


\ Counterfeit legal revenue stamps are
in circulation.
The Richmond, Virginia, theater
sold for s34. 900.
The dealers Of Boston have advanced
! the price of coal to Sl0.50 per ton.
: The Washingtonians are to have a
e new opera-house, costing S350,000.
The Maryland State Agricultural
, Fair, at Baltimore, is well attended.
? John Barkboltz took the lager beer
| premium at the Tennessee State Fair.
Our new Minister to China, It. f.
! Low, OF California, has arrived i'll
, Washington.
5 A colored attorney and a former
English barrister are at loggerheads
in Nashville.
Ex-Marshal Barlow's successor, Mr..
t Samuel r. Harlowe, was inducted
t into office on Thursday.
: The tobacco crop of Bay county,
Mo-, has all been saved. The yield is
light, but of excellent quality.
, The Queen of Prussia orders $500 to
every woman in the kingdom that
has given birth to twelve children.
United States seamen are hereafter
,, to be allowed to draw one-fifth of the
pay due them at the end of each
month.
Andrew Henry Smith, son of Gen.
Smith, of New Hope, Ala, committed
suicide on Thursday by cutting his
throat with a razor.
Rishop Green, of Mississippi, is
lying i'll at the residence of a friend at
Lynchburg, Va He is not able to
return to his diocese.
There is a revolution In progress in
the Mormon Church, the MOrmOns
only waiting for Brigham to die to
carry out their concerted measures.
The Government holds that no arm
ed and equipped war vessel, sailing
under the flag of an unrecognized ma
ton, has no right to remain in our
ports.
George Fogle, who lived near st.
Joseph, Missouri, died few days ago
of neglect and starvation, and was
buried by his afiectionate sons in the
cOrnfield.
, Emigrants from Holland, Denmark,
, and other European countries, are
constantly passing through Richmond
: en- route for Southwestern Virginia or
points further South.
Queen Victoria expects next sum-
mer to visit Ireland officially and pub
liely. In her published diary she
gives some rather entertaining ac-
counts Of her first visit there.
Parepa- Rosa is meeting with her
usual success in Chicago, where she
has appeared in Mariana" The
Chicago papers give full column ac-
counts of tire features OF her perform
anGe.
A freedman's theological seminary
has been founded in Richmond under
the name Of Colver Institute, and has
above forty students. 1t Is under the
patronage of the American Baptist
Home Missionary Society.
Alexandria, Virginia, with pOpu-
lation of $4,000, has not single pub
lie billiard table or ten-pin alley.
Roulette and faro are unknown, and
keno, too, is a thing of the past.
What city in the country can present
as clean a record?
The epidemic called hog-cholera is
raging in thenorthern part of Mont
gomery county, Ohio. Still slOp-fed
swine are principally affected. The
distilleFy 1T Salem lost two hundred.
Others have lost scores. There is no
remedy.
st. Domingo correspondence of Oc-
tOber 10Th states that Gen. BabcOck is
stitl there gathering statistics and
holding iong interviews Eith Presi-
dent BaeZ, which lead TO the infer
ence that annexation to the United
States is under consideration.
The Nashville DemoArat and the
Stats Zeitu9g have been consolidated,
making the biggest Conservative
German team in Tennessee. Gen.
{ 'tfauerlicht Richard Papendleck and
DR.. A. Jourtlan are the head Of this
monopoly" :
I.esseps is the latest person accused
/ of plagiarism, for il is now claimed
that the entire idea of the suez Canal, I
even to the details of the plan, was
I communicated to him by French
man named Eniantin, who died in /.
1864, a simple clerk in railway Office. /
( This Enantin was known as one of
the leaders of the St. Simonians.
A Kentucky Judge addressed John
/ C. Bfecltinsioas as GENERAL, I" where !
/ upon he suggested that all military .
titles be dropped in the courtroom. I
This very sensible suggestion could be .
/ protitably extended outside of the .
courtroom and all over the country. /
/ We have entirely too many titles for 4
Democratic people.
/ Davidson College, North Carolina,
! has recently purchased the valuable F..
Brumby cabinets OF minerals, shells,
and geological specimens, and elected .
Col. Wm, j, Martin, OF Columbia, /
! Tenn, 10 take charge of them, aud Of
the chemical and botanical chair. He
formerly held a position in the Univer-
sity of Alabama in its palmy days.
Davidson College is now in flourish
ing condition.
Mr.. Wade, English Charge DAT
iaiFs, who succeeded Mr.. Allc0ck in
China, is reported 10 baye said re,
Gently that J. Ross Browne was in
error in stating that the Chinese had
made no progress. They had recently
established q foreign office, and pro-
vided for the education of youth
abroad, and this, with the appoint
ment Of Mr.. Burlingane's mission,
indicated considerable progress. Mr..
Wade thinks all Mr.. Burlingame's
treaties viii bg ratified
When a French telegraph company
asked the privilege of landing one end
2cif their cable ON our shores we
thought the opposition which was
MADE nasrqW and wrong. We con-
less il did not pceuE 10 rs that. having
secured this privilege for themselves,
these Frenchmen would turn around
and move their Government 10 refuse
. similar privilege to an American
company to land one end Of ii cable on
the French coast, ettbis appears to
be the case, from q pubiisHed HfTGc-
rial of Americans engaged in prepar-
ing a cable to be laid between America
and France. The French Minister OF i
the Interior. 1t seems, replied to the
application of the Americans for adj
mission for their cable TO the French
shore, by the information that the
French company have a monopoly for
twenty years, which must exclude the
American c4Al2, We do not hear /
that Secretary Fish has made anv re- (
ply to the American memorial setting
forth these facts; but the fittest reply
would be to order the FrsncA Iine !
away from DuYbury, until the French
monOpolists learn, by experience, a
little decency. {
Some curious statistics have lately
been published concerning married
men at college, which would seem to
show that the law which forbids
young men who have entered upon
the state of matrimony from entering
our universities in a large measure