Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-24
THE NEWS.

The sum raised for Mrs. Stanton now
amounts to S15,OOO.
Brooklyn is to be deprived Of lis "main-
stay OF support-the Navy Yard.
The New Jersey policemen have taken
70 clubbing and shooting each other.
Beast Butler sang "Shoo Fly" at a
Washington party a few nights since.
Mrs. Scott Siddons is pleasing the citi-
zens OF ST. Louis at Debar's Opera House.
A defender Of corporeal punishment in
Boston says that a switch in time
nine.
The Southern Baptist Convention meets
at Louisville, KY, Thursday, the 5th Of
Nay neI
Ars. T. B. Reynolds, widow of the late
editor and proprietor, is now conducting
the Athens Ala Post.
Colonel John A. Gardener, OF Weakley
county, Tenn, is named as a probable
candidate for the Supreme Bench.
Jacob Wiies, Of Funkstown, Franklin
county, Pa, shot recently a bald eagle,
measuring seven feet across the wings.
Rev. John H. Wagner, Of Lancaster, Pa,
= minister Of the Reformed Church, has
submitted himselfto the Catholic Church.
General VIM. McCrse, of North Caro-.
Inns, has accepted the position Of Super
intendent Of the Macon and Brunswick
road.
The Georgia Baptist State Convention
holds its next annual meeting at New
nan, Ga, commencing Friday, April
22nd.
The most successful and accomplished
pick-pockst in New York is a pretty
woman, well known 70 the police as Lit
tie Lou.
Paris newspaper is said to have hired
Dumas, the elder, as its travelling " inter
viewing reporter, on a salary Of $4,000
a year.
Hon. W. F. De Saussure, an eminent
lawyer Of South Carolina, and formerly
3 member Of Congress, died on the 18th
instant.
The London railroads have st length
adopted q contrivsnce by which a passen-
ger may communicate with a brakeman
and stop a train.
A coneer given at Paris lately, in aid
Of the Italian Society was noticeable for
the production Of three Of Rossini's IN
published works.
A merchant prince who has been and is
yet q liberal patron Of the newspapers,
writes that advertising is the financial
railway to success"
Mr.. Joseph jefferson, the comedian, ar
rived in Washington City on Thursday
night. he has not yet entirely recovered
from his recent illness.
Jesse Num- was shot and killed by
Alexander Evans, near Charlottesville,
Georgia, on Sunday last. Il was the cul-
minstion OF al old grudge.
The Radicals, in and out Of Congress
black and white-in Washington, are nov
ing heaven and earth to accomplish the
reconstruction Of Tennessee.
Queen Isabella Of Spain is about to sub
mit her conjugsl differences to the arbi-
trstioR Of q tribunal. What a feast Of
scsndsl Is before hat tribunsl2
Keene, New Hampshire, elected TO the
State Legislature, at the recent election,
General James Wilson, whom It elected
10 the same Office forty-hve years age.
A new telegraph line has been erected
along the line OF the Evansville, Hender-
son and Nashville road, as far as Hop
kinsville, by Superintendent Geo. Teal.
Mr.. Charles Dickens "hnsl farewell
reading' in London took place last Tues
The selections were ''The Christmas
and "The Trial Scene" from Pick
DR.. John Ready Relief Railway died
n New York city on the 14th inst, Of CON
iumption. He was born in England, in
.s24, and came to this country In his sixth
rear. s
The members Of the Cla-Ksvile TENN 3
Board of Trade are to hSsA : meeting r
thursday night, for the purpose Of con- {
the propriety Of holding a tobac- [
falr~at that place. {
The Huntsville (Ala.) Democrat says the !
weather is clear and much milder to-day.
he fruit blooms are not destroyed, but {
ONE OF them were nipped. Enough are ;
n for & good harvest, If we have NO more c
-ost. 8
The drapery shout the atari in st. Johns d
hurch, Albany, n. Y. accidentally Il
~ AAANag AASnts A , b
reducing q panic IN the congregation, n
uring which two OF three ladies were in n
lred. Tbs damage by fire was slight.
This Is the way they expatiate on tri- 81
nphs in Lima. The prima donna Of the Is
Pers, signora Marchetti, has Just hadher b,
snshts. Her admirers decorated the n,
reefs all the way from her house TO the at