Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-22
II NEWS.

Wiusrd's Hotel, at Washington, IS in
the market at $4,000 rent.
In New York real estate has declined
so rapidly a. to excite panic.
Charleston, 5. C., with q population Of
5000, has eleven steam IRE engines.
A great many German immigrants are
settling in Georgia. along the lireOf the
Macon and Brunswick railroad.
New Workers boarded over SD, Co., 900
in gold which they bought at varying
prices, between 80 and 2J0, and are stil
holding it for a rise.
There is q very strong desire among
many Of the farmers Of the Eastern and
Western States to work their lands on
the principle OF cooperation.
A box Of sIyer belonging to R. L. Da-
Wis, Of Savannah, supposed to have been
takenb by Sherman's men, was found in a
negro cabin among a pile Of rubbish.
a telegram from Hong Kong states
that the Suuda ran down and sunk the
German ship Garry and Jane, of the
coast OF Japan No particulars are given.
The lions purchased by Nj. Howe, the
&LLEAs AAa4H a. a AAeA u ML1HAAeH WIZ tAAA
at auction in Cincinnati last week for
$500. Mr.. A. Henderson was the bidder.
AboutsJ05 b~eer-houses have been closed
throughout the United Kingdom by a
stringent amendment in the excise law,
and it is seriously contemplated TO pre-
vent Sunday selling altogether.
The Ellsworth Me- 4meriean has had a
visit from a woman in that vicinity who
served in the army two years, dressed in
male attire. She has resumed female ha-
bilimengs, though she uses tobacco.
A new illustration of the great social
revolution now under way, comes from
an Iowa town, where the ladies announce
a d" love-msking and mste-choosing meet
ing, admission twenty cents per head.
The old battlefield, four miles below
the city, says the Newbern N. c. Times,
is being transformed into a vineyard, and
IL q few years is products viii be as
profitable as they were terrible a few
years ago.
The London Saturday ReUieW has an
other editorial on the subject Of the
"~Shrieking SisterhoOd,' ridiculiRg the
tendencies Of American women, but dis
tinguishing, however, between the unde-
mOnstrative, benevolent and mere social
theories.
An association Of women in Hartford,
Conn, who support missions in Mexico,
held their annual meeting last week.
They have fifteen lsborers under their
direction, and eight churches have been
formed, with about three hundred Next
can converts.
The alta Californian says that some
California sugar beets sent to Wisconsin,
and worked up there, yielded twelve per
cent. Of saecharine matter. OF this eight
per cent was sugar. and four per cent.
matter which would not crystalizs, but
make good syrup.
An extraordinary religious revival is
nos in progress in RondOUt, New York,
10 the Baptist church. Five hundred and
my have already been forward for prayers
and over four hundred have united with
the church on probation. This Is the result
Of about three months work.
Spotted fever prevails to an alarming
extent iu Dayiess county, Indiana, and
many deaths are occurring. Out Of a
school of ~thirty-6ve scholars at Mt. Zion
school house, in the German settlement.
thirteen Of the pupils, all of them girls.
died Of the disease in two weeks.
Two boys recently attempted to escape
from the reform school at Manchester, n.
H, by descending from a fourth-story
window by a rope made from bed-c!oth-
ing. The rope broke, and one boy broke
bis Leg, while the other hung to a window
sill until rescued by the Waterman.
A Massachusetts, paper says: zone Of
the queerest passages ever put in a town
report may be found in that Of the last
annual Of the Greenfield selectmen. They
announce that the town farm and aims
house have been carried on the past wear
10 u reasonable satisfaction. Especially
the ~almshouse, at which there has teen
al unusual amount Of sickness and three
Deaths"
The Columbus tGa.) Sun says its Gaor-
gia exchanges give accounts Of damages
by the late rain. With the exception Of
the Macon and Augusta road, the rail-
roads escaped serious damage. Farm ne
lands, bridges and mill dams suffered
greatly. The bridge CT the Macon and
Augusta road, over the river, near Macon.
was destroyed, and the contractors.
wilkins & Flournoy, lost some
$4,000.
The Kansas Pacific Railroad will reach
the new town Kit Carson about the 18th
instant. Already q population Of nine
hundred persons has congregated at rhe
pew terminus, actively engaged in build