Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-04
THE NEWS.

The Emperor Napoleon hates poetry.
Citizens Of Memphis don't vote for Col.
Sam. P. Walker.
Hon. V. NJ. Willard died in Racine,
Wisconsin, Dec. IL.
Napoleon III now goes to bed every
evening at 10 O'Clock.
Advice TO voters of Nelnphis-Vote for
John johnson for Mayor.
Fon dU Lac, Wis, claims the largest
sash and door factory in the world.
One farmer in Jackson county, Wis,
has sold 5000 wOr.h Of hogs this season.
Tom Allen declines to 90 TO New York
10 make arrangements 70 fight Jim Mace.
Equerry Vandini is said 10 be the father
of the babe of ex-QUeen Mary Of Naples.
The Fredericksburg VA Home Herald
reports sales Of real estate aggregating
$50 eco.
New Zealand offers $3.50, 600 per annum
for a monthly line Of steamers to San
Francisco.
During the past year, 723 divorce suits
were brought ia Chicago courts, and 495
DEGREES obtained.
A New York chemist says the peculiar
flavor found in some cigars is due to the
presence Of prussic acid.
They say in Berlin that King William
i e4tleE aC-sU tlAl4 Us CT sutfJs sUlU hS DA5A
money TO deserted mistTssses.
The ex aud the ne wly-appointed Gov
ernOrs OF Washington Territory, Gems.
Flanders and Solomons, are in Washing
ton.
Receipts at Milwaukee OF wheat, and
-four reduced to wheat, for 1868, foot up
nearly 2-,0J0O 900 bushels. Shipments,
2J,COJ, coo bushels.
The annual report of the Board Of
Health Of New York shows there are
2O,0JO tenement houses in that city, occu-
pied by 1000 persons.
The earnings of the Union Pacific Rail-
road for November We're S7I4, ,Ss5 u, a de-
crease since October OF over S}40. COO. The
expenses were nearly $500, 600.
Lorenzo de Angels, a well-known New
Yorker, for many years Deputy L. S. Mar
shal, was found dead in his bed on Mon
Gay morning last. Cause, ''periearditis."
A negro girl, fourteen years Of age, is
under arrest in Salisbury, Md, charged
with killing an infant intrusted to her
care, by giving II kerosene oil in its milk.
One of the Boston street cars has cords
attached 10 the bells, and running along
each side Of the car just above the heads
of the passengers, so that any one can
easily ring the bell without rising.
Tie New York Tribune has declared
another dividend Of 500 a share. making
1880 a share for the entire year. The
shares are now held at $4,000 apiece-an
advance Of S4O0O during the past three
years.
The annual statement of the fire de-
partment OF Chicago Tor 1869, shows that
there have been $50 fires and c. Eaise
alarms. The losses amount in the aggre-
gate 70 Sl,osi,174, and the insurance 10
S737 ,6g7.
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the performance Of "The OctOrOOn" al
Biddle's theatre last Thursday evening" |
Edwin Clifford, the tragedian, was acci-
dentdly shot by suPe, and injured so
seriously that the perfOi nance was broken [
up for the evening.
The public are warned by the Comp I
troller Of the Currency 10 reject all fifty /
and one hundred dollar bills Of the First .
National Bank Of Jersey City, of which T.
some Sl2. 900 OF unsigned impressions were /
stolen from the bureau in April, 1907. 1
The bank viii, however, redeem all such /
notes.
n. The Boston Advertiser announces that /
Temples comet Comet III. 1863, was Oh /
served at the observatory of Harvard Col (
lege a. follows: Time, December 24-mid- 4
night. X. A, plus = s.. DAILY motion /
in December, plus g o.. Description:
Faint, diameter Two minutes, round, grad 1
ually much brighter in the middle.
As E1on. HoratiO Seymour was driving
froufFCtiea TO his residence in Deerfield,
nj y, Wednesday evening, his horses be-
came frightened and after they had run
short distance be was thrown from the
carriage, dislocating his shoulder. He
passed the night IN mucn pain, but was
better yesterday.
According to a recent statement in a
New York paper Hamilton Fish didn't
Co, Hrre fhprcuraI 4 ]
for the position Of Secretary OF State. II
this be true, il is certainly very creditable
10 the unselfish patriotism of the Presi-
dent, for he could easily have sold the
place for much more.
A curious phenomenon has lately been
observed in Germany. Some weeks ago
an opening was observed in the earth. OF
q chain of hills near Mergentheim. IL has e
gradually increased in extent, assuming
the form of long fissure, about five feet
in breadth, with perpendicular sides, and
Of great depth, estimated at four hun
dred feet.
New York is decided a "free city,"
AIavor Hall, in his New England dinner
speech. thus sets forth the freedom that
the citizens OF that metropolis enjoy:
"Hore YOU enjoy exclusive freedom--free-
dom IN newspaper abuse, freedom -
gamble in Wall street, freedom in mar
riage, freedom in divorce, free lager, free
fights, free voting, free love-"
Il has leaked out that the return Of
Graut's biographeF, Gen. Badeau, from
England several weeks since, and his sub
seeuent assignment to military duty by
the President in Washington. was oeca-
stoned by slight personal difference be-
tweap him and Mr.. Motley. which rem
dersd his further continuance rs Secretary
OF Legation az London unpleasant.
The PostTnaster-G General of the Domin-
ion of Canada offers TO carry the United
states mail to the English ports from
Portland. Me-, for the ocean postage OF
1 uo cents on each letter, under tho new
treaty. II this otier Is accepted the time
Tor fhs transportation Of the English