Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-02-12
THE NEWS.

Satrsp Reynolds is to be one Of the
Senators from Texas.
Nearly all Of the editors Of the New
York Times are Englishmen.
Detroit has passed an ordinance
abOlishing steam whistles.
1t is said that little cake dipped in
Sherry wine will restore the lost voice
OF a canary bird.
A ssgacious haberdssher in New
York has sent a box OF Byron collars
to Mrs. II. 3. Stowe.
The clerical estimates passed the
Spanish Cortes Friday afternoon after
astrenuous opposition.
Madam Anna Bishop, charging her
husband with in6delity, has asked the
New York courts for q divorce.
Alabama. Connecticut, Oregon, New
Hampshire. Rhode Island and Yer
mont elect Governors this year.
Miss Dix, the WOrld-renOwned phi
ianthrOpist, is sOjOurniUg in Nash
vile, the guest Of DR.. W. p. Jones.
An English coast steamer lately
burned one hundred pigs in order to
get into port, having exhausted her
coal.
FTG-er's lfoQGziHe for January comes
out with the name of John Anthony
Froude, the historian, on the title
page as editor.
Senator Trumbull remarked last
week that Congressional legislation,
so far, gave no indication Of reduc-
ton Of taxation.
The Iowa Legislature takes twenty
thrre daily papers for each member Of
the Senste, and twenty-five for each
member of the House.
General Peter 7. Washburn, Gov
ernor of Vermont, died at his home
Woodstock, Vt, at tour O'Clock Mon
day morning, the 7tb.
Verdi has sent = gift Of ten thou
sand fra6cs 70 the daughter OF the late
Signor Piave, who wrote the librett0s
of several of his best operas.
The Wilmington q. g. Post Of the
9Th excIaims: Alas! the poor peach
bloomsl The storm has harshiy torn
them from their abiding places"
Emigration homes have been estab-
Hshed in Hong Kong, China, an1 hun
dreds Of coolies are booking them
selves to come to this country.
7Se fact that United States Sens-
torshiD 5 an element OF the next New
Hsno1shire election, which takes place
In March, gives zest 10 the contest.
Mr.. Dalrymple, The great farmer Of
Minnesota. is said a. have made oGS
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
ci@r gain in three years of iarHing.
Mr. J.. c. White, Of Huntsville, Ala.
desires 70 revive the Tennessee Snd
Warrior River Railroads, TO connect
Tuscaloosa, Ala, and Paducah, KY.
A Boston magazine writer has gone
into the grocery business, saying that
the highest salary a good story writer
can get is Eve hundred dollars q year.
The Cincinnati Commercial is com
municstive. II announces that Gen.
Robert E. Lee i to be President ofthe
proposed Louisville and Chattanooga
Railroad.
Down in Maine the Legislature has
iust passed q law disfranChising pau
pers. Have paupers no rights that
Maine Is bound 10 re5pect2 How Is
<his, 0Ir. Sumner?
.vhe G0zatie ds France announces
that the Fenian chieftain Stephens,
who has been 8 refugee at Paris for q
couDla of wars, is sick and in a state
bordering on restitution.
DR.. G. w. BagS,v, on the 4th inst,
assumed the editorial chair OF the Pc
tershurg CVa.) Courier, in an intro
ductnrv of sixteen lines, which is
model for brevity and mOCesty.
The famous French actor, Pierre
Ievass0r. died recently, in Paris, NJ
the age Of sixty-twO years. lie per
formed with originality and success
in over two hundred characters.
Seven members OF the Ecumenical
Council have died since the gathering
OF that body in Rome. Titles and
lawn sleeves cannot stop the arrows
of the grim archer-Death.
Faveffs BIcllullin and other prom
inent Viryiniaus are arranging q Con-
Uressioual excursion to Richmond
next week. Gantlsuen Of both par
ties have promised 20 go.