Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-23
THE NEWS.


They have a negro constable 8
Water Valley.
The Ssengerfest at Cincinnati ha
wholly subsided.
General Lyon is to have cannon
m lde monument.
AIurfreesboro, Tenn, viii belightei
with gas 10 September.
The Army Appropriation bill is, il
round numbers, $50, 900, GOO.
Bullock has pardOned fourteen 0
his negsO brothers at one lick.
Sumner proposes TO make all post
age one cent. Bully for Sumner.
Artificial limbs will still be sup
pliedto navy officers by Congress.
A poor fallen Louisville woman
suicided night before last in st. Louis
Grant is said to have been drunk al
the time while on his late fishing
frolic.
National Banks going into liquida-
ton will be required to receive their
own notes. ..... E.
Methodist preachers in Cincin natl
don't know whether to license women
10 preach.
Bishop Krener is the second Bishop
given the church by the New Orleans
AdUOcdte.
A bill is pending in Congress which
creates the State of Lincoln out OF
New Mexico.
Terry orders that his celOred sisters
shall not wear breeches and work on
railroad cuts. ST.
The Fifteenth Confederate States
regiment Mississippi volunteers, ,mees
in Water Valley Saturday.
Fifty thousand dollars are proposed
to be appropriated by Congress, for
teIegraphing the approach of storms.
McCreery presented yesterday a list
of 10000 KeDtuckians, more or less,
who want Congress to pardon their
sins.
Drake wants each Congressman al
lowed $500 for postage. Yates would
have more whisky, and Drake more
money.
Harriet Beecher Stowe will begin a
serial novel, "Pink and White
Tyranny" in the July number of
Old and NelC.
Maynard proposed that Congress
should approve Grants Cuban policy.
He was forced to withdraw the alb
surd resolution.
Mark a. Cooper is President Of the
Gainesville and Van Writ, Georgia,
Railroad Company. The read will
soon be finished.
L Eoo,o-;a n Cf5Fo0 ~, . ,,h;,,t
officer be selected from a military dis
trict? or does Grant credit Ackerman
TO New Hampshire.
Col. W. P. c. YOnge, near Opelika,
Ala, has fish ponds which furnish all
neighbOring towns with an abundance
of the choicest fish.
Drake wants all foreign telegraph
companies, having offices in the Uni
ted States, brought under Incorporation
Of the internal revenue law.
The Chinese inveigled into New
England, not suffered to live there,
have gone back to San Francisco. !
Suppose these Chinese had blacked
themselves
A recount of votes in the recent
special election in the city of San.
Francisco gives sIXty-twO majority for
the four million subsidy to the South
ern Pacific Railroad.
An ass in Congress wants Grant to
annex Canada. If the better govern
ment should absorb the worse, Canada
should swallow Grant and Congress, !
and the world would be happier.
Some fool in Congress wanted to
know, Tuesday, what had become of !
the property cOnfiscated in Virginia |
by the United States authority, and |
whether any had ever passed into the |
United States Treasury.
A Cincinnati insurance company
thinks a father has drowned his son to |
get lie insurance money, $1,000. 1t |
wouldn't be safe TO insure Louisville |
innocent for such a sum who has a |
paternal ancestor living.
Two bills apprOpriating fifteen hun
dred dollars TO remove the Con- |
federate dead from Gettysburg and |
Arlington to Hollywood cemetery,
passed the Virginia House of Dele
gates Thursday.
Hon. F. Z. Shober, the only Demo-
cratic Congressman whom the mill |
tary government Of North Carolina |
permitted to obtain a certificate of |
election, has been renOminated by |
the Democrats Of his district.
The general railroad law of Missis-
sippi, enacted by the Legislature and |
vetoed by Governor Alcorn, is gen
orally deemed a most iniquitous
measure, and Alcorn's veto is APP
proved by the great body Of the
people.
A hotel builder, Kimbal, of Allan
ia, offers a prize for the best name
Tor his concern. As the name sOhuld be
suggestive of facts in Atlanta history,
the Columbus Sun says: "Call it "The
Slander Mill" "The Sweat Box"
1.-THE State Road Depository" or
'The Bullock Pen" Take choice
and hand over the plated ware.
The number Of cotton bales received
at Columbus, Ca, for 1858, and
ISG9-70, from September ! to last Sat
urday:
ls6s-69 1s69-7O
Southwestern railroad. d....... 1884 1867
Mobile aud q. railroad u 6O6 %, 800