Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-27
THE NEWS.

ansu-GeaVC Criminal COurf-LUKEE WRIGHT.
THE NEWS.
The Virginia Radicals have hsrmonlzed'
Roston refuses to have another musical
festival.
England is drifting into another war
with the Chinese.
Virginia Townsend, nee French, has en-
tered the list as a lscturess-
Mr.. ValIandigham declines to run again
as a candidate for Congress.
John Haughton has left the Cincinnati
Eaguirer for the profession OF law.
TUentv-fve cents is now the price of
admission to the Tennessee penltentlary'
Csrlotta Patti has made a tremendous
hit in opera 1.-THE Magic Flute") in New
York.
The Yahoola, Ga, stamp mills crush
seventv-fve tons Of ore per day, ana pay
handsomely.
Porto Rico levies an import tax of TWEEN
ty-dve cents on all newspapers from the
United States.
A London dry goods merchant who
advertised for 30, was answered Dy 'OO
working women.
Somebody urges as an objection TO the
income tax that cit makes the people q
nation Of liars"
Several physicians called in the other
day declined TO give evidence on the san
ity OF a prisoner.
Coon. the billiardist, won the contest IN
Chicago yesterday by one point AM 'OOA
the purse of $3.50.
The Radicals in Congress are preparing
a bill the equivalent of disfranchisement
of the foreigners.
Lewis. Democratic candidate in the
Third Kentucky Congressional district, Is
elected by a handsome majority.
Disraeli's new novel Lothian, - is Gre
atipg quite a sensation. Appleton is to
be the publisher in this country.
The remains Of Rev. Andrew Huxley,
of Dayton, Ohio, are to be buried to-day
with distinguished Masonic honors.
SNYDER, Of Orange county, New York,
killed his wife last week, and tried to cut
Lis own throat. Pity he didn't succeed.
Montana last wear yielded over Sl7 ,0O0,-
600 in gold and silver, and expects 10
carry up its aggregate to SSO,OOO,OOO THIS
year.
Denver City, long since pronounced the
worst city in the West, according TO a
correspondent, is heaven compared TO Chl-
cago.
A Cincinnati dispatch of yesterday says
that a large number Of the fancy are de-
parting ADL Now CAAO3An i
Allen light.
The New York Sun says Colfax's con-
nection with the free love murder case
has totally ruined his claims for the
Presidency.
A second ~Braddock's defeat, it is pre-
dicted. awaits the expedition now fitting
out in England, TO chsstise the Winnepeg
insurgents.
Governor Senter is still in attendance
upon his sick mother. bis wife and
mother, we regret TO say, are both dan
gerously iii.
The international Convention OF the
Young Mems Christian Association meets
in Indianapolis on the 22d, sd, Gath and
25th Of June next.
Morse, the father Of the telegraph, on
his S7th birth day is TO have q set OF o
gold telegraph instruments set with dla-
monds and rubies.
The Northern Pacific Railroad bill just
passed by the Senate dispOses of $780,
100000, OF public property. II will be OPP
posed in the House.
The cold weather of the past few days
has done much damage TO fruit trees in
illinois. The peach crop is said TO be
IwO-thirds destroyed.
The smallpox is raging 10 q cOnsidera-
ble extent in Robinson county, Tenn. Il
was brought from Hopkinsyille, KY,
where it is also prevalent.
Four volcanic craters ave been dis
covered in the island of Cheduba, through
one Of which mud, strongly tainted with
petroleum, bubbles up.
A delegation of Massachusetts men is in
Washington asking for authority
and money from the treasury to construct
a canal across Cape Cod.
William Jacobs, Chief n warrior OF
Six Nation Indians, writes TO the Globe,
denying that any Of his tribe are to form
d part Of the Red river expedition.
Joseph Blackwell was shot and killed
At Spring Town, Polk county, Tenn, a
Few DAYS ago, by some unknown person,
while sitting at his table eating supper.
A negro citizen of Louisville publishes
aIoug letter, wherein he declares that If
Chase and Wade Hampton will take
the lead, a great national party can be
formed.
The number of outdoor paupers re-
ueyed on the LIST of January, 1870, in Lon
don, was $4,000, being greater by 10000
than the number relieved on the LIST jan
uary, 1869.
Even Radicalism is growing sick OF
carpet-baggery. And no wonder. The
men whom The rif-raf Of the South has
voted into Congress are enough to sicken
any party.
The extent Of the area under cotton in
the northwestern provinces Of Ind has
been considerably extended during the
past year, and the staple Of the crop Is
said TO have improved.
Cerebro spinal meningitis has been raw
aging that section Of country lying be
tween Bayou Beuf and the Atehafslaya
river. A large number OF deaths have oc-
eurred-priHeipally negroes.
There is said TO be living in the neigh
borhOod Of Durfries, Prince William cOun-
ty, Virginia, The widow OF revolutionary
soldier-Chloe Flatford-who has reached
the unusual age OF lis wears.
The Louisville C0urier-JOurndl says:
" To qualify ones self for holding Office
Al this time il is necessary TO turn niger,
steal something, or give Grant a present.
Nothing else will
The feeling throughout the country at
the dnatoriness Of Congress in acting on
rnaasuras TO reduce taxation and settle
lie financial question, Is finding vent in
numerous letters to Radical members.
A report from Gen. Sully, of the regu-
lar army. depicts the Indians of Montana
"a In a terrible condition from internal
discords. warfare and disease-the small
box having all but decimated them.
The fright of the Canadians over the
rumors of a proposed Fenian raid is ludic-
rous and disgraceful. They nave 0O,OOO
volunteers, and all told the remains
could not put in the field 10000 men.
The Ohio Legislature has just passed
the bill 70 give the minority party In any
election precinct in that State one OF the
three judges of election, and, the Governor
having signed said bill, it is now a law.
The British army estimates for 1870 pro- f,
vide for l79, 75S men; this includes the
Indian army. The reserve force is mill :
tia. volunteers, yeomanry cavalry-num- )
Der 3A $50. What chance has the Fee :
mans before this force7 q
By a new tariff law Ia Sweden, ont OF ;
six hundred and thirty-nins articles and I
classes enumerated in it, two hundred and =
forty-four are free; on three hundred and ;
eighty-four the duty is specific, and only 3
on eleven is it ad valorem. :
A cline has been found 10 the robbers Of c