Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-20
GENERAL ITEMS.

An Alabama sportsman killed eign-
teen owls IN one day.
Six thousand cOlliers are on a strike
at Walden6erg, Prussia.
London cabs and carriages now have
their rates painted on the door.
Efforts are being made to replenish
the streams Of Vermont with salmon
New Orleans landlords get rid ofob-
nOXiOus tenants by removing the ROOF
for repairs.
Richmond cOntemplates a reduction
of its police force 10 eighty men ana
three captains.
The Episcopal Church in Vermont
petitions the Legislature for reform in
the divorce laws.
Pet Radical clerks live on the mile
age paid for hunting up knOtty points
in distant States.
The real propertyof Richmond, Va,
is estimated al $4,000, 600, and the per-
sonal at $50, 900, 600.
The midwinter view Of Niagara
Falls from the new suspension bridge
j. said to be very fine.
A Connecticut Yankee has invented
a top that runs forty minutes and
weighs over a pound
Howard, Bureauist, wants to per-
oesuate the Freedmen's Asylum by
calling ir 3 board Of education.
Its ssid by those who know, that
kerosene kills more than railroad and
steamboat accidents combined.
The Anglo-American branch Of the
Paris Young Mems Association occupy
rooms at No. 100 Rue MouJmatre.
Daring e recent religious revival at
Fen, lity. Illinois. two liquor dealers
enlpfie,l their whisky into the street.
Young \ mericans to the number OF
fifteen hundresl are now repres.ehtesd
in the German schools ana uHlNeIal-
ties.
Eastern papers report E1arveioCs
increase Of foreign letters since the re /
duction in postage for that kind OF
mali.
A Nevada editor was presented on I
Christmas with g Bible; and a bottle f.
q! whisky was added TO induce him % .
accept the gift.
It Il estimated in London that the I.
fsrss at the opening Of the SueZ Canal /
nave cost the hh6diTe the enormous I
figure Of El 80, ,O00.
For his extended travels IA TIE .
benighted regions Of Africa, DR.. Liv 4
ingstJne himself Is TO be kuighted .
when he returas to England. 4
A religious man OF Boston, who has .
been 10 Europe, and wants everybody 4
To lzuev- IL, commences his public I
Dravars thus: 80 Lord, thou know
est that when aas in Europe - etc.
II is mentioned as something won
sIa~flI rbata man in san Francisco =
now building an aerial machine which
will out fiv the AvitoF. So far as the
public knows, almost any machine,
even 3 stationary engine, viii &c that.
The FIoasac Tunnel Is now in the
hands Ct the BessTs. Shaniy, Of Mon
real, a. contra. tors, who have agreed
10 finish the work for 8, ,0U0, go before
March /, 1874, and expect 10 complete
81 ,0uy before that time. Gov. Cla1ln
4aStslastes that the tunnel viii cost the
state altogether 10000, coo.
The Russian tea merchants have
asked the Emperor to authorize the
construction Of a railway from the
Trat Mountains, dividing European
4, .~--ia from Siberia, 10 the AllaI
II. -tstiI;s. the boundary Of Northern
go - order that they may COM
- 80 i7ur0Beau merchants for the
tra6.1 ~ rbe asst, IN spite or the Suez
canal.
The ssles of land by the Illinois
Central Railroad Company for the SIX /
months ending on Ist OF Oc,oOef last
amounted 10 80. .t26 acres, Tor S!ilcn
81 lq2 fS3 were received The largtSI
sales were in the counties Of IEOquOlS,
Kankakee. Lee and Dewitt, IN Illl-
nois. Ten thousand acres were sold (
in IroquOis county.
Music, ART AND THE DRAMA.
An actor is an artist if ne draws.
Nell Warner is doing high tragedy
10 Charleston, ;. {.
John Collins is talking genteel {
Irish % the BuhalOnians.
The only laws recognized in mod
err dramatic art-appiauSe.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is sing
ing IL italian opera at Philadel-
phia.
The Bonfauti troupe are creating a
furOre at the Metropolitan, san Fran
cisco.
Maurice Strakosch has started a mu-
sical paper in Paris called La Tee {
gTuphe.
Edwin Forrest begins a five nights
engagement in Detroit tomorrow
evening.
John Owens amused the MObilians
last week, and Miss Gi2dstsne follows
him this.
Theatrieals at Helena CNIontauaj
and elsewhere in the Rocky Mountain A.,
region are duh.
Miss Bateman is playing Leah" in I
Washington City. George Jordan ac- ,
companies her.
Fox's pantomimists are in Louis
Vile, and William iOlstOn Is playing
in Indianapolis.
All the critics praise LOwelPs
a. Cathedral" though some complain
of its brevity; but no cathedral has
more than one chapter.
Joe Ermet is In Pittsburg playing
- Our German Cousin" We hear
that he is soon 70 visit st. Louis.
Fechter is drawing large houses at
Niblo's in E" Ruy Bias" The critics
are divided in regard TO s-merits.
Mrs. D. P. Bowers is drawing
crowded houses at Woods Theater, f,
Cincinnati. The circus prevails at
the National.
Mrs. Scott SiddOns recently read 1
a. A Midsummer Nights Dream" at 1
New Orleans, an orchestra playing
AIendelssOhn's music at appropriate ]
intervals.
John Brougham IS playing the
. / ,otlerv of Life and the rest of his
-aDertoire at the Park Theater, Brook ,
lyn. Kelly & Leon's Ministries are AT
fber AtEeu8GE,
Strskosch pays $4,000 salary a
,,ooth 10 the troupe which is per
forrn5,.g Rossini's Mass for him in
Furope. Qf this Albonl gets 5000,
and Vieuxten, Is $1,000.
The Chapman Sisters are at the Hol-
iday street Theates. Baltimore. Max
Naretzek's opera troUFe opens at the
same house on the 19th. i2e ti2nlons
are at the Front Street Theater.
Joe Jefferson g at the Varieties, /
New Orleans; Elise Holt was " Nip ]
ping The pretty flower at the Acad- {
emy OF Music, last week, and the j
a L.