Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-17
BY MAIL.

A Toledo, Ohio, woman has made
$4,000 in the lumber business.
Baltimore is said to have a " large
and respectable colored Democratic or.
g~anization."
Eastern EPiscopalians have recently
raised $40, 900 to build a church in Salt
Lake City.
About $4,000 have been raised to-
ward the Stonewall Jackson mOnu.
ment fund.
The Knoxville Chronicle suggests
Thursday, September 80, as the time
for the Radical State Convention.
Wheat in Jackson county, Ala, is
selling at one dollar per bushel. The
crop of corn is the best for many
years.
Over thirty publishers, and $1,000,
600 capital are employed in the pub
fishing of Sunday-school literature in
this country.
The Saturday ReUiew says that
Brigham Young is reported to be so
rich that it wonders he has not been
admitted to a place in "Lothair."
The cry of "mad dog" and the sight
Of the animal Immediately behind her
on the street, caused a Philadelphia
lady to fall dead from fright recently,
An American, now travelling in
Europe, reports that Sweden is the
only country he has visited where
the sleeping apartments are lighted
with gas.
A correspondent writing from Ala,
bama to the New York Express says:
alabama, / am assured by good Re
publican authority, will give 50O(
Democratic majority in November
In DeKalb county, Ala, last week,
Garnett Harris and Marion Lowry,
brothers-in-law, were out hunting,
when Lowry shot Harris by mistake
for a deer, and killed him.
Joe Mooney, a horse trainer vel
known about Montgomery, Alabama,
was shot and perhaps fatally wound
ed by a woman, with whom he had
been on intimate terms, at Manches.
ter, New Hampshire, a few days ago
The Selma (Ala.) Times and Mes
Seuger of the 18th inst. says: "We
learn that the negro man who out
ragged and then murdered a white girl.
Miss Burns, in Sugar Valley, on the
Selma, Rome and Dalton railroad.
which was mentioned in the Times a
few days since, was caught on We'd,
nesday night, by a party of men, and
taken to somewhere in the vicinity Of
the sceUe of the outrage and hung to
a tree, where his body was found next
morning"
The work of taking the census is
tolerably near completion. The Su.
perintendent states that by next Mon
day he will have the total population
of Maine, Delaware, Connecticut and
Rhode Island; by the 1st of Septem.
Der the Northern District of New
York, Maryland and Ohio; by the
18th of September all the States and
Territories, except Texas and Oregon
and a portion Of Western Michigan.
which will not be completed by the
lst of October. He will be able to give
the complete population of the cOun.
try by the 10th of October. He thinks
that by the 1st of September he will
be able to give the population of all
the large cities of the country, except
San Francisco, and this latter by the
10th of September. The total popula-
ton of the country he estimates al
40,300, 900.
A ''fallen woman of LeavenWorth,
Kansas, has lately challenged the PEG.
pie of that city to assist in giving a
helping hand to those of her class who
wish to reform. She says that ''if the
citizens will assist in raising the sum
of $4,000, as an endowment fund for
a house of reform for fallen women,
she will give $4,000 of the amount, the
money to be paid as soon as the citi-
zens shall have subscribed one-hali
the required amount and appointed
trustees to receive the same" She
adds that no one knows better than
herself the amount of misery and
crime such an institution would pre-
vent. Such a proposition from such a
quarter has naturally created much
surprise, but it will be more surpris-
ing if the people shall fail to accept
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