Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-15
THE NEWS.

Queen Victoria has sixteen grandchil-
dren.
The police Of Augusta, Georgia, are to
be uniformed.
Young girls areemployed as lamplight-
ers In Buffalo.
The Queen OF Prussia has joined the no.
bic army of royal authors.
New York is pressing her war claims
against the general government.
Napoleon is going to stamp the profile
Of his sons face on the French coin.
Eighteen Roman Catholics have seats
in the new Massachusetts, Legislature.
There will be twenty-eight State Legis--
latures and conventions in session this
month.
The Houston Texas Telegraph noni-
mates A. J. Hamilton for United States
Senator.
Alexander H. Stephens is barely able to
sit up, and not able to stand. So say the
latest bulletins.
Don Pia1t speaks Of Mr.. Summers vote
as "bushwhack:ng il. the depths Of his
Senatorial stomach"
The National Executive Committee of
Colored Men" are about to establish po-
Gtical paper in Washington.
Columbus, Ga, has just elected Board
OF A4Qerutn. OF MLllcn Nue OA06St uAtllbcE
is not over thirty years Of age.
The people Of Houston, Texas, in the
event of their establishing public schools,
are 10 have $1,000 from the Peabody Fund.
A bill regulating the quantity and
weight of a barrel of crude turpentine Is
pending in the South Carolina Legisla-
lure.
The Empress Eugene has presented
Princess Metternich with some maEnlh-
cent dress goods that sb9 brought nom
the East.
A negro Methodist preacher in Phila-
delphia actuSlly took his last Sundays
text from ''Ge 'pistle ob Saint Paul 10 de
Canadians"
1t is said that Csssius n. Clay does not
propose TO return TO Kentucky TO reside,
but intends to take up his residence in
Newark, y. J.
The lows Legislature cOnvenes next
AfOn6av, and. On the day following sue
cessor 70 United States Senator Grimes
Will be elected.
As soon as Texas is fairly settled in the
Uussn Congress is expected 10 carve her
up. The Radicals propose making three
States ont OF The present one.
A California couple lately celebrated
their golden wedding by fight, in which
the woman was victorious. The old man
AAu4ElAAGElN 4AlNt -Af1-A A4--aA1l-As
Henry Ward Beecher is for instant Gu
ban recognition, right or wrong. tie
looks AT Cuba as he cid al Mrs. Mctar-
land, simply as a suffering sister.
Mr.. d. II. Craig, formerly superintend- 4
ent of the New York Associated Press, is !
now engaged in the survey Of routes for 4
the National Telegraph Company.
At the recent assembling of the Knights /
Of IL, q Order of st. George in St. Peters I
bnrr- N. q of the members was found to /
have attained the ripe old age 80 years.
A Young lady o. Golden, n. Y, who 1
has been blind Tor sixteen yea -, sudden Z
Iy received her sight few evenings since, l
while enjoying the company OF some
friends.
Couldeck, the Partisan artist, who is los |
years old, is painting picture entitled
- Ahsi1the, 80 in which a vase of the liquor
Is represented with skelton floating
upon the surface.
Governor Baker, Of Indiana, is down on
the tax divorce laws OF his State, and de-
cIares his intention OF recommending
reform 10 the next Legislature, which
meets in January ,lS7l.
The appointment of General Ignatieff to
the Foreign Ministry of Russia IS regard
ed as an act of hostility to Turkey, on ac-
count Of his well-knOwn unfriendly feel
llEs 10 AAldL EohGI1ucut.
The Virginia journals are much alarmed
ct the spirit developed in Congress rela-
i've TO sthe admission of the State. The
people are advised 10 prepare for another
run through the reconstruction mill.
Il Is said by Washington correspondents
that the bill introduced by Mr.. Judd, Of
Illinois, fixing the number of representa-
lives a three hundred, viii receive the
undivided support of the Western Con
yressmen.
There Is woman in JanesTille, Wis,
= ho .ras married AT the age Of thirteen,
her hrsl child was born before she was
A. The age of eighteen she had
four children, and now at twenty has sew
en- children.
II is rumOred in LondOn, on what is
considered good authority, that Sgnor
Mario has committed suicide at st. Pc
.ersburg. He is said TO have poisoned
himself with prussic acid. Grief for the
oSs Sf Nine. Grisi, and the dread of des-
.itution, are the reasons assigned for this
amentable act.
In the Wyoming House recently a dis
lngnished member. seeking 20 sustain a
point OF order, partially removed his out 4
- garment. and remarked, Mr.. Speaker,
Il some reliable man will hold my coat,
III teach the honorable gentleman that
he is out of order" It is needless to re- 1
mark that the point of order was sus-
ained'