Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-15

the foot of Locust street, in J~effersonvIle,
Ind, across the island on the Louisville,
Ky, side of the Ohio, tor the purpose OF
vehicles, street cars and foot passenger
crossing is being seriously canvassed by
wealthy citizens of the two cities.
The Quebec Mercury thinks the sugges-
ton that Canada should buy Maine and
Alaska is not out of place, and might be
preferable to waiting for a quarter of q
century hence, when the Dominion would
be constrained to conquer these necessary
territories"
The Scranton PENN Republicans sees
no reason 10 apprehend that the coal
miners strike will extend beyond the
Sehuylkin region. The mines IN the Le-
high and Wyoming regions, it says, are
actively at work, and the miners have no
cause of grievance in regard to wages.
The desk-makers 0 fNew York recently
formed an organization of the hands em-
plOyed in that branch of cabinet making,
and the society, now numbering $50 mem
bers, has under consideration a plan for
regulating the wages OF the trade, which
it is claimed do not average IS a week.
The large increase in the wages of sgri-
cultural Iaborers in Ireland, which has
taken place during the past twenty years,
it is asserted, has not to the same extent
improved the condition of the people, in
consequence of the corresponding serious
advance in the cost of the prime necessa-
ries of life.
A bill has passed the lower House of
the Mississippi Legislature, making three
new counties out of TishomingO and por-
tons of Tippah and Itawamba, to be
canad AlcOrn, Prentiss and TishOmingo.
The county seat of the first to be at Cor
inth, the second at Bonneville, and the
third at Iuka.
Thunder sOurs milk and kills oysters.
You may load a vessel TO its utmost ca
pacity, start for market, and one round
clap cf thunder will kill every oyster in
the vessel Immediately. Pounding with
an ak upon the deck of a vessel with a
heavy weight will kill every oyster that
feels the jar.
Beecher wants the members of his con-
gregation to carry bouquets to church so
hat it may look as much like a flower
garden as possible. He is not becoming
high-notioned in his tastes, bat a the
flowers to neutralize the oder d'Afrique
from the niggers who attend his divine
illustrations.
A special dispatch to the Montgomery
Advertiser, dated the 9TH, from Opelika,
says that a difficulty took place o. the
streets that day, between II. NJ. Hamin,
of the Opelika Locomotive, and j.. e. Sum-
merford, Superintendent of Education of
Lee county, which resulted in the killing
of the latter.
The Pensacola and Louisville road,
which extends toward and not to Louis
vile from Pensacola, has trains running
regularly between Pensacola, Florida,
and Pollard, Just north Of the Alabama
line, where it connects with the Mobile
and Montgomery railroad for MOntgom-
cry and the North and East,
The members of the Southern Method
list Episcopal Church, who may attend the
General Convention OF their church to be
held in Memphis on the first week of
Nav next, may be sure of a generous
welcome and the best treatment by our
people,, The people of their communion
are especially prepared for them.
A Galveston, Texas, dispatch of the Sth
says: Leroy Cotton, who was TO have
been executed to-day for the murder of
Major Loehman last April, committed
suicide by taking morphine at 5 O'Clock
his morning. He left a letter requesting
that his body be given to his brother, and
that a knife be buried in the coffin with
him.
A coal bed four feet thick has been
opened one mile north of Knob View, on
the South Pacific Railroad, ninety-eight
miles southwest from st. Louis. This coal
was found only four feet below the sur
face. 1t will be developed and worked
without delay. A discovery of coal at a
depth of twenty-five feet, near Leesburg,
on the same road, about eighty miles
southwest from st. Louis, is reported as
made a few days since.
The Southern Is. c. Guardian says:
''The great chicken fight is over, and
South Carolina is the winner. The inten-
ton was to have fought a main of thirty
one chickens on each side, with 500 on
every fight and $1,000 on the odd. Only
twenty-six matches could be made and
the 500 bets were declared off, and the
fight rested on the result of the odd.
Yesterday morning seventeen matches
had been fought, South Carolina scoring
eight and North Carolina a like number,
with n drawn, leaving nine, of which
Carolina gained five. The attend
ance on the spot has been very large, and
the sporting fraternity declare it to have
been a fine affair from beginning to end.
Nothing occurred to create disturbance.
At least Sl5, 900 changed hands during the
three days. The fight was a closely con-
tested one, and though the Game Cock
has determined her claim to the
championship, the Old North State may
well feel a pride in her fighting stock"