Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-04
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
General Jordan is daily expected in
New York. -rr-
A acolored voter, a century old, was
registered the other day in San Francisco,
A student from the college at Irkutsk,
Siberia. was recently admitted TO Cornell
University.
Three hundred thousand tea plants
hav been set out by the japanese in
CallistOgs, California.
The head of the Freedmen's Bureau is
just finding out How (h) ard it is TO steal
without being detected.
sit is said that the financial hacker of
Russell Young's paper, the New York
Standard, is General b. F.. Butler.
The Fort Wayne Democrat says the
first indication of summer in that place is
women running around barefooted."
Gallstin county, Ky, boasts of a mule
three feet nine and a half inches in
height, which was fOaled four days be-
fore.
At a minister's party given in Paris
lately, the dancing was carried on in the
bedrooms only, so densely filled were the
apartments.
A San Francisco paper declines to pub
lish the particulars OF three murders, as
''there was nothing novel or original
about the modes of death"
The Cumberland Presbvtericn reports
over two thousand conversions and
about fifteen hundred accessiOns TO the
church during the first three months of
the year.
A FLORIDA aIligator's post morton re-
yealed several buttons, marbles, and a
top IN his stomach, and a n~eighbOring
family thinks il knows where its missing
little boy went to.
At the leVee recently held By the Prince
Of Wales in behalf Of Her Msiestv at
Buckingham Palace, Mr.. Charles Dickens
was officially introduced to royalty by the
Earl De Grey and Ripon.
Notwithstanding a pastoral OF Cardinal
Cullen ~denouncing the immortality of the
Grande Duchesse, upward OF 1000 Dublin
ladies and gentlemen attended Mile
Schneider's performance.
Italian Republicans are the most invet-
crate enemies Of Comparison, and one
OF them, a wealthy broker, has Just aided
the Anti-Plebiscitum organization BY a
donation of 100, 900 francs.
Tn cholera is raging on the Eastern
coast Of Africa. In Zanzibar the loss OF life
has been fearful. In one month and a
half 10000 people died in that town alone,
anu DutuDU IN the NnOIe island. /
Mr.. b. Bessemer, well known for his
processes 10 connection with steel, has
invented a remedy against sea-sickness.
II is a chamber so suspended as not to be
affected by the rolling and pitching of the
vessel.
Twenty five hundred men are about to
20 on a gold hunting expedition to Big
Horne range Of mountains, where gold is
said TO be found in chunks as big as a
piece Of chalk. The Indians say this is a
wsrhke expedition and are resolved to re-
sist it.
Archbishop Spalding, Of Baltimore,
has presented Pho Nino with q box Of
American snuff. His Holiness, il is said. /
IS able TO inhale a large portion Of the
gentle nicotia without -esOrting 70 the
vulgar practice Of sneezing.
The proposed amendment of the litur-
gy and the agitation on the question of a
new translation OF the Bible, have thrown
hundreds Of book binders and Others out
Of employment in England, as booksellers
will not add TO their stock Of prayer
books and Bibles.
Oxygen gas, as a remedial agent in
disease, is beginning to attract consider
able attention from physicians. The dis
eases in which 1he treatment nave so far 1
been most successful, are asthma and
consumption; but many others are
enumerated in which it has produced
great relief, II not an entire cure.
The Second Controller of the Treasury
decides that soldiers discharged for pro-
motion are not entitled to the SIOO bounty
OF the act Of 1861, on the ground that
when one party releases the other from
the obligations Of a contract for the bene-
ht OF the latter, there is the end OF the
agreement, for it would be one-sided law
that would hold one and discharge the
other. r CYAN H=E
IL was in Browns Hotel in Washing
Ton, IN February, 1861, that Elwood
Fisher said Of the people of the United
States that I'm giving freedom to the ne
gro we would lose our liberties" There
were " gentlemen Of this city and one
of Eastern Alabama present when FL
wood Fisher made this prediction to
which references has SO often been made.
he may have given utterance to the pro-
phetic apothegm before, but the writer
heard u as recited. t
At the late New England Conference Of
the Methodist Church, Rev. Gilbert Ha- {
ven submitted a report on the unity Of
Methotism in the United States, which
adopted This church is divided into {
eight bodies, and the report maintains 2
that the Obstacles in the way of unifca-
ton In most instances were trif1ing-that {
Is the duty or the mother church 10 call q
hem All back, beginning with her FIRST 7
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A laughable Incident signalized the 4
performance Of SchiIer's Maid OF or 4
cans" az the Royal Theater, Munich. !.
Al wac ready, hen a peremptory order i
rom the King was received, command q
ng every actor who was TO appear in the
Ilece TO shave. A general CONSERVATION q
ND rush for BARRIERS was the conse- 81
Iuence. The lately hirsute artists cut a o.
,ltlabse figure with their sbRyen and
horn physiOgnOnIIes at the evenings II
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In Chicago, yesterday morning, an In q,
ant, a few days old, was found on the a.
teps OF a residence, and attached TO its o
hroat was the following note: accent !
his innocent offering Fl is of a good fam =
", but very poors 7 am now a widow q
gith three small children, the eldest II
light years Of age; my fa~ther-in-law is
merchants my grandfather is a governor. n
ny dead father was a lawyer. ] am a Il
lain sezmstress by an Inflated marriage. 81,
ave a drunken husband and gambler; "
N OF Spanish birth. GOd bless the one "A
gbo accepts this Offering 1ou s-el ri
"IoELLIA GUILLo DELYRREL-o
b child WIS sent TO the charity D
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