Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-03
THE NEWS.

The blue dress coat with brass buttons
is a failure.
Rabbi Snersohn, Of Jerusalem, is lee
turing in Nashville.
First-rate salt is made at the salt works
near Weatherford, Texas.
Town lots in Jefferson, Texas, which
were valued fifteen months ago at $1,000,
are now valued at $4,000.
The farmers of Bexar and adjoining
counties, Texas, are introducing Mexican
poems for the cultivation Of cotton.
The English Bishops have agreed in
convocation and have ordered a thorough
revisal of the Old and New Testament.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has granted
an application for a writ Of error in the
Cincinnati Bible in the schools case.
which has been set for the second Tuesday
in December.
Mack" Of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
says the removal of disabilities is a
Ource Of corruption much worse than the
sale of cadetships.
A new cotton factory has been started
in New Orleans, which promises the best
results to the Crescent City, in dividends
and by example.
A Providence, r. L, dispatch says:
Many rOughs are preparing to go to prize
tight on Fishers Island to-day between
Edwards and Collier.
The Rhode Island Democratic State
Convention is 10 be held in Providence on
Thursday, March 18th, to nominate can
didstes for State officers.
The military authorities at Indianola,
Texas, are now confscating all beef cattle
driven to that point where bills Of sale
from the former owners cannot be pro-
duced.
The reported murder Of Mr.. Robert
Morgan, by a-mob of negroes near Cor
D~ersviIle, in Marshall county, Miss, some
two or three weeks since, has turned out
- be untrue.
A New York dispatch of yesterday
aays a Cuban expedition Of about four
hundred CubAns and others, is said to
have left here last Saturday under Coils.
Harper and Powers.
Mr.. NJ. NJ. Brooks, Superintendent Of
the Stonewall cotton mills, near Enter
prise, Miss is turning out as good AN
article Of sheeting and shifting as any
mills north, south, east or west.
The formation Of a new county is being
sgitated in North Mississippi, embracing
portions Of Pontotoc, Tippah and Mar
shall counties, north Of the Tallshstchie
and east Of the Tippsh rivers.
The Masonic fraternity Of Guadalupe
county, Texas, propose forming a joint
stock company for the purpose Of erecting
a Masonic Hall. Fifteen hundred dollars
rave already been subscribed.
Governor Senter has ordered the Com
missioners Of Registration throughout
the State to hold an election on Saturday,
the 10Th Of March, for the purpose Of rat
flying or rejecting the new Constitution.
The Cincinnati Commercial, in an article
reviewing BrswnlOw's last diabOlicsl
letter, a it is convinced it is no part Of
the purpose or policy Of the Administra-
tion or Congress TO again subject Ten
nessee to military rule.
The TsllshAtchie (Miss.) NeDs a y
lands in the YnzoO Valley are advancing.
They are now held at from fifteen to thir-
~ dollars per acre, and preprietoTs are
not anxious to sell at that. A sure sign
Of returning prosperity.
Mr.. Shirley Brooks, whom English lit
terate1irs call the brightest conversation
al wit now left to US" has been seriously
III, but is now out Of danger. He was at
tackled with q complication Of disorders,
the chief Of which was the geut, just af-
ter presiding al Mr.. Punch's annual
dinner.
The women Of Florence, \. J., have re-
solved to adopt the simple garb of {"
mans gray trousers, a black kersev
sacque, and a womsn's bonnet" They
declare ia defense of it that 'no woman
who does not wear the Florence costumes
can be healthy herself or give birth to a
healthy child"
The Working WOman's Protective
Union of Boston has protested against fe-
male suffrage, recognizing 'the divine or
dination OF woman to domestic, family
and social duties, and men to generslpO -
litical affairs - and declining to " become
parties { osny attempted encroachment on
the legitimate sphere Of mans duty"
The Goodman Miss Central b says:
We hear it said that our colored friends in
Carol county have taken a big scare at
the arrival Of about one hundred emf
grants brought there by some entsrPris-
ing gentlemen, who are determined to
run heir. plantations without Cunee. The
freed people are anxious now to 60 to
work in that region.
Mr.. Robert B~ucbanan's new volume is
further described in the latest London
papers as " The book of the visions seen
by Orm the Celt.7 1t seems 70 be in ten
psrts. some consisting Of songs, and some
Of visions. with such titles as these:
eTbe Man and the Shadow" Songs Of
o-orruptiou.'' "The Soul and the Dwell
inc aThe Devils Mystics," and "The
Man Accurst."
DrM N. M. Michau, Of Houston, Texas,
ha. been arrested, charged, on h afada-
vi Of Jake johnson (coloredb with being
800 IN ehs nsrdsr Of 3. W. Love