Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-08
THE NEWS.

The worst form of speech-Uttering
base coin.
When Is a shoe like stays? When
its busk-in.
When are stays like snObs? When
they're 3 coarse e-set.
The crops in the vicinity of 0kO-
Iona, Mississippi, are said to be splen-
did.
General John c. Breckenridge and
Schuyler Collax ara at the Illinois
watering place-Chicago.
John Foster Kirk, historian Of
Charles the Bold, has just become
editor of LiBpincotPs Magazine.
New Orleans wants some enter
prising man, who knows how to keep
hotel, TO take the st. Charles Hotel,
which is now vacant.
Seven Democratic Senators of Texas
are under arrest, and will remain so
until the Radicals Of that State ac-
complish their villainy.
The Democratic and Conservative
Convention of the Second District of
Arkansas on the Goth Of July, nOmi-
mated A. a. c. Rogers for Congress.
The Charleston Courier says that the
mother of O'DOnOvan (ROssa) the
Irish martyr now in English custody,
is in that city in very feeble health.
Ogden and Alexander have been APP
pointed and confirmed Supreme
Judges, and Hon. l. d. Evans is to
be the third Supreme Judge of Texas.
A Constantinople paper gives quo
tations of female slaves. A negro
woman, in good health about 500,
Circassian girl of twelve $1,000, and Of
sixteen 1900.
The Vicksburg Herald states that
the Chamber of Commerce of the city
Of Nicksburg offer $500 in premiums
on cotton, TO be competed for at the
fair in October next.
The Vicksburg Miss Herald states
that J. c. Webber, Mayor Of that city,
il guilty of violations of law, which,
if courts do their duty, will result in
his occupying a cell in the co unity
Jail"
The removal of an insane asylum Of
of the idiot who is now making him
self busy in Cincinnati on the sub
ject of the proposed removal Of the
national capital to the Nalley-of the
Mississippi.
The fact brought out by DR.. Shelton
Mackenzie, in his forthcoming book
about Dickens, concerning the name
OF the great novelist, is simply that
he was christened "Charles John
HOughman."
The Fenians Of the North under
stand that if England takes side with
Prussia, that France has engaged to
send arms and munitions of war to
Ireland, in addition to an invading
force Of $1,000 men.
The Charleston NelCs says: "GOv-
ernOr Scott has not only disgraced the
State, but has made house of shame
of the Executive mansion" What
degradation viii not the carpet-bag-
gers bring upon the South?
The Aberdee, Miss Examiner
says that cotton is a good crop every
where in this county, up to this time,
and though the weed is remarkably
small in some localities, it is most
perfectly formed and well laden.
A young lady Of Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, sent a pOetical piece to a
local paper entitled MAY Thirtieth."
She felt unpleasant next day to see ii
headed "My Thirtieth." 1t was
about her birthday.
One Ike Moon, Of Columbus, Miss,
was prevented from joining in the
Loyal League celebration of the 9Th
in which a prominent place belonged
10 him-by the circumstance Of his
being in Jail for stealing.
A correspondent at Hamilton, Ne
vada, is sure Buffalo Bill is dead. He
writes: " You bet he will never take
another scalp, white or Indian. / was
past his grave on Sunday. His wife
keeps a restaurant at Eureka"
Another child lost in New Orleans.
The boy has black eyes, brown hair
cut short; is Of dark complexion, and
was dressed in blue cottonade shirt
and pants. The mother, Mrs. Lena
ChotO, is almost distracted about it.
A lady in South Kingston, New
Hampshire, living alone and far away
from neighOOrs, gave birth to twins
lately, which she washed and clothed
before anybody came along Of whom
she could ask help. The husband was
of on business.
In Nashua, n. H., a short time ago,
a thirteen wear old girl climbed up
between the wings Of the new eagle
on the City Hall and sat down on its
neck. The girl sat 10 this elevated
place. a hundred and fifteen feet from
the ground, for ten minutes
The White county (Ark.) COnven-
tion met on the 18th July, and Hon.
q. NJ. Barker was unanimously nOmi-
mated as a candidate for State Senator
from that Senatorial District in the
next Legislature. Judge G. Thrower
and Judge J. NJ. Stinnett were also
nominated for Representatives
The population Of Berlin increased
between lst of January and Both Of
June Of the present year, partly
through births and partly through
Immigration, by $4,000 souls. This
augmentation Is Unexampled in the
history of the North German me-
tropOlis.
Senator Sp- ague has just completed
his arrangements for erecting an ex-
tensive manufacturing establishment
at Columbia, South Carolina. He has
lately inspected the whole ground
himself, and the work on the canal
leased from the State for a water pow
er will go forward at once.
Halls Journal Of Health SAYS: ''Ii
a man will give himself sleep enough
and will eat enough nutritious food at
proper intervals, and will spend two
or three hours In the open air every
day, he may study and work and
write until he is as gray as a thousand
yigor and clearness.n