Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-14
THE NEWS.

Forty deaths a day occur at Rio Janelro
from yellow fever.
The survey OF the Darien ship-canal is
progressing favorably.
The Senate. it is said, will not repeal
the ranking privilege.
A general incorporation act is likely to
pass the Mississippi Legislature.
Greeley and Beecher Will testify in the
Mcfarland trial during the week.
The Minnesota river is two feet higher
than it has ever been known before.
The CITY Treasurer OF St. Louis is 8 de-
faulter to the extent of about $4,000.
The broad gauge for railroads is getting
TO be pretty generally regarded with dis
favor.
A new daily paper, with J. Russell
Young as editor, is to be started In New
York in May.
The upbolsterers in New York number
four hundred, of whom two hundred be-
long to the Unions.
Eighteen sleeping-cars arrive and depart
from the Indianapolis Union depot every
t~wenty-fOur hours.
The dividend to be paid on the 18th
inst. 10y the New York Central Railroad
mounts TO SS,OO0,O0O.
The first shipment of cotton ever re-
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on the Path for manufacture.
Twenty thousond pairs of carpet slip
pers are made weekly in Boston. They
are sent 70 all parts ofthe country.
There are eighteen thousand tailOresses
in and about Boston. Of these some w
thousand are custom coat Makers.
San Francisco is excited Over a crab
brought from Japan, which spreads thir-
teen feet and weighs forty pounds.
A Berlin oculist recently received from
a Vienna banker a fee of 1000 forms a day
for five days, for professional services.
The prospects for the completion of the
railroad bet ween Augusta and Port Royal,
south Caro- ina, are daily Frightening.
General Robert f. Lees journey to
Florida, whittier he goes TO recruit his
health, is like the progress of a conqueror.
The New York Globe says there are
three hundred thousand children in the
State Of New York who do not go to
school.
Sizer. who killed Officer Wick, in Jack
son. Miss, last Tuesday, will be tried for
granddaughter. That was the coroners
verdict.
G We understand the work of laying the
iron down permanently near Pass Chris
tian, Miss, on the railroad, has COM
nenced.
The House Pacific Railroad Committee
have agreed to report a bill moving a land
grant to the railroad from Oregon to Salt
Lake City.
The Democrats of West Virginia will
hold their state Convention in Charles
Owl the new State capital, on Wednes-
day, June sth.
The shoe business OF Lynn, Mass, con-
tinues quite active, the temporary panic
caused by the decline in gold having gem
orally subsidized.
The Bridgeport Comm EUeniHg Farmer
Of the 9TH instant is out in big capitals
and " cuts +" expressive of its Joy over the
Democratic success.
The Cherokees are bitterly hostile to
the Kansas Pacific railroad enterprise and
to the proposed formation Of q territorial
government for them.
The military post and prison at Ship
Island, Mississippi, is broken up, and the
troops are TO be transferred to Fort Pike
and Jackson Barracks.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York citizen says Chief Justice
Chase is TO be the next Democratic can
didate for the Presidency.
The Davenport Democrat says the Rock
ford, Rock Island and st. Bouis Railroad
COMPANY is pushing the construction Of
the road as fast as possible.
A bill for a bridge between New York
and Jersey City, to facilitate railroad and
other business TO the West, has been in
troduced in the New York Legislature.
According TO the superintendent Of the
Virginia and Tennessee railroad, during
last January and February 5076 colored
men passed over that road, going South.
A Texas negro, on being arrested for
polvgamy. said: why, hi! I hasn't got
INT four 'msndments vet, and de law
openly lows de colored mar fifteen"
Several hundred women and seventy
five children were turned out of the Cook
county (uI.) poor-house on last Wednes-
day. The Chicago papers denounce 1t as
an outrage.
The Richmond Qnd.) HHmmiHg Bird
saws: "Our devil has improved on Poor
Richards wise saws. For instance:
He who by his biz would rise,
Must either bust or ADVERTISE
In some of the more Southern States
Chinese grass is being cultivated, 70 be
used as a substitute for silk. A machine
and process for the preparation have al
ready been patented.
Work on the Owensboro end of the
Greensboro, RusselYille and Nashville
railroad is progressing, with a fair pros
psct OF q train running on the first twenty
miles early IN the summer.
An iron ore is said to have been discov-
cred in York county, Pa, which has the
peculiar power Of Transforming pig iron
good steel by a simple mixture OF the
two in a pudding furnace.
There was q rumor in London on Satur-
day that Chichester Fortescue, Chief Sec
for Ireland, had been elevated to
The Peerage, and would soon replace Earl
Spencer as Lord-Lieutenant Of Ireland.
The Oregon and California Railroad
Company has been organized, with a
,apital stock Of $50, O00, 900; Ben. HOlls-
President; W. /. Halsey, Vice Pres
dent, and A. G.. Cunningham Secretary.
The seat Of Revels, the negro Senator
from Mississippi. is next to BrOwnlow, OF
Tennessee. The negro says he objects to
having his seat near such an old villain,
md has asked permission to change his
base"
The Brunswick and Albany Ca Rail-
-oad is being pushed very rapidly. limo
1-nnropitious weather interVenes il II ex-
the line will reach, and be in work
order, to the Atlantic and Gulf juno
by the Goth, and TO WRresbOro by the
9th Of this month.
The " cartmen" of New York, who have
express" painted on their wagons, COM
Jain tina the United States tax Of three
,er cent. on the gross receipts, is levied
them in the same way as upon the
zrge chartered express companies.
There will be a convention Of the farm
rs of the Northwest at Bloomington, nli-
,ois. on the Goth instant, to organize for
protection of the interests Of the pro-
ucing classes against the exorbitant eX- !
ctions Of the transportation companies. !
Within eight years there have been 4,
in San Francisco twenty-eight .
houses Of wOrship-four Bap- )
At. three Congregational, four Episco- :
AL seven Methodist, seven Presbyterian, !
al Mariners, one Lutheran, and one !
Jerusalem. .
General Logan has introduced into v
ongress a bill for an Irish Colonization q
ocietv. with a capital of 81, 900, 900 at $50 D
share. The object OF the proposed r
,cietv will be to keep in view the en- o
,ura9ement Of Irisbmen to get out ofthe G
tiss' and move out here into the West. "
In Russia the winter has been so ire q
endous that hundreds of persons have n
OF cold in the great cities. In "
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