Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-02-24
THE NEWS.

Minister B~urlingame died yesterday in
st. Petersburg.
Egyptian women have asked permission
10 appear unveiled in public.
Madame Vi~ardot-Garcia is at Vienna.
singing at the Court concerts.
Ex-Governor Neil S. Brown, Of this
state. is to have his disabilities removed.
It is rumored hat one Of II. ". Beech
er's sermon Is to be drsmstized for Fech-
Ter 10 play in Boston.
Berlioz, Grisi, Molique and Gottschalk
are the most noted musical people who
have died the past year.
The Missouri House has amended the
public school law so that women can vote
on matters relating to schools.
WhiUtemOre, a member of the House OF
Representatives, is likely to be expelled
that body for selling appointments to
West Point.
The New York Common Council have
rendered the inequalities Of the city &c
Hon. VIM. II. Seward on his return to the
United States.
A fund OF $4,000 has been left by viii
Tor the establishment and maintenance OF
a free school for INDECENT white boys in
Georgetown, D. c.
Judge Black is preparing an article,
which be viii soon publish, in answer to
senator Wilson's paper on the late Secre-
tarv stanton, in the atlantic Monthly.
The semi-annuaI interest on the ten
forty bonds, amounting to three million
two hundred and eighteen thousand dol
lars in coin, falls due on the LIST prox.
The German musical papers are pub
fishing extracts from the score OF a small
opera Of B~eethoven's, hitherto unknown,
which are much in the style Of certain
passages in Fidelio.
strawberry time is upon US" says
the New Orleans Times. - specimen OF
the Russell Prolific, grown in the open
air. and measuring nearly i've inches IN
circumference was laid upon our table
yesterday"
4 dispatch from New York says that
the Young Democrats Will begin an at
tack on Fisk and Gould. They will in
troduce a bill repeating the law extending
the terms OF the Erie Directors, and threw
Fisk and Gould from power.
The Universal Peace League in France
has elected Andrew Johnson, Charles
sumner Z. F. Butler and Horace Gree
lev. honorary members. We shouldn't
care to be present at the peace meeting at
which these gentlemen should be present
together.
William Booth, while drunk, shot his
brother dead in Fail River, Conn, sun
day night, for preventing him from beat
ing his mother, and then drank a bottle
of poison, dying in six hours afterward.
Both had families.
4 Chicago morning paper chronicles a
slight fire in this way: Aurora Turner
Han. on the corner Of Second street and
Milwaukee avenue, ran a risk last even
ing Of gliding from the present lnto the
mast. through she chemical action of eN
cessiye calOric.
The delicate operation Of TRANSMISSION OF
blood has just been successfully per
formed In Chicago. The patient was a
Young lady almost hopelessly affected
with consumption. Thirty-six ounces OF
blood were taken from a sister and two
brothers and injected into her veins and
and she is now recovering.
The Houston Telegraph of the Sth inst.
saws: 1.-The State Of Texas has entered
suit against George Peabody for the re-
covery of certain United States bonds
i~rregularly transferred to Mr.. Peabody's
possession. Judge Paschal brings the
suit. December 5, 1870, is fixed for return
day"
The late General St. John Liddell, OF
Louisiana, an account Of whose deathhas
been given, had effected an insurance
upon his life in three life insurance COM
NAMES. amounting, in the aggregate, 10
$4,000. viz: In the Mound City, S2O,OOOi
in the Globe, 5000; in the Piedmont
5000.
II is STATED that Brigham Young, with
several of the high dignitaries Of the
Normon Church, is soon to make a pill
grimage to the southern border Of Arizo-
ma. with a view 10 selecting a future site
for a Mormon settlement, in order tC
escape from the interference Of Cullom's
bill with the institution Of polygamy.
A dispatch from New York yesterday
savs that Mr.. d. B. Eaton, the lawyer
,Vbo was assaulted by unknown parties
near his residence on the 18th inst, still
continues to improve. There is now nc
reason to fear any dangerous results, ano
his pbvsician expresses the opinion thai
,ybep once ed he Will suffer no ii
effects from the injuries inflicted.
A dispatch Of the 22d, from Washing
ton. saws: .sThe Ways and Means Com.
mittee agreed to-day to report a bill eA.
tending the time from one to three yeAr'
in.which whisky may remain in bond pu'
adding an additional tax Of one cent pc
gallon on all that remains in bond aitei
one year. This is understood TO be &C
ceptable TO the kentucky and Tennessee
interests who are here pressing for relief
dispatch from Washington says the
following card ron General J. H. SypheI
will a~ppearin to-day's papers: my atten-
,iop has recently been called 70 paragraphs
in tbepapers associating my nameW with tins
ale of cadetships, and appointments
% naval academies in the United States.
Thsse reports. 50 industriOusly circulated,
- fslse and ~slanderOus. There is no
ovidenee before the Military COMMITTEES
- \ House OF Congress duplicating me,
sirectIv OF indirectly, in the sale Of ca
satsbips. Invite and challenge investi-
CATION: [~signedl D. d.
Recent Trustworthy correspondence
from Cuba states that the Caison and Pa
nsl has Of late become soley a secret club.
An the functions OF the society ave been
delegated TO acentrai junto, composed Of
go. s~enlueta, Baro, Ibanszy and Idal-
- A. whose head is Manuel Calico as
preaiaeat. This movement isunderstood
70 signify that the party opposed TO span
- suthority has retired, routed trom the