Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-13
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General Joseph f. Johnston has gone
into the real estate business.
The cotton crop in Georgia and Florida
is said by the local papers TO be unusually
backward this year.
The Spanish Ccrtes refuses to pay those
Bishops who promulgated the new doc
trine of infallibility.
1t Is asserted that there never was. a
better I" stand" Of wheat in North Geor-
gia or Alabama at this season of the year
than there is now.
Mozier, the sculptor, has sold his
"Prodigal Son. to the Philadelphia Insti-
tute for $1,000, showing that prodigal sons
are not wholly worthless, after all.
A colossal bronze statue of Franklin is
20 be erected by Captain De 6root, in
Printing House Square, Paris, at an ex-
pense Of from twenty to thirty thousand
dollars.
Erastus Briggs, a painter, while en-
gagged at work at No. l67 West Twenty
fifth street, New York, yesterday morn
ing. fell from the scaffolding and was in
stantly killed.
1t is stated in the New Orleans Prices
Carrent that the increase in the number
of acres now under cultivation in Loutsi-
ana is from fifteen to twenty per cent.
over the acres planted last year.
A dispatch from Bloomington, Ind, on
Wednesday, says a stiff norther set in
on Tuesday, accompanied by a severe
hail storm. There was shortly after a
brilliant display of Northern lights.
The berry and fruit crops in Southern
Illinois were not much injured by the late
cold weather, and late accounts from
Kentucky say that the reports of the
damage done in that State were exagger-
ated.
A missionary in Rio Janeiro says thai
nearly every Brazilian, who wishes to be
thought respectable, belongs to the Ma
sonic Order, and even the priests are Ma
sons, in spite of the POpe's excOmmuni-
cation.
Mr.. Ernest Renan, in a recently pub
Eshed article, expresses the opinion that
there are but two questions totally mys-
terious-tbe origin of the human con-
science and the supreme end of the uni
verse.
A gentleman travelling across the plains
for his health was recently compelled to
run the gauntlet and catch three or four
tomRhawks under his ear, by some de-
PRAYED Apaches. who didn't belong to the
benevolent Order of Red Men,"
The news of the victory of the
American yacht SapphO, in the race
with the British rival Cambria, created
quite a sensation in New York. Con-
gratulatory kilograms were sent by the
cable to Douglass, owner of the Sappho.
The Homeopathic Medical Association,
in session at Dayton, Ohio, on Wednes-
day elected officers for the year and dis
cussed the various subjects of interest to
the profession. This annual report and
address will be heard before adjournment.
Florida State scrip, which has for some
time past been very low, with no sales,
has taken an upward tendency. The
price at Tallahassee now ranges from
ifty-6Ye TO sixty, and small lots nave re-
Gently been sold in Jacksonville at sew
enty.
A few days g a family of eight per-
sons was travelling on the Rome (Ga.)
Railroad, every one of them being idiots.
They did not NOW where they were
going, or where they were from. They
were put off the train between Rome and
Kingston.
Mr.. Desprez, the political director of the
French Foreign Office, cannot find any
body who will take the Chinese mission.
Count Laliemand, the present incumbent,
does not want to remain in Pekin, and
there is not a single applicant for that
post.
1t is rumored that a druggist named
Robert Galloway, who did business at
46s Second VENUE, New York, and his
wife, nave been poisoned by the physician
who was attending them during sickness
in order that he might get possession of
their property.
Six fine statues in bronze, representing
Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Minerva, Apollo
and Castor, have just been discovered at
Ostis, a small town situated at the mouth
of the Tber; also, an enormous gold ring,
which fha ad1 - o,a IaSarspfT1. In,~ko =.
have belonged to Trojan.
The Western Associated Press will hold
a large meeting at Louisville about thu
first of June, to consider some important
questions in reference TO the present or
ganization and its relations. After the
disposal of business, IN excursion will be
made to the Mammoth Cave.
Gilbert w. Thomas, 42 Exchange Place,
New York, was brought to the
Tombs Police Court Wednesday morn
ing in custody of a detective of
the Central office, charged with having
robbed the firm of Dabney, Morgan L
Co. of $4,000 in bonds on the 18th ult.
The Mississippi Senate on Monday con-
firmed the nomination of Geo. +. Brown
late of the High Court, judge of the
circuit composed OF Kinds and Warren;
J. A. Orr, judge of the circuit composed
Of ~Oktibbeha, Noxubee, Lowndes and
Winston; and ]. W. Vance, judge of the
composed of DeSotO, Pamela, Sun
and Tallahatchie.
The cable announced on Sunday the
death of Sir James Young Simpson, the
physician and man of sci
9nse, to whom the world owes the dis
eovery OF the anesthetic properties of
,hlOrofOrm. James Young Simpson was
in Bsthgate, Linlithgowshire, in
Sll. He received his education at the
University of E~dinburg, where, in 1882,
le took the degree of NJ. D.