Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-07
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lOrk.
F. de Lesseps is worth over 100000
francs.
The washerwomen Of Paris are still on
a strike.
The velocipede mania is dying out very
rapidly.
The orange crop in Mobile is ripe and
very abundant
George Peabody's remains are expected
on the 18th inst.
San Francisco has a sort of Pacific jubi-
lee in anticipation.
Aida Topp is at the top of the list of
sensations in Boston.
The proposed canal across Cape Cod will
cost about 900.
Fisk, Belknap and Robson are (c)sl-
umni Of Princeton.
In Iowa this year the State tax is two
mills on the dollar.
A AXenia, Ohio, hog weighed 200 pounds
killed and dressed.
Bergh is challenged for $1,000 to prove
that a cock is an animal.
Mr.. Bergh reports that some 81 old bach
elOr mas left him 500, 600.
Mark Twain figures in the London Court
Journal as g Mark Turner"
Boston has forbidden the trapeze, not
considering that the trap pays.
Mendelssohn's niece is the musical
wonder at Leipsic Conservatory.
Do you know any word that contains
all tbe vowels2 UnquestiOnably.
Olive Logan is with her " Girls " IN Gin
cinuati. Good material for a lecture.
The English language is to be univer-
sally adopted by telegraph companies.
The priest who replaced Pere Hyacinthe
in Paris is failure. he draws no money.
The Alabama Legislature talks of
spending S2O, GOO, 600 in railroad building.
Nearly a million acres of public lands
have been taken up in Dakotsh this year.
a New Haven coal dealer gives away
ton of coal with every fftieth that is sold.
Prince Bomba, son of Theodore of Abys-
sinia, is nov in an English circus com
pany.
Eugenie pays Abbe Bauer, her pet
preacher, Sl2 eco yearly out of her private
purse.
Eugenie gave away over two hundred
rings as souvenirs during her Eastern
tour.
Mrs. Hurd is the name Of Barnum's
daughter, seeking a divorce at South Bend,
Ind.
Council" j" by James, on the Index Expur-
gatOrus.
Rev. George Pesrce is the oldest mis-
siOnary in India. he has labor6d there,
ls.r the English Baptists, for forty-three
yesfS.
Rev. v. II. NIilburn. the blind preach
er. delivers two lectures in Washington
this week.
The year 1870 will have ffty-three
Saturdays. 1t comes in and goes out on
Saturday.
They have establishments in France for
curing consumption Cy feeding the pa
tients grapes.
A large farm near Augusta, Georgia, has
been bought by joint stock company Of
cOlOred men.
Crisis vault in Pere Ia Chaise is next to
Rossini's. She viii rest in peace near so
great composer.
A. 7. Stewart is reported to have pur-
chaseI -qtrOlling stock Of the New York
b .~ Commonwealth.
II Is SAID that there are spiritualists on
the staffs Of nearly every London journal
and important periodical.
A be Bauer received fifty Thousand
francs tNr preaching the sermon at the in
auguration ~ the Suez Canal.
John G. SAKE ssvs that " human life is
safer at midnight in Paris than in New
York aud London 81 midday
" Barney Williams" real name is VII
liam Henry Johnson. He IS the only son
of a retired New York clergyman.
His Majesty Somedtch Phra Parsmindr
Mana ChulalongllOon Patindr Tepa Aaha
Mongkut is the Supreme King Of Siam.
Mrs. ex-President Tyler has settled the
viii case in which she lately figured. She
Is 10 convey TO her brother the disputed
ploperty.
Fo,>e Is laughing over q typographical
nF ar1s ~ n
which :. i'm lrlortal Rome " is made " i'm
moral Rome"
If the last vesr's wheat crop Of the
Tinted states was etyually divided among
the people il would be about eight and
half bushels per head.
Gen. Sutton, Of Massachusetts, has lived
in but one house, yet at different times
has been a resident of Salem, Ganversi
South Dsnvers and Peabody.
Beecher refuses to be busted. The CHS
eler who was after him wanted the
stock-speculating parson for hgure-head
10 Plymouth meetinghouse.
Mosbv is accused of enlisting soldiers
for the Cuban army by Radical papers.
There isn't enough money in Cuba or
Radicaldom to buy Mosby's sword.
Lieut., Gen. Sir Chas. A. Windan, COM
mander OF her Msjesty's forces in Canada. |
has recently made large purchase ofland |
in the vicinity Of Manhattan, Kansas.
The daughter Of Ricci, the composer,
now singing al the Theater Italien, in
Paris, is engaged for the season at the
Royal Italian opera in London.
Gen. George A. Custar was dined in De-
froit on Monday evening by the members
Of the Audubon Club, 10 whose museum
he has made many valuable additions.
Mr.. Eechter and Miss CarlOtta Leelerq,
N1eatrisal celebrities, have arrived in New
|. y. They viii appear in Siblo's Thea
.. oI-. 'onday evening, January 10.
ln Montgomery county, Pa, l
a Re. .S Hoe or two ago, and bit its
went hian d uaS Hdren, and one of his
servants, a neighbor, ,r.--.e So 90.
The farmers Of Falls coul ", tIAGs' tbsf fbat are
20 " troubled with wild geesU, :. ,,atbsy
have taken hands from cotton I,
corn.
On the 22d ult.. ice formed half an inch
thick in the lower counties Of California.
Immense damage to young fruit trees re-
suited.
The National LifebOat Institution OF
Great Britain has saved over 1000 lives I
this year, and nearly 1900 since its estab- I
lishment.
Rev. DR.. Osgood, who for many years
has occup pied a Unitarian pulpit, in New
York city, has become a member Of the
Episcopal Church.
A New York peanut vender declares
that " very few people eats more nor
pint a day" and II Is therefore supposed
that a crisis is approaching.
physicians report the city Of st. Louis
=. 7ingly unhealthy. Smallpox among
alai lS-li -, and scarlet fever and measles
l.. "a uiss, :, sants, are prevailing TO an alarm
~ +l.,,ta Netr Era says that scarcely
ItIL,.1.'.,- ,,,ir leaves that city without
:. q .-u.5,-e ~ .--;tb Il = number Of Georgians
~ DS1,i, are bent upon seeking fortunes Ia
other states. -. ,-.,t,
picbardson has been b card from through
. s,7irifnal. medium. He tninks CoilSA
:. 70 oeSfbe most remarka.he men IN '1e
c,,nrSfrv. sir" subject 10 the iuhiOaIlohs oi
the Constitution.
VIM. Andrus. Sr., for many yeAs puD-
fisher OF the Ith=ca Journal, ana tNusSeo tNss
OF the Cornell University, died on the Sy.n ~
inst, at his residence IN lthaca, lh iLo
sixty-ninth year of his age.
William Swinton and family arrived al
San Francisco on the l4th inst. Mr.. swim
ton was TO enter npon his duties as Pro-
Z fsssor of Rhetoric and Bellies Bettres al
the California University without delay.
A patent for warming pianoforte Keys,
80 as 20 make practising pleasure IN the
coldest weather, is announced IN LONDON.
THE Improvement is made by means OF
IitfIe cylinders Of hot water concealed