Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-12-27
NEWS BY MAIL

Colonel M. K. Mister, of Grenada
Mississippi, severely wounded LAST weeh
by the accidental discharge Of 9 pistol, Il
recovering.
Within the past few months forty immi,
grants from Aisacs and Lorraine hsYl
settled in Florida, and fifty Swedes have
Purchased lands near Tallahassee.
The late frost and heavy snow storm on
the plains was "deathn TO thousands OF
buffalo, many Of which were seen from
the railroad car windows to drop dead In
their tracks.
Bliss, of Oundursngo fame, gets the root
from the State department and sells 1t 81
800 per pound. He is decidedly on the
make. BE is the family physician Of the
smiling Colfsx.
A Nj, Smith and Mr.. Theodore Palmer,
carpenters, at Goodman, Mississippi were
severely injured last week by falling from
q scsfolding in the Methodist church
which they were engaged in ceiling.
A London merchant bought al the
mourning goods in that market with q
view to big profits In case of the
death Of the Prince Of Wales. He
was not only disappointed, but lost
heavy.
The party Of Capitalization in Switzsr-
lard proposes amendments to the. consti
tuition which will centrslize the csntons
as much ss possible, and Introduce a uni
form system Of law, Of military service,
AMI of education.
Mr., House, a lawyer of Wetumpka,
Alabama, was met in his doorway a few
days ago and shot through the hesd by q
negro. A white nan with House at the
time interposed and was also shot through
the head by the negro.
There is 8 rumor abroad that Rev. R. s.
Clark, with his entire family, together
with the families OF two ministers from
Yszoo county, Mississippi, who sccomps-
MED them to Montsns territory a few
weeks ago, were overtaken by q snow
storm after leaving Omaha, Nebrasks,
and were all frozsn to death on the plains.
It is believed to be fact, that the lsrg-
est quantity Of plug tobacco now sold in
violation of the revenue laws, is manu-
featured in North Carolina, by parties
who nave small presses, turning out about
fifty boxes per year, and who peddle their
stock throughout the State, adroitly
avoiding the towns where Federal officers
are located.
Ii civilization q fsilures Ware, the
parricide, recently hung in New Jersey,
when asked il he believed in Christ, he
said: 81 don't believe in Jesus; ! don
know anything about him;' snd with
these words fresh on his lips he was sent
20 his account, And yet we contribute
our hundreds OF Thousands to the q Of
foreign missions.
The Chicago Times says: "The ingrsti-
tude Of republics Is nothingi in comparison
20 the ingrstitude of Republicans in Ohio.
The papers and politicians are literally
hunting for q man to take ShermRn's seat
in the senate, and are csnvRssing such
statesmen as Bingham, Garfield and
Schenek, while no one has been heard to
suggest Ben Wade"
And now swings into line the Atlantic
Monthly, in opposition 10 General Grants
denomination. 1t must be confessed the
press opposition TO the soldier president
il growing formidable. With such jour-
mails to lesd of as the New York Tribune,
Chicago Tribune, Springfield Republican,
Cincir nat Commercial and the first
quoted, the ranks must speedily I'LL with
sdherents.
The plague at Buenos Ayres has writ
ten the doom of hEt city as plsinly as
though it had been swept by fire like
Sodom and Gomorrah. OF its $50, GOO inhsb-
ltants, 60,OC0 fell before the awful scourge.
The survivors fed in terror, and in q few
months the spectacle was presented of 8
city OF corpses, with no living inhsbitsnt
save those who were too sick or too poor
TO fee from impending doom.
A curious ststisticisn writes in regard to
tbs Atlantic Monthly that during the LAST
year French wPs used in 4s7 places; Ger
man, So; Spanish, including spanish and
Mexican dialects, 45; Italian, 80; Latin,
fB2; Greek, together with Gaelic, Ssnskrit,
Hebrew, Polynesian, Cherokee, Greek snd
miscellaneous, 1853. The number Of words,
ETC., not printed in Italics, yet Of doubt
full incorporation in English, is, perhaps,
half as great IS the sum total Of the above
(985), or about 500.
The last that hiss been heard from Col
fax is to the effect that IL nominated with
Graz. such & nomination would bring
EiEh Il considerations to which he should
give ali proper weight when 1t arrived,
and that 1t would be q hard, perhaps an
ungrstsful thing to throw back a nomins-
tlon thus rendered; bat that he could not
and would not say anything now to su-
3hoIizs bis friends to present his name for
denomination, or In any way 20 excuse
them in labor to bring IL about.