Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-01
NEWS.

A citizens reform ticket has been
placed in nomination in Philadelphia.
Hay is selling at Greenport, CT, at
thirty dollars per ton, with fair pros
poets of an advance.
The orange crop of Terrebonne a
ish is excellent, and trees are so load
ed that the branches require prop
ping up.
The late Edward Everett's sister
and John @. Breekinridge's cousin are
said to be living as sisters of charity
in New Or1eaG
The increase Of overland freiphts
from San Francisco will stop large
shipments Of grapes arranged for the
early part Of the season.
The French wheat crop will fall
short of the average by eleven million
bushels; but the yield of barley and
minor crops IL abundant.
shark Twain" has resolved to be-
come a taxpayer in Hartford, which
city has been noted for its marked
Wane for some years past.
Washington's servants having de-
parted this life, the servants of An
drew Jackson have now began to die
of in various western towns.
Madame Ristori is soon to make her
first professional visit to the Dsnubian
principaiities. She will play at
Bucharest, dalatz and Odessa.
Two thousand warriors, under the
leadership Of Sitting Bull, are report
ed to have forced the surveying party
of the Northern Pacific railway to
turn back.
The English holders of Confederate
cotton bonds, says London dispatch
of the 2Ist, are organizing to present
their claims to the commissioners of
arbitration at Washington.
On the first of November next the
interest on the fve-tWenty bonds of
1852, of March and June, 1854 and
1866, falls due, and its payment will
take over 81, 900, 900 in gold.
Hon. James A. Coffin, who repre-
sented Monroe county, Tennessee, In
the Constitutional Convention OF 1870,
died at Jacksonville, in that county, |
last Tuesday, aged sixty-fve years.
Seven hundred assistant assessors
of internal revenue have been dis
charged since last October. By this
reduction the annual saving to the
government is more than a million of
dollars.
The Democrats of Wisconsin have
engaged ex-senator Hendricks, Mr..
s. Groesbeek, ex governor Ran
dali and sanOther able speakers, to
canvass the State in favor of Doc
little.
Texas papers report that the United
States army officer having them in
his possession, has refused to deliver
10 to the Statejudieial authorities the
TWO Indian chiefs captured by Gen
sral Sherman.
The New Orleans Picayune says
he citizens of Fayette county, Texas,
rave resolved to refuse payment of
heir school tax, and the San Antonio i
Herald intimates that this procedure I
viii be followed in other populous I
Ounties. 4
Three negroes, named Grand Oliver. /
Vat Caldwell and Anderson Holland. Z
we're taken out of the Jail at Winches- 1
or, Franklin county, Tenn, at IL .
CLOCK Wednesday night, by q band
I ten disguised men, and shot and
ung,
The machinery and engine for the =
'alcasieu, La sulphur mines will be I
hipped direct from Calais, France, to h
le mouth Of the Calcasieu river, and q
g there transferred TO baEges. ItwiH (
OF be shipped to Galveston or New q
2
One of the Democratic papers of 6
lew Jersey denies q current report a
the effect that Honorable Joel Par n
reluctance to accept the Demo- 81
attic nomination for Governor was 81
vereome by the offer of certain per- n
ms to supplement- his salary while p
Office by $4,000 per annum, ID
The baggageman of q western ~ y
lund express train observed q very ~
fensive OdOr arising from a trunk -
for Chicago. "A detective Os
as calIedand the trunk broken open:
1t instead of findings ghastlycorpse, 10
ey found about five pounds of Linn M
Irger cheese. re
The Rev. w. II. Mjlburn, the WELL n
lOWn ''blind preacher" il Is dis sc
tehed from Chicago, September Is. =
formally Withdrawn from the u
~Dtestant Episcopal Church, andre ~
rned to the Methodist Episcopal y
Iurch, from which he Withdrew ne
me five years ago, pr
the present season, with two 70;
,nths and a half of navigation yet nv,
come, there have been recefvet at f,o
lfalo $50 293 barrels OF hour aud S6, fht
,544 bushels of grain, indieatinasI ~
1.-THE receipts ofthe year viii nearly an,
equal those OF any preceding ria
". "a 81 kfs
he Nashville Banner says; "Wele ns