Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-22
NEWS ITEMS.

LyncuDufg cries U IOr new enter
prises.
Newark, New Jersey, has 81 miles
sewerage.
Altoona, Penn, is to have q new
depot, to cost $685. 600.
The Pennsylvania canal is to be
deepeHed two feet.
Boston has a city debt of $26. 629, 911,
Of which &, 72l, $50 is unfunded.
A hog performing on the tight rope
is the last sensation at Elmira, n. y.
Several Chicago clergymen have or
ganized a raid on dancing as a "carnaI
joy"
A stave mandatory has been adj
ded to the other enterprises of the oil
regions.
a catamount, measuring three feet
and a half in length, was caught near
Norfolk on Monday.
A twO-tailed horse, after a brief sea
son in a museum, is helping to drag a
street a in San Francisco.
Lewis Rotterdam, Of Mill Creek,
N. j., got drunk and walked out of a
third story window. Dead.
Over two thousand citizens of Bal
timOre and vicinity are being edu-
Gated how to educate the horse.
Milburn, the blind preacher, said
the first time he went into society ne
became conscious that he had hands
and feet.
The drought has compelled the
Troy iron mills 10 stop work. Nearly
$500 men are thus thrown out Of en-
plOyment.
As a specimen of American genius
and Western enterprise, Cincinnati
boasts a fourteen year old manager Of
a vaudeville company.
How do you define black as your
hate" said q sChOOlmaster to one Of
his pupils. DARKNESS that can be
felt" replied the youthful wit.
The directors Of a Georgia railroad
are debating the question whether it /
is a greater evil to give passes to car
p~et-baggers or suffer unfriendly legis-
IatiOn.7
A bill for the removal of the pO-
litical disabilities Of United States
Senator elect, Vance, Of North Caro-
lima, is before the Senate cOmmitte on
that subject.
Page and line reference according to
the London Fun: Maggie" Ny |
hands are so dreadfuIly chapped, /
Kate" Brother TOm-"Ah they'll
be chapter and verse before the
winters Overr'
Hon. George Robertson, Chief JUS
tice of the Court Of Appeals OF Ken
lucky, is thought to be the Oldest
living x-COugressmau. He entered
Congress in 1873, and is now in his
eighty first year.
Fillmore Weber, one of the stu
dents of Trinity College, who lately
embraced the Roman Catholic re-
ligiOn, was baptized by the Very Rev.
Father Hughes, at st. Patrick's Ca
thedral, last Friday.
1t is expected that the Ohio Legis-
lature will shortly pass q resolution
recommending an early and complete
amnesty, with the ardent support in
each House of q large number Of Re
publican members.
OF the seventy-nine French generals
who were in active service at the be-
ginning of the war, according to the
Paris MORjtstr, there are now left on
Iy thirteen, the rest being prisoners or
among the killed and wounded.
In an orangery at Los Angeles, Cal
~ifOrnia, there is a lemon tree planted
in the midst Of an orange grove. The
fruit of the tree is neither lemon nor
orange, but in shape and flavor it par
takes of the pe~Culiarities Of both Or
ange and lemon. 1t is a complete
hybrid.
The receipts from taxes in WisCOn-
sin for the last fiscal year were $780,
500, and the disbursements sg06, 800.
The current expenses of the State were
1916, $50. The balance of the disburse-
ment5 was for extraordinary expenses.
The State indebtedness remains IN
changed.
A dispatch from Brussels states that
four French prisoners of war, who had
managed to escape from the Germans
into the territory of Holland, were
sent back to the Germans by the Dutch
authorities, and were shot. This event
has produced a painful sensation in
Holland.
There are serious fears lest the in
teTruptiOn to the agriculture interests
Of France, should the war continue
much longer, will result in q famine,
or in great suffering, next year. All
the industries of that country have
been placed in a ~deplorable condition
by the war. Z
Mr.. Booth has been received with /
much enthusiasm IN his return to {
New York. Marie Seebach has also \
returned, and has played to splendid {
at the Stadt Gheater. Her en- {
1-amor~anF n Fhfg oOrr~Aww~ - nDu- oDwr -
and she viii probably imme- q
return to Europe. {
Governor Cladin, of Massachusetts G
that there is "a more cheer &
ful aspect" over the prisons Of that 4
State, and wishes the Legislature i
still further enliven things by l
On appropriation for blackbOards and c
lesks. 1t is not intimated when the b
'0jres and promenade concerts begin. 2
Some of the doctors of San Fran !
cisco give as a cause Ofthe great num- :
Der of sudden deaths in that city, q !
deficiency Of electricity in the at 4
nOsphere. The Daily E.cansiaer sus- !
poets too much e-lectrietricity in the :
of Jersey lightning" to be the :
,ause Of most Of these sudden takings- E
If. !
General Renault, who was wounded
n one Of the sOTties from Paris, died
subsequently, Of his wound. His "a
leath- bed utteranee was dramatic and \
patriotic, if not entirely that of Il
Christian. When asked by a Sister 4
# Charity, 'Shall we pray for your" a
replied, with his last words, "Pray Il
or France" "
The most expensive house in the d
ountry-that Of Mr.. A. 7. Stewart, Il
New York-has Just been finished, Il
{ a cost Of 3 LOCO, 600. The furniture b.
5 in keeping with the general charac- n
of the house, the carpet for the 81
Irawing-rOOm alone costing $4,000. b
t consists of a single piece, wrought
IpOn a loom made expressly for its
manufacture. n
Some of the newspapers that are not 4
a accord with the administration in g
be San Domingo scheme, are anxious d
D have G0veFn0l; Hayes appoint an "a
for Congressman to FIJI the u
uexpired term Of General Schenck IL q
he Third Ohio district. They propose
) make the San Domingo annexation
ID an issue, and promise TO give the Cd
eheme an overwhelming defeat, 50