Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-03-31
CURRENT NEWS.

j lflte GO1AeA D-4ASth - WI IL
5000 600.
Wal street gives $40, ,O00, 900 annual
Iy in charity,
NiIss0n's musical notes have cost
America 81 900, 900.
No meetingO the Peace Conference
ia Brussels yesterday.
Judge Field, Of the Supreme Court,
has been sick for several weeks past.
The Reds in Paris are correspond
ing with Bismarck and blaming
Ibiers.
Cough saws "A Joke falls upon a
Pitfsburg audience with q heavy
tbud.
Subscriptions TO the New Loan yes
terday amounted TO 81, ,25s, 200, max
ing total Of 1851 500.
An honest thief with a conscience
aanis 5000 from Berlin as restitution
money to the United States Treasury.
Mrs. Francis Ann Kemble is among
the visitors at Rome, where she IN
tends to remain until the latter part
of April
At Buffalo, n. y, on Wednesday,
a field Of ice seven miles wide outside
OF the hurb0r prevented the egress OF
ingress OF shipping.
Mr.. Pears0ll, Of COrdOva, Ill, bad
his brains blown out by the acci-
deutai discharge Of his gun while
hunting iu California.
Two companies Of the Twelfth cav
airy have arrived in Louisville from
Fort LaavenwOrth. They are to be
distributed through Kentucky.
OF 1865 students OF the Leipsic Uni
yl,sitv at the beginning OF the war,
500 entered the field within three
months after the commencement Of
h0stiLIu5s.
The members of the Church of the
Messiah .llr. Hepw0rth's) indignant
vleny the absurd story that Colonel
James Fisk, jr., is a member Of their
congregation.
Hartford held q meeting the other
evening and took steps for the erec,
ton of a monument to the late DR..
Horace Wells, 10r his discovery Of
aunsthesia.
Over forty thousand canary birds
are brought to this country every
wear. end probably ten thousand more
are raised ia this country for the pur-
pose of sale.
The Gar OF Russia and the Cz8rO-
witch ere stated 20 be on such lll terms
that their mutual hatred Is the source
OF general comment throughout 81.
Petersburg.
There was a Ticket Agents COnveu-
G11 in Savannah yesterday. O. A.
Dodlaau, of Philadelphia, President,
and H. r. Dorsey, of North Carolina,
Vice. President.
The town Of Trucker, Cal, on the
Pacific railroad, was in flames q few
days ag0. Several lives Of women
and children were lost. The town Is
probably destroyed.
A Brussels correspondent estimates
that fully 10000 Parisians now reside
iu thaf city, which Is consequently
much crowded, causing unusually
high rents and rates Of living.
DR.. John Gegan, who died on a
recent visit to Ireland, left tWO-tnirds
0f his estate, estimated at Sl2j, 900, TO
Roman Catholic charitable a5sOCia-
ri0ns ia Philadelphia, his adopted
city.
Rossi, the Italian actor, according
TO q correspondent, drinks a pint Of
black coffee after every act Of his per-
f0rmauce, aud never goes to BED until
3 am. lie mas kept up this habit for
years.
John Rogers. sculptor, has finished
the first of his series Of statuetie
groups Illustrating lrving's Grip Van
Wiukle," as persOnined by Jefferson.
The group is entitled Grip Van Win
kle at Home"
There is a young lsdy in Philadel-
phia who, whenever she feels ike
enjoying Q joke, drops her bonnet and
shawl on Fairmouut bridge, and then
STAYS away from her friends for
week OF SC.
General j Watts De PUyster, who
was with Napoleon IN all his cam
paIgns, ending with Waterloo, had a
birthday celebration at his New York
residence, recently, aged l05. The
great men Of Gotham were present.
Tt is stated that an agent Of Louis
Napoleon, while the latter was at
WilhelmshOhe, purchased the house
at Ajaccio in which Napoleon Bona
parte was born, with view, il Is
thought, Of making it the residence Of
the late Emperor.
SDielhagen is said TO have made
himself pecuniariiy Independent by
his works Of fiction, and 70 have out
lined q series Of novels illustrating the
development Of mind and character
bv poverty and adverse circum-
stances.
The venerable John TappaD, Of Bos-
ton q distinguished merchant, and,
during forty years, President and
Treasurer Of the American Tract So
,cietv. died on Saturday at nearly
ninety wears Of age. He was born in
Northampton, and went TO Boston IA
1799
Andre Henri CarrelH, one Of the
old, st and most experienced OF ali the
Swiss guides, who had climbed nearly
everF a ihicUlt mountain iH the cOun-
trv. a1d who had many bairbreadth
escaues. WIS recently thrown from a
donkey. uesE Aarugny, and had his
neck DrOEen.
Amadeus has already learned the
tFnt5 q ShakspeaEe's axiom, Uneasy
lies the head that wears a crown" A
Madrid letter declares that he is weary
OF empty regal n0nOrs, and is tempted
TO reslgn-having discovered that he
can depend on nobody, either for
friendship OK advice.
lie Nerrier, the distinguished as
trOp omer, is reported TO be almost
heart erokeR by the unhappy dissen-
gioDs OF Eis country, and 70 be living
under an assumed name near the city
of Akin the extreme south Of France.
Though only Sky this month, he is
represented as quite intrm.
Robert Chambers, the celebrated
publisher, who has just died in Ed
EBburg, worth, il is said, some $780,
600, began his life as poor boy, en-
tirely dependent on his own eXer-
lions, laying the foundations Of bis
fortunes by opening a small circulat-
ing library with a little borrowed
money.
PietrO Ealini made q balloon ascen-
-siOa from Messini, Sicily. on the 18th
al February, and has never been
heard Of since. He was an amateur
eronaut. never having attempted an
atmosphere voyage before, and it is
thought he must haYe been lost ia the
aledtleTraDean1