Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-02
PARAGRAPHS.

WhOp8ystheh highest price for nome
&. The woman who marries for one.
Il Georgia will not tax cotton on woolel
mills erected there for two years.
Hats and bonnets bear a very clos
likeness to each other this season.
The Supreme Court of Maine decide
that an oyster is a fish with a crust on
Flowers designed in autumn foliag
| will take the lead in bonnet garnlture
For dressy occasions rufies Of Ma
lines tulle is the most elegant fashion
lingerie.
! England makes three and a half mil
lion dollars worth of her old rags INT
paper yearly.
Trimmings of the material are tn
most elegant on all goods where the,
are admissible.
Light coats and dark trousers ar
coming into fashion in England, thu
reversing the prevailing style.
A different style of trimming on th'
front and back of a skirt is more fasn'
ionable than the same style all around
Loopings, punching, and a frantic de
sire to pueker cloth into a mere parcel O
odd knobs and Jumps has somewhat
abated.
According to the last census, there art
in the United States five millions o.
children of school age who never attend
school.
The biggest yield of wheat yet report
ed was raised at Kaskaskia, ILLINOIS, by
David ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS bushels 10
to the acre.
Polish literature is daily confiscated
by the German authorities, chiefly Oh
the ground that there is no literary Pol
ish about it.
The polonaise is the leading style OF
over garments, but perfectly t~ght-htting
ones are not 50 much in favor for the
street as formerly
Jet is again very fashionable, but not
IN heavy. massive designs. Delicate
sprays, flexible coronets and glanclng
fringes are favorites.
The three ruf1ians, Mace, Edwards
and Barney Aaron-shining lights IN
| the prize-ighting wOrld-have LEFT New
York city for England.
Beecher SAYS the man who does not
! advertise because the times are dLlI, IS
! about as wise as the miller who tears out
his dam because the water IS low.
Three Virginia spOrtsmen, aged re-
sp~ectively ninety, eighty-tWO u
seventy years, recently followed the
hounds all night, and ran down three
foxes.
For street costumes g~rOs-grain and
some of the better qualities of pOUtt de
sole are most used, costing from two
dollars to four dollars and seventy-hve
cents per yard.
The corporation of the city of New
York have ordered a portrait OF the late
Professor Morse TO be painted, to adorn
the grand parlOr, or Governors room OF
the City Hall.
1t is said that within a radius Of SIX
miles of Portage Lake, in Michigan,
there is available metallic wealth suf1i-
Gent TO sustain one hundred thousand
people, and pay a handsome interest on
one hundred thousand dollars.
Can IL be that the Obelisk which Ma
poleOn I brought from Egypt covered
with inscriptions, and on which the
French lapidaries found themselves I'M
able to make an impression, was really
engraved, as now suggested, by the
sand-blast process?
A white Polar bear escaped from the
Central Park menagerie, in New York,
on Saturday, and took a stroll down
Sixty-fourth street to Fifth avenue, ere
ating intense excitement among the IN
habitants. He proceeded to take a bath
in a deep pool Of water on SlXty-fourth
street, when he was shot and killed.
The ship Canada sailed from New
York recently for Callao with the fol-
lowing cargo: One iron church in Sec
tons, weighing three hundred tons;
twenty-six Corinthian. columns; one
Gothic ehurch-steeple; n Roman al
tar, weighing three tons, and sixteen
fortress doors, with bolts, bars, etc.
The French Treasury has finally set
tied all claims against il by those Ger
mans who were expelled from Paris pre-
vious TO the seige Of that city. The
number expelled was fOrty-twO thou
sand six hundred and thirty-twO, and
the amounts paid to them sum up four
teen million seven hundred thousand
francs. /
Is there any end to the marketable
commodities of the French Imperial
household? Eugenie's jewels have been
sold in nearly every large city in the
world; horses and carriages from the
Imperial stables have been almost as
plenty as pieces of the true cross; aud
row nNapOleOn's dinner service is adj
vertised in three different places.
A Page county Iowa) couple eloped
the other day TO get married. The irate
father pursued and overlook them, and, !
under cover Of a revolver, ordered the
would-be bride TO dismount, but she
wouldn't, ~whereupOn he fired at the
would-he husband, who returned the
fire, disabling the old man, who then re-
tired, and the pair went On TO matri-
mOny.
There is something more than a daily
ferry now between Europe and America.
In fact, the rate is something like a
steamer for every twelve hours from the
port of Liverpool alone. When to these
are added the ships OF the French and
German lines, We get some idea of the
prOdigiOus increase OF late in steam
communication between the two con-
tinents.
The Vieksburg and Canton. railroad
has been put under contract. The
Wheeler Construction Company, Of nli-
nois, have the contract, and will begin
work at Canton this month. 1t is so
confidently expected that the work will
be pushed to Big Black river by Janua-
~ next, and by February next it is ex-
that work will begin on the
Vicksburg end.
James Henry Conyers, the negro cadet
appointed TO the Naval Academy at An
napolis by Congressman Elliott, black,
81 the Third District OF South Carolina,
has passed his examination and sworn
ID as q cadet midshipman. The boy is
a native Of South Carolina, and was
born IA 1855. The color Of his face is
ike that Of roasted coffee, and he has
close curling hair.
A table from the New Orleans Price
Current shows, for 1873, 1856 bales Of Texas
an average OF 495 pounds; for
$50, $40 New Orleans, an average Of 458
each; for 1877, 977 Mobile, an aver
lge Of 800 pounds; for POS, OPS Savannah,
rs pounds. Memphis showed an
average Of 40 pounds, and Charleston
80. General average, All. Calling the
price Of last years crop twenty
,ents, its aggregate value was $3.50, III
"a.
Patent Sponge Cloth" is the name
iven to a very useful invention. and
ne that after trial will become indis-
'cDsdD4t IL Tie nDu1cAlhlas hADAE Nh@A
upplies the place Of an ordinary spongei
} much cheaper and more durable, and
be used with advantage as a dish
loth, buster, scrubbiDg-cloth, etc, doing
way with the unsightiy rags too COM
lon in our kitchens. As a wash-rag or
athing-toWel, the sponge cloth is a pos
iveluxurys
aAdmirari O'Keeffe, the newsboy
Tho won the naval cadetship with such
onors from the Fifth Congressional
Of New York, has gone TO An
apolis and begun his rather trying ca
ser. Unjust be decidedly formidablet0
the public lay aside the Office Of
for a boy TO grow up, and for
i'm to feel himself watched BY the press
Z his native city, ready to chronicle any
nd every bright achievement he may
G the hero Of But the boy who, with !
at friends or position to aid him, could f,
uietiy carry off such laurels as "John-l
" did, is equal TO the situation. y