Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-10
NEWS.
The mourning color of the Turks is

Three hundred and fifty thousand new
) books have appeared in England last
year.
A Western teacher lately caused the
death of a pupil by pulling his ear out
by the roots.
/ Troy proposes to institute a college
r for women at a cost of five hundred
thousand dollars.
Chicago is soon to have the largest
smelling works for gold and silver REIN
ing in this country.
: A Jewish paper declares that Ireland
is the only country in Europe where
Jews are not prosecuted.
Over five million dollars are annually
expended upon the streets Of London by
the municipal authorities
? Certainly the Russians are a reading
= people, for there are ninety journals
/ published at st. Petersburg.
California boasts an orchard of four
hundred and twenty-six acres, and over
seventy-ive thousand trees.
It is again becoming the fashion for
ladies to wea their fans suspended by
a gold chain from the waist.
1t is said that wheat which has lain
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export, lows, has become petrified.
Exceedingly valuable discoveries of
heather antiquities have been made be-
tween POsen and Thorn, in Prussia.
Three thousand dozen eggs have been
shipped 10 New York, in one week, by
a firm in Bowling Green; Kentucky.
Nearly two thousand people-men,
women and girls-are employed in the
Observation-Disclosures of Massachusetts.
Ferryboats are not such a modern con
veyance as some may think. One is
mentioned in the xix chapter of II Sam
uel.
Bath, Maine, has now a large and
growing trade with the West Indies, in
exporting lumber and importing sugar
and mOlasses.
fashion of wearing the hair, and the
high bOnnets, is said to be as large as
that of a horse.
There are saidt to be eight hundred differ
ent washing machines patented at
Washington, three quarters being of
New England origin.
A Tilted lover in Mobile, Alabama,
stole the presents he had given the tickle
fair one while she was being married to
his rival. He is in jail.
During the past eighteen years fifty
four boats have been blown up on the
Western rivers, killing three thousand
and eighty-three people.
One hundred and twelve boxes filed
with the bones of deceased Chinese have
been received at Port Townsend, from
British Columbia, for China.
One Of the most distant points from
which contributions were received for
the relief of Chicago was Singapore,
where more than two thousand in gold
were raised.
The government ofNew Zealand offers
a bonus of twelve thousand five hum
bred for the first hundred tons of print
ing paper manufactured in the colony in
the next twelve months.
The New York Grand Jury report that
they examined -four hundred and sixty
cases. The frauds which they investi-
gated had occasioned q loss to the city of
over twenty millions of dollars.
Colonel King, of Texas, has a little
farm of eighty-four thousand one hun
dred and thirty-twO acres, stocked with
sixty-fve thousand cattle, ten thousand
horses, seven thousand sheep and eight
thousand goats.
The flag of the Magnolia Fire Com
pany, Of jackson, Mississippi, was cap
tured by the Yankees In 1868, but after
eight years of wandering has found its
way home again through the Suffolk
Hose Company Of Boston.
The total product of silk coeoons in
the United States, as reported in the
census of 1870, is 3,945 pounds, of which
California produced 1857; Pennsylva-
mia, /; Virginia, 10; North Carolina, 95:
Georgia, IA, and Missouri, 3.
A western female, who was thrown
into a high state of enthusiasm from
the refusal of her husband to devote his
weeks salary to the purchase offs "Dol-
ly Warden" slew their only hog with an
ax. OF such are fashions votariesl
The total number of hogs packed in
the West for the season just closed was
4,S20, sos, against 1906, 251 the previous
season, being an increase of lips, 304.
Of the number packed in Illinois, 1871
527, Chicago packers make returns of
over ], 200, 1000.
Californians are called @Self-R isers, in
Montana, as distinguished from the "PiI-
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to Montana from the southwestern States.
The "Self-R isersp largely monopolize
the mercantile and mining profession, |
while the .tPiIgrimsp generally speed the
plow and handle the hoe.
The nail and spike manufacturers of
the Atlantic States have agreed to a gem
eral advance Offfty cents per keg. The ]
iron manufacturers of Pittsburg on Satur-
day, in general meeting, decided to in I
crease the prices ofal sizes ofiron three I
benths of a cent per pound, and nails 4
twenty-five cents per keg. s
There are now planted in New Jersey, !
according to the. most reliable authori- |
lies, six thousand acres with cranber- I
res. Two years from now they will be l
"a full bearing, when that State will e
AXE the lead in cranberry culture as shell,
lid a few years ago with Strawberries,
-asberTies and blaekberries.
The famine in Persia is not diminish
ng, but there is prospect that it viii
10 so before long. The most recent ac-
counts show that more snow has fallen
his year, and the winter severer than
The suffering is thereby I'M
loubtedly increased, intense cold aiding
starvation in its deadly work.
The police IN Japan are very VlgIlant.
f you have anything stolen they run
the thief and bring him back for
Identification. If the stolen property is
ound on him, they chop off his head on
our doorstep. By paying a sum equal
0 about eleven cents OF our own money &
-ou canldo your own killing and keep
be body.
The new hotel AZ Saratoga, not yet
AIMED, has been let TO parties ia New
'ork for ten years, for twenty-seven
lousand five hundred dollars per year.
!. Is brick, five stories high, six hun
red and fifty rooms, and wiz offer q 3
,wer scale of prices than those Of the q
rand Union and Congress Hall last v
Ear. II win be opened July
The supply of anthracite coal ia Bos-
n is very light, in consequence Of the g
unusually cold weather during the past
lonth, which has not only caused 3
rgely Increased consumption, but has
reverted the arrival of cargoes. 1t is v
ated that the retail dealers have re- L
snty been compelled TO borrow from 81
zen other to supply their customers. Is
Montana has a population Of abegt III
Fenty-tye thousand of which one a.
af is devoted to agriculture. The m