Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-07
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Gently appointed chief engineer o
the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mo
bile railroad, is a native of Virginia
and for some time during the war wa
Jubal Esrly's adjutant- general.
The Massachusetts womsn-Womel
say that there are 113, 619 American
and q, 073 foreign women in that Stat
who are ready to vote next fall If tn,
legislature will permit them SO to do
These would-be voters pay taxes OIL
e131, 000, 900.
The national debt OF the UniteC
States decreased S12, 39l ,451 50, making
the total reduction since March l, 1853
Of 1926, Gas, 762. The total outstandin,
debt on the LIST instant Qess $1,000
319 OF coin, and $14,4 ass, 426 SO curren
cy, in the treasury was $2,225,9 BIB,
497 So.
A daughter Of the poet Schiller i
still alive, and Is married to tn
Count Won Gleichen. His grandson
Baron Fritz Won Schiller, Is a retire.
officer in the Austrian service. and, e.
he is in failing health and without is
sue, the name Of Schiller will becom,
extinct al his decease,
The shipments of wool from CaIifor
mia, in 1871, show the extent to which
the overland railroad has diverted thu
freight traffic from the water routes
The shipments of wool in that yea
from California amounted to %, 223,
504 pounds, of which 19, 211, 388 pounds
came overland. The vaFue OF all the
wool sent East was So, 697, 900.
st. Louis is about to embark in iror
shipbuilding, an association for tina
purpose having been formed. The
capital stock is placed at s., 000, 600
and may be increased by a vote of tins
stockholders to any amount not ex
ceeding SO, 000, 600. Among the direc
tors T some of the best known mer
chants and capitalists of st. Louis.
The Eagle and Pheaix Cotton Man.
ufacturing company, of Columbus
Georgia, has lately held its fourth an
hual meeting, and received the an,
nual renort, which is highly satisfac,
tory, showing a profit during the veal
Of $204,000. Instead of declaring q
dividend, the company resolved tC
hold this amount as a reserved fund
to facilitate its future operations.
An English gamekeeDec has re-
Gently broken q black SOW to hunt
game in the woods, and she is said tC
run in the hunt with wonderful u
cess. She will track game, back and
stand and point patridges, pheasants,
snipes and rabbits as skil1fully as q
bred pointer. She bounds in response
to a whistle and Wags her head and
squeals with delight on being shown
a gun.
Journalists are appreciated and I'm.
derstood in the Golden State. The
California assembly has ordered to en-
grOssment, preparatory to passage, g
bill exempting them from jury ser
vice. The passage of the bill was not
asked for by the journalists, but it was
conceded them as a matter Of right,
upon the ground that they were en-.
| gagged in public duties quite as neces-
sary, and even imperative, as jury
! service.
st. Louis is to have a convention,
after all. George Francis Train an
nouneeS that on the 18th of October.
sword to Washington at Yorktown,
in the presence Of Lafayette and the
Irish brigade" four thousand dele
gates, representing forty States, five
millions Of voters, and twenty-five
millions of dollars in cash, will assem-
bic in st. Louis and declare him the
next President of the United States.
The Australian and New Zealand
steamship subsidy bill, granting halt
q million dollars annually to the
Webb line of steamers for thirteen
round trips annually, has received
the approved OF the house committee
on commerce, only two members
Messrs. Holman and ToWnsend-dis-
senting, and will be reported to the
house at an early day. The last out
ward steamer of the lne-the Nevada
arrived at Sidney in exactly two
hours after the British steamer from
Point de Gale, each bringing mails of
the same day.
Professor Huxley, undertaking to
teach geology at the Jermyn Street
Mining-schoOl, to lecture at the ROYAL
institution, to teach a class of ladies
physiology at the Kensington muse
um, to teach children the same at the
London institution, to act as president
Of the South London WOrkingmen's
college, to be the leader Of the school
board, to write articles for the Fort.
nightly Review, and to carry on his
usual scientific experiments, found
himself a day lately without the
power to do a single one of these
things; and the result is, he is now in
Egypt to recover health, and is there
fixed for two months.
Mrs. Fairs last interviewer writes.
February 18th: "Since the welcome
intelligence OF a new trial being
granted, Mrs. Fair has wonderfully
improved in appearance. Her cheeks
have gained something of color, The
expression Of utter abandonment
which she wore on the occasion of her
suit with Dr.. Trask has disappeared,
and a bright, hopeful light now beams
in her eyes. The woman has evil
IDENTIFY undergone a perfect change.
The prospect Of an impending death
OF disgrace on the galloWs, succeeded
by q new lease OF life and a hope of
ultimate acquittal, have wrought a
complete transformation"
A correspondent, writing from
Rome on January 2, states that it has
come to the knowledge of the !
public that there are stored in the
garrets Of the vast PalazZo Veechio, |
Ia Florence, more than six thousand |
pictures. They were accumulated. |
FOR the most part, in the time of the
Medici, or during two centuries of that
absolute rule. The number is sufici-
9nt to cover the walls of hall the gal
cries of the world. AS no critical ex-
has as yet been made of
his collection, their merits as works
art are not yet known; but it is
probable that there are among them
numerous gems Of painting.
The Duchess de Meyrac, wife of the
representative OF one of the Oldest
antilles In Potion, has been run over
md killed in Paris by a brougham.
she had come to the capitol with her
husband merely for the purpose of do
ng q little shopping, and had taken q
FINISHED apartment for q few days at
70. 2Rue de Madame, in the Fau-
'ourg st German. A private car
iage belonging to a horse dealer, bowl
ng along at a great rate, knocked her
own in the street by a blow on the
hest from the splinter-bar. Neither
he horse mol the wheels of the car
iage passed over the body, but the
Orce OF the blow was such as to kill
or on the spot. The corpse was
arried into a neighboriag chemists
hop, where it was Immediately found
hat life was extinct. The duchess
hus suddenly carried of was a young
nd beautiful woman, and had only
cen four months married.
WstAB14shea 1890.
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