Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-23
BY NAIL AND TELEGRAPH.


are stopping at East Hampton, Long
4 Island.
Bob ToOmbs goes for Joe Brown viii
a caustic severity that may be called
/ genteel savagery.
! The Montgomery Mail SAYS Willard
/ Warner, OF that State, has undoubtedly
1 come ont for Greeley. -
I The steamer Queen was burned al
I Eastport, Maine, on Saturday. Loss
4 twenty thousand dollars.
Ex-senator Warner and ex-Chief Jus
I tice Price, of Montgomery Alabama,
have declared for Greeley,
DR.. r. B. Weaver, of Gettysburg, is
actively engaged in eXhuming the Con-
/ federate dead near that city.
John Forsyth, of the Mobile Reqister,
! has gone TO Virginia, and I. c. DeUeon
will now run the political quill.
/ It is understood that the Geneva AR
/ bitrators yesterday had under considera-
ton the case of the privateer Florida.
Trade is stagnant in Paris: thousands
of shops are closed and for rent. Many
of Thiers's old friends are deserting him.
William Wisdom fell off The train
/ from Mobile to Montgomery, Monday,
and was terribly mutilated beneath the
cars.
4 Iti proposed to establish an Indus
/ trial Museum at Athens, Georgia, to be
part of the Georgia State College of
I Agriculture.
The Ohio Statesman and the Duig
/ Dispatch, OF Columbus, have been
merged into one, and viii adopt the
name of the latter.
/ Edward NJ. Oettingu, a celebrated
! lyric port of Germany, died at Dresden
I on the twenty-ninth ultimO. he was
I sixty-five years old.
/ a Women's Pacific Publishing Com
/ pany has been started at san Francisco,
| California. 1t is to be hoped that twill
I be "pacificn in nature as well as name.
A large planter in EImore county says
/ that the overflow in the bend opposite
/ Montgomery will destroy between. ten
and fourteen thousand bushels Of corn.
Woodson Hendree, only son Of Dr..
/ Hendree, of Selma, was found dead in
/ his bed Monday morning, when his
/ father went TO awaken him for break
fast. a. 81 .e ~ ruuu
A Paris letter to the New York World
says it may be reliably asserted that
! Marshal Mcmahon has consented to ac-
cept the Presidency Of France, should
4 Thiers resign or die. -
Z Krupp's great iron works at Essen,
/ Germany, cover nearly eight square
miles, and one and half square miles
! are under cover. They furnish employ
ment for ten thousand men.
/ It is stated thar a society is in exis-
| tence having for its object the kidnap-
ping of Italian children, and their trans
/ pOrtatiOn to this country, where they
/ are made street musicians and beggars.
Rev. Samuel Browne, who killed the
/ lad Schick in Cincinnati a couple OF
/ weeks ago, settled in tat city in 1895,
about twelve wears after the settlement
of the city. He is out on fifty thousand
dollars bail. r-E HE
Large sums Of money were found on
/ the person of one of the parties who at
/ tempted the Assassination of the King
and Queen of Spain. 1t is believed that
they are Of the party that assassinated
{ General Prim.
The surface near the Baltimore shaft
of the WilkesbarTe mine caved in yes
I terdav morning, swallowing up a house
containing two families. Only two lit
tie girls were buried. The mine was
I idle at the time.
I The owners of the Anchor line of
steamships, Messrs. Handylede d Hen
dersOn, OF Glasgow, Scotland, began
life with little smacks. They now ovn
forty-siX large ocean steamers, and con-
troll trade of enormous magnitude.
A lump of pure gold Weighing half a
pound, was recently found by a negro
woman on the plantation Of Mr.. Hugh
c. Nisbet, in Union county, North Car
olina. The woman was hoeing cotton,
and knocked the lump over with her
hoe. Tx
The Andes Of South America are said
to be gradually sinking; at least, later
measurements of distinctive mountains
fall very considerably short Of the old
ones; and travellers who wish to make
the ascent of the highest mountains in
the world should start quick.
A son of the Siamese Minister of For
eign Affairs is studying at Oxford, and q
son of the Minister of War has recently
been admitted a cadet in the British
army. Eleven sons Of Siamese princes
are AT Singapore, pursuing studies pre-
paratory to going to England
The daughter of a rich English bar
rister recently eloped with and married
her fathers coachman. They tried LIES
vicissitudes alone for some time, but had
no fattering tale to tell of "love in a
cottage The old gentleman died, how
ever, and in his last moments relented,
leaving one-third of his estate to the
runaway pair . t-
Governor Gratz Brown left New York
last night on his way 70 Kentucky, in
company with Colonel Anderson, who,
however, goes directly to Missouri.
Governor Brown viii remain in Ken
tucby about ten days, when he will visit
his home. Shortly thereafter he makes
a stUmping tour, coming to the State of
New York in September,
The latest and most approved style of
bathing costume consists of trowsers
and blouse Of plain blue flannel, with
the skirt OF the blouse plated with a
plain yoke, which is shaped over the
bust, and trimmed with a red band
stitched on. The trowsers are gathered
in at the ankle, Turkish fashion, and
the edge is bound with the contrasting
color. The blouse may be belted in &C
the waist.
A curious lawsuit IS in progress in
France. a butcher, at a country fair,
negotiated with a farmer for the pur-
chase Of an OK. Terms were agreed
upon; the purchaser counted out the
price ia bank notes, placed them in the
hands of the farmer, and the OK imme-
diately thrust out its long, rough tongue,
licked up the currency and swallowed it
with a gustO. The seller theTeupOn re-
fused TO transfer the OK, claiming that
the bargain had not been completed. It
is very pretty quarrel as Il stands, in
which the OK, being Yet unbutchered, is
decidedly the best of Of all.
One Of the vices Ct American girls,
recently censured severely by a promi-
nent English writer, is a passion for
writing tender letters 10 celebrities Of all
kinds. The extent to which this is car
ried on at the North, would hardly be
credited in this section of country. Not
only do all leading actors, singers,
statesmen and artists receive them in
prOfusiOn, but they cross the Atlantic
and hll the mail-bags of ali the promi-
nent English authors. IL is difficult to
properly estimate OF understand the ex-
citing motive Of this epistOlatOry pas
sion, and it certainly reflects heavily up
on the sex for imprudence,. if nothing
worse. w r. e.
A London correspondent Of the New
York EreniRg Wda wonders at the as
tonishing foresight exhibited in the
British and American press, in publish
ing the reports Of important events,
such as speeches, races, etc, all properly
enbelllshed with applause aud such
Characteristic sensations and exclama-
tions by the listeners or spectat0rs-all
at proper intervals and in proper places,
before the events really have transpired;
and cites the instance. Of one Of the Lon
don dailies publishing full account OF
the victory Of the london crew over the
Atalantas, and many OF the SIDE events
which really did occur, an hour and a
half before the race transpired.