Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

GLo o1ABL1SHE a il
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Iowa viii have a new capitol CON-
pleted before cold weather.
Arkansas City, Kansas, greets its first
baby born there, and has decided il city
lot.
The Terre Haute police are again
heating the jungle IN chase of the royal
tiger.
The Rue Neuve, of Paris, immortal
ized by Thackeray, has been changed to
Rue Wilberforce.
General Robet Z. Lees room at Lex
ington, Virginia, University, is to be
forever untouched"
A petrifed log, eight feet long and
two feet in diameter, is the wonder Of
Russell county, Kansas.
The Evansville, Indiana, police have
arrested q gang Of young hOussbTeakers,
some Of whom are very respectfully con
nected.
A meteor as large as a mans head,
and carrying a tail two hundred feet
long, has been kissing within hearing Of
the MiehigandeTs.
The latest official returns Of the Berlin
p0stotlice show that twenty-four hun
dred and sixty daily American newspa-
pers are regularly received there.
Nearly all the foundries Of the city of
Lisbon, Portugal, have been closed on
account Of strikes among workmen-
employers refusing to yield.
A beautiful girl, the daughter of one
of the wealthiest residents of Hartford,
was found drunk and clinging to a
Iamp-post in New York the other day.
W. Forester, the distinguished bur
glar and eX-Nathan murderer, has ar
rived in Joliet, and mas begun 10 york
out his thirteen-years' contract with the
State Of Illinois.
The Petersburg lIndiana) Press says
that, on account Of the Unfavorahle
season, there viii not be more than an
average crop Of tobacco raised in that
county this year.
Solon Green, of Clay county, Indiana,
found the tooth Of a mastadOn the other
day, weighing ninety-twO pounds. What
"a colossal comfort tOothache must have
been 10 that animal.
The Nashua snd Rochester New
Hampshirel railroad, which is now in
process Of construction, viii by its con-
nectiOns form q new through line be-
tween Chicago and Portland.
Ii is asserted that thousands Of pounds
Of grapes are preserved during winter in
the village Of ThOmery, France, by
merely putting the stems in bottles Of
water, and keeping away from the frost.
Since the occupation Of Metz by the
German troops, the emigration from
that place has been SO heavy and con-
tinuous that the population is now said
10 he but One-third Of what it was before
1he war.
A Grand Rapids manufacturing firm
obtains its motive power from a water
wheel a quarter Of a mile distant, by
means of half 3 mile Of cable wire
stretched on pulleys across the Grand
river.
Under theact Of June 9th, teas and eOf-
feeS, after October Its, produced east of
the Cape Of Good Hope and imported
from west of the cape, will again be
subjected to discriminating duty Of ten
per cent
A dozen sheets Of plate glass, ninety
-iX by one hundred and sixty-eight
inches in size, were east last week at the |
New Albany Indiana Plate Glass |
Works, to be used for the front Of busi- !
hess house in Chicago.
The Associated Press reporter at To- |
ledo has sent the markets from that city 1
daily ever since a period after the war |
af lsi2; but the day when he has sent |
one without closing with "pOrk and lard |
nominal has never arrived.
Atlanta has been treated to visits 1
from professional burglars, and several |
cases 0f successful ROBBERY are already
reported. These knights of the night 1
H6ck to the South every winter, and
thus far have succeed in doing a "crack-
ing business"
Another marriage has been contract
ed between two telegraph operators who
rad never met before, stationed at Lon
don aad Berlin, according to the report
0f Mr.. ScudamOre, British Director Of
Teiegraphy, and society is much cleo
trifed at the occurrence.
Two OF three weeks ago the creek un-
der the great Natural bridge in Virginia
suddenly disappeared On instituting
an investigation the stream was found
pouring into the earth through num-
her Of neWly-made fissures, having
found some unknown channel beneath.
I.Bborers are needed in all depart
rcerfs OF industry in Nova Scotia and
.I,-re is serious talk cf iBtrOdy iaE Chi
ut-a. Servants cannot be hau a- any
price, the United States absorbing III
the dOmestics, and families are reduced
tD all sorts Of straits to get the family
dinner cooked.
Recipe from an exchange: "Just be-
fore going % bed, eat two pig's-feet and
% cold apple pie. In less than an hour
you viii see a snake larger than haw-
ser, deyOuring light blue-haired children
which have just escaped from monster
with sorrel eyes and q red-hot OyercOat."
Rosa Carroll, a handsome but de-
prayed young woman, attempted 10
commit suicide by drowning herself in
lhe Pas-aic river at Paterson, New Jer-
~ey, on Wednesday night. A police
uau jumped into the river and rescued
her The Recorder sent her TO jail
for ten days.
The granite for the New York post
office is being quarried at Dix Island,
Maine, where the blocks are cut and
trimmed according TO the working
plans, and, by the aid of steam-hOisting
machinery, two men are able 10 lay the
blocks as fast a. six hundred can
quarry them.
A Catholic girl in New York lately
HzpOused the Hebrew faith and Ger
man gentleman the same day. Her pa
rents thereupon took a coffin, with her
name and age inscribed on il, TO the
church and had high mass said over il;
carried it 10 the cemetery ana buried
their daughter 10 all intents and pur-
poses.
Boston j. agitated upon the question
IF public parks. The historical Com
mon no longer satisfies her ambition.
The t4tizens have not yet made up their
minds, however, rs to whether they will
nave what they term water park, along
harles river, or one that il composed
entirely Of land.
Advices from Havana state that the
teZt Of the Royal order 20 gradually
abolish slavery in Cuba, has reached the
capital by the last steamer from Spain.
A law has been in force for two years,
enabling the government to purchase
The children bora Of slave parents for
twenty-five dOiiara each, but none have {
been bought.
The frisky Frisco people are terribly
ln0 gnant az the acquittal Of Mrs. Fair (
who shot her paTamOur, Crittenden,
iu presence Of his wife. The fury are :
charged with accepting bribes, and the
insanity plea, on which the woman was
cleared, is pronounced absurd. il is not (
known yet where OF when Mrs. Fair :
vill begin her lecturing tour.
A Scotch law lord was seated one day
81 the hillside Of Bonally. with a Scotch
shepherd, and observing the sheep re-
1osiug I'm what he thought the coldest }
-ituati0u, he observed % him: " John,
IL / were a sheep would lie on the other
side Of the hill" The Shepherd an
ASered: Az, my lord, but If ye had
been a sheep, ye wad have had maire
sense"
The immunity which California has
-ni1yed from the insect pests which
ltve proved 70 destructive 10 fruit trees /
q the Atlantic States, has passed. The I
san Francisco Academy Of Sciences ear !
lestly recommends that California fruit ;
growers should fight them while they /
iTe confined 10 a comparatively limited
irea, and while determination is pos
ible i
1t would be well If some Of our libraries a
eOuld take lessons In bookkeeping ofthe q
ihrarian Of the Boston Public Library; I
or only one book out Of every ninety j
our hundred loaned by that institution {
ast year was lost, East Boston bor- 2
owed sevenLy-ive thousand books, and ],
'cturned every one Of them. Ii must be 4
m exceedingly honest place for New y
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