Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-13
CURRENT NEWS.

BaZaineis wife has retired to a conven
: in Versailles.
The original jokes Of the st. Loui
III DelaOcrdt are old.
The oldest Mason in the United State
dies semi-monthly. 3.
n Stanley, who did not find DR.. Living
. stone, is tweuty-eight.
Seymour and Grant dined together th,
other day. Politics were not discussed.
DR.. Houard, from Spanish prisons, i
: soon expected to arrive in this country
If Fechter and his 4" Bowleen! Bow
: leen!p viii only go TO London he car
find six theatres "tO let" -H
Fabulous rents are paid for small cot
tages on the grouse moor of ScOtlanC
during the shooting season. 1l.Il OF
The TTr National of Belgium take.
place next month during the celebration
? Of the JeyeS of national independence.
The story about Nilsson's havingjilt
2 ed Gustave Dore is fudge. They never
saw each other in private life but twice
Josh Billings says that opera music
doesn't have any more effect on him
than castor oil would have on q craven
image.
Miss Rye is again alIeviating juvenile
misery, and has landed another compa-
ny Of London children e%nigrants in
Canada.
A gentleman has taken the trouble to
send to the London Times an account
Of Historical Eclipses' from the date
BIC. 753.
Now that Madame Nilsson is safely
married, is it necessary to keep her Ger
man lover any longer in the lunatlc
asylum.
Madame Catacazy says that, since
being in the United States, she finds
Paris rather slow. Madame CatacaZy
must be joking.
Buffalo Bill is out with a thousand
dollar banter that he can slaughter more
bison in a given time than any other
hunter in America.
Sonor Gorilla, the Spanish Prime Min
lister, says that Spain is undergoing a
favorable change, and that the rebellion
is fast dying out.
At a recent meeting of the BARRIERS
and ~hairdressers of Manchester, Eng
land, a resolution was passed in favor of
Sunday closing.
A quaint old European watering place,
and cheap, withal, is Osiend, in Belgi-
um, f~requented by the middle classes of
Brussels society.
BritOns are not so plentiful at Bou-
loguesur-Mer as they used to be. A re-
result Of the abolition of Imprisonment
for debt in England.
The herring fishingin Lochfyne, Scot
land, has been attended with no general
success, and at present there is no APP
pearance Of fish in the lOch.
Lieutenant Prince Arthur, third son
Of Queen Victoria, joins the camp at
AldershOt flor the autumn maneuvres,
in England, Is a Brigade Major.
Queen Victoria has made a present of
Bagshot Park, in Surrey, to her son
Prince Arthur. The young prince will
occupy his new residence IN May next.
1t is stated that a fresh batch of Peers
are to be created by Mr.. Gladstone at
the end Of the session, to strengthen the
power Of the government in the Upper
House.
The ex-Prince Imperial of France is
a great favOrite with the officers of the
garrison at WOOlwieh, England, his flu
ture residence as a cadet of the Royal
Artillery.
ODGdAA4-AlODl4 NA1IaES IL LdAulAg
spreading in the eastern, midland, south
ern, and western counties of England,
and assuming in many localities a most
yirulent form.
European papers say that although
the existing complications between Bra
I'll and the Argentine Republic are Sc
riOus, they are not such as TO lead to an
open rupture.
NJ. Theirs has caused the German
government 10 be informed that the
first half milliard Of the war indemnity
payable under the recent treaty is held
at its disposal.
There seems everywhere to have been
an absence this year of those riotous
proceedings which have in former years
attended the Orange celebrations Of the
twelfth OF July. lH
A book has recently been published in
Englend by a very able ex-temperance
advocate, strongly condemnatory ofthe
attempts nov being made to introduce
the Maine Liquor Law into England. t'
A German musician has discovered
that the tone of the violin can be great
" improved by immersing the instru-
ment in larger beer, and leaving il there
until it becomes thoroughly saturated.
The number Of messages forwarded
from postal telegraph stations in the
United Kingdom during the week end
ing July 18th, shows an increased of fifty
two thousand seven hundred and seven
ty messages as compared with last year.
The Citation (British) iron-clad turret
ship is to be locked at Chatham for the
purpose Of having the injuries to her
turret made good. Some further trials
are to be made at a future time 10 test
the effects of shot on the turret.
The returns Of the number of English
volunteers willing to take part in the
autumn maneuvres in Wiltshire for the
extended period Of fifteen days were for
Warded to the War Office on Saturday,
thirteenth July. The number is limited
to four thousand.
Immense dissatisfaction exists in the
English civil service on account of the
lowness of the rates of pay. This is a
matter which Mr.. Gladstone has got to
look into very shortly, and one which
will eau him some anxiety, the Lon
don newspapers say r.
The total revenue receipts of Great
Britain and Ireland from the first of
April to the sixth of July were el9,2S6,-
50T. During the corresponding period
of last year the receipts were only el7,-i
1921 99. The expenditure was e24,lT1,-l
ST., against e24, IA 84S last year. aa
In Boston, the other day, Iwakura,
head Of the Japanse Embassy, was pre-
sented with the most elegant COPY Of
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary ever
produced. The work is in two volumes,
printed on very heavy linen tinted pa
per, with wide margin, and elegantly
bound in Turkey morocco, deliberately
gilt. The edges are partly gilt, and in
front a representation of the japanese
flag entwined with the stars and stripes;
the edges atthe end are also Japanese
insignia and the coat-of-arms Of the re-
cipient.
Annual Meeting Of the Stockholders In
the Memphis and Charleston Kali
road Company.
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