Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-08
CURRENT NEWS.

Charleston, South Carolina, is TO have
splendiC new hotel.
n Fiss Vernon, of Atlanta, Georgia, fell
into the hsenent area Of her house and
fatal Injured herself on the eve of her
weddl ngday
A ph ifJl sight was witnessed at North
port, Al ALBANIA, recently; A woman was
found deBd in her bed, with her little
srhild fOndling the body and trying TO
,open the Ii others eyes.
Mrs. Ross Church, formerly Florence
k'arryatt, is writing biography of her
IA her. 10 BE- called The Life and Let
Ten ,of CAPTAIN MaTTyatt, r. n" 1t will
con. tain METyatt's sea songs, never be-
fore published.
Edward G. Allen, Of Augusta, having
,sntitle d his child's periodical Our
Yo,fag FOIks Illustrated Paper, J. r.
0sgood a Co. have begun an action for
infTingenl ent on the copyright of Our
Young Ebl,ss magazine.
An old msn has just died in Pittsfield,
Massachusetts. who for forty years la
4 ored under the delusion that he had
n ard in his stomach, but a post DlOTteHi
.ax animation revealed merely chronic
Inflammation, accompanied with en-
lang ement Of the heaTt,
When a husband presents his wife
with q hair-piB, it were Well thai he look
carefully 10 the condition of that useful
implement. A young man in an East-
ern city got into trouble the Otherday BY
presenting one to his spouse on which
she found long, fine silken hair.
Amherst has yielded TO the surprising
pl eference which English speaking
pet pie manifest for their own YeFnaeH-
lar. IL viii abandon Latin ia its new
,eni centennial catalogueo OF the alumni,
their occupation and their residences,
and Dr, sent the interesting record in the
language which students can read with
out a dicI Iionary.
The people of the dominion of Canada
will look upOl2 the last G0YeTnOr-CSen-
eral of the terTitllry in the person of Duf-
ferin, the successor Of Lord Lisgar. So
laws / London newspaper. Good for the
men Of the dominion. The Republic Of
he United States can take care OF all
uhe citizens Of the American c94ilnent,
Tie Ravenna Democrat says ~,
atCdaard Dickinson, an old resident OIL
Sba lersyille, leaving bis house on fheI
18th ,'ltiulO for little while 70 look for
sometb ing in the shop near his house,
and not FetuFning as soon a. expected,
,Tas found dead sitting on q saW-horse.
He was seveuty-three years of age and
had spent the larger part OF his hfe IN
Shalersyille. IL. Na
In 1867, a boy left the manuscript Of
ssNhite ROckst with q Phiiadelphia
publisher, who agreed, after examina-
lion. to publish the book and pay the
author ten cents on every copy sold,
s.FEle book has been sold 70 the extent oil
Iza. 900 copies, and the publishers hoid
Slg 900 for the author, but Il has never
been called for, nor has the boy ever
been seen by the firm since the DAY ths
contract was effected.
A French writer thinks that the very
frequent fires which occur in pine forests
in summer, far from any habitation, are
not due, as has been commonly believed,
70 careless or mischievOus people, but tQ
the seton Of the SUMS rays contracted
by the giObules Of rOsin which exude
from the trees. These act as burning
lenses, and start the eonfagration,
which, 0f course, spreads rapidly among
such infiammable material.