Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-12
E NEWS ITEMS.


Cincinnati calls for a congress of COM
mercial travellers.
Delaware had another whipping matt
nee the other day.
The Parisians break zebras into har-
ness by electricity.
Sweden, Spain and Japan have adopt
ed o school system.
Selma, Alabama, has twice the popula-
ton that it had in 1860.
Sixty sailors have been drowned in
Lake Erie the past season.
London stands amazed at a man who
speaks thirteen different languages.
Fine sleighing in Minnesota, but moth
ing except oXen to hitch sleigh-bells to.
Muskrats are said to damage the Erie
canal about fifty thousand dollars per
year.
The money-order business Of the postal
department has grown One-half in two
years.
New Bedford, once the greatest whal-
ing port in the world, now owns but
five vessels.
A lake captain fell ~sixty-five feet into
the haTbor of Chicago, and suffered only
a sprsined ankle.
The Chicago Tribune says there are
more wooden buildings in that city now
than before the fire.
Claiborne county, Alabama, has Just
hung a man who murdered his wife
thirteen years ago.
Norwegians keep the smallpox away
by wearing a bag of sunflower seeds
around their neck.
The Illinois and Michigan canal
cleared one hundred and twenty thou
sand dollars this year.
Nova Scotia papers report the capture
of a shark twenty-five feet long, the
longest ever caught on that coast.
A Mississippi youth has cleared about
two thousand dollars this year by the
labor of his hands in a cottOn-field.
One of the signs of the times is that
Massachusetts must build another State
prison to accommodate her population.
Sixteen colored men want to be State
Librarian of Indiana. This is in adj
dition TO about i've hundred white men.
Kentucky is still several ahead. In a
Muhlenburg cave a petriied man,
wOman and several children have been
discovered.
A p~hilanthropic Georgia doctor is
giving way lots of land in a newly
laid-Out town in that state to any who
will settle OF them.
The editors and publishers of Maine
are to celebrate Benjamin Franklin's
birthday on January 18th. Lemonade
and tea and nice speeches.
At the burning of a embarrassing
establishment in Rochester the other
night one hundred and twenty-five
bushels of peas were consumed.
Not to be OutdOne by Chicago and
Boston, Buffalo bOaststof the total re-
duction to ashes of twenty thousand
tons of ice by the burning of a monster
ice-house there last week.
A correspondent of the London Daily
NelUS, stationed on this side of the water,
writes home in unfeigned establishment
- that OIL election day ladies promenad-
ed the streets just as on any other day"
The celebrated Marye's flights, near
Fredericksburg, Virginia, is offered for
sale. The farm contains two hundred
and eighty acres, and was the scene of
one Of the most bloody battles during
the last war. I,
The wife of Colonel and Ex-Speaker /
w. Carter of New Orleans, and !
Of last years Louisiana legislative i'm I
fame, has obtained a divorce
him from the London county, Vir-
ginia, Circuit Court.
About twenty thousand dollars worth
IF buekskin gloves per month are made
1t one establishment in the little town of
Healdsburg, Carolina, and about one
thousand dollars per month is paid to
he employees, mostly women and girls.
Temperate New England proposes to
the principle of " protection " to
extreme by giving a monopoly of the
liquor business to specially appointed
State officials, whose privilege it shall I
Je to furnish town agents with pure !
Paris shOpkeepers have been Gin
7ited" to remOve bullet-marks from
heir shops. A great many shops which n
'eceived no scratch during the COM
nune, had their establishments marked {
" " artists in bullet-marks,n to attract .
customers.
The hide, leather, boot and shoe trades :
If Boston are setting noble examples of -.
mercantile honor, enterprise and pluck.
Not a failure has occurred among those
out. They have all secured new 4
and are receiving generous re-
.nittances from those indebted to them.
From the Nueces Valley (Texas) New8
correspondence we learn that a party of
indians made a descent on General
=. q. Browns rancho, near San Diego,
nd carried off a shepherd named
Domingo, and the wife of another shep-
lerd. Pursuit was made, but without =
The fact is cited as illustrating the
dvance in New York real estate, that
be three lots, each twenty-five by one \
hundred on which A. T. Stewards mar
lie house is situated, conner of Fifth
venue and Thirty-fourth street, were l
cid at auction twenty years ago for 4
1ur thousand eight hundred dollars. n
hey are now worth three hundred y
lOusand dollars. D
Mr.. Ellicott, son of the Bishop of \
Gloucester, Eengland, has just perform Il
d q pedestrian feat of some Importance.
Gloucester at six o'clock in the \,
forming, walked TO Swindon and re-
lrned to Gloucester in excellent condi- =
toward ten o'clock the same even
lg, the whole journeys distance of
miles-having thus been ac- Z
emphasized at the rate Of four miles an
u |
The Springfield Union is hard on Yale =
oys of the present day, when it says '
ne reason why Professor Tyndall
Kinks so much Of the Yale boys, and =
effusively accepts the invitation to
.cture before them, is because they n.
ffOrd so brilliant an illustration of his -
Jews concerning the inefficiency of NJ
1t thinks they are prayed for .,
arder, and get salvation slower, than -
ny other set Of young men in the a,