Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Madrid papers confirm the late CaTlist
victories.
Two deaths from Asiatic cholera oc-
CURED at Berlin, Prussia, yesterday.
A Philadelphia salOOn-keeper recent
~ drew prize Of five hundred thou
sand dollars in the Havana Lottery,
and now be has contributed two thou
sand dollars to the fund Of an inebriate
asylum.
Among 'the remarkable sayings" OF
Lady Ashburton, a late number of the
! Scotsman gives the following: 81 am
strongly in favor of polygamy. 1 should
! like to go out, and the other wife to stay
at home and take care of things, and
/ hear all / have TO tell her when | come
/ back
The Dubuque Telegraph says: "a car
penter in this city, who has been
/ troubled with rheumatism for long
/ time, Yesterday discovered a novel and
simple cure. He was sitting in the sun
and as the warmth seemed to relieve
his acute pains, be barred his leg and
/ left it exposed until the heat had al,
most blistered it. He says the rheuma
tism is all burned out, and he is en-
tirely cured.
The reconstruction of the Vendom,
column has begun, and is expected t
take three months. After rebuilding
the staircase in stone, it will have to b,
cased with bronze. That metallic coat
ing consists of three hundred and seven
ty distinct pieces, with bas-reliefs IL
spiral form, the whole making twenty
two revolutions, of the length of thre'
and half feet each. The principal diff
ticulty of the operation lies in the ad
justment of those pieces.
Athens, Greece, has had a financia
disaster similar 70 that which has jus
prevailed in Vienna. a sudden fall il
| the shares of the Laurium mines wa
the cause of the catastrophe. Specula
ton had attained unheard of proportions
and, a syndicate of all the mining com
panies in the country having beel
formed, the public rushed with avidit,
for the new scrip before 1t had beel
officially quoted. A tremendous fal
took place in the end, and many failure
/. are reported.
The New York Herald speculates a
follows about the late Strasb0urg elec
. tions: "The late elections in StrasbOur
have resulted in the triumph of the anti
German candidates. If France wer
strong enough to renew the fight Alsac
and Lorraine might be relied on to len
effective help. France, however. is nc
strong enough for any such effort, nor
she likely soon to be; and il is not unfai
TO take it for granted that time will re
: copcile the people of StrasbOurg to thei
new masters. Years were needed
make them French. Years Of good gov
ernment viii again make them Gel
man.
The Andover Btbliothecd Sucru fC
July contains 8 continuation of Mr.. A
M. Tyler's learned criticism on ''Paul
PanegVric of Love''-a paper in ever
gav noteworthy, but especially so fC
its careful research and minuteness
illustration. Hebrew scholars will mn
I, interest in an article on the meaning
/ fba verb ydshd. The leader is on Ga
vim, and other papers on "Ihe Nation,
tgrhe Authorship of Isaiah XII
ITXVI.D and "The Structure of a Sc
mon y In an article on Reuchlin /
tbe father of Hebrew learning in II
. christian church, no mention Is mao
= of his position on the question of Gree
, pronunciation, although his eminen'
!. there has given our language the wol
.
e ReUchtilljdI.
y Captain Villere, Frenehman, WI
, was an officer in the Confederate arm
d in Wheat's battalion, reached he
e from Atlanta yesterday morning.
b the end of the war he was a prlsone
+ and after his release federal soldier
Z, tempted to cut the buttons off his cos
This he resented. The soldier spit
1t his face, and in the difficulty that K
p lowed Nillere killed him. For this
ie was tried and sentenced to close e0nf1n
to ment at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, {
b five years. This term has extended 0v
r three years by those in authority. WIZ
he he was finally released, about thr
o. weeks ago, he set out on foot to Iea.
he his old home near New Orleans, al
e. cot to Atlanta few days ago. The
" some friends raised funds to pureha
ie him q ticket to Montgomery, and '
be understand that he went to Mobile |;
is night. He is the last Confederate, a
Te hopes TO reach his old home in day
IL two. He is nearly seventy years of 81
at Montgomery AdUertiser.