Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-14
VARIETIES.

Polonaise with basque fronts are much
worn.
The Boston fire department will be re-
organized.
The miIlers of Ohio are to hold State
convention.
Flowers have succeeded feathers as
bonnet ornaments.
Velvet is used as trimming on all kinds
OF light material this spring.
Snits Of gray English waterproof cloth
are the correct costume for ocean travel.
The new thing in fans is the "Tri-
anon" The larger they are the more
stylish,
Normady caps of white Swist over
blue or pint silk are in great favor for
breakfast toilets.
We notice that the gray serge so much
worn for suits last spring is now used
only in overcoats.
Hysteria must be fashionable dis
ea se among ladies, else why the univer-
sal vinaigrette?
Henry ROchefort will be transported
Immediately to New Caledonia-so de-
cree the French authorities.
Sam. H. Richardson & Co., commits
sion merchants Of st. Louis, suspended
Yesterday. Liabilities unknown.
William Guy, ST., an old and we'll
known citizen Of JeffersOnYlle, Indi-
ana, died there yesterday morning.
The funeral of the late Sir George E.
Cartier took place at Montreal yester-
day, and was attendedby over ten thou
sand persons.
4 man named Lieblong, in st. Louis
YESTERDAY, filed mis- body with villain
Gus whisky and then deliberately buried
the body, whisky and all, beneath the
Mississippis muddy wave.
]. Lester WaIlack, Of New York, has
sued Spaulding d Pope, of the Olympic
Theatre. St Louis, for Infringement of
..opvright by playing ROsedale and Cen
trail Park AZ their theatre.
Albert Eugene Perry, who escaped
from prison at Auburn, New York, on
the fourteenth Of January last, after
FiIfug the keeper, was captured Thurs
day night near Oswego, and returned to
prison.
At the sale Of the Marquis de Blaisel's
artistic collection, a marble bust, know.l
by the name Of "Le Petite Lisle," and
signed "HOudon, 1775," was adjudged
10 NJ. Strauss. the well-knOWn chef@d'
orchestre, for the sum Of eight thousand
and fifty francs.
Noliere's EcOle des Fssan1es has been
produced at the Comedie-F -Francais in
Paris this play, it has been noticed, was
produced in the year Of the poets mar
risg &c 166l. "Yes, says a critic, "the
marriage occurred on the twentieth of
February; and the piece was produced
.n the twenty-sixth OF December; and
in those ten months Amande Bojart had
lime enough to brnise the heart of the
r,pOr great man."
9'he Baptists have held large and
inln0rtant missionary convention at Al
bauy. in which Drs. Backus, HOvey,
EVarre,1, MnrdOck, and other distin-
e,Jished ,7nen of the denomination took
Dart The society has received two
hundred ana sixteen thousand one hun
dred dollars, a nd expended two hundred
and thirty-nine thousand four hundred
and seventeen dollars. 1t has debt
over forty-two thousand dollars.
According 30 DIR. w. Reiss, of Heidel-
bar,r. by whom the first successful ascent
Of the crater Of CotoDaxi was made, last
November, the hight of the mountain
i uuGerstated in HumbOidps and other
estimates. The barometer gave nine
teen thousand six hundred and sixty
feet. and separate trigonOmetrical calcu-
latious nineteen thousand four hundred
and niuety-six feet for the northern aud
nineteen thousand four hundred and
tweptv-seven feet for the southern sum
nit respectively.
The savage war IN Cuba eannot Oe
better illustrated than in the Infamous
and impotent vengeance taken by the
spanish volunteers on the corpse OF the
l.atriot. Aoramonte The body, we are
informed. was filed with petroleum and
burned. This is a deed worthy Of the
most barbarous DAYS of the fOrefathers
.of the Spaniards on the African side.
The ashes OF the patriot are now Kept
for a trophy in the Casino Espanol OF
Puerto Principe. The ghoulish hideous-
ness of this act is only too much IN
keeping with the Spanish character.
Meanwhile the war goes ON. BY tele-
gram from Havana we have informa-
ton, on the authOrityO Of Spanish official
dispatches. that q severe battle has just
been fought in the Manzanillo region
between the Cuban insurrectionist forces
and the troops of the Madrid republic.
THE losses Were very heavy on both
sides. The Cnbans are said 20 have had
one hundred and fifty men killed, and
lie government forces admit a loss Of
twe9ty-three killed and sixty-five|
wounded.
The treasury department is quietly
huving up the scattered records OF the
Confederate government In the various
southwestern cities, for the single pur-
pose of defeating exhorbitant and fraud
sIlent cotton and other claims against
the government Of the United Sfatess
TIE Pickett purchase, concerning which
much discussion ensued during the
campaign last year, is declared TO oeI
well worth the price paid IN the eVl-
deuee ii furnished to defeat pendlng
Gains. Though al tests of loyalty will
be eventually removed by the ecourts and
congress, il is not presumed that false
.slaims will receive legal recognition,
alaf the records now collecting afford
p,v ,ofs of different ownership
a "a diDOsitiOn than testimony of
Claimants now. 1t is believed great
fg,,uds exist in the immense cotton
claims at SavaHnah, just allowed by the
court Of claims ia 9agOT of alien rebels
sbere resident. ExOrbitapt sums have
Ieen passed by the Britisa-American
commission here, and the american
AGENT IS trying 10 reopen awards, opt
has not been Successful SO far. The
treasury has ample funds to buy evil
slepce against false claims, but refuses
a nav fancy uriSes.