Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-02
NEWS ITEMS.


Thomas Purse, a prominent citizen OF
Savannah, Georgia, and eX-Mayor OF
that city, died on Wednesday, aged
seventy years.
Thomas /. A. Nalequet, well known
"a a telegraph operator in the Western
Union Office at Chicago, died at his resi-
dence there yesterday. Heleayes a vile
aud seven children
A dispatch to the Cincinnati Chronicle
states that the large steam tannery OF
Burke, Fender & Co, at Portsmouth,
Ohio, burned Monday morning. Loss,
So, 900; insurance, $4,000.
The German charge rAfdirs hss
informed Cardinal Antoneli last week
that he had been instructed to take
unlimited leave Of absence. He has
since closed the legation and quit Rome
for Berlin.
THAT pew rents are high is not the
reason why common people do not 60
10 church, " SAYS Rev. Alexander Nc
Ker.zie. Those who are too poor to
nav lor a seat in church manage TO pay
ion other things Of less value"
4 Colorado paper says: ave hope our
next Legislature will vote funds enough
for the establishment of a hospital fOT
this state to die. This is too healthy 3
climate for such people"
Learning that some ladies are about
forming a "CmNe Home, Husband,
Club" A" we suggest tdat it be about four
feet long, and have a rrush on one end.
If this is not effective, the only resort
left viii be to rect and resolve.
The Philadelphia Press says a manu-
facturer is preparing plan Tor mag
nificent iron column, one thousand feet
high, from the summit Of which the
vast area Of FairmOunt Park is to be
Illuminated by means Of Drummonc
light.
From L0gansport dispatch says that
two trains on the LOgansport and Wa
bash Valley railroad eollided Monday,
killing Mr.. Wolf, a brakeman, and injur-
ing several others, but not seriously.
The ears were badly smashed The 10
comotive ran clear through three grain
cars.
A special TO the Cincinnati Gazette
from MunciO, Indiana, says that
J.. ID. Evans, Of that place, lost
six thousand dollars by the burning Of his
clofhing-store this morning. Insurance,
thirty-five hundred dollars. Neeley,
lars by the same.
A Pittsburg man has on hand q breach
81 promise case resulting out OF a court
ship done by correspondence with lady
in England. He paid her passsge over,
but on her arrival discovered that 81 e
was altogether another person, though
bearing the same name as his supposed
correspondent. Three lawyers are puZ-
ZlfDg over the equities of the case.
A few days ago the Governor Of Yer
mont made a requisiti0n on the tOvern-
or of Massachusetts for fugitive Grim
inal named Shanks; but no sooner was
the individual IN question lodged i'm 9
Vermont jail than he broke out with the
smallpox, and everybody in the neigh
borhoOd wishes that Shanks had beeI
allowed to give leg-bail.
A wag inspecting a farmers last in.
Il allment of pork at the Detroit marke
recently, picked up ten-pOund stone
and deposited it In one Of the porkers
aEd thszxloudly berated the former fO
trviuE - cheat ia weight. The faTme
looked at the stone, at the crowd, fel
the thrust, and gTowled to himself
Hang me, but i thought put it in th'
small hOg.V
The authsrities of the town. sof Ster
ling, Illinois, have resorted to a move
expedient to- restrain intempersnce
They have passed al ordinance whicl
imposes fine of from five to twent,
dollars upon the keeper of q drinking
house, who, by pEnting OF staining hi
Windows, or by the inteTpositi0n Of
screen, or in any Other way, prevents
\ free view into his place Of business.