Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-11-28
THE NEWS.


d: Bsthuae used to cell itineran
musicians and venders Of plaster Of casts
Missionaries OF art.
Dartmouth College has ten agricuI
tural and three hundred and sixty othel
7 students.
Gen. Schriver thinks that 400 pdpili
I could as well be educated at West Point
as 224.
-Mm'lle be Murska, the new Partisan
I prims donna, is a disinherited child Of
( very wealthy parents.
-Swsyne, Mass, on election day
( brought out over eighty voters who were
over seventy years old.
Hiram Powers is expected In Gin.
clnnad before Christmas, after an ab.
ss0ce Of thirty-one years.
Madame LIE Vert hes returned tc
New York from Mobile with her daugh.
esrs, and is to spend the winter there.
The Thsyer school of srcaitectnrs
and engineering at Dartmouth College
viii coon be open.
One ffth of the West Point grsdu-
stes in the late var were killed in battle
and one in three were wounded.
Mr.. Fsrney, one OF the editors OF
the London Orchestra, is In this coun-
try to secure copyrights Of Offenbach'E e
music
Whisky was Sheriff OF Chicago last
yesr. The Sheriff Of Chicago was Gen.
BeyeTidge, and the general beverage OF
Chicago is Whisky. Ergo, Whisky wac
Sheriff.
"A Boston paper says Of Mrs. Scott
SiddOns, that "as far as personal pulchri-
t1de is concerned, the lady is an indubi-
table success"
Prof. N4wcomb has secured at the
Sandwich Islands very fine collection
OF shells for the Cornell University, and
Is on his way home.
An opsTatie Csntata, In two PARTS.
entitled the Hsymakers,n is now in
rehearsal by the amateur singers of
Charlottesville, Ind.
The Boston Handel and Hayden So
eiety holds its regular reheRrsals at Bum
stead Hall, Mr.. Carl Zsrrahn, the Con-
ductor, having resumed his duties.
Indianapolis hSs found g. drovn-dead
body, and there are already six claim
ants for it. The question Is, who is the
soul owner?
The Calcutta orchestFa--hve fiidles
and pianO-is rivaled by that at Busnos
Ayres-s piano, clsrionet, violin and
trumpet.
-Alphonse KaTr wittily said. touching
the abolition of capital punishment for
murder: By all means; only let Mes
sieurs the murderers give the example,
and cease to exeIute u.s."
Judge Tsney regularly read every
srticle in the National IJlteiigeRcer. the
Globe, the Edin5ltrg, North British,
Quarterly and Westminster -ReUielcs, and
the London Times
The Rev. ]. Purehas, Of St. James
Chapel, Brighton, recently celebrated,
with s foolish rituslistic parade, the
" Harvest Festival, and was inhibited
by his bishop.
"A SOB OF Rev. Mr.. Make, of Han
cock county, KY, while opossum hunt
ing, few nights ago, fell from the top.
OF a tree, which he was climbing, and re-
ceived severe injury OF the skull, from
the effects Of which be has since died.
The Boston Handel and Hayden So
ciety announce two oTatories at the
Music He'll Thanksgiving week. Han
del's Judas Msecsbeu=n Saturday
evening, 2Sth Inst, and MendeIssohnis
" Elijah on Sunday.
The project of tunnelIi1g the L tst
FiveT between New York and Brooklyn,
il is stated, wiz bs vigorously carried
cur, Rnd plans FOR laying down an iron
tube between the two cities will soon be
advertised for ny the company, which
wss incorporated for tie purpose last
winter.
"A new cattle disease hiss recently
made It's appearance in England, aud is
said to be caused by the swine feeding too
largely on aCOrns and horse chesnuts.
Post mOrtem examinations show that
the blood is 'disorgsnized. The symp-
toms are dullnees, ending In extreme
prostTation, loss CT appetite, small and
frequent evacOations, eOlorless urine,
discolOred spd liberated membranes, and
a weak but not rapid pulse.
The Right Rev. Henry G. Lay has
been elected Bishop OF the new Protes-
tsut Episcopal diocese Of EsstoD, Md.
The Convention wRs held en- Friday last,
The Goth inst, and the vote was 90 fol-
loWs; Clerical vote fourteen for Bishop
Law, and six for DR.. PinckneY; ; Lsy-
mems vote twenty for Bishop Lay, and
eight for Dr.. PincEney. At the time Of
his election To this new diocese Bishop
Lay was Missionary Bishop Of the DiO-
cese Of Arkansas.
Henry Ward Beeeher went to Bos
ton the other day, and returning he told
his people, at Friday evening prayer
meeting, that the religion Of Boston is
ss cold as ice. In answer to question
how he accounted for the frigid theology
OF the Bay State, Mr.. Beecher said it
originated in the dead orthodoxy of 8
former age. II the Puritan fathers had
preached Christ instead of Calv8Eism,
The men who deny the divinity Of the
Savior would not now be in poRof in
New England.
An American mschlnist ls reported
TO have been sentenced In Brszti 10 an
Imprisonment for ten years, after con-
vietion OF a murder committed In Rio by
g despeFadO from the United States.
Af,er the offense was PsEpetrstsd, the
BRAZILIAN police arrested on suspicion all
the American emigrants they could lay
their hands upon. This unfortunate vic
tiuo. IL Is asserted, was acquitted twice,
but on tho third trial he was convicted,
and il DOW suffering the peoalty for u
crime OF which ne is innocent.
William Sydney Mount, popular
American art at, died at atSetauket, l.. l.,
on November lJint IN lnS biZty-thtrd
vesr Of his age. Mount was quite csie-
brated for his rural groups, which,
having been copied and widely circuls-
tsd 10 colored Autographs, made his
psme known, both ct hoIae end abroad.
OF bis rural groups, the best and most
popular are "The Farmers NOonipg," !"
g Rsffse for Goose,n "The Power OF
Music. p "Tas Bspjo Player" "Mu;usl
Rsspect,u and some others, bIr. Mount,
OF late years, has painted very little, and
developed the singular ecceDtrlcity OF
constructing q building upon wheels,
called his portable studio, which he Zoe
cupying the interiorj moved fIOm point
to point by horse power.
The Provisional Government of9psin,
4 during the short time ii has been IN
( office, has Gnooseded in obtaining g more
exact account OF the stste OF the treasury
/ than any that has been published under
Z the monarchy for years. The ordinary
revenue is about $50 600 600; the ordina-
J ~ expenditure, Sl06, ,000, 900; leaving an
I annual deficit OF sorps sI7,000,0o0 The
debt is more than 81, 000, 900, 900. II is
/ asserted that the estates Of the Crown
and Of the Church, available for the pub
( lie purposes, will meet all the extraordi
nary demands for the present, and thai
an honest administration of the treasury,