Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-12-16
THE NEWS.
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!. uBlDlA owes over stE UDO,buu.
E The Mormons propose oyster culture.
: Typhoid fever is very prevalent in
: Maine.
/ Michigan has q cash balance Of q
: million and more.
Cleveland counts up %, lS7 school
children.
There are said to he $50 coo teachers
/ In the United States.
-R0ssiui has left el20 q year for two
prizes, in music and pselry.
-Minnesots's population increases
twenty per cent. yetr.
The Union Pacifia CONVEYS passen-
gers 1880 miles from Chicago.
Prizes are offered st Cornell for the
best reports OF lectures.
"A company at Gas Teton, VT, manu-
iscture los, 100 slate pencils per day.
"A. Wiseacre, n. T., attributes much
Of the sickness in winter to the bad effeets
of coal gas.
-Pdree Edwards Island makes cider
for the Montreal foreign wine manufac.
ture.
One of the oldest h)uses in the United
States is a stone one a. Guilford, built in
1870.
-" Blindpits" is the title OF a novel
recently printed in EdnbuTg, and highly !
commended.
The Androscoggin mills turn cut an |
nuslly 2OOO GO grain bags and 6,00O. 600 |
yards Of sheetings.
In ten paper mills at Holyoke. 4
Mass, there are about twenty-six tons of
! paper manufactured daily.
"A soft stone, that can be cut like
pine with pebknife, compOses the ma |
+ terial of which Fort Wallsce is built.
/ Mics Adelaide Phillips will ssil for 1
Paris in the spring, where she has made |
four years engagement 70 sing in opera.
Mics Olive Park has taught school in
+ one room at MethueB, Mass, for thirty
six yesrs.
-Thier-, the last half year, has puz-
zieG the Parisisns by purchasing more
than $50 volumes on \ stursl History.
"A revival OF religion has been in pro.
gTess for the past two weeks at Emory
and Henry College, Wa
The Princetonites tried to Introduce
cap and gown" but the faculty came
down on them.
County pspers tre constantly as
sertiEg hat Mr.. W. G. Bryant hss sold
ont his interest in the Post It is not
true.
"A colored tbnologiRn presented him
self in chapel at Princeton lately, where.
st certain students wsx indignant and
protest.
The Boston Latin School is the old
est educational restitution IN the coun-
try-founded in 1885. three years before
Harvard.
The New Britain factories have dis
charged all children under fifteen, so
that they may attend school three
months according to the State law.
Rev. Gilbert Haven believes that
" Longfell9w is loved iOT his Esnciee, teB-
derness and finish Whittier for his bu-
manity and hesTtines8; and Holland for
his religion"
-Agassiz and Golf.win Smith have
been giving popular lectures in Ithscs,
the latter devoting the proceeds TO buy
ing books on English history for the col
lege library.
German nOvelists seem to be in high |
favor with Americans Just now. Auer-
bsch's On the Hei,hts" I" charmed all |
who read it, and now his "Villa on the
Rhine" is being presented to the Ameri- ,
can public in hali-a duzen different pub.
locations.
"A Bts.On barber aAs a razor which r
was purchased at West Point when :
Benedict Arnold was in command Of
that positive silver dollars being the n
sum paid for it. Il has now been 10 con-
slant use nearly a hlndred years and
still hss keen edge. Z
We have, says thu New York Mail, 8
the two first copies OF the Church Rec
ord, Journal OF church news and reli- S
gious Hters 'ure8 By church, the G
Episcopal denomination is meant, and
the news" " part Telstes TO that branch
Of the church. We sge no difference be-
tween this Episcopal paper and others Of
the same school. We presume Episeo-
palians viii give it hearty support.
New Orleans is sxbilsrated by the
crop returns. The Times exultantly
says: Three hundred thousand bales OF
cotton have been received at our Wharves
since the opening Of the season. At tie
average rate this import ought to pro-
duce thirty millions If dollars, which il
eertsinly large sum, that ought TO give 1
the present business stas0n a good start o
At this rate we ought TO receive over q
500, 600 bales by Christmas. Sugar, too, g
is coming in very freely, and the crop q
promises to run TO if not over one hun q
dred Thousand hOgshesds. {
1t is ssid that tke poet Percival, who
used TO live a heTm { like life at New
Haven, that before wtT1en no was one Of !
the most bashful Of n en-. 10 their pres- +
enee he &" blushed 10 tae bOnesr At one !
time he was asked 70 lecture before the :
pupils Of q female SEMINARY, and agreed \
TO do so if he might address the young .
ladies with his back towards them. It =
Is said that he actually went through !;
with this laUghable performance, stand
ing on the platform with his face turned
to the wall while tie women filed in, !;
and then delivered b ; lecture while in :
the same position.
The trustees OF the Peabody Endow- n
ment Fund In Harvard University have y
secured quite 8 large number Of speci- I
mems for the cOnten pisted museum of 0
arch olOgy and etllnolOgy, and Mr.. u
Winthrop, while in Paris, succeeded in Il
a fine collection Of Swiss re- b
mains and specimens Tor il. The trustees '
of the fund have also obtained variety C
Of teTra-cotts figures end idols secured by / Il
Gen. Caleb Cushing during the Mexican
war. Spccim mems from the Pacific Islands s
snd Africa have been deposited by the n
Boston AtheERum. Ia aboriginal re- II
mains great deal has been done, and Il
the collection in this respect promises to v
be quite extensive. 81
We noticed, in the items depart g
ment OF the New York World, S few a
days since, an announcement thst cell 4
ebrated spiritual medium would hold a
seaaceS, sc which she proposed 10 reveal :,
the secrets Of Masonry as cOnfided 10 her o.
by the spirits OF departed master work OF
men. Fancy Char cellor WalWOrtb 81
Finley NJ. King, Ebenezsr Wsdsworth, re
ct al, coming down from the Celestial d
Lodge to "exemplify the work " for q "
crack Drained medium, OF the female &
We advise those dull and n
stolid fellows aalaed brethren at their O.
but WHO always excuse their "
and stOlidity by the steTeotyped 81
words rusty" snG mot very well .
posted" to call on this enterpTising per- "
sou and receive "iigtt" Ut quarter 81
piece. It is the only way ia which they =,
will ever get il!
Secretary Schofeld places the eondi a
ton OF the War Department before the Is
country in the usual manner. From il Y
we learn that the army Will be reduced o
to 48 600 by the lst OF January; that the a
actual current expenses OF the War De- Ia
durfng the mast wear have been / ~