Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-11-30
THE NEWS

!. Berlin people are moving to Ab0lis
! the monopoly OF the Bank OF France.
The Hudson river suspension bridg
will use up 20, ,302 miles Of steel wire.
-Co-operative societies are being es
tablished IL the large Spanish towns.
-Lamheie has married the manage
OF the French IheRter at New Orleans
PATHS operatic engagements:for on
yesr from October lst, amount O
$I10.000
"A factory 10 Pitts6eld he's three fe
male operatives who have been Their
over IS years Each.
DR. Bsthuae used to call itlneran
musicians and venders Of plaster OF casts
missionaries OF art.
4 Dartmouth College has ten agricuI
tural and three hundred and sixty ethe
students.
: Gen. Schriver thinks that 400 pupil
could as well be educated at West Poiai
az ga.
/ -Mm'lls be Mursks, the new Parisiar
prima donna, is u disinherited child O
very wealthy parents.
-5wayne, Mass., on election Jay
brought out over eighty voters who were
over seventy years old.
Hiram Powers is expected In Gin
clnnati before Christmas, after ga sb.
seuee Of thirty-one years.
-Madame LIE Vert has returned "a
New York from Mobile with her daugh-
tsrs, and is to spend the winter there.
The Thayer school OF architecture
and engineering at Dartmouth College
! will soon be open.
--One-ffth of the West Point gradu-
ates in the late war were killed in battle
and one In three were wounded.
Mr.. Farney, one Of the editors of
the London Orchestra, is in this eouu-
try to secure copyrights Of Ofenbaoh's
music
Whisky was Sheriff of Chicago last
year. The Sheriff OF Chicago was Gen.
Beveridgs, and the general beverage of
Chicago is Whisky. Ergo, Whisky was
Sheriff.
"A Boston paper says of Mrs. Scott
5iddons, that /" as far ss personal puIchri-
tude Is concerned, the lady Is an indubi-
table success"
PROT. Nswcomb has secured st the
Sandwich Islands very fine collection
of shells for the Cornell University, and
is on his way home.
An operate Cantats, IN two parts,
entitled the HaymGkers," is nov 10
rehearsal by the amateur singers of
Charlottesville, Ind.
The Boston Handel and Hayden So
ciety holds its regular rehesrsals at Bum
stead Hall, MIR. Carl Zsrrahn, the Con-
dUetoT, having resumed his duties.
indianapolis has found drown-dsad
body, and there are already six claim
ants FOR it. The question is, who is the
goug owner2
The Calcutta orchestra-five fidIes
and q piano-is riyaled by that at BuenOs
Ayres-a piano, ciarionet, violin and
trumpet.
-Alphonse Karr 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 execute us."
Judge fancy regularly read every
article in the National Latelli0eReer, the
Globe, the Edinburg, North British,
Quarterly and Westminster ReUieI0S, and
the London Times
The Rev. J. Purchss, Of st. James
Chapel, Brighton, recently celebrated,
with foolish rituslistic parade, the
Harvest Festival" and was inhibited
by his bishop.
"A soR OF Rev. Mr.. Make, of Han
cock county, Ky, while opossum hunt
ing, few nights ago, fell from the top
OF tree, which be was climbing, and re-
ceived 3 severe injury of the skull, from
the effects Of which he has since died.
The Boston Handel and Hayden So
ciety announce two oratOries at the
Toll LuF ,fr.r rfvrs-,
del's Judas Maccabeus" Saturday
evening, 2Sth inst, and Mendelssohn's
"ENjsh" " on Sunday.
The project OF tunneiliug the East
river between New York and Brooklyn,
it is stated, will be vigorously carried
out, and plans for laying down an iron
tube between the two cities will soon be
advertised for by the company, which
was Incorporated for the purpose last
winter.
"A new cattle disease has recently
made its appearance Ia EngIsnd, and is
said to be caused by the sWine feeding too
largely on accrns and horse c6esnuts.
Post mortem examinations show that
the blood is disorganized. The symp-
toms are dullnees, ending in extreme
prOstratioD, less OF appetite, small and
frequent excavations, colorless urine,
discOlored and liberated membranes, and
a weak but not rapid pulse.
The Blight Rev. Henry @. Lay has
been elected Bishop OF the new PrOtes-
tsnt Episcopal Diocese of East0p, Nd.
The Convention was held on Friday last,
the 10th inst, and the vote was IS fol-
lows Clerical vote fourteen for Bl9hop
Lay, and six for DR.. Rinckney, Lay
mems vote twenty Tor Bishop Lay, and
eight for DR.. Pinckney. At the time Of
HE election to this new diocese Bishop
Lay was Missionary Bishop Of the DiO-
cese of Arkansas.
--Eensy Ward Beecher went to Bos
ton the other day, aDd returning he told
bis people, at Friday evening prayer
meeting, that the religion OF Boston is
as cold as ice. In answer to question
how he ACCOUNTED FOR the frigid theology
of the Bay Stale, Mr.. Beeeher said it
originated in tha dead orthodoxy of a
former age, II the Puritan fathers had
preached Christ instead OF Calvanism,
the men who deny the divinity Of the
Savior would not now be in power In
New England.
An American machlnist is reported
TO have been seDtsBsed in bragil to an
imprisonment Tor ten years, aller con-
victiOn of a murder committed In Rio by
g desperate from the United States.
After the ofsnse was psrpetrsted, the
Brazilian police arrested on suspicion all
the American emigTs1ts they could lay
their hands upon. This unfortunate vic
tim, il Is asserted, was acquitted twice,
but on the third trial be was convicted,
and is row suffering the penalty for
crime Of which ne is innocent.
William sydney Mount, a popular
American art st, died at atSetsuket, L. l.,
on November 18Th, 10 the sixty-third
wear OF bis sge. Mount was quite cele-
brated for his rural groups, which,
having been copied and widely circuls-
ted 10 colored lithogFaphs,s, made bis
name known, both at home and abroad.
Of his rural groups, the best and most
popular are "Ths farmers N0Oning,"
. Rsffie for q Goose" "The Rower of
Music,p "The Banjo Player" +" Mutual
Respect and some others. Mr.. Mount.
OF late years, has painted very little, and
developed the singular eecentricity OF
constructing building upon wheels,
called his portable studio, which he (oc-
cupyipg the intefior) moved from point
to point by horse power.
The Provisional Government ofSpsin,
during the short time it hes bet IN
L. a. fs-4..