Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-03

s 1t is said that "poor Carlotta" can
not live through the winter.
A vein of antimony has been dis
covered in Trigg county, Kentucky.
The Albany Journal calls Judge
Barnard, of New York city, dissO-
lutte judicial desperate.
Henry Hunter Craig, the negro
route agent on the Mobile and Mont
gomery railroad, has resigned.
John Swinton, formerly Of the New
York Times, is writing the experience
of Ten Years of Journalism"
Hon. d. A. Num-, Tennessee Min
lister to Ecuador, and j. n. Casanova,
Cuba, are at the Ebbitt House.
Horace Greeley mounted the stump
in New York on Thursday evening,
and talked TO the working men.
Vallandigham, according to the
Dayton (Ohio) Ledger, declines to be
candidate for President in 1872.
Wendell Phillips, in his "Lost
Arts" says the ancients 5000 years
ago knew how to make sherry cob
blers.
A swarm OF bees has taken posses
sion of the bronzegIohe on the steeple
of the Presbyterian church at Tallade-
ga, Alabama.
In the South there are sc, 600 Presby-
terians and 1885, 600 Cumberland Pres
byterians. The latter reside princi-
pally in the Mississippi Valley.
The school tax collected by the State
Treasurer of Kentucky during the fall
term, amounts to $IS4, ,760 81, while
the amount discussed will be S323, ,957
4 GS.
Elder Orson Pratt, of MormOndOm,
is preaching loDg-winded sermons on
celestial marriage, to counteract the
influence of Anna Dickinson's lee
turts.
They talk of establishing a new tel
egraph line across the Hudson. 1t is
to be exclusively run by Jersey light
ming. Here's chance for some of our
BOhemians.
A gentleman has gone from Union
county, Kentucky, to find, in the East,
capital to develop very rich vein of
copper that has been discovered in
that county. .-
Mrs. Helen Corwin Fisher, Wash
ington lady, is a contributor to the
New York HeekLY. She has just com
menced a story for that paper called
1.-The Unloved Wife"
The remains of Col. Edward May
nard, late Uniteds States Consul at
Turks Island, were taken to the resi-
dence of his father, at Knoxville,
Hon. Horace Maynard.
The Masonic grand Lodge OF
Georgia, now iIl3sessiOn at Macon,
have under consideration the erection
in that city ofR ggand and magnffi-
cent Masonic Temple.
The United States troops and the
/ North Carolina darkies have had
lively time at GolqsbOro. The recon-
struction policy Of Congress was en-
forced with bullets instead of ballots.
a young calf belonging to farmer
near the village ef Dayton, in Rock
ingham, Virginia, caught and de
voured thirteen young turkeys last
/ summer. The truth can be vouched
for by respectable eyewitness.
! The eX-Queen Isabella intends retir-
ing from Jhe gay life of Paris. Her
Majesty has bought small property
. at GODesse, where a score of nuns are
/ to set up an establishment. A retired
rag picker originally owned this prop.
erty.
I The Monre (Ga.) Addertisey says
that Judge Hiram Phinazee, of that
. county, this year made five hundred
/ bushels of corn on twelve acres. His
best acre produced hIty-thfes and a
half bushels, and the second best forty
six bushels.
Mr.. S. Iren@nus Prime, of the New
York Observer, says he was once a
school teacher; that one of his pupils, |
to whom he taught the alphabet. is
now Governor of New York; another |
of his boys was last week appointed
by Gen. Grant, Secretary of War.
Seventy-five negroes left Richmond
on Saturday for Louisiana, having 1
I hired themselves ut $ls and $50 per
month TO work on cotton plantations. /
The exodus from Virginia southwark /
of the black element Of her population /
has recently been quite large, and, in
stead of diminishing, seems to increase /
with the rigor of the season.
Falls River is the largest manufac-
turing town in the United States, its
spiadie9 being more than even those |
OF Lowell or LawreIlce. There are
twenty-five mills within its limits,
and the place can boast of 1880
looms, and nearly 10000 splindles.
fHhnGn tri1vn on NIL lnv-Fnnr,f tr
whose wages approximate a quarter OF
produces Sl20, ,OO0 yards of goods
year.
An exchange estimates that the
people of the United States pay one /
million Of dollars day to suRport
card gamblers-profession players.
To calculate the rate per year pro-
duces no very comfortable feeling.
Can such an outlay be afforded? In
New York city alone there are over
two thousand professional gamblers.
They live very extravagantly, and
their personal wants, to say nothing
of the business requirements of their
establishments, must cost that COM
munity at least six millions of dollars
a year.
The following is Remains deseription
of st. Paul: " Paul had sickly ap-
pearance, which did not, as it appears.
correspond with the greatness Of his
soul. He was ugly, short, thickset
and STOPPING, and his broad shoulders
aYkYardfy sustained q little bald
head. His salioW eOuntenance wa
half hidden in a thick beard; his
nose was acquiline, his eyes pierc-
ing, and his black and heavy eye
brows met across his forehead. Nor
was there anything imposing in his
speechi his timid and embarrassed
air, and his Incorrect language, gave
at first but poor idea of his elo-
quence. He shrewdly, however,
glOried in his exterior defects, and
even drew advantages therelrom."
The Bolivar Bulletin says: "Hatch-
lie river put on airs Saturday and I
Sunday in consequence of the recent !
falling weather and rose five or six i
feet. If the railroad bridge at Browns
vile Would permit, a three hundred
ton steamer could easily come to Boil
ivar now. open the river and give |
the boats chance. MOnopolies are a
nuisance while competition is the life
of trade. Why don't the river re-
pSrters of the Memphis press bring !
their guns TO bear ON the great inn :
pOrtance of re-opening Hatciiie river? !
Certain it is that the Bluff City has 5
lost and is losing money and trade
every day by our river remaining
closed to navigation. Come. Sir /.
L irrb of tha Ct.ain c.fxf nc a Ign