Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-20
SHORT PARAGRAPHS.

The Chicago JOUr!}Gl fears that,
even with the best of weather in the
future, the Western corn crop will, in
the aggregate, scarcely amount to half
the usual yield, and that the wheat
and Oat crops will also fall below the
average. The long continued rains
have affected the crops very badly.
delegates from the labor leagues
in the Pacific States may soon be eX-
pected to visit the Middle and Eastern
States, for the purpose Of enlisting the
sympathy of the worllingmen's
unions throughout the whole c0un-
try in their efforts to prevent further
importatiOns Of Chinese laborers TO
the United States.
Here is what ". l.. Limonin
writes to the Paris RereH about Anna
Dickinson; t'This young lady is pass
ably gOod-lQOking and has consider
able tiuency in speaking; but, rs a
general thing, her arguments are
Illogical in the extreme and hardly
worth listening TO. ! grew decidedly
tidgetty after hearing her for fifteen
minutes"
George Eliot has contributed to
Ailt- august ZtftfGutt Il JOCiAl CilAlNlEh
agatha nearly as long as her re-
cent exquisite rendering of BOccaclo's
story How Lisa Loved the King"
and in some respects even superior to
that. In the same number Mr.. Dickens
introduces Fechter, the iliustriOus
tragedian, to the American public in
very fiatteritg tribute to the great
actors characteristic eXcellencies.
Prof. Richard Owen, of the Indi-
ana State University, sailed for Eu-
rope yesterday. He designs trip of
about six months, during which time
he hopes to visit Ireland, Scotland,
England, France, Germany, Switzer-
land, Italy, Palestine, Athens, COrinth
and other places Of note. He does
not go so much in pursuit of special
ties as with the general objects of
traveller and scholar.
The Philadelphia Lecturer SAYS that
work in the anthracite coal regions. at
the latest dates from the mines, had
been pretty generally resumed. 1t is
believed that the present deficit on
last years production, say half a
million of tons, will be overcome, and
an increase be realized of a quarter of
million by the end of August. The
supply of coal, from its highest in
crease, was reduced by the late sus-
pension about million and 8 quarter
of tons.
A Leavenworth, Kansas, dispatch
saws: The Times and Conservative
publishes a full report of the great
food at PaQli, Kansas. There were
only two death by drowning. The
] loss of property Is very great. Three
streams near Paoli rose in a few hours
| thirty feet, carrying off houses, mills,
| fences, and everything capable of
floating. Paoli looked like an island
in a lake. Two bridges were swept
away; hogs and cattle were drowned,
and the crops on the bottom lands
suffered severely. The food subsidized
on Monday nearly as rapidly as it
rose.
Within the space Of one block at
Detroit, on Tuesday, there were at
one time, a One-legged soldier grind
ing an organ; q one-legged soldier
holding out cigar box for pennies; a
One-armed boy grinding another hand
1 a. bON uOhlllS GLAtsIllN 4.
a halfbreed Indian exhibiting a de-
cayed leg and soliciting aims; young
lad asking for five cents to buy loaf
of bread for a rheumatic mother; a
man with both feet off, looking hurt
If the coppers did not fall into his hat,
and lad leading an old man from store
to store, to collect money to support
him in his blindness.
The Engineer, of London, pub
fishes the following curious statistics
of the weekly produce of the various
manufactures in Birmingham: a.
100000 of steel pens, 5000 iron leo
steads, 1000 guns, 300, ,0V0, 900 of ma
chine screws, 100000, 900 of buttons,
1900 saddles, 100000 of copper and
bronze coins, 10000 balls, 10000
pounds weight of. papier mache work
f30, 900. worth of jewelFy, 10000, 900 Of
feet in length of wire, 10000 pounds
weight of needles, 10000 pounds o.
hairpins, Is, 750, 900 of hooks and eyes
10000 dozen fire irons, $500 pairs O
bellows, $50 sewing machines, etc.
Work is now in active progress
on the foundation for new State
House at Albany, n. Y. 1t is very
difficult job and will take long time
A foundation of concrete is laid ovel
: the whole surface to be covered By
the building. 1t is three feet deep al
points where it will be required Il
! support exterior or interior walls
On this is placed the limestone foun
dation walls, fifteen feet eight inche.
, in width at the bottom, and sever
and a half feet wide at the top. A
large part Of the stone Is already or
the ground ready for use, having beer
brought from near Lake Champlain
Z from Monson in this State, and from
l a quarry near Saratoga.