Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-25
THE NEWS.

Cincinnati has given q five yea
lease OF it lamp posts for advertising.
The spring book trade promises to b.
very active.
-Milwaukians annually drink S44,
06S 600 worth OF Intoxicating drinks.
"A lunstie asylum for persons crazy OF
solving the United States financial prob
lem, is proposed.
1t is proposed to close all the Sal
Francisco theaters to prevent the spread
Of the smallpox.
There are about one thousand mem
bers Of the Greek church in California
emigrsnts from Russia.
A San Franciscan offers to drive thu
| smallpox out of that city by means o
magnetism for fee of 100000.
Five hundred vessels, with nearly
| twenty.three millions worth of cargo
sailed from San Francisco last year.
"A Kansas man has invented a new
kind of stills, and has applied for pst-
ent on it rs =" mud velOcipede."
The saving to the Government by
the reduction of the Marine Corps from
$500 to 1900 men will be nearly 81 600, ,000
yearly,
1t is calculated that one cotton cater
pillar fly of to-day will have 65, SOC, 600, 900
descendants by the 18Th of October, un-
less destroyed.
The Church Of England holds in fee
simple the right to property worth $40,
OOO 600 10 gold, the annual income OF
which goes 10 support the clergy.
Some scOundreIs drugged the com.
muniOn wine in church at Connesut-
Vile, Pa, recently, throwing all the
communicates into violent fit of vOm-
ting.
M. Deere, the new tenor now play
ing "0rpheus" at Pike's, commenced
life as q musician in the orchestra at the
LouvreD, in Belgium, Of which his father
was leader.
Only two actors were present at the
funeral of the late James I. Brady, who
was fast friend of the profession and
first President Of the American Drsmat-
ic Fund Association,
1t is estimated that twenty-eight
hundred persons have died of smallpox
in California during the past year. In
the Chinese quarters of San Francisco
the disease is almost unknown.
1t has been observed that there has
not been for many years in Washington,
during the two months Immediately pre-
ceding the Inauguration of President,
such an extraordinary calm as is now
prevailing there.
The Secretary OF War has directed
that Ds further re-enlistments be made
Of persons detained IS CLERKS, and in
consequence thereof the Surgeon Gener-
al's office and other Bureaus of the War
Department are gradually having their
forces reduced.
Gen, Grant ssid on Saturday: "I
shall invite civilians to fill all the Csbi-
net positions. If my selections should
not prove judiciOus in the first instance,
I shall feel justified in correcting the
mistake by making a second or third Sc
lection u necessary.
-Newhury, Massachusetts,, m9urns
the death OF Betsy Rogers, q remarkable
berry woman, whom q broken leg killed
st the age Of uinety-siX. She leaves the
memory OF 5000 bushels OF gathered ber-
ries, a snug cum OF money, and five gem
erstiOns of descendants, embracing fifty
persons.
Hundreds and thousands OF men,
says Charles Resde, take 3 share in the
3 public morality, legislate, build
churches, and live and die respectable,
who would be Jail birds sooner or later if
their sole income was the pay OF bank
er's clerk, and their eyes, and hands, and
souls rubbed daily against hundred pound
notes as his do.
"A Paris paper says that ex-President
Jefferson Davis, who has been confined
for several weeks by disease of the heart,
has been advised that an amount of
money has been subscribed in the 5 )uth
with & view to relieve him from the Pc
cuniRry embarrassment which be has
recently experienced in consequence of
his exile.
The attempt of Bishop McQ 1ade TO
install priest Kavsnaugh in plscs OF the
old priest, ThOs. O'Flaberty, ia Auburn,
N. Y, on Sunday, Was forcibly pre-.
vented by the Catholics Of that place.
The Bishop was prevented frem saying
mass in the morning, being led out Of
the church by crowd, O'FlsheTty pre-
venting violence to the Bishop. Subse-
quently over one thousand Catholics
held meeting, and were addressed by
IL Huential Catholics. 1t was unani-
mously resolved to stand by Father
and cOndemning the Bishops
action, and expressing 3 determination
not 10 submit to the One-man-pOwer any
longer in the Bsited States, but to ap-
peal TO the ecclesiastical authority, and,
IL necessary, to the Pope. 1t was slso
not to allow the new appointee
to occupy the parsonage.
Double lines of railway, a third rail
in single lines and various other devices
have been suggested and tried for the
purpose Of arranging through freighting
facilities from the Atlantic seaSOArd to
the Western interior without breRk-bulk.
This has finally been accomplished by
very cheap and Of course simple inven-
tion. Last week a train OF twelve cars,
loaded with merchandise for Chicago,
st. BOnis, ETC., started from Boston via
the Grand Trunk and connecting lines.
The wheels are made TO sniff on the axle
TO the width Of any required gauge, be-
ing fixed in the necessary place by keys,
which are easily removed when il be-
comes needful to shift gauge at any sta
tiOn. A large number Cf cars are in con-
struction on this plan which can of course
be applied Al we'll 10 passenger as to
freight carriage. 1t looks like another
81 leap ahead"
The Columbus (Gi.) Sun says: In
and within two miles of Columbus there
are three cotton manufactures that run
IL, 900 cotton and wooden spindles, and
consume daily, on an average, ten bales
of cotton and several thousand pounds OF
wool. Within the rsdius Of twenty-five
miles are six factories, running 70. 600
spindles and consuming fifteen bales OF
cotton per day. A fourth factory is to be
Ia operation by next fall. By that time,
Columbus alone will have four mills, OF
total capacity Of $4,000 spindles and
average daily consumption of thirty
bales OF cotton, and in this immediate
manufactures running in
the total Sc, 600 spindles, and working up
daily at least thirty-eight bales of cotton,
besides many thousand pounds of wool. |
No place can claim superior or equal
with Columbus. One fac.
tory only is run by steam. By next
winter the manufactures of Columbus
and vicinity will be enabled to consume
some II 900 or y 900 bales OF cotton per
year of 300 working days.
From New York.
NEW YORK, February 28.-Four more