Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-06
THE NEWS.

Fifty Danes have settled in Oklahoma.
One hundred and fifty more are to
follow.
The Radicals propose a Federal
school system, to do away with secta-
rianism. The remedy is worse than
the disease.
1.-THE thief doth fear each bush an
officer and England magnifies each
murmur of discomfort in Ireland into
a Fenian rising.
The editor of the Iuka Mirror says
he is a hard-shell Democrat and soft
shell Baptist. In any event, he
knows how to conduct a liberal news
paper.
Judge Hoar's successor as Attorney
General will be Judge Edwards Pier
repont, now United states District At
torney for the Southern District of
New York.
The Charleston Ne3cS says that South
Carolina is the earthly paradise of the
rOgues, renegades and ragamutfins
who give tone and character, after
their kind, to Radicalism in the South
ern States.
George W. Butler, nephew to
Twiggs' friend Ben, was advertised
TO dine at the Aston the other day.
The programme said ladies would be
present-a typographical error, evil
IDENTIFY.
Prentice is as racy as ever. In the
last number of the C0Urjer-JouTpGt, Of
which he is still the soul, he says:
"Dr. Bard, of the Atlanta NelC Era,
is still throwing his p~rojectiles at
Governor Bullock. His EXcellency
stands the bom-Bardment pretty
we'll"
1t is reported that the tariff is to be
reduced. The free list is to be extend
ed and the rates reduced on coffee, tea
and other articles. We hope that on
this important issue, the Radical
members of Congress from this State
will not grOvel in the dust at the feet
of New England, as they did when
the bill was passed. In the name OF
all that is manly let US have a home
policy on something.
The Philadelphia Age says: "Old
torch and tu%rpentine' BrOwnlOw is in
favor Of the removal of the entire
Radical Judiciary of Tennessee, and
the amendment Of the Constitution
upon a Democratic basis. The old
man, in the ordinary course of nature,
has not long to live, and had better
make the most of it in deeds fitted to
atone for the past.
The four surviving American poets
born the last century are natives of
Massachusetts. They are Richard Il.
Dunn, born at Cambridge, November
Is, 1857; Charles Sprague, born in
Boston, October IS, 1871; John Neal,
born in Portland (then a portion Of
Massachusetts,, in 1894; and William
Cullen Bryant, born in Cummington,
November 3, 1874.
DR.. SchOeppe, now under sentence
of death in Pennsylvania, on convic-
ton of having poisoned a German
lady, has made an appeal to Baron
Geralt, the Minister of the North Ger
man Confederation, to interfere with
the Pennsylvania authorities in his
behalf, but the latter declines, saying
that he presumes the prisoner has had
a fair trial, and that under our laws
Justice will be done and no innocent
man executed.
The Ariadne, a steam vessel Of one
thusand four hundred tons burden,
and two hundred horsepower, is the
first ship of a line established for the
purpose Of transporting live cattle
from Texas to England. She is fitted
up with stalls and every apparatus
essential to secure the safety Of the
live stock. Passengers are also taken
at a low rate. The supply of cheap
animal food is aguestiOn exciting great
attention in England, and, as the plan
Of conveying the ~carcasses in ice
chambers or preserved by disinfec-
tants has not proved entirely success
full, the present experiment is of great
interest.
A hymn book lately published by
the Spiritualists, makes an attempt to
combine an index Of authors and an
index of the first line, occasionally alb
b~reviating the latter, to save space,
with some very curious results. Ref
erences are given to:
DO not wound the heart that lOYes-DeJ-
ter Smith"
&" Have We heard the beautiful-Anlanda
I. Jones'"
"Oh, I love the spSrkling-Mrs. Cora
DGHiels.'
I" We come, we come from-HudsoB Tut
ue."