Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-14

one, Thomas Jefferson was ifty-seveu,
Madison fifty. eight, Monroe flfty-sight,
John Quincy Adams ifty-eigbt. Andrew
Jackson yer sixty, Martin Van Buren,
hfty-sevens William Henry Harrison
aixty-sevsns James X, Polk forty-nine,
Zachary aTsyior. sixty-thrse, Franklin
Pierce forty-eight, JAS. Buchanan sixty
nves Abraham Lincoln nearly fifty-one,
when they were elected.
-Bjornarne Bjornson, the novelist,
whose talent as 9 story-teller and novel
ist is considered by continental critics
fully equal to that of Hans Christian
Andersen, is a tall, slender man, with
stern, forbidding features, with large,
blue eyee, q very long but not very
shapely nose, anu exceedingly awkward
manners. He is an excellent reader,
though, and Ia an exceedingly pretty
wife. His writings, though they are
very popular In Scandinavia and Ger
many, have hitherto yielded him but 3
very small income.
The Atlantic telegraph informs US
that two Wesleyan missionaries have re-
turned TO Hankon from an extended tour
through the Chinese Empire. These
gentlemen Travelled through all the west
ern provinces Of China to the confines of
Thibet, 8 distance OF over three thou
sand miles. They were well treated by
the natives everywhere. They saw an
abundance Of coal and evidences Of gold,
silver, lead and iron mines. The Catho-
lie missions were very numerous thrc ugh
out the country clergymen were found
even in the small villages, and the con-
Verts to that faith were numbered by
hundreds Of thousands.
DIR. Williams, of the Dakotah Mis-
sion, reports, in the Missionary Herald,
Increased success among the Indians Of
Minnesota and Dakotsh. He says there
neVer was more encouragement than at
present to labor among them, and be-
lieves that the missionary effort would
be far more economical and effectusi, SIS
well as humane, than the present modes
of restraining them and, as iR times
past, there would be more converts, in
proportion to thR labor and money ex-
pended, than in most other mission
fields.
Speaking Of the recent death Of
the celebrated Oxford boatman, the
London Leader says: "Our best owe
and athletes almost invariable die Of
heart disease, and die at the very mo-
ment when the bodily system appears in
superb order. Athletic science is a very
MOlcck, whose victims, were they told
up, would brighten the n into the
opposite extrtme-that Of not undergo
ing sufficient exertion to keep the phys
icaI system in good working order"
The annual report Of the Ohio Board
of State Charities give q startling de-
scription OF the filth, confusion, and al
most indescriDable wtetchedness Of the
county jails in Ohio. That State is Justly
renowned for the intelligence of It's peO-
pie, but in the matter Of its prisons, it
has little to boast. They are poorly ven
tiIated, children and criminals crowded
together, many OF the jsils ire without
drainage, and most of them are dirty
deDs badly supplied with light and air.
Here is a proper field for reform.
The Savannah (Gs.) Republican
SAYS "Our hotels are crowded with
strangers from the North and cur South
ern States, aud every steamship and
railroad apparently increases the num-
Der. Many take the route to Florida,
while the majority are travelling with q
view to business. These are emphstieally
busy times in our city, Our Wharves are
jammsd with vessels, and our docks cov-
cred with merchandise, foreign and do
A1coAACf VI ONCAy PSAOAa
3 Thomas r. Gould, the Boston seulp-
tor, now in Florence, has been engaged
for the last ttree mOntbs on an ideal
statue which be calls THE West Wind,n
a female figure draped from the waist
a5wnward. the igure is l~ife-sizs and
nearly finished in clay. 1t is much d-
mired by critics and men OF taste for its
beauty aud originality of conception.
He has put the Beatrice" which he
modelled before leaving Boston, into mar
be, @
The yearly cost for singingand organ
playing in some of the churches of Bog-
ton is IS follows: The Rev. MIR. Hsle's
church, 5000; the Rev. w. II Ayers,
$1,000; Old SJuth, $500; Park street,
$500; Essex street, SI4G0; Mt. Vernon,
$500; Central Church, $4,000 Shawmut
Chnrch, $1,000; Berkeley street, $500;
Maverick, $3.50; Phillips, South Boston,
5000 Eliot, r Ixbary. $500 Vine street,
Roxbury, $500; the Rev. DR.. PdtDRm's,
Roxbury, $4,000.
Gold has recently been discovered
in Hawkins county, Tennessee, near
R~ogersville, on the south side of the HoI-
stol river. The specimens exhibited are
said to be of the richest quality, surpass-
lag the celebrated mines OF California.
A company of energetic gentlemen, pos
sesssd of sufficient capital, have the
matter in charge, and will fully develop
the capacity OF the mines.
"A Protestant convert of Diarbekir,
one of the weslthiest men in the COM
munity, freely offered to the missIona-
RES and urged upon them that they
should accept his fine house, made Of
bssslt, for q theological seminary.
1t was refused, as for many reasons il
wiser to have the seminary at
Mardin.
The Traveller thinks the valuation of
Boston may go up this year to $3.50 000,-
200. The appropriations for city ex-
penses are IS 600, 900, OF ] per cent on
the valuation. The same paper expects
BostOn's valuation to amount up to
$500, 900, 900 in 1870, which would be So
much, it ssys, as all tie rest Of the State.
The Presbyterian 20. 81 Board OF
Church Extension reports that in the
thirteen and q half years it has re-
seived q little over $4,000, and has aided
the erection of 800 churches, capable
IF accommodating about 200. 600 wor-
The New York Evening Post con
aims the following advertisement: "For
Sale Cheap-My paw, No. -, Christ
Church. 1t Is q very desirable pew, and
vas in great demand before Protestant
sm was called q failure.u