Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-10
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"A Gentle" bought a coal mine
in Utah nea Echo City, and was about to
20 TO work when six armed men pulled
dOwDAhe timbers, caved in the entrance
10 tn nlne and carried the tools down to
the Weber and left them beside the road,
saving that mo - Gentle could own
or work any coal mine there; that mine
and that valley belonged to the church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-dsy Saints"
The Cleburne Chronicle learns that
a party of ten Indians came within two
or three miles of Kimball, on the night of
the 18th andstole seventeen head Of horses
and killed all they found with bells. As
they went off they took all the horses
they found. NJ. Hurley and WIN, Skip
per. of Erath county, with four others,
~overhauled the Indians at MartheraIs
Gan, in Erath county, and captured 2S9
head of stolen horses from them.
1t seems that the Governments of
Europe are gradually coming to the con-
yictiOn that repeating rifles are a failure.
The Swiss have given them upas too COM
/ plicated for use in the field, and the
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Vetterli's system. Almost all the armies
of Europe are of the opinion that the new
weapon has been too hastily adopted, and
/ are about to re-cOmmence their expert
ments with other breech-loaders.
The municipal council of Bordeaux
have under consideration a plan for cut
ting a great ship canal from the Bay of
Biscay to the Mediterranean. TIT pro-
jector, NJ. Staalde Magnoncourt, estimates
the cost of the work at 442O00, OOOf., less
than 800, O00, 900, and the time necessary
for its completion at six years. Ii would
form a direct line of communication with
India by the Isthmus of Suez, and save
the whole circuit of the Portuguese and
Spanish coasts in the case of ships from
England or any of the northern ports of
Europe.
The Journals usually best Informed
about Reman affairs, and in particular
the CiUtitd CdttOIica, the organ of the Ro-
man Jesuits, ridicule the reports that a
majority of the Cardinals are opposed to
the meeting of the Gcumenical Council,
and that probably the Council viii not be
opened at the appointed time. We are
assured that, unless unforeseen events
prevent the meeting, there will be no de-
lay. We regard it, therefore, as probable
that the solemnity, the announcement of
which has already created so great a stir
in the religious world, will begin in De-
eember of the current year.
DIR. Jensen, of Gotha, announces
that in various kinds of Crystalline and
volcanic rocks he has discovered minute
animal and vegetable forms in prodigious
numbers and in q fossil condition. Some
of these minut creatures he de-
scribes as having been petrified in the
midst of their life functions Among
them he finds infusoria and rotiferR, inter
mingled with algae, and he infers their
formation in a large eXpanse of %stagnant
water. BY the publication of a small
book on the subject, DIR. JenZsch offers
means for testing the accuracy of his
conclusions.
A clock has just been completed
for the cathedral of Beauyais, France,
which far SURPRISES all the existing speci-
mems of the clock-maker's art. 1t con-
tains no less han co. 200 wheels, and indi-
Gates, among many other things too nu-
merous TO recite, the days of the week,
the month, the year, the signs ofthe 10
diae. the equation time, the courseo of the
planets, the phases OF the moon, the
time at every capital in the world, the
movable feasts for a hundred years, the
Saints DAYS, etc. Perhaps the most Gu
rious part of the mechanism is that which
gives the additional day in leap year, and
which consequently is called into action
up every eight days. The main dial is
twelve feet in diameter, and the total cost
exceeds fifty thousand dollars.