Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-29

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mia, died on Saturday, according tC
the Carlisle table of mortality, at the
age Of So.
Gtnaral Adam Badeau hopes to pui
an end to Grants life this winter, and
viii remain in Washington for thai
purpose.
In the absence of enterprising re-
porters, the Emperor of Austria and
the King OF Italy have resolved to
interview each other.
Rev. DIR. Sprague, of Albany has
been voted an annual pension of 81, 00d
by the congregation which he leaves
after forty years ministry.
Anna Dickinson gravely offended a
Boston audience the other evening in
her Mormon lecture, by dwelling upon
the true objects of marriage.
Mr. Grants head is already blocked
as a design for 4 new postage stamp.
A teR-cent one would be appropriate
to the sententOusnes5 Of the original.
Its estimated that this years re-
ceipts of cotton at New Orleans will
exceed those Of last season by at least
500, 900 bales.
The first bear of the Mobile season
was killed a day or two since near
ChiekasabOgue, and displayed at Jen-
kin'S restaurant.
The authorities of Glasgow have
granted permission TO run, expert
mentally, Omnibuses drawn by patent
road steamers, with india rubber tires,
through the streets of their city.
The coal trade of Atlanta is rapidly
on the increase. To supply the de-
mand, the Western and Atlantic rail-
road are building fifty coal cars, to be
used by the company at Coal creek.
The Boston police prohibit newsboys
peddliug the periodicals published in
that city, the ayOwed motive being
4" To prevent the youngsters from be-
coming criminals"
The New York Telegram says Andy
johnson was not elected Senator from
Tennessee, but his particular friend
and associate. Juuge Cooper, was. 1t
is probably a sort Of Cooperative Sen
atOTship.
Religion Is not the speciality Of any
one feeling, but the mood and har-
moRs Of the whole of them. 1t is
the whole soul marching heavenWard
20 the music Of joy and love, with
well ranked faculties, every one of
aheIn beating time and keeping tune.
The story goes that a young at
f4che Of q foreign legation in Wash
ington has been e5cOrting a cOlOred
lady about the streets and to the the
atre there. On being discovered, he
1 - IL. n V.1.s .
a dip lower than diplomats could
stomach.
Some idea Of the immense deposits
OF iron ore on the Tennessee and Cum
berlaRd rivers may be had from the
fact that q Cincinnati firm recently
wished to contract for the delivery of
4O0,Op tons Of the ore in that city.
John V. 5. Vischer, formerly let
ter carrier, was arrested in Albany, y.
y, on Saturday, and held in 5000
bail for stealing Il letter from the post
Office. The letter was found on his
person.
The Washington Chronicle tells US
that Gen. Grant Is furious at the con-
duct Of COrbin in the affair of the gold
speculation. Considering the fact that
Grant is his own dear brOther-in-laW,
IL must be confessed that COrbin has
told more than he might have done.
Washburne has a salary OF seven
teen thousand dollars in gold as Min
lister 10 France, and has asked the
Government for fifteen thousand dol
lars extra pay. We thought, when he
accepted the appointment, that the
stealage wouldn't come up to his eX-
pectations.
Amos Richardson, of Polk county,
No, who attended the Railroad Con-
Vention at Kansas City, on the 18th
sn5t.. is seventy-eight years of age,
has lived in Polk county thirty years,
and never saw or rode on railroad
before the day named.
On one day last week the Splendid
plantations belonging to the estate of
eX-GOv. Hammond, of South Carolina,
were offered for sale. These planta.
fiOns were carefully drained and inn
proved by Gov. Hammond, one Of the
most successful agriculturistS Of the
country, 10 the point that much Of the
land would produce ninety bushels Of
corn to the acre, or twenty-five hun
dred pounds of cotton seed. Yet, such
Is the disturbed condition of affairs in
South Carolina, by reason of Radical
rule, that no bids could be procured
for these, the best lands in the State.
A dispatch from Dublin OF Thurs
day announces the death of Right
Hon. John Edward Walsh, LII. D.,
Master Cf the Rolls in Ireland. Dr.
Walsh was born in 1916, and was edu-
Gated al Trinity College, Dublin. He
was admitted to the bar ia 1882, was /
made Queens counsel in 1857, AttOr- /
ney General for Ireland in 1865, and I.
Master OF the Rolls the same year.
Among the works that bear his name
are Justice OF the Peace for Ireland,
published in 1911; Reports in Chan .
Gerry, Irish, in l5ij-6; and ireland Six /
" Years Ago, published in 1917. For 7.
a few months in 1866 he represented F.
the University OF Dublin in the House I.
of Commons.
The third deposit ofSl0O in the prize (
fight between Jim COyne and Patsey
ReardOn for SOU a side, to come OffO F.
the 24th OF November, was to have
been made at Billy CarrOl's in st. [.
Louis, on Thursday night, but Rear T
don failed 10 make the deposit. Yes /.
terday Carroll notified the stake-hold- T.
er, Murray, that he would claim the T.
forfeit in favor Of COyne, the first and .
second deposits having already been I
made at McCOOle's saloon. The back /
ers Of ReardOn allege that the failure 4
10 meet the third deposit was simply 1
an oversight" Carroll insists on /
claiming the forfeit, and in order TO .
have the match come of at the time 1
designated, offers 10 renew the betting 4
at S5,OuAa side.
1t has been said that the Missis-
sippi underhOWs as. we'll assOverflows
its adjacent swamps. Therefore the
girls Oi Cairo excel in singing Pm
Ilaoqt, I'm dfOdt, and it makes 'One's
head swim" 10 think Of Cairo. There
is a jealousy between Cairo and Mound
CITY, and the Cairo Bulletin tells Us OF
a firm al Mound City that sunk well,
a few days ago, at mill near that
place, from which are dipped daily
large numbers OF little fish, some Of .
them from four 20 six inches long.
After the well had been dug several (
feet deep, an iron pipe was driven TO /
feed il. Up through this the water
flows freely, and up through 1t the fish /
also come. Its subtefranean stream 4
that is a tributary to one of the rivers
ia the vicinity, and the fish go up 1
the little stream from the river. The 1
fish have eyes and resemble the COM
mon river fish, most of them being of 4
the catfish variety. The well is two
and quarter miles from any open
body OF water.
The death of Ex-Governor Ritner, of
Pennsylvania, revive5 the recollection
of the great uprising, more than thirty
years ago, known as the Buckshot
War, preceded by the tremendous
anti-MasOnie agitation. Longer tnan
the Know-NOthing phrenzy of 1854,
which, during its brief existence, revO-
lutionized parties and changed major
ities, how utterly dead are the aceI BIZ
ties of these once Irresistible excite
ments. Like the fierce conflicts be-
tween the Wings and Democrats-be-
tween the friends Of Polk and Claw
they are fast passing out of the realm
of history into the mists of tradition.
Many of the opposing leaders are gone, 4
and those who survive have long since
forgotten or forgiven their prejudices
and hates. IN another generation the
passions born of the rebellion and of
the end Of the war, will also have
passed away; and those who live TO
contrast the oblivion that viii hide