Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-26
SHORT PARAGRAPHS.


hshments Of the Swinburnian orde
Of mOdesty."
Kingslake, the Crimean writer, hai
lost his seat in Parliament by bribery
and Is likely TO come to grief in q
criminal prosecution.
Rev. Gen. Governor Pile, of New
Mexico, writes to the st. Louis Demo
cr0t, advocating the speedy acquisi
ton OF four Mexican States.
The Gentle Reporter of Utah i,
anxious TO have Mrs. Stowe out in
that neighbOrhOod to write up some
OF the Mormon households.
Catherine Beecher is the oldest Of
the family, having reached the allOt.
ted ageOf man, although she has never
reached the man himself
The Paris KcntEckian says a man by
the name of Henry Cooper has been
elected Senator, by the Legislature OF
Tennessee, over Andrew johnson!
The nabobs of Fifth Avenue have
bought of the audaciOus Frenchman
sFh0 proposed opening a restaurant
sSvi;ilin the hallowed precinct.
The Chippewa Indians are said to
have been sEindled out of 1920, 900 by
rascally Government agents. Quite
a huge chip away from the Indian an
nuities.
Hon. James Brooks proposes to
answer Greeley's articles on Political
Economy, by the introduction of a
new tariff bill at the next session OF
Congress.
Admiral Raphael Semmes-all ad-
NIT him to be a gentleman, though
some claim him pirate, lectures to-
night at Richmond before the Young
Mems Christian Association.
b. David Thompson, New York
0Eape-groWer, haG.s variety which he
calls the "HOrace Greeley" It is
said 10 be Of the sour sort, which
/ the phiieOpiler most affects. y
d Ktis said n Nashville that Andrew
johnson would probably be elected to
Congress from his district in East Ten
nessee, or that il is his destiny to fill
the place now held by Mr.. BrOwnl0W.
Bayard Taylor is to retire from the
lecture business after he finishes his
eighty engagements Gor this season.
hepresume there will be no particu-
lar objection on the part OF tie pub
lie.
Joseph p. Quincy has been holding
forth to the BOst0nians upon the
Comedy Of the Boarding House."
He hasn't had much experience West,
or he would give tragic turn 10 his
discourse.
Prince Alfred has been well received
IN Japan, but the Emperor of China
refuses 10 look upon him in any other
capacity than q private one. There's
trouble surely brewing between John /
Bull and John ChinanA9n.
Du ChailIu, the tales Of whose trav- /
els, with horrible pictures annexed, 7
are retailed on the railroads at en0r,
NOUS prices, is announced TO lecture
in Eastern cities on " Wild Life in
Africa
The Right Hon. John Edward
Walsh, LII. d., Master Of the Rolls in
ireland, la dead. He was a graduate
OF Trinity, the Queens Counsel IL
1857, and legal author Of excellent
merit.
The Paris hsatltckian says that Col.
r. G. WIDtersmith is candidate for
IhP United States Senate. One thing
we can say for the Colonel is, no man
with a bigger soul could be sent to the
Senate from Kentucky or any other
State.
James II. Neil, the sterling repre-
sentative from Bedford, Judge Coop
er's county, never faltered in his ad-
hesiOn To Andrew johnson. In this
II is said, and he believes, his conduct
was cOniormed to the wishes of his
constituents.
Just as VIC expected, the financial
returns Of the Boston Jubilee leave
nothing for the soldiers widows and
orphans. Gilmore got the net receipts,
ABOUT seven thousand dollars. Still
ave gre certain that there Is a large
sum ogsr the expenses unaccounted
for. n
Brigham Young, the chief prophet
OF the AOrmOBs, s¢ly delivered an
address OF great length to the female
portion OF the congregation assembled
in the new tabernacle at Salt Lake
City, urging them to abandon the
foolish habits and customs Of Baby
Ion, and To stop sending 10 New York
for the latest patterns and fashion,
plates.
Two young men LEFT New Orleans
some time during the summer for a
"trip u the source Of the Father of
Waters. Their conveyance wasa IA skiff
e5 feet long by five wide. They pro-
posed To hsb and hunt for a living, {
and subsist entirely upon game and {
Essh.- Thus they made their way tOi !,
Davenport. Iowa, where they arrived
on the 18th, and where they design
20 spend the winter. In the spring
they intend 10 continue the voyage. !,
Sir David Brewster has found that
the fundamental principle Of the {
stereOscOpe was known eveG 10 Euclid,
who compiled his A" Elements" about
"A. B. $50: that it was distinctly de- Y
seribed by Galen 1900 years ago; and
that Baptista POrta, in 1893, gave such
q complete separate picture seen by {
each eve, and of the combined picture
placed between them, in which we
recognize not only the principle, but
the construction OF the stereoscope.
The average chances of life, at any
age, can beapprGKinated pretty close
Nv by osducting the age 0f the person ,
from so and adding twO-thiTds Gf the :
remainder 10 the age. Thus: II per- :
son be aged 81 years the difference be-
tween ii and 50 Is 90, and twO-thirds !
of SO Is q, which added 10 the age,
II, will give 6S, the probable age TO =,
which the person viii live. If the /.
snan A yeaTs Of age wishes 10 insure :
for a certain sum ne must pay TO life :
insurance company sums that, with :
the interest on them, Will amount TO :
1he sum In p years, and also editions :
TO pay the management Of the eOIa- y
pany and chances for profits Of the :,
=
The Bolivar Bulletin calls the q
attention Of our representatives 10 the d
Importance Of re-Opening Hatchie riy- 4
er TO steamboat navigation. for il they G
will see that the act passed in 1865 il n
repealed they will be doing nothing =
bot Justice to the thousand Of farmers a
WHO live along its banks, and restore :,
10 tiem the advantages and facilities L
so long siGOyed previous TO the war. a
IIatehie. iroal Bolivar to its junction !,
with the Mississippi, is navigable i
stream, and flows through Hardeman =
and Haywood and forms tha bOunda- %
~ line between I.auderdale and Tip i
tou counties. Thus draining a large I.
portion OF the Western Distric'. h
Brownlow ) Legislature was urged 10 Il
reopen ths river, but as IL was not Y
that body's business to benefit the n
people. the appeal was made In vain. Il
We conhdentialIy hope that the pres d
ent Assembly viii do differently. 81
The Boston HeraLqs Washington a
says: The counsel in "
the Yerger case say that the newspa- 81
yers Inisapprehend their clients ap' Il
peal to !he Supreme Court in the "
pending habeas corpus case. They do fa
not raise the question of the right OF
to establish civil State Gov q
sfnments in the South through mill II
.ary power, and do not ask that the &
Court shall decide such question. 7
The point they make is that this Court st
has Jurisdiction on the matter OF ha- "a
Oeas corpus over any citizen who has 81
been tried Cor crime by a military OF
,ourt in violation of that section of B
the Constitution which guarantees Il
him trial by jury, and that II this "
Court enters into the details of the law
L cannot 90 further than to pronounce N
hat section of the reconstruction law pI
which provides for In
military trials. and that it need not 90 er
iurfher and discuss the power of Con- n,