Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-27

last spring, a magnificent jewel for the
decoration for the shrine of the Holy Sep
ulchre at Jerusalem"
The North Vernon Branch of the Ohio
and Mississippi Railroad is about COM
= pleted, and win be opened for travel on
the first of April. We will then rave a
e through route from Louisville to st.
Louis, without change o~fcars, on a broad
i gauge road all the way.
The obstructiveness and dead weight of
the fossil has long been Of recognized po-
Htical service. A recent discovery gives
practical utility to these qualities of the
article. A mine Of petrifed mud-turtles
has been found in Montana. They make
excellent paper weights.
The Americas (Ga.) Republican of the
22d instant says: "a meeting was held
in this city on Saturday last, to promote
the project Of railroad communication
from Columbus via this place, 10 connect
at some point with the Macon and Bruins
wick or Brunswick and Albany Road"
Shirley Dare writes from Washington
to the Chicago Republican: "Woe TO the
man who makes Senator Carpenter his
lifelong enemy. He has the Yorkshire
nature to carry a ton in his pocket
seven years, turn it, and carry it seven
years more, and send it against his foe at
last"
1t is announced in the st. Paul Press
that Senator Sehurz, Of Missouri, ex-sec-
rotary McCulloch and Ex-Governor Mar
shall, of Minnesota, have been selected by
the Northern Pacific Railway Company
to 90 to Europe for the purpose of indu-
cling immigration along the line of the
road.
The Empress of Austria has some time
ago, sent a piano to the Empress Of Japan,
and now seventeen boxes, which in the
aggregate weighed ffty-seven hundred
pounds avordupois, have arrived at
Vienna. They contained costly presents
from the Tycoon and his wife, for the I'm
perial family Of Austria.
A correspondent of the London Daily
Telegraph says Adelina Patti narrowly
escaped death while returning from st.
Petersburg. The car in which she was
travelling took fire from the stove while
the train was in motion, but fortunately
the flames were extinguished in time to
prevent serious consequences.
An attempt was made on Tuesday last,
by a party of scoundrels, 10 rescue one
Mullins from tho Iuka Miss ~calaboose.
The Constable in charge having been
warned, was prepared, and peppered the
fellows so severely that it is supposed
several were severely sHounded if not
killed. 1t is to be hoped the latter.
The Iuka Miss Gazette a of those
who propose to leave the Democratic par
ty for Alcornism: Let all the Old Line
Wings go who wish. Those who do so
were never Wings, save in name, and
knew nothing nor felt nothing of the
principles Of that party. Let them go,
and the curse of the South 90 with them.
The best place to allow the fowls of a
farm to rangsi IS in the orchard. 1t is said
that they destroy all the bugs, worms and
flies that destroy the fruit, turning these
pests into eggs. which command, we sup
pose, an average Of about thirty cents a
dozen the year round. The farmer thus
not only gets a good crop Of fruit, but Of
eggs also.
Rumor has it that General Grants per-
sistent Eobbying in favor of the San Do
mingo treaty is owing to the fact tina he
has spent already q hundred thousand
dollars of the secret service fund in car
rying out this scheme. and fears to face
Congress without anything to show for
all this money. There is reason in this
surmise.
The Des Arc (Ark.) Citizen Of the I'D
says: The White River Valley Railroad
Company is now fully organized, and
having secured the necessary charter, the
officers Of the company are laboring faith
fully and earnestly to get all the neces-
sary preparation made for entering at
once upon the construction Of this great
thoroughfare."
Commenting upon the fact that the
Radicals in Congress wish Bullock's term
extended, because the people viii not re-
elect him, the Savannah Republican says:
eve have certainly fallen on strange
times, when it is openly argued in favor
of a government hat it has not the SYM
pathy and support Of the people, and
therefore, should be upheld"
1t is quite the style to appear at the
breakfast table, at this season Of the year.
in a white robe dc chGH5re, with a black
jacket, which will be laid.aside on Easter
morning, and pure white only be worn.
Those jackets are not of sack-cloth; but
Of velvet or empress cloth, trimmed with
satin, or embroidered in white. They are
a pretty affectation for pretty sinners.
A foreign journal says; "Dr. Strauss
berg, of Berlin, called the Railroad King,
was a few years ago a simple journalist IN
NetC York. Now he is a kind of Marquis
of Carabas-the railroads of Roumania
are all his; also, the Qualifications Of Ant
werp, the manufactures Of Erias, etc.
Last week he bought in the district of Po-
sen, two domains, for five million thalers.
A correspondent Of the Chicago Tribune.
speaking of a recent trip over the Pacific
Railroad 10 San Francisco, says of his
party: They ate, and drank, and slept,
played cards, read, wrote, conversed,
as II at home, and found the time to pass
away so pleasantly aud quickly that they
regretted arriving 50 soon on the
shores Of the Pacific and finding it all
over.
The Gainesville NeiO Era says: "a j
more extensive area will be put in F,
hort cotton this season than has ever {
heretofore been planted. We Shall note
he result with great interest. If the ex-
1eriment should prove successful, it viii :
probably make new era in our indus !
rial resources, and date the beginning of |
return to our former prosperity. The /
,reat majority Of our planters win test 7
short staple to a greater or less eK- C
&
The Radical Nashville correspondent Of 8
he Radical New York Tribune says in a a
ecent letter: death is busy among the :
Of Tennessee. Consumption and =
,neumonia are swift and fatal in their D
york. Living in small cabins, INSULT P
iently clothed, aud understanding very fe
title how to take care of their health, the "
DOR colored people easily sdccumb to the n
Itacks of disease. The mortality among II
children and infants during the Sc -
ere season of the year is appalling" :
There are five claimants before Congress z
D the ownership of the Hot Springs of =
arkansas. The State courts have for n
We years heard different suits In refer Il
nee to the right of occupancy, but have W