Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-30
BY MAIL.

Nova Scotia complains of a large
emigration Of its people to the United
States.
The late Fenian scare in Canada is
said to have cost the Dominion $780,
laQ, The present will cost $a,00Q,-
900.
Mohammedans say that one hour of
justice is worth seventy years of pray
eF. Not the Justice we have from the
United States.
By the death Of his brother at Salt
Lake, Brigham Young has had four
houses full of widows and children left
to him to love, honor and obey. .
Up to the 1st of January, 1870, s.
26l, l4S Russian seffs mad become free
landowners, and 3,38S, Ill remained in
their previous condition of servitude.
The Maine hay crop is estimated to
be worth $l4, 900, ,0gQ, and $1,000, ,090
more than all OF her grain crops, in
Guiding the potato crop also.
Over l0,pOJ, 900 persons haye died of
the smallpox in Russia since the be-
ginning Of the century. Vaecin alton
is not compulsory in the Cars do
miniOns,
Fl. P, Shillaber, weil-known as
"Mrs. PartingtOn, will favor the edi-
tors and publishers of Maine and New
Hampshire with poem at their con-
ventiOn, to be held at Rye Beach, near
Portsmouth,
The American Colonization Sociea1
has, since its organization, colonized
T9, 900 Africans in L Iberia. The total
receipts Of the society have been two
and a half millions, and the average
cost of coioniGing has been $l2S.
Mile. -, of the Boufes Porisiea,
is quite discOnsOlate in. consequence OF
the death of her daughter, who was
only three years old. She said, sob
hing, the other day; "POOr thing,
poor darlingl by you remember how
She would say, you be d-d2'~
Denver was built on the banks of
an extinct creek. The creek has now
become a constant stream, needing
to be crossed by bridges. Salt Lake,
in Utah, is seven feet higher than ten
years ago, and is rising annually.
Civilization has brought with it vege-
tatiOn into some of the ferritOr les
where before was an arid desert.
Twenty years ago all the slate PEN
ellis used in the United States were
brought from Germany. In 1850 a
young man at West Rutland, VT,
discovered a quarry and laid the foun-
dation by whiting out pencils and
selling them to the school children
The quarry and mills are now worth
s300,0
Gen. Thomas left no will. The
amount of his personal estate is re-
ported to be $4,000. His brothers,
John w. Thomas and BENJAMIN r.
Thomas, are still living, and also
three sisters, Judith E., Ann, and
Francis Thomas, who live on a plan
tatiOn near Newsman's Depot, Vir-
ginia.
DR.. Norman Macleod recently met
Prof. Gibson, the well known Oppo-
nent of a union of the Scottish Pres
byterian Churches, and something
| like the following conversation took
place: " Professor" said Macleod,
tsthey say you want to enter the Els.
tablished Kirk, and Judging from your
speeches lately I guess it must be
true" "God forbidI' exclaimed Glib
son. "Well,' replied the other,
"that's just what / said when l heard
it.n
Later returns of the New York
election make the Democratic major
ity over $4,000! Outside of New
York city the majority for the DEM
ocratic ticket is 25,0O0. In the presi-
Dental election 81 1868, the Repab-
lican majority in the State, outside OF
New York city, was 50,608. The gain
for the Democracy, in the Yural dis
tricts, is. over, "a, 900 Never was
there such a political revolution.
Radicalism has no foothold in the
] Empire State.