Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-02-18
4 NEWS.

LAO NON1 pSObAt SlAp h0 NNo
of the coast of Lincolnshire; she
was bound to Boston with coal; eight
lives lost.
The Lord Mayor of London, at a
recent meeting to promote emigra-
ton, estimated the number of skilled
workmen out of employment in Eng
land as between 10000 and $4,000.
Professor Cox says the coal of Clay
county, Indiana, is worth about &c.
600, 000,000. Clay county can pay off
the National debt, buy Cuba and Can
ada, and have enough left for an Orolde
watch-chain.
A rolling mill in Pennsylvania has
rolled out a finely-polished sheet of
iron three feet long and twelve inches
wide, and weighing but three and a
half ounces. 1t is thinner than Ordi-
nary writing paper.
The Patterson Iron Works, at Al
ton, H., were sold at auction on the
5th for $4,000, to Mr.. Garrett, under
a deed of trust. The buildings are
said to be worth SAC 1000, and Mr.. Gar
rett intends to use them for the pur-
pose of a cotton factory.
1t is reported that after the acquit-
tai of Prince Pierre Bonaparte, which
every one takes for granted, he is to
have his pension doubled upon the
condition that he returns to America
and makes it his permanent residence.
GoupOd, it now turns out, has mys.
titled everybody by leading the pub
lie to believe that he had forever
turned his back on operate music, and
was hard at work upon an ~OratoriO.
1t appears that he has nearly ready
for the stage q new opera in five acts,
which he himself considers his chef
TGuUre.
A New York dispatch of yesterday,
says that at a meeting of the Board
of Education on Wednesday, a letter
was read from the Trustee of the
Seventh Ward, recommending that
the ancient Irish language be taught
in the public schools. The letter was
referred to the Committee on Stu
dents.
1t is understood that the bill pro-
posed for making a department of the
Internal Revenue Bureau differs from
the provision in the Tax Bill-that
the proposed bill provides for one As
sistant Commissioner, and certain
heads of divisions. The former bill
provided for an Assistant, and six
Deputy Commissioners.
Santa. Anna was'in Havana on the
18th, en- route for Vera Cruz, but the
Captain General refused to permit him
to leave on the vessel bound for that
port, and ordered him to quit the
Island. The old fellow had been in
Puerto Principe, and may have been
an object of suspicion to the Span
iards.
Judge Usher, eX-Secretary of the In
terror, was before the House Commit
tee on Tuesday, and made an argu-
ment in favor of the House bill,
entitled ga bill to authorize and aid
the Kansas Pacific Railroad Company
TO extend and construct its railroad
and telegraph line to Ell Paso, New
Mexico"
A dispatch of the 10Th instant from
Minnesota, says the preliminary sur
Veys for the Northern Pacific railroad
are being pushed forward with all pos
sible dispatch. Five parties are now
in the field, and another leaves next
Thursday. Reports that ~cOuriers had
been dispatched for the survey to be
suspended until further orders, are in
correct.
The Erie Railway Company, James
Fisk, jr., and others have been sued
and eDjoined in Common Pleas. In
regard TO the TiCeIUee Temptations, be-
ing played at the Grand Opera House,
another action is pending in the Su-
preme Court, before Judge Barnard,
in which the parties are reversed.
The arguments on the merits of the
case will be heard tomorrow.
The proper committee have had I'M
der discussion the idea of establishing
a naval reserve system, like the one in
use by Great Britain, enabling her to
summon to her service twenty thou
sand able-bOdied seamen. Practical
naVigaturs, merchants, and our most
experienced COnsuls at maritime ports
complain greatly Of the inadequacy Of
present legislation relating to Ameri-
can seamen.
Meningitis is prevailing in Atlanta,
Ga, and vicinity, and creating much
alarm among the population. Some
OF the most promising lads in the city,
the HJteiIigeacer have been cur
off suddenly from life. No one at
tackled las escaped death, and the
popular alarm is increased by the fact
that the physicians seem at a loss how
to treat il. The same disease-cerebro
meningitis-is prevailing in
Mobile, and is attended by the same
popular dread.
On the 18th inst. the Virginia House
of Representatives adopted, with Il
few dissenting votes, a resolution de-
that it is not eXpedient to elect
any person to any Office that is dis
qualified by the Fourteenth Amend
ment. This resolution is in answer to
the suggestion contained in the Gov
errors message, that if, in view of the
scarcity of competent persons, the Leg
should elect some who are dis
qualified, it should accompany the
election with a resolution asking Con-
gress to remove their disabilities.
Senator Revels, the new eolored
Senator from Mississippi, remarked
on Monday that his State would prob
ably have been admitted by this time
but for the bitter personalities which
prevail in the House and Senate. Rev
els said hedeprecates these things. He
is sorry to see the Senators and men,
bers forgetting the high duties Of
craftsmanship and STOPPING to low
personal attacks upon each other. This
is not the way, he thinks, to dignity
the position to which they have been
elevated by the people.
At a recent meeting of the Lyceun
Of Natural History, New York, spec
linens OF syrup and of sugar made
from potatoes were exhibited. 1t was
asserted that syrup and sugar can be
made at q low cost from the refuse Of
potatoes, after undergoing distillation
10 obtain spirits. Potato syrup, it is
reported, is used extensively by con-
IectiOners, and that the sugar has been
introduced into the manufacture Of
beer. A factory has recently
been established in Brooklyn, and
sugar is produced in large
Quantities.
Just before leaving Boston, Prince
sent to Miss Minnie Sherman,
laughter 0fGeneral Sherman, a chaste
md costly gold medallion, having his
LIKENESS on one side and that of Queen
Victoria on the other. Accompany
ng the gift was a delicately worded
lote, in which the Prince begged that
Miss Sherman would accept of the
medallion as a token of his a%pprecia-
ion Of the generous Inequalities he
lad experienced at the house of her