Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-16
MEMPHIS APPEAL
THE NEWS.

A Catholic fair is to be held in Hunts
vile, Alabama, next week.
Richmond, Virginia, has imported a
number of English sparrows for the pub
lie square,.
Warsaw. in Poland. has 24,56l inhabi-
tauts, Of whom only L,46l belong to the
orthodox Greek Church
A South Carolina paper observes that
party politics and pining poverty are
twin sisters, and destroy any country.
In Iowa the temperance societies are
having q serious lime of it, discussing
whether cider IS or is not intoxicating.
The Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express stage
coach. when near GibsOn's rancho, Cal,
was the other day robbed of a box con-
tanning $4,000, in gold dust.
A novel and extraordinary system of
threatening notice" is reported from
county Meath. ireland. It il the digging
Of graves in grass lands as a warning TO
the owners.
Berlin. with its suburbs, has now one
million inhabitants. The city proper has
seven hundred and ninety thousand IN
habitants. II is now the third largest
city in Europe.
The Chicago Republican says that the
negroes in the cotton States are able to ac-
cumulate from five hundred TO three
thousand dollars for q years work as
their share Of the growing crop.
A thousand women over in Peoria, to
whom the word "male" still possesses an
attraction, insist that the constitution of
Illinois shall not be unsexed by its OBJ
liberation from that sacred instrument.
The New York EDening Post says that
the Republican party, having eXtin-
guished slavery and made all men free,
has another great duty TO perform-the
abolition OF the protective tariff. The
party won't do il.
The steamer Mountain Boy left Wheel
ing last week for Charlestown, Kanawha
county, with the State capital of West
Virginia on bOard-that is, the State ar
chives and the executive officers, their
families and their household goods.
A memorial of Cyrus w. Field has been
presented to Congress expressing a desire
TO undertake the laying of a telegrsphic
cable between America and Asia. Eight
thousand five hundred mileg of cable will
be required for the purpose.
There are four eclipses yet to come this
year, viz: A partial eclipse of the sun
June 2Sth, visible only in Australia; a
total eclipse of the moon July 18th; a par
tiaI eclipse of the sun July 18th, invisi-
Die: a total eclipse of the sun December
DIST, visible in Europe and Canada.
The New York East Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church held its fiEal
session on Wednesday. An excited de-
bate on the Book Concern troubles took
place, ending in no definite action. In
The interest of religion generally, we omit
the remarks of the speakers on the occa-
sion.
The great gathering in Philadelphia,
at which Grant, Sherman, Sheridan,
Meade, Burnside, and SchOheld were
present, was the apothesis of military
buncombe. The speeches We're vain
.f,-srrru Ea1fEar N aianf and in had fQGfn 7
II Let Us have peace is to be the watch
word in future.
A gentleman in Washington, intrusted
with Southern real estate, says that for
eigu capitalists are investing largely
throughout the South, more particularly in
Virginia. Within the last few weeks he
has sold large tracts of land to English
capitalists. and has several propositions
Of a similar character under contract.
On board the brig Sennota, while on the
way from Baltimore to the West Indies,
the negro cook, Howard, in a ht of mad
ness, buried a Ratchet in the skull of
John Mortlier, a seaman, and picking up
the still animated body, threw it into the
sea, following it Immediately, but not be-
fore he tried TO kill another seaman who
sought TO arrest him.
X. W. McNeer, of Illinois, S. J. Null
lens. Of Mgllens' Station kentucky Cen
trail Railroadl, and John Mann. of De-
mossville, started from Mullens' Station
on Sunday in a skih, intending TO 60 TO
Covington. At Grants Bend, opposite
Grants Station, the skih was capsized
and all were drowned. The bodies had
not been recovered at latest accounts.
John Stuart Mil has well remarked,
- there need be no hesitation in affirm
ing that colonization in the present state
of the world is the very best affair of bust
ness in which capital can possibly be en-
---T - NpnaT7u=Ir This Frr7Fh the Gnrfb ]
Caroliniaus are moving in earnest for an
Agricultural, Mechanical and Immigrs-
ton Convention of hat State, 20 be held ,
in Charleston next month, for the pur-
nose of facilitating immigration from
Europe. .
The New York Eceajag Post is at a loss :
what 10 say of Ben Buffers Tennessee I
policy. It takes that stsid old journal so 2
lar beyond its accustomed limits that its {
Radicalism is positively d~umbf0unded. 4
% IL Isl. of course IL saws, OF small ac- 7
count TO say that It'll unconstitutional; :
nobody SlppOseS II 10 be otherwise" and it '
comes readily to The conclusion that the ]
party must 20 by the board If they keep Q
the reconstruction question open much !,
longer. \
The New York World says that rem !
tails both Of business houses and dwell b
fnps have fallen al least ten per cent. in -
city. The Cincinnati Enquirer SAYS: e
ave believe the reduction here is twenty Z
five per cent. Il is 50 everywhere. The -
business OF the county is being adapted t
TO the general decline in prices, and there o
must and viii be a reorganization of in T.
dustry upon that basis at an early pc :
Rod" In Memphis, property holders q
complain that rents are already too low.
A frightful murder has been perpetrated
in tbs ears Of the Paris and Mediterran- n
can railway. On the arrival at Marseil-
les a passenger car was fOun covered in I
side with blood, but empty. Search was d
made and the body Of a person apparent -
wealthy was discovered some dis u
.ance back along the line pierced with Il
and fearfully disfgured. Il had n
robbed Of money and jowelry. The "
7ictim was subsequently, recognized as a RI
man named LUbansh, son Of DIR. /
4ubanski, of Nice. Tho assassin was an :
Id offender. y