Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-04

mails will be lessened ens day from New
I York. as the mails win be forwarded from
that city to Portland by rail.
The New York Independent has had an
/ extremely profitable year, having cleared
since the first of January over Sl25. 900.
For weekly that is a verV large income.
probably the largest of any weekly in the
country. not excepting the LEDGER.
Abuse must be beneficial 10 journal.
The Independent has been called mercena-
~, corrupt, hypOeritical, inhdel, and we
know not what. But it seems to thrive
by vituperstion.
King Victor Emmanuel. when receiv-
ing a few DAYS ago the municipal
deputatiOn of Florence charged TO con-
gratul2te him on his restoration 10 health,
said: Gentlemen, at the present moment
ind this business Of King Q very annoy
ing one. Before / have got well rid Of nv
pleurisy and military fever, / find myself
from morning to night worried with a
ministerial crisis, which, after a fortnight,
seems as far from the end as ever"
The Pacific Railroad troubles have
finally been settled to the satisfaction of
the President, the Secretary Of the Treas
ury and everybody concerned. The juno
ti0n of the roads is fixed at Ogden. The
Central takes the line from that point up
TO PromOntory, and to-day got the neces-
y
ana will pay them over TO the Union as
part of he purchase money. If no new
complication arises we shall hear no more
of the controversy in Congress,
We give below some interesting figures
taken from the annual report OF the busi-
ness Of Chicago during the past year:
Total value OF manufactures, SIS, 900 600
against s62, goo, ,0e0 the wear previous; total
value OF goods received in this city, S4l5.-
- lsl.. SON =.F F.sHaIa
wholesale sales, so far rs reported, $685.
935. $50, against S349. .4S9. 700 last year; net
income estimated At SIS, ,005,G GOO. The total
issues Of daily ana daily and weekly pa
pers foot up 81, lez, COO shoats; number OF
buildings erected during the year, S,424.
against 40 The year previous.
The Louisville C5srier-JoaaGI saws:
"a Il is noticed that Mr.. Charles 4. Dana,
who served as Under Secretary of War to
Mr.. EGwin NJ. Stanton, left The public
service like ais iliustriOus chief Door
man; wherest Mr.. Dana is disposed to
claim the honors of official chastity which
are so c0piOusly shOwered upon Mr.. Stan
ton. But this does not follow. Il black
pig is not white because it happens to lie
with q white one. Il is not intended TO
imply, however, that there was any alarm
ing amount Of white about Mr.. Stanton,
nor yet that Dana is any blacker than he
is painted"
Elias J. Crandall was sentenced at Nor
Wlch, Chenango county, y. Y, last week
20 two years Imprisonment for seduction
under promise of marriage. Ii is said
that Craudail had been sued for damages !
for breach Of promise by his victim, Miss
Sarah r. G4ult, and verdict Of $1,000 was
rendered against him. He succeeded, /
however, in SO arranging his affairs that
the judgment could not be collected. and f.
be was consequently put upon the :" linn |
it's" The friends OF Miss Gault subse- /
quently procured an Indictment against !
him for seduction under promise Of mar !
riage, and the trial resulted as above |
stated.
The Berlin correspondent OF the London 1
Times writes; e Il is not impossible that |
Count Bismarck may soon coase to be a /
Prussian Minister. and devote himself 4
exclusively TO The foreign business of the /
North German COniederacy. As You /
may be aware, the foreign Office viii /
shortly be transferred from Prussia to the 4
COnfedeTacy, to which il properly be- /
longs, when Count Bismarck's office as
The chief Of a Prussiau department be- /
comes extinct, and his allotted work will |
be transacted by him in bis capacity Of /
Chancellor Of the Coniederacv. SILL, ha /
will remain a Prussian Minister, unless |
he be moved likewise 70 throw up his
hird Office OF Prussian Premier, and this,
indeed, does not seem 10 be 50 very i'm
Served her right" i" will be the verdict
IF the public generally, in the case OF the
silly New York girl who persisted in mar
wing the English gambler, Dick Rad
ord. after il had been clearly shown that
he had no claim to the title OF Lord Hu-
pert Ainsley. by which he lad been
known at watering places. We see it an
loupced in a New York paper that Rad
Ord had deserted his wife and fled from
own. with her watch diamonds and
)ther valuablcs. A short and unfeeling
lote announced the fact that she need not
expect g. see him again. The unfortunate
woman has returned 10 her mothers
iouse, where she Is said TO be III of brain
ever. We cannot help pitying her sad
ate. The most charitable will feel, how
,Yer, that she was very much to blame.