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

machins for ditching, was drowned a few
days ago ID Suisun Bay, Cal. Z
The St. Louis Tines says: Senator
Sumner Is deeply interested In the Ecu
menicsl Council. He don't like the idea
Of sharing infsllibilitY with the Pope"
A late letter states that the medical ad-
visers Of the ex-Empress Of Mexico (Car-
lotts) announce that she has reached the
last stage Of insanity. "Poor Carlottat"
Hon. Francis e. Shober has beer admit
ted TO his seat in the House of Represent
atives, Notwithstanding he is a Democrat
and an ex-Confed. from b old North
State. ~
General Breckenridge and others are
holding protraOted meetings through
Eastern kentucky, in the interest of The
ElizabethtOwn, Lexington and Big Sandy
railroad.
Samuel Washburne, an American, who
took part IN the Canadian rebellion OF
1888. has completed a term Of thirty-two
years, banished in New South Wales, and
returned home.
1t is a mistake that VIM. @. p. and GEN
eral John Q. Breckenridge, as reported in
the papers, are going to take charge of the
editorial department Of the Kentueky
Statesman.
Queen Victoria for the first time flags
in her devotion to the memory of her
dead husband. She has declined to in
augurate the Albert Memorial at Belfast.
This declinstiOn must arise either from
falling health or fear ofthe Fenians.
William Jacobs, a soldier of the Penn
~sylvanla whisky instruction, survived
hat memorable episode long enough to
die the other day at the age of ninety
eight inthe p~OorhOuse of Bracken county,
KY.
The Charlotte N. c. Observer says:
1 General Lee is Just such a great and good
man that he dissrms his foes Of all their
snimosity, and he is honored and loved
by every one, of whatever political faith,
condition or color.
II. n. Rankin, President of that colored
educational Utopia known as The West
Tennessee University" says he " is salts
fed that but few white teachers should be
encouraged to come South to teach among
the colored people,"
Judge Lea feels hopeful in regard to
Tennessee affairs, Notwithstanding the
efolts of Maynard, Stokes & Co., to put
US under military rule, and thinks that
nothing further will be done in the at
tempt to return the State to political bond
age.
The Judge Bond whom the President
has recently nominated for United States
District Judge for the Fourth District is,
it is said, a fifth rate lawyer of little or no
~reputotion as a jurist, and who derived
his title as judge from having presided
over a petty court in Baltimore.
Rev. Edward Husband, a noted Eng
lish ~ritualist, went oyer to the Roman
Catholic Church about i've months ago,
and Immediately printed a pamphlet eu-
titled why / left the Church of Eng
land" and now be writes to a religious
journal a letter entitled "Why I left the
Church of Rome"
There are no less than three Women's
Rights associations claiming to be the"or-
iginal Jacobs" Theodore Tilton tried to
unite them the other day but failed. Since
then there has prevailed between them an
unmitigated and very rough warfare.
What If this triangular duel were to
prove a Kilkenny cat fight.
The Hon. Albert Rust, of Arkansas,
whose death was in We'd
nesday's dispatches, was q native of
Virginia, but removed in early life to
Arkansas, from which State he was a
representative in Congress two terms,
from 1855 20 1901. During the war ne
cast his fortunes with the South and
wore the stars of a brigadier.
Congress regards itself as omnipotent
in this country. On the I1th instant Mr..
Lawrence, of Ohio, introduced a bill in
the House of Representatives providing
for a secret ballot in State elections. It
was drawn up to meet the law lately
passed in Virginia, prescribing that
no vote shall be counted unless the vo-
ter's name is written on il.
"Mack," of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
writing of Senator Davis, of Kentucky,
very truthfully and justly says: alt is
safe to say that during the past ten years
Mr.. Sumner has occupied more than
twice as many columns of the Globe as
Mr.. Davis. And if there are those who
feel inclined to discredit the assertion
that on all questions of American politics
Mr.. Davis is infinitely better informed,
and therefore infinitely better qualified
TO speak thar Mr.. Sumner, 1 beg TO assure
them that they misunderstood the men,"