Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-17
ALL SORTS.

Henry Ward Beecher's salary has
again been increased. 1t is now
$40, 600.
The Jews Of San Francisco are to
erect an asylum for orphans and aged
Israeiites in that city.
The rain in California for the past
few days has revived the hopes Of a
larger agricultural yield the present
year than ever before.
The remains of William Lake, the
circus man, who was murdered IN
Missouri last summer, have been Ia
ken 10 Cincinnati for final interment.
During the month Of December
about one and a half million pounds
of tobacco were sCld, and about one
million pounds deliveied in the Hen
dersOn, KY, market.
George d. Prentice's disease is rheu-
matism Of the heart. Under the skill
fll and assiduOus attention of Dr.
Benson, who has been unremitting in
his personal kindness as well as his
professional care. Mr.. Prentice cOntin-
ues to improve, and il is hoped that he
VIII soon be out Of danger.
The two ships David Crockett and
Swallow left San Francisco together
on the sth OF September last, and ar
rived at Liverpool, the first on De-
cember 3Ist, and the other on the lst
OF January, being but one day apart
This, for a voyage of so many thou
sand miles, is very nearly equal sail
ing, and is quite remarkable.
Mario did not poison himself for
erlef at Crisis death, but is singing
ava = at the opera at St. Petersburg
as if nothing had happened. Next
season he GOES TO London, but at the
close of the engagement wilI retire
from the stage in OrLISr 10 induige hlS
postponed grief in q decoroos ana
fashionable manner.
St. Louis merchants report that the
weather does not hold out very fiat
fering PROSPECTS for a heavy supply OF
ice. A little has been cut there, which
has been consumed by pork dealers
aud brewers. Portions OF i show q
thickness Of four and q half Inches.
On the Illinois river ice has been cut
averaging nine inches, and at Du-
budue It Is fully ten inches in thick
ness. It is not believed that the crop
zvilI be less than last season, but II Is
certain it will not exceed it, and, as
= consequence, the high rate will be
maintained,
1t may be safely asserted, says a
New York letter, that the great ira
gedian, Fechter, who receives $500 in
gold every night, viii not be hnaH-
cial success to those who have engaged
.iiln. He does not come up to the eX-
Dectst;0ns Of the critics or even Of the
general pCblic. Charles Dickens has
vastly Oyerrated him, and the second
night or ais appearance there were
several empty seats 70 ee noticed at
NiblO's. His acting is. certainly very
fna. but his elOCutiOn s. not faultiesS,
and ofIsn he betrays his French orr
Oin still. Is performance viii form
an epoch ia The History Of the Amerl-
can Stage. and with R1pth at the Sixth
Avenue. and Fechter 81 SIhiO's, II Is
refreshing 10 be once mOTs Installed
ia the midst Of a legitimate GsaIDa /
season.
That must have been a strange |
scene in Madagascar when the Queen I
had the royal idols brought and COM 4
A1lAALE4 10 -4AC A14AF1s Al44G AAetNl NA1A-
braced Christianity, and when the
chapel for divine service was ready, /
the disgraeed deity, which consisted /
OF two pieces OF silk with a small I
splinter o. wood in the middle, was /
taken from his temple and thrust into
the fire. The crowd declared that be- /
,gg a god he would not burn-yet, /
-o1lshOw, che was very soon con- /
sumed. and then, with no little I
ugtb0s. nthe people, seeing that now 4
they had 10 gods 10 worship, sent 10 1
fhe Queen tc ask what they were TO /
worship for the future" The founda- /
fion OF their faith had indeed been 1
greatly shaken. The QUeS1 Is Z send |
teachers OF Christianity among them, f,
and Madagascar, one Of the "dark /
places Of the EARTH" is likely to have
turned the last page Of the sanguinary
records which have hitherto formed /
50 large 4 part Of her history.