Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-27
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at Athens.
Courts martial TO try Communists
will assemble on the 3lst OF July in
Paris or at Versailles.
The men who hung Meara, who
fried his son to death, are willing to
stand trial. The Governor ought to
be hung for proposing it.
Rev. Mr.. kellogg, who had Clis-
pute with Bishop McIlvain, attempt
ed to call up the subject in the Guild
last night, but was defeated.
A dispatch from DesMoines, Iowa, /
says James GuyOn, of John Robin
sons circus, was killed by some per-
son unknown, near that city.
Richmond papers think the water OF
James river much better and healthier
for drinking purposes than the hard, |
brakish water taken from the wells.
Whatever government may ensue, |
saws the Mobile Register, whether Or |
leans, Bourbon or Republic, the radi- |
cal Commune has got TO be over
thrown.
1t is estimated that one hundred and |
seVenty-five millions of feet of lumber !
come out of Canada and pass in the |
United States through Lake Champ
lain every season.
Sir George E. Carter retires from
the Canadian Cabinet 70 accept an i'm
Derial appointment, and Sir Francis
Kinks also retires to become President /
of the Metropolitan Bank.
After a careful canvass, Democratic /
DaOers liz Pennsylvania assert that a
full Democratic vote in October
will insure the election OF Cooper and
McCaldless by large majority.
Grant wanted to cOnfine the kicka-
mos TO a Texas reservation, but they
kicked at il and have accepted Me11-
can protection. They viii now raid
and scalp Texans with impunity.
All the cOlOred brakesmen on the
Mississippi Central railroad have been
discharged, and white men put in
their places, on account of a disease
among them called kleptOmania.
The wOrkingmen of New York
have resolved to hold parade and
indignation mass meeting, some time
in September, as protests against the
nOn-enfOrcemeuf of the eight-hOIu
law.
A man named Joseph MurlOck
crossed the st. Louis railroad, near
Carbon, IN front of running train.
His remains were scraped together
next day for largely attended ftl-
neral.
The Executive Council of MassaehIl-
set Is at meeting yesterday afternoon
vote d to pay S7Z, 600 toward enabling
the trustees Of the ISoston, Hartford
and Ef ie railroad to ObL$In possession
of the read.
At a geeat meeting, held Sat urday,
at LlOyd's Hill, Meath, IreIants,- ID
protest against the eviction of a large
humber OF farmers, violence was
threatened If necessary 10 resist the
evictinns.
The New York Ecel9iilg Nail says:
Mrs. Agnes Scanland Leonard, the s
cause OF the recent homicide in Chica-
90, has the eXecrable taste to write C
up the late tragedy Of my life, under 9
the title Of The New Satan,' as a Sc s
rial story for a woman's paper in that q
city," c
The Rev. DR.. Joseph F. Berg, Pro
fessOr in the Theological Seminary Of
New Brunswick, New Jersey, died in I
that city on Thursday evening. DR.. C
Berg was born at Grace Hill, Island of G
Antigua, on June 3, 1872, and was c
consequently but just past his fifty {
ninth year. a
Virginia papers say that the pow q
der-tanks found by the wreckers in | \
the Confederate irOn-clad Richmond, 8
now lying in thirty or torty feet OF j
'ATater at Chsfin's Bluff, are in good
90 ndition and the powder as dry and
nea dy for use as before its submersion Y
six years ago. &
Tn ey are to have an organization | t
in ca. icagO for the creation and ap- 5
pIicatii N Of a science Of Christian 7
morals. lt is fortunate that, besides 0
the appl. cation of an improved code /
of morals, they thought OF the matter
of first creal ing it, for at present Chi a
cagO is totally innocent OF such an APP t
pendsge. 8
The fourth Borgia is in Jail in {
Spencer county, Kentucky. She
poisoned the Wite of a wealthy citi- Z
zsn, married the WidOWer and Z
poisoned him so soon as he made y
viii leaving her all his property, She Il
then married another goose and
poisoned him. The single men of
spencer had her arrested for fear she Is
would 'fdO for them" seriatim. III
Henry Coulter .Snd James Kaye, jr., v
u .Pittsburg, who, with the Bigdin !, 4
bret hers, VIII make W the champion \,
Amel 1can crew for the Worlds Re ., ~
getts a Halifax, arrived at New I ork -
yesterday, and will 90 imm, sdlstely n
into train. ng. Coulter states Ia at he -
is determil led to get into a single S, full y
race with ReniOrth, the Eaglis.H N
champion, AZ Halifax. %
The rice crop in L uisiana for = !
1901 is estimated at 1871 bar Ie
rels, Of 200 pounds each. The ~
crop iOT lS69-7O amounted to IO0,- n
n mes -,so-i,, ,,1j,,od ~, r. "a ,{. ioIV ha
The prospect fer the crop for lS7l.72l vi
Is good, but only a small breadth has :"
been SO yu, so that while there may
be full yield per acre, there will be a
mall yield i'0r the State. .AC
We are pleased to note that New Or COZ
cans has bridEed the disasters by SUI
var and the eleIntN tNnts, and is again on
he high road to prosperity. We sht
earn through the ines of that city .ht
hat the imprOvemel1ts-public and Det
private buildings-nOW in progress N[
re estimated TO cost S2,3S5, 900.
Among them are Masonic temple to ma
,Ost $3.50, ,O00; a Hebrew temple to cost " ~
125, 600; HiDernia hall, $200,OO0; Va ihI
ieties Iheater, SI25, 600; the Orleans I
Dramatic Relief Association .Cheater, eth'
100, 600; French Vaudeville 1'heater, e lne
g, 600; st. Louis Hotel, $50, 600; three eh
ther hotels, $95, 700; four churches, aIS ITO
225, goo; tWenty-seven stores, S347, -. ~
%, and fifty-dye dwellings, $45S, 200. ~ ~
The "tug Of war; in 1872 will be in 10
lhiO and Pennsylvania. As 10 Nr- I
inia, she viii give any Presidential Sea
andidate against General Grant not in {
IS than 10000 majority. We doubt, X
ith the exception OF South Carolina, vic,
neither single one of the old slave E.s,
Lates, from Delaware 10 Texas inclu- Mi
We, viii vote against the Democratic the
residential candidate. This, with dpc
eW York, New Jersey, Indiana, the
alifOTnia and Orelgon, we believe will rsic
ect. Pennsylvania and Ohio can be n
.rried by the nomination OF the has
ght man, and the conducting of the Rny
.nvass upon the right issues. Alto -niI,
9ther, it looks as II we were to have M
le old contest OF 1856 over again. =;
zen, as now, with the chances in our ,ri,I
vOr. 60
President Helten laid before the Ex- are
utive CommitteeOf the Viaduct rail are
ad. Tuedsy, vieWsOf the engineers of INV
e board on various interesting mat.
rs connected with its successful N
Dersti0n when completed. They de- Uas
ded against extending the main that
unk of Inc line 10 the Battery. but I,,in