Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-23
THE NEWS

TX NEWS
There is another war brewing in
Caracas between PUlgar and Guzman.
Senator Wilson is President of the
Washington City Temperance So
ciety.
New Orleans, delighting in diapa-
sonic screaming, has engaged Le-
Franc, the tenor, to sing ten nights
/ for $1,000.
There is great cOmmOtiOn in Eng
land because Of troubles in the Cahi-
net and the rumOred purpose Of Chill
/ ders 10 resign.
Hutchings, VINO runs a hasbeTy in
the Y0 Semitic valley, is Iecturing
upon its beauties-the valleys, mind
| you, not the grub mill's-in Philadel-
phia.
Tennyson, it is said, grows very
/ Grabbed" with his increasing years.
He cberishes a modest faith that he is
the only true poet now living.
The New York Star paid a dividend
last year Of Il per cent. on the capital
! invested, which is popularity supposed
] to be considerably over SO. Joe
/ Howard has been reelected editor
I ana manager.
The New York Iron AQe says that
! the Franco -Prussian war has utterly
/ exploded the Idea that heavy iron, or
| irUn-piated, vessels are of any practi-
| cal utility, either for offensive or de-
1 fensive purposes.
A dispatch from TerTe Haute, Indi-
/ ana, says eK-COugressm Henry d.
Washburn, Surveyor General Of Mon
/ tana, is dying OF a pulmonary disease
at his home, in Clinton, NermilliOn
| county, Indiana.
The Michigan SenatOrships, accord
/ ing to a report drifting about in the
papers, viii be all in one 1amiIy for
! some time to come. Mr.. Ferry, the
! lately elected, is about to marry a
/ daughter Of Senator Chandler.
The Georgia representatives who
took their seats in the House yester-
day were W. p. Price and General p.
NJ. b. Young, Democrats, of the sixth /
and seventh districts, and Marion I
Bethune and Jefferson +. Long, Re !
pubGcans, Of the third and fourth !
districts. Mr.. Long is a mulattO. |
Messrs. Price aud Young are also /
elected to the FOrty-secOnd Congress. /
The Philadelphia Age says: We |
have received a catalogue Of Wash. /
ingt0n College, located at Lexington, |
Virginia. Under its late President. /
Robert Z. Lee, it has grown into i'm |
pOrtance and usefulness until it is /
now a University ranking with the
best In the country. 1t has students /
~
New England and the Northwest as
well as from the South.
The striking Crispins Of New York
have applied to the Legislature of that /
State for the establishments of the First
New York Boot and Shoe Manuiac-
turing Association, with a capital
stock Of $3.50. 600. The shares number
600. at So each. Nearly all the shares
have been subscribed for. The soci-
ETY. viii begin work shortly, as it has
sufficient capital with which to COM
mence operations.
This is 'GeneTaP Horace POrter's
explanation Of the support given the
San Domingo job by army officers:
"DOminica is only half of San Do
mingO. The French lost 10000 men /
in dead and diseased when they tried /
to take Hayti. If we 90 into this Job
the regular army Of the United States
will have 20 be raised to 100, 600 men. !
Therefore, as Congress is now about
breaking up the regular army, we are
all in favor Of San Domingo, because
It gives the United States a chance to
keep a permanent army"
Statistics of the manufacturing busi-
ness at Lowell, Mass, just published, !
show that there are fifty mills, with
capital Of Sl3,650, GOO, employing 1868
women and girls, and 6035 men and
boys. They contain u, $50 looms and
SO, ,7l0 spindles, and produce weekly |
,2fJ, 900 yards Of cotton, q 667 Of
wooden stuff, IS, 600 Of carpeting, 28OO
shawls, and 10, 700 dozen Of hosiery.
The consumption Of raw material
averages 6l2, ,OU0 pounds Of cotton and
81, 900 Of wool per week. The pOpU-
lation Of Lowell is 30, ,937.
A recent letter from Epernay TO the
Echo du NOrd says that vicinity
is overwhelmed by all manner Of evils
-Prussians, typhoid fever, smallpox
and dysentery. The writer also states
that there have been several fatal
cases Of the black plague in the
neighbOrhOOd, and naively remarks
that it would be superb il this disease
should spread in the Prussian army,
but excruciRtinR ii il would cOnfne
its attacks to the French.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bandmann have been
playing at Victoria, Australia, in
4" Hamlet" Much Ado About
Nothing " and The Dukes Motto" !
Mr. Bandmann made, on one OCca-
sion, a speech thanking the critics for
their verdict upon his acting, but
complaining with some bitterness Of
their silence concerning the merits of
his wife. The next time Mrs. Band
mann played, the critics obliged her
husband by speaking their minds
pretty freely Of that lady's acting.
From the report Of John Hogan, a
70 examine into San
Domingo affairs during the admins
tratiOn of Buchanan, We learn that
the people Of that Island are ''idle, {
dissOlute, immoral, without manners,
without religion, disposed TO thiev-
ing, TO lying, 10 inebriety, and to all
the vices which constitute the degra-
dation of a people, and scarcely sim
PIE civil or political virtue can be
.Ound among them. Practieed in
pillaging and devasta-
ting, this Is their predominant ambi- [
lion, and they have never been able {
10 establish a solid government. +"
Maurice Power, who died at bis res
idence, near Queenstown, Ireland,
was a gentleman well known and es- s
teemed by many friends on this side {
Of the Atlantic. In early life Mr.. /
Power came to New York with the a
intention Of making it his home, and /
the youngest daughter Of
J udge Brockh0lst Livingston. He ]
shortly after his marriage returned to s
Ireland 70 take possession of an estate,
was elected to Parliament in the place
Of Daniel O'COnnell, and has since
filed many distinguished posts with :
dignity and credit. Mr.. Power was II
brother to the Rev. John Power and I
DR.. William Power, whose memories (
are rpvered In fbfg counfrv 4