Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-21
CURRENT NEWS.

CURRENT NEWS.
Eighty-four passenger trains daily
leave and arrive in the city of Indian
apolis.
A Georgia exchange, in re-printing
Story's poem of Cleopatra, begins in
this way:
"Hers, ChsirmgnI take my bracelets "
Lucretia Mott, at eighty, after long
life of many activities, retains to- day
the same vigorous mind in the still
beautiful body.
The Augusta cotton factorz en-
plOys five hundred hands. During
the past year it has paid more than
one million Of dollars for labor alone.
Josh Billings says: 1 kno lots ov
phOlks who are plus jist bekauze hey
waz born so. They kant tell y hen
they got religion, and, il they should
lose it, they wOuldn't kno it."
It is the lecturing and not the wine
business that James Stephens, the late
Fenian head-center, has gone into.
He commenced operations at Cooper
Institute, New York, last night.
In the Elgin watch factories 800 of
the 500 employees are girls. These
girls earn from so to SODA week, and
perform the delicate operations Incl
dent 70 the business more skilfully
than men.
Victoria Woodruff according to
TiltOn, has had two visions of Christ.
It is to be hoped she improved the op-
pOrtunities-for, if we are to Judge her
by her record, she will never see Him
hereafter.
II Chicago really carries out its
magnificent scheme of devOting all
the fines imposed for criminal offenses
to the establishment Of public libra
ry, the Alexandri&n collection will
fade rom historical remembrance.
An English fashion journal saws that
Miss LOrillard, Of the illustrious snuff !
making family, with her no less Illus /
triOus spouse, Prince Cenci, of Italy, |
are travelling on the continent, and |
win visit New York before New |
Years.
The Germans Of Texas are aroused |
in opposition to the enormities of !
Radicalism, and are fiOcking to the |
Democratic ranks. sin another |
year." says the Victoria Advocate,
"there viii not be German in the |
Radical party in Texas"
Mrs. Child, with her unresting, |
earnest, graceful pen, which has in |
structed and delighted the nation for |
these forty years, has vet 30 iudicious-
ly balanced all this with household |
duties, that today she is q comely,
pOrtly natrOn, who may be put for |
ward with pride as bright examplar |
to either sex.
The notorious Holden, who has
been hanging around Washington for |
several months under the pretence |
that he was afraid to return to his |
home in North Carolina, has obtained |
an interest in the Washington DGiLy |
Chronicle, and will take editorial
charge of that rampant and unscru- |
pulOus Radical sheet.
A Mrs. Safely, Of Missouri, will be |
one hundred years Of age on the 18th |
OF November next, and the family |
feel tritie anxious that the old lady's |
birthday shall be properly celebrated. |
Her descendants to the fourth gene
ration numbered at the last event only |
ninety. seven, but it is safely" reck-
oned that the appropriate number
will be present at the appointed day.
Greeley's principal argument In his /
GGtGGy article in favor Of the one
term principle is, that tour sgricul- |
ture of the next thirty years" ought
to ''exhibit a series Of brilliant ad- /
vances and improvements upon all /
that preceded it." As Bunsby would /
say; whereby why not9 which,
II so, what odds? AWast, thenl The
bearings in this observation lies in the
application on it."
Nothing so raises the dandruff of the
average New Yorker as hanging de-
layed. When it became known that
Judge Pratt had granted a stay of ex-
ecutiOn in the case of Buckhout. "a
thrill of indignation took possession
of every citizen Of White Plains. The
Judge was pretty roughly handled by
the common talk. He was denounced
as hOous-pOcus Judge, as a nuisance,
and, to use the expression of an en-
thUsiastic, metaphysical elector from
POrtchester, as a tsaphead that didn't
know beef from beans"
The female sgitators are making
preparations for grand raid upon
Congress during its next session, with
a view to bribe, coax, fascinate or
argue that body into their notions.
Many OF them, we are told, will remain
in Washington all winter, and among
them those who occupy q respectable
position in the work Of reform. We
should think, however, that Wood
hulps intention to rent one of the
finest houses in the city, and make
herself particularly conspicuous as a
leader in the cause, would overshadoW
some Of them q good deal worse than
a summer cloud.
There are 450, 900 miles of telegraph
wire in Europe, 10000 in America,
Il, 900 in India and 10, 600 ia Australia.
There are in addition $4,000 miles OF
submarine cable, and yet teIegraphic
throughout the world is
going on at the rate of 100000 miles
OF wire per annum. The develop
ment of submarine telegraphie COM
muntcatiOn is matter of serious in
terest and consideration. Its con-
struction is costly, and the laying of it
IS hazardous; while the amount of
business, especially in the Indian and
Pacific oceans, is not so large as might
be wished.
1t appears that insanity is greatly
on the increase in England. In the
year 1859 the population was 19,0s6,-
701, Of which number 36,762 were
lunatics or idiots. In the present
year the population is 22,704, ,1O8, of
whom 56,755 are lunatics or idiots.
This is fearfully large number
81, 900 persons make great army. OF
this 56,755, there were Clio private
patients, 90, ,1S5 pauper patients, and
460 criminal patients. In the year
1870 alone there was an increase Of
2O42 in the number of the insane.
The number of cures Ia even the best