Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-01
THE NEWS.
Beaureeard is in New Orleans.

Inv ElGlu
A. T. Stewart has twelve acres o
store, if il were all spread cut on
fiat surface,
A Nova Scotia genius has invented
q st0ve-pipe damper that regulates
Itself By the thermometer.
The Canadian fisheries are estimated
8t $1,000, 600 a year, employing il
their prosecution 50, goo men.
China exports tea, rhubarb, musk
ginger, D0raZ, zinc, silks, cassia, fla
gree works, ivOryWare and morocco,
Mrs. Blanche Butler Ames is an
nOunced as arecent convert to Woman
Suffrage. Her father squints chat way.
Lots Of little sparrOws in the New
York parks are dying of thirst be-
cause the water in the fountains is
frozen.
1.-THE light, graceful, geranium
style of beauty" is what the New
York Sun calls the PECULIARLY Of
American bellies,
The articles Of impeachment against
Judge Magbee have been rejected by
the Florida Legislature, and the Judge
h0nGrably acquitted.
Grace Church, Brooklyn, made its
annual collection for missions on Sun
day, and the extraordinary sum Of
$4,000 was contributed.
Rain has fallen in California suffi-
gfent to remove all apprehension for
fhe safety of the next wheat crop, and
sowing is progressing rapidly.
A London journal prOnounces Prim
the ablest of all the revOiuuOnists in
Spain, and the man she could least af-
ford TO spare at this juncture.
Mrs. Cross, the first wife OF the
se0uudreI who recently married a
second In great style in New York,
now sOlicits pupils TO learn music.
The artists OfParis have been really
sufferers by the war. Six or seven
painters and sculptOrs have been
killed, and at least thirty wounded.
It is not strange that DiO Lewis
should be deeply impressed with the
Importance Of health when his name
j. a perpetual invocation to his own
funeral.
H1rDer lSGelE2y has repudiated that
horrible picture of Bob Schenck
which originally appeared in Frank
Ll7iI='S diSreput8Ble paper. SChenCk
has grounds Tor action.
The Greek Government has given
positive assurances TO the English
uv0y that those of the Marathon
-sassius vet remaining alive receive
punishment for their crimes.
san Francisco prohibits the heather
CdiueG from carrying baskets i'm the
streets, whereby the said Chinee finds
g.. L.
latiOn the Wickedest kind Of perseCu- /
1I8u.
Mr. Greeley, having taken a prom |
inent part in doing honor TO the re-
leased Feuians in New York, is ex-
peeled TO spend the rest Of the year in |
writing up what he knows about /
British bastiles.
A new Democratic daily called the /
Leiger is about TO be started in Louis
vile, Ky. The first number will ap-
pear February lst. The gentlemen /
connected with the enterprise are said
TO be men Of means.
Bishop McIlvain, Of Ohio, says that /
OF all the bishops Of the Protestant
Episcopal Church cOnseCrated before /
himself, not one is living; and Of those
c1usecr8ted with him, thirty-nine
years ago, only one survives.
TITS said that James T. Fields. late
81 the great publishing firm Of Fields,
OsgJOd d. Co., was recently invited to
Join one OF the oldest and best firms !
in London. He declined, preferripg
% remain editor Of the AtlaHtic
ACHthly.
Alexandra Dumas daughter, who
is a model of piety, has written a let
ter, 60 NJ. NeuillOU, Of the UHiUerS, in
which she calls him " dear apostle" |
and informs him that her father died
a Catholic, after having received the
last saCrameuts.
A monument Of italian marble on
granite base has just been erected
over the remains Of eX-President
Pierce, in the cemetery, in Concord, !
n. il. It Is fifteen feet in hight, and
bears the simple inscription: "Frank-
lin Pierce. Boa November D, 1904. 4
Died October 5, 1862"
The New York Commercial AlyUpr-
tiser says: Dom Piatt and George |
AIieTd Townsend, the Gemini of
newspaper .fr0HderS, have hitched
horses upon the Washington SUNDAY {
Herald, and viii hereafter sail into
the seusibilities Of mankind in double
harness" all OF which is denied by
" Gath" and sd. p"
A bin has been reported in the Vir.
giuia legislature providing for the [
reorganization OF the militia, which !
continues the organization Of 1861, {
and where there are no general Off
GERS gives the Governor power TO ap-
point such. White and cOlOred COM 3
pauies are TO be organized separately, {
but each TO elect its own officers.
In answer to the personalities Of .
the Tribune upon Colonel James Fisk, I
jr-, and some Of his private relations,
the New York Leader understands i
that he h. preparing sCathing pam j
phlet, to be entitled, "Sinclair's AS
signatiOn House Of Free -IOveism ,
Rampant in the Tribune Ofiice.n 1t ,
will undoubtedly be Tacy reading.
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, Of
Baltimore, grandson Of jerome, the /
first NapoleOn's brother, is among
the defenders Of Paris, and he is the
only one Of his name 50 employed.
After securing the safety OF the EN- !
press, who was left in his care, as
Of the TuileTies, he is / ,
now at thepOst Of danger. He seems
to be the best Of the breed.
The line which the New Orleans,
Mobile and Chattanooga Railroad z
Company is constructing across II
western Louisiana, is graded from {
opposite New Orleans, up the Z
nearly to Donaldsonvflle.
about seventy miles. Before the end G
Of February this section Of the road Z
is to be in operation, and the COM !
DaGy viii be entitled to a subsidy Of b
$4,000 in bonds from the State. /
Thence 1t is TO be extended TO Yer 4
e
John Lake, who was A coachman TO [
George ~, chOked himself 10 death '
the other day in attempting 10 svaI- a
low a hunk Of the roast beef of Hold / 8
Hengland. He was eightv-One wears y
old. George Fairbairn, who used Ia q
that diabOlical instrument nj b
torture, the bagpipes, for Sir Walter p
Scott, is also dead-nOt, we believe. 81
from trying to make a breakfast upon
his pipes, but from want Of breath v
an article Of which prOtracted blowing q
had exhausted his supply. s.
There is good reason to believe that h
the Democrats are now anxious to h
effect an organization with the Re p
publican revenue refOrmers in the b
next House, provided a man among I,
them upon whom they can agree for ] o
Speaker can be found. The Dromi- y
lent Democrats say they will 60 into b
such an arrangement without exact. a
ing the patronage OF positions On =
committees, they being actuated onIv1 Il