Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-27


Van Cott is belaborIng the sinners
right and left in Fond du Lac, Wis
consin.
An exchange says that women are
rapidly taking the places Of men in
many of the higher brances OF art and
industry. We deny the assertion.
They r only taking the places which
Fightfully belong TO them, and Of
which they have been deprived by
prejudice and usurpatiOn.
A domestic gentleman" in the
town Of Flint, Michigan, recently
sold his wife to q young farmer in the
neighbOrhOOd for ten dollars. The
young man took the commodity"
and Ter children to his home. The
wife furnished the money with which
to make the purchase. All parties
satisfied.
The Washington Chronicle brings
US sad news. 1t not only denies the
report that Forrest was about to re-
tire from the stage, but authoritatively
announces that the malevOlent old
bull Of Bashsm will never let up on
the public $50 long as ne is able to
tread the boards" Couldn't some
thing in the nature Of an Injunction
be sworn out?
One OF our morning papers Incl
dentally calls the Boston Dip ian
abOminable style of dancing" What
nonsense! Everybody who has seen
it well done knows that il is the
easiest, most graceful, most charming
form of a dance ever introduced: far
superior to the lettering trOis-tempS,
the spasmOdic redOWa, and the IN
graceful and exhausting galOp.-Nel0
York Nail.
There are tWenty-siX stations on the
HOusatOnic railroad, between Pitts
field and Bridgeport. Eighteen of
them are managed by women. Their
duties are to send and receive mes
sages, keep the instruments in order,
sweep out the offices, clean the win
platforms. But Massachusetts, says
they do not know the difference be-
tween a ballot and a handbook.
The city physician Of Grand Rapids,
is a woman; one of the largest con-
gregations in the place is presided
over by a Rev. Mrs. the city library
was gotten up by women, and is IN
der the charge of a woman; there is
in the place a history class composed
exclusively of women, which has
women lecturers; and it is said a ma .
jOrity of the Inhabitants are favorable
to woman suffrage. The cause pro-
crosses.
The Germans of Illinois and Iowa
are holding meetings to protest against
the shipment of arms to France, and
declare that they will withdraw their
suppOrtfr from the administration unless |
it prohibits future exhibitions of such
active sympathy with the enemies of
Germany. As Germany herself has
not seen fit to object to the existing
commercial relations between France
and the United States, this attempt by
a portion of Our citizens TO dictate a
foreign policy for this government is
not likely to prevent our merchants
from furnishing either belligerenC
with whatever class of goods they may
order.
If the troubles which have been
caused at the West Point Military
Academy, by the introduction of the
negro cadet there, shall result in the
destruction and abandonment of the
school by the Government, it will be
a very lucky circumstance that the
negro was appointed. The academy
Is nothing but the cultivatOr of a
military ~ari5tOcracy that is wholly Op-
posed to b esprit Of our institutions.
The road to rank in the army should
be free and open to competition, on
the score Of merit, as it is in civil
life. Our best officers have never
been to West Point.
Kate Stanton, in a recent lecture,
Men not only need Woman's
assistance in domestic but also in DO
life; Tor a good government is
q family on a large scale. The house.
keeping at the Capitol, we are told,
gives evidence OF a need of reOTgani-
2 new kitchen cabinet is
wanted; a new committee on ways
and means-eC0nOmie5 such as are {
never understood by men. John {
Stuart Mill, Harriet Martineau, Jacob :
and other English statesmen {
assert that women understand pOliti- !
,al economy better than men, because
hey have drilled in the habit Of hus-
banding small resources. Some are
to husband very small re- I
sources, in the shape Of the men they I
nave to take care Of" I
We are guilty Of fearful sin every 5
hour that we resist GODS method Of y
recovering grace, and thus heap up q
wrath against the day of wrath. We b
grow older, and with increasing years
,Ome diminished religions s]usceDti- p
There is every day less prob
that he will not be converted,
hat he will lose bis soul. The imDen- I
tent, under all the urgencies of strong
conviction, under the ~intolerable pres. p
iure and burden of overwhelming
motive, obstinately maintains his DO e
,itiOn and will not resolve. He dares i
lot become q Christian, and can not. )
ust because he will not take the first I
and so he stands a monument of
and guilt, a spectacle to men and I
o angels. 4
Among the petitions for patent L
lights lately presented to the Minis, c
er of the Interior in Chill is that of
II. Ferdinand Cause, a native of \
7Tance, relative to the discovery of a i
in which air in q state of ex- z
in combination with other %
gents, produces the instantaneous
'reakage o. the hardest masses of
metallic, or other stone.
Besides this the system is claimed to \
an advantage over those hith-
rtO employed, inasmuch as it produ- I
es no explosion whatever when 1
reaking the rock, and permits a per- z
on to stand with perfect safety at q n
istance of two metres from the stone, b
f this process be as ~eficaciOus as de- 4
it will be Of material service
3 mining industry, doing away with