Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-29
EGTs TALKED ABOUT.

Genera Won Moltke Is afflicted
with the Out.
Morse, telegraphic fame, hss q
street nam after him in Paris.
A horse line has Just been
opened in ne city Of Batavia, island
OF Java.
Norris Phillips writes to TIE Home
Journ that hotel charges are very
high Paris.
Hiran S. Rumsey, somewhat IA
NOUS as a negro minstrel, died at
Newburg recently.
Governor Leslie, of Kentucky, de-
cIares that he is not a candidate for
the, United States Senate.
Hoyle, the apostle of whist under
the old dispensatiOn, is said to have
died ''full OF years and hOnOrs."
Another strike has taken place
among the workingmen of Belgium.
This labor question bids fair to dis
turb the world.
Reforms are being introduced into
the army of Italy, and great exertiOns
are making to improve the discipline
and efficiency OF the forces.
The Paris Parie intimates that, af-
ter the recess, the Duke d'Aumale
and Prince de JOinville will take their
seats in the French assembly.
+" FsstTenchment and reform " at the
head OF a poster for a Radical meeting,
is equivalent to placing the words
honesty and fair dealing" over the
door OF a gambling-house.
The King Of the BsIgians has sent
a letter of thanks to the crew of the
United States war-steamer Juniata,
for saving the lives Of the crew of a
boat that capsized in the Scheldt.
A crisis, as between the Federal
and Mormon authorities, is evidently
near at hand in Utah. Both are
equally determined, but there should
be no question concerning the result.
A correspondent Of the Pittsburg
Commercial, writing from BroOkville,
Pa, says that in Forrest county, mag
nifcent trees are felled by the acre Just
for the bark, and the trunks then set
on fire.
The Spanish minister of the interior
has issued an order for the dismissal
of all police inspectors who have failed
to execute the orders of the govern
ment in relation to suppressing gam
bling-hOuses.
Major Ben: Perley PoOre, the we'll
known Washington correspondent, is
on the track for General Buffers seat |
in Congress, with the biggest chance
of winning position he would do so
much to adOrn.
The Hartford Times says that the |
Connecticut tobacco crop is so large |
that the farmers are actually bothered |
to find room to stow 1t in; and this |
curious fact has In many places de-
layed the cutting.
A tax-payers' State convention,
which met at Lake City, Fla, on the |
9Th of September, at once appointed a |
com nittee of seven to look into the |
financial condition Of the State and |
the general taxation.
At Lowell, Mass, the factory oper-
stives, who are now allowed three /
quarters of an hour for dinner, are,
after October 1st, to have full hour. |
The working day will then be ten |
hours and three-qusrters.
The amendment to the constitution |
alton of money by the Legislature for /
any purpose whatever for longer pc
riOd than two years, was ratified at |
the late election by large majority.
The American feet Of whalers, it is
reported, is being reduced continually,
by the withdrawal of ships from the |
trade. One-third OF the whaling ves-
sells belonging to Provincetown, Mas
sschusetts, it is stated, have been de-
voted to other, occupations.
The Pennsylvania Peace Society |
people are getting signatures to petit |
tion asking Congress to abolish army /
and navy and military instruction, |
and the President to invite foreign |
powers to Join in disarmament and |
a general system Of international ar |
bitratiOn.
1t is evident from the savage at |
tack make by the Greeley FentOn |
party in New York, upon Collector |
Murphy and the Grant wing of the Or
ganizatiOn, with which he is identi- |
fed, that unless Mr.. Murphy is ruled |
out of the coming State convention Of |
the party there will be bolt.
Georgia Is justly enough in high /
dudgeOn over the fact that her gov
ernOr has presumed to leave the /
state during his term of Office, claim
ing that he thereby has forfeited his /
official position. Not to be OutdOne, |
Brazil furnishes a budget of COM
plants against her ruler, the emperor,
who, it is alleged, is abroad for his
own royal pleasure rather than for the
good of his subjects.
The union Of Juarez and LerdO, in
Mexico, has aroused the friends of
Diaz, and they are preparing for q
severe and bitter contest. II Juarez
is elected by Congress, 1t now looks as
If revolution would surely ensue.
There are indications at the present /
time of grand outbreak against the
general government, for the purpose
of preventing Juarez from longer &C
cupying the presidency Of the repub-
lie.
Saturday and Sunday bring US three
pieces of news that should be eX.
amined in cOnlunctiOn: The Inter
national Congress at London has ad-
journed after making arrangements
for movements In Germany, Italy I
and Spain. Bismarck announces that
theInternatiOnal gives him social cares
more troublesome than any questions
of foreign diplomacy. At a meeting
of Workingmen in New York Satur-
day night 1t was decided that a gene
raj strike should take place In most of
the trades OF the United States and
Csnadss early next spring. All this
may be humbug, and it may not.
Put side by side, however, the three