Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-13
INTERESTING ITEMS.

year, is about starting up.
Business at NewburypOrt, Mass, i.
improving. The cotton mills al {
starting up; the arms factory and the
hat factory are in full blast, and two
or three vessels are on the stocks.
The Merchants Manufacturing
Company, of Fall River, Massachu-
sets, proposes to enlarge their pres
ent mill TO the capacity of about p,
900 additional spindles.
The mills at SOuthbridge, Massa-
chusetts, are again running on short
time on dCcOUnt Of scarcity Of water.
The cotton mill at Haydenville is also
running on short time.
The California Silk Manufacturing
Company is pushing to completion its
factory. It is provided with every
convenience, and expectations are
high for soon beginning successful Op
eTatiOns.
A lady in Bath, Ne, has Just had
returned to Der, by the POst0fice De-
partment, q letter which she mailed
eight years and six months ago. It is
covered with pOstmaFks, but il is diff
cult TO trace its i0urneyings.
It is 8 fearful thing we are told Of
Washington city, which is that for
1871 il promises to be the resort of
many persons who have usually made
Paris and other gay cities of Europe
their home during the winter sea-
son.
The annual product of pepper in
Sumatra is > 600 600 pounds; Islands
Of Malacca Straits, 5000, 900; penin-
sula of Malay, 3, 733, ,333; BOrneO, p
656. CO..; Siam. S,O0O,OU0; Malabar, 4, .
100000; making a total of 90, 600, 600
pounds.
We notice that Louis Napoleon has
sold TO Victor Emmanuel his subur-
ban property near Rome, the Farnese
Gardens, including the historic Palace
of the Caesars. The price mentioned
is sJO,UJJ francs "a snug sum for
pocket money.
The R0gersvillR Journal Of the 9TH
instant SAYS: Judge Robert McEar-
land, of MOrristOWn, a prominent
lawyer and one Of the special judges
of the Supreme Court, Is lying uanger-
Ously I'D of pneumonia fever at his
residence, with but little hopes Of his
recovery
Professor J. X. Payne, of the East
Tennessee University, has been ap-
pointed by the War Department TO
take meteorological observations at
Knoxville. He Is supplied with all
necessary instruments complete
outfit Of the very best standard instrU-
ments-and viii begin his Observa-
tiOns In d few davs.
The reception of the young AmO-
deus by the Spanish people IS not so
suspicious as he could wish. In the
provinces, outside of the large garri-
sOued cities, mock professions are fire.
quent, in which sprigs of macCarOni
are worn as badges, and live mon
key is borne iH triumph as the repre-
sentative Of the imperial sovereign.
At the annual meeting Of the Board
Of Trustees Of the Tennessee Deaf and
Dumb Asylum, the following officers
were reelected for 1871: John L. Mo-
ses, President; s. B. Boyd, Treasurer:
r. ID. JOUrOlmOn, Secretary; j. NJ.
Boyd, Physician; S. B. Boyd, J. S.
Van Glider and W. K. Eckle, EXecu-
tive Committee.
The new shop Of the Howe Sewing
Machine Company, at Bridgeport,
Conn, will be worth $780, 600 when
fitted with the necessary machinery.
This company has a branch shop ia
operation in Peru, Ind, where they
make the tables and other light parts,
sending them TO Bridgeport to be fin
ished up. The cheapness of lumber
more than repays the cost Of trans
pOrtatiOn.
Since the overthrow Of the church
establishment in Ireland, the Orange
men have started a mOvementin that
island for the restoration Of her Par |
lament iu a Federal form. II is gain |
ing strength i'm all parts of the c0un-
try, and will have q voice in the next
election. When the Protestant and |
Catholics strike hands for the welfare /
Of the Green Isle, her day-star viii /
risektO set no more.
To meet the exgencies Of an in
CreasiDg trade, Mr.. George W. Childs, |
proprietor Of the Public Ledger, some [
time ago ordered of the Messrs. Hoe [
a new printing machine for his news /
paper, which, when completed, will /
enable the establishment to turn out /
%, 900 copies per hour. The new press /
viii cost, we are informed, EupWard /
of $40. 900, and viii be ready for use |
in two or three months.
A Mrs. Prentice, who died in Bos-
ton the other day, in her ssth year,
died in the house of her birth, and I
where she had always lived. She
was a constant attendant 8t the New
South Church for more than seventy
years, and though she had attended
funerals or weddings in three other
city churches, never listened to a dis
course except from the pulpit Of the
church Of her parents.
The ROckport steam mills, in Rock |
port, near Gloucester, Mass, were
sold by auction last week, in Boston, /
for Slzj,OJ0, at which price they were
struck of 10 p. II. Wentworth, Of the |
firm of Stantield, Wentworth d Cos
The property comprises a granite
building, 352 by So, and an ell 100 by
~, and now contains 10, 900 spindles. /
There are boarding houses and an
agents house. The property cost
$4,000.
The rUmOrs thicken that Prussia has
given the Pope a point blank promise
that Italy viii be taken in hand as
soon as France IS disposed of and Plus
Ninth rehabilitated. Il may seem
strange that Protestant power should
concern Itself in this Catholic squab-
bic; but we may call to mind that it
was Protestant Prussia, England and
Russia that insisted on Roman restO-
ration in 1915, after the bitter contest
between the hero Of Corsica and Plus
Seventh.
The ink used by the ancients seems
TO have been much more durable than
that used in modern times. 1t is said
that manuscripts of the ancients are
in a much better state Of preservation
than those Immediately preceding the
invention of printing. The reason of
this Is undoubtedly due to the tart
that the basis Of their inks was car
bon, whereas modern inks are usual
lv q chemical compound, containing
complex vegetable substance. We
may define il to be fluid employed
in writing with pen. A perfect ink
would be one that flows freely from
the pen, is Of a deep color, and VIII
not change by age, and cannot be re-
moved. Many efforts have been made
70 fulfil these conditions, but complete
success has not yet been obtained.
In 1851 the value Of American ship
ping engaged in foreign commerce
was estimated at Sos, ,0O0, 600, and the
gross earnings therefrOm $50 COO, 600.
In 1863 its value had fallen 70 S79, ,OOO,-
900, and its earnings to $23, ,0O0,O 900. In
1860 the American tonnage entering
our own ports from abroad was In eX-
cess OF foreign tonnage entering our
ports by 1861, ,374 tons. In 1863 that
excess bad fallen to 1874 go tons.
But in 1869 the relative positions were
reversed, and the excess was on the
side Of the foreign tonnage by ,94j, ,026
tons. In 1850 the value OF imports
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