Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-23
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THE RoTHsCHILD's, by controlling
the leading mines, now have the
monopoly Of the quicksilver market
of the world.
, TIE Conservative State Executive
Committee, of Virginia, have decided
, to call g convention on the 30th OF
August, for the reorganization Of the
party.
3 RFTRIBUTIyE JUsTICE.-Dr. H-n,
Hamilton, lost, during last week, the
greater part of his crop Of cherries he
now has the satisfaction of attending
the principal delinquent in the rob
berry for stomach complaint.
ANOTHER DOsE.-Another dose OF
the disturbing element" is to be adj
ministered to West Point. Turner,
T the negro Congressman from the Sci
ms, Alabama, district, has nominated
a negro named John MCGEE as cadet.
THIS is " tit for tat" Jacob Baugh-
man, a constable of Campbell town
ship, Green county, Mo, was shot and
dangerously wounded on Thursday
last, while attempting to arrest a des-
peradO named Armstrong. After be-
ing wounded, Baughman shot Arm
strong, killing him instantly.
GENERAL BUFoRD says he will bet
$4,000 that his four year old bay colt
Enquirer, by Lexington, can beat his
half brother Longfell0w, at that dis
lance. Should these two horses come
together in the dash of four miles,
with Kingfsher and other fast ones
doing the pushing, there viii be one
of the finest races ever run.
THE meanest thing which has lately
appeared In priut was a miserable
fabrication gotten up by the Louisville
Commercial about Jefferson Davis and
q lady in q sleeping-car on the Mem
phis and Charleston railroad.-C6g-
cingati Enquirer.
The Commercial is rather mean, but
the C0uTier-JoUTRGE cowardly repub
LEGATION of the SANDER, in the thin
guise OF a defense Of Mr.. Davis, was
vastly meaneT.
JUST before the war, over ten mill
lion OF gunuybags were annually i'm
ported into this country. substitute
has been found in the tow of flax
! straw, obtained from the refuse after
the seed had been threshed out. Fifty
mills, each consuming the product of
an area of twelve square miles, are
working up this tow in the West
into bagging, and their number is in
creasing,
A QUEER case recently occurred in
lOmaha. 1t Is thus recOunted by
Telegraph: The trial of NOurse,
the leader who killed two Of
his companions, is under progress at
| Cheyenne, with nine men and three
married women as the Jury. The
husbands and children of the lady ju-
rOrs made sn Intellectual effort to get
/ the lady jurors released from custody
during the night of the 18th.
The strength OF the Masonic Order
in the United States, as reported by
the Committee on Correspondence of
the Grand Lodge Of Pennsylvania,
aggregates as follows: Number Of
lodges, 7495; members initiated du-
ring the last year, Il, 936; total num-
Der Of members in thirty eight States
and one Territory, 466, 802. The order
is strongest in New York, where there
are $50 lodges and 1882 members.
Illinois comes next, with sos lodges
and 1885 members. Pennsylvania
has $40 lodges and 1858 members.
THE Toronto (Canada) Globe of
Friday last gives a very interesting
description of a rich silver deposit,
and the manner of working it. 1t
lies east OF the promontOry called
thunder Cape. 1t belongs to the
Montreal Mining Company, and that
body have made great preparations
for carrying on the works on a grand |
scale, and for accommodating their
numerous wofkmen or the main
land. The resources in mineral
wealth Of this almost UNEMPLOYED
region are immense.
A WESTERN paper mournfully and
truthfully says: " insignificant rivers
and creeks along the lake line In the
North that are scarcely known to
geOgraphers, and entirely unknown
to the world, have received in the ag.
gregate, millions Of dollars, while the
Ohio and Mississippi, which are
greater than a thousand of them put
together, and float a commerce great
er than that Of: all the lakes, |
have not received enough to dredge
their bars and remOve their snags.
SOCIAL AND MORAL CHANGES IN
MDIA-Fifty years ago most of the
commercial traffic wasen pack cattle,
and the royal mails were carried on
mems shoulders; new there are FIVE
or six thousand miles of railroad, and
tens OF thousands of miles OF made
roads. Then there was but a SINGLE
newspaper in a native language; now
all the large cities have their daily
and periodical press. The English /
language are widely read. Then the
best informed natives thought it was
folly TO attempt to introduce the
Christian religion into India; now it
is the general feeling among them that
Brahminism is 81 amend.
MARY's LITTLE LAMB.-Beecher's
ChriStGn Union perpetrates the fol-
lowing:
" Mary had little lamb,
1t drank cold water freely,
And looked so innoeautly wise.
She called IL Horace Greeley
The devil Of the New York Neus
thus poetizes:
" Mary had e little lamb,
is fodder grew Q~uitescsnt,
And so, 70 raise the stamps for more,
She named il Useless Grant"
And again the same devil grlnds
cut:
Mary he'd a little lamb,
And cav the President;
Ard, so, to get an Office sure,
She named It Freddie Dent"
A DISPATCH from Sioux City. I
Iowa, on the 10th, says that Cor ]
rectionville, In this county, was Wis {
ted by a terrible Storm OF wind and
hail on Tuesday night. The hoase OIL 1
J Mr.. Baldwin was blown into trag-
ments, and his furniture, clothing, ,
Ste, blown away Fences were pros :
trees Wrqnched up By the :
roots, and all the windows on the /
north side Of houses Ia the track of {
he storm were broken by hail. Crops :
suffered severely, the grain being {
right into b egrOund, and manyr
ields were entirely ruined. Several /
had Commenced harvesting, {
md the cut grain was scattered ike /
lhaa and lost beyond III recovery. /
A TRANSLATION of Bishop StEosssI
Mayors celebrated speech in the /
Roman Councifoa tie PoPs's infal- /
has recently been published {
d England, which fills four and Hia
lalf. columns of small type. The1f
Bishop declared frankly that the '