Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-14
CURRENT NEWS.


The Little Rock Gazette learns from
reliable sources that there Is now q
full corps of engineers on the line OF
the White River Valley and Texas
railroad, making the survey prepare
tory to the commencement of work.
| The contract fer doing the earthwOrk
between Des Arc and Jacksonport has
been let to parties lately constructing
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail-
road, whoare now on their way from
that point to Des Arc. When COM
pleted this road Will prove one Of the
most valuable in the State. In addi-
ton to protecting q large quantity Of
excellent bottom lands from overflow,
which are as fertile as any In the
State, and will be made valuable by
this road, 1t will pass through a cOun-
try than the lands of which there no
better anywhere. At ~Jacksonport the
road connects with the Cairo and Full
ton, thus furnishing communication
to the people Of Camden, Pine Bluff,
and other points along the line, with
st. Louis and the east.
In an interesting work on iron-clad
ships, published two years ago, Mr..
Reed, late chief constructor Of the
English navy, showed that, up to
January l, 1889, the British govern
ment had expended e10, 900, 900 sterl-
ing upon irOn-clads; and probably
this amount has been nearly doubled
since then. The ir0n-clads which
have been sent to sea thus far have
nearly all behaved in a manner calcu-
lated to shake the confidence of the
most sanguine advocates of floating
~fortresses. First, the "CaptainD went
to the bottom; then the "Cerbarus "
proved that she was wholly lacking in
sea-going qualities, and now the
"Agincourto has gene ashore of Gil
bralter, and the Warrior " has met
with the same fate of Leghorn.
The British army has been rehears-
ing some of the preliminaries of the
Battle of DOrking. Thirteen thou
sand men marched from Aldershott to
Sandhurst, a distance of nine miles,
cooked and ate their dinners. and
then-marched back again. The
faithful chronicler comments that this
was done /" cheerfully," which is phe-
nominal in a nation OF grumblers; but
the vital point-how well was 1t per-
formed-is lost to the world.
A Paris paper says that a rich
American has offered to rebuild the
Tuileries solely at his own expense,
on condition that one of the wings of
the new building shall receive his
name, and that as long as he lives
he shall be allowed an apartment
in it looking out on the gardens, and
an invitation TO all the ceremonies
which shall ever be given in the pal
ace by any government which may be !
in power there.
The digger Indians" of the Pa
cifc slope have an unpleasant custom
of burying young infants alive with
the bodies Of their dead mother. Re-
Gently a young squaW of one OF their
bands died, leaving q papOose about
four months old, and it is authenti-
eally asserted that the child, ''alive
and kicking" was placed upon the
body Ofits dead. parent and they were
buried together.
At the late West-German chess
convention, held at Crefeld, |
Willfried Paulsen played simulta- /
six sO-called blindfOld
games, that is, without looking on the
boards. He won five games, and the
sixth was drawn. The playing lasted
from 8 to 10 O'Clock pm.
AS a party of ladies were eating an
outdoor lunch in the vicinity of the
White Mountains, they were Joined
by a small but sociable and lively
bear. The ladies showed their deli
cate politeness by surrendering the
of the lunch to the neW-com-
mer.
The Rev. Newman Hall is said to
have stated that the Church of Eng
land has lost 800, 600 of its members
Oy drunkenness during the last three
years. The old quotation about the
etter and the spirit will have to be
'evised.
The San Francisco Call publishes a
ist of the wealthy men of that city.
Fifty-One are millionaires, with for
unes ranging from 81, 900, 900 to $10,-
700, 600; ten are worth S750,000, and
ixty-One have $500, 600 and upward.
The cOuntrymen Of the late Marshal
'rim have subscribed $3.50 sterling
the purpose Of erecting a mOnu-
nent to his memory. /