Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-02

moderately good. Peas and potatoes
turnips, ETC., are badly injured by tn
drOuth."
The announcement having beel
made that the Collins are to have
reunion at Nantucket, Massachusetts
/ il is sue gested that this last effort at
! family convention looks like running
/ the thing into the ground.
An Irishman, speaking OF q per
I s0nal love of money, said: 81 verify
believe that il he were a. undertaken
I it would be the delight OF his hear
| to see all mankind seized with a com
mon mortality, that he might hav,
the benefit of the general burial, and
provide scarfs and hatbands for thC
/ survivors
PrecOcity bases its claims to future
greatness on this: Fisher Amas en-
tered Harvard at the age of u. aud
Edward Everett at 10; Bishop Hebel
translated "Ph@1russ" into Englisl
at Z; Anna Steward repeated from the
first three books of paradise Lost
al 9; Lord Br0ngham wrote on philo
sophy At IS; and Grant rode circus
mule at il.
DANCES, says a New Orleans paper,
are selling from our city and suburban
gardens at 81 so per hundred; they are
TetaiIed at five cents each, bringing the
huckster the trifiing profit OF SO 80 on
his investment of 81 90. The Cuba
crop will soon be coming iu, and then
the cOrmorants will have TO yield
somewhat. Is there not enterprise
70. rfrr11h %
monOpOlies in fruit and fish, that hold
such despOtic reign in this city?
Miss Elizabeth Peckham says
"The men OF the future W Il not suffer
like the men of to.ssy, who seek un-
easily q marriage that they do not
find, reyengipg themselves for the
loss of high satiszactions in coarse
ones, and thus missing their winged
powers. The promise aud beauty OF
the dawn is ours. Full-orbed men
and women will meet ia marriage.
We shall be as gods then, knowing
good and evil"
Geneva, the Protestant Rome, Is
rapidly improving in wealth ana re-
finement. 1t Is now little Paris
without petroleum or dange rous
classes of domestic origin. II mas
bOuieusrGs, public gardens, cafes,
libraries, theaters, museums, and ali
other institutions of Paris civilization.
1t is becoming the resort OF wealthy
idlers of all nations as well as the CEN
ter of sorts Of political and social
movements.
Lord John Russell, in a speech made
at the conference at the Nations
Union for the suppression of intem-
perance,H over which he presided,
said that during the five years which
ended with 1870, the temperate Brit
ish people spent for Intoxicating
liquors the nice little sum OF 5l4,842,
3l5 pounds steriiDg-ab0ut twenty
i've hundred millions of dollars. This
is about three times as large
as the ANNUAL income of all the raiI-
Gsys Of'sqq United Kingdom; twice
a. large as ede capital of All the savings
banks; half as large again as the ns-
tiOnai revenues for the whole time,
and fifty times as large as the collect
ge income Of all the religious and
philanthTOpic societies in the country
We are sorry to add, on the authority
Of the same competent witness, that
the working classes pay by far the
greater share of this enormous sum.
calculations given are made from
the amount Of liquors which pay duty.
Twenty-One years sgO, on the thir
ty first day Of July, q convention as
5embIed in Portland for the purpose
Of considering q plan to construct
railway line from Portland to Hsli-
lax, connecting there with the Euro
pean steamers, in order to reduce the
ocean passage between the continents.
The proposed line was then named
The "EarOpean and North American
The late Mr.. John A.
Poor, OF Portland, who a few years
ago became president of the corpora
lion, was the leader i4s ne enterprise,
and such men as Edward Everett,
Charles Sumner, Robert j. Walker
and Sir A. I. Gait gave il the eneour-
sgement Of their voices and pens. !
Extensive arrangements are in pro- |
yress for the ceremonies upon the
opening of this railway Bangor, |
Maine, to the Eastern line of the |
-taie) on the 18th Of October. Presi- |
lent Grant will be present, and also
Sherman and staff, and prom !
nent gentlemen from Ohio, Pennsyl- |
7ania aud other States. The Cover
of Canada, Lieutenant |
Governor Of New Brunswick, and 9th |
n prominent Canadian officials viii |
ilso tske part in the exercises Of the |
lccasi0n A full representation Of the |
'ress is alsU expected.