Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-10

roads, too, are generally lined with I'M
migrant wagons, and the puHaic land is
being rapidly taken np Qnartz mills
are increasing fast, and permanent In
yestment ofcapital ia succeeding the
hap-hazard prOspector, with his pfacti-
cal motto of the pick and pan.
Texas probably has the largest provis
sion for common-schooI purposes of any
State in the country- Fifty leagues Of.
land have been denoted for the estab-
lshment Of q State university, and four
leagues to each county IN the State for
-commOn-school purposes, making the
aggregate of three millions, four hum
dred and thirty-fve thousand four hum
dred acres of the finest land in the State.
Scientific men claim to have made
some satisfactory progress In their in
vestiSations with rel.ard TO the nature
and origin Of the yellow fever. The
health officer of Charleston has Just
made a report upon the subject. His
theory is chat the disease is not import
ed, bat owes It's origin to the purifying
organic matter which is in great part
concealed In the porous sand soil upon
which that city stands.
At the present time the winter emigra-
ton TO Florida, especially from the
North, has assumed important proper
tons, 1t is estimated that twenty
thousand persons from that part of the
country spent the past winter in that
State. These visitors yield q source Of
no ineonsiderable revenue to the bank
accounts of the FIoridlans, ravaged in
pocket as they are by the sWarms of ra-
pacious ''carpet-baggers" who have set
tied upon them.
Let US enter a Genevan music store.
What an array of instruments, of all
shapes and modest The gentlemanly
salesman invites me to be seated. / ac-
cept his courtesy, and lol the chair be-
gins to play, "On yOnder rock reclin-
ing.n / place my foot upon a stool,
which stands i~nvitingly near, and from
its little body floats out upon the air the
prettiest of Strauss waltzes, "On the
beautiful blue Danube The bottle
from which you pour a glass Of water
chants, "Come fill to the brim every
fagon." The little bird, perched on
yonder ~curiously carved old clock, whis-
ties, "Listen to the hooking bird. In
fact, everything you touch sends forth
harmonious sounds.
During the month of January the heat
was intense at Adelaide, in South Aus
tralia, for the space Of twelve days.
With the exception of two or three
hours in the seventh night, the mercury
never fell below eighty-two degrees, and
ranged in the day up to one hundred
and eight degrees in the shade. Bust
ness nearly ceased. The houses got so
thoroughly heated in the day that they
had no chance of cooling in the night,
and sleeping with many people became
an impOssibiity. Even a cool bath was
a luxury scarcely attainable, for the
temperature of the waterworks water
rose to seventy-nine degrees. Toward
the end Of the twelve days those who
could afford 1t fed to the seaside, where
they refreshed themselves in a cooler
temperature.
There are many evidences pointing to
a struggle between England and Russia
for the possession of India, which is
likely to come off perhaps, ven within
this generation. Every new avenue of
trade whether railroad or canal, which
is projected in western Asia is nov care
fully examined in its bearing on this
struggle. Just at present the project of
the Euphrates Valleyirailroadis strongly
favored in England because Of its strate-
Hlc importance III LnlS anticipated con-
test, and an Austrian officer of high
rank" understood to be the officer who
holds the highest rank in the Austrian
service, has written a remarkable
pamphlet in which the power of being
able to hold this line is described as "a
factor Ofinestimable Importance in the
problem of the great contest
Statements apparently well authenti-
Gated, allege that the conduct of some
of the Christian missionaries in japan
is not calculated to give the unsOphfsti-
Gated natives any very exalted idea of
our system of religion. Some time since
a quarrel occurred between two rever-
end gentlemen, in the course of which
one said that the golden rule laid down
in the gospel twas nothing to himu-
considering he had been preach
ing that rule to the heather, was q some
what remarkable declaration, A resi- /
dent of Yokohama has recently publish
ed a letter charging two other mission
aries with beating their wives, and in
dulging in various shameful debaucher-
les. The writer says that the native
are pointing out these ~disgraceful
to their followers, as the natural
and inevitable results of Christianity.
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