Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-02-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Thompson for $1,000. The building
cost about $500, 600.
} The ashes of Christopher Columbu
now lie In the Cathedral at Havana
but are to be transferred to a new
cemetery bearing his name, near thu
city, and placed under superb mon
ument.
The 4iquor and lager beer business
is to be again placed in letters. Sen
ator Palmer has introduced a stringent
license law in the senate. What art
the German Republicans going to dc
about it?
There are residing in Rome at pres.
ent as many as between thirty and
forty American painters and seulp-
tors, or about the same number as
during the past fifteen years. Some
of them have been living there for
thirty years.
Colonel James Il. Taylor, promi-
nent citizen Of Charleston, South Caro-
lins, died Saturday of apopIexy. He
was distinguished for activity in what
related to business in the form of new
enterprises; was connected with mill
fairy organizations, and was always
1
The steeIpen trade OF Birmingham
requires fourteen factories to supply
the demand for this small but neces-
sary article OF daily use. The num-
Der of pens made is $1,000, ,00C per
week, or an aggregate of 700, ,000, 900
annually, There are no less than
$500 persons employed in the manu-
facture.
The Paris S0ir publishes a rumor
from Vienna, for which, however, it
does not vOuch, that the Germans
will Immediately evacuate France in
consideration of a pledge from Eng
land, Austria and Prussia, that
France will make good the remsin-
der Of her war indemnity to Ger
many.
It now appears that the native
tribes Of Abyssinia are still at war,
notwithstanding the recent capture of
Wagshum Gobaric by Dedjsj Kasa,
who, it would seem, is enjoying a
sort Of Capuan ease at Tigre since his
late victory. This quarrel is almost
as complicated as that of Ja-Ja or
that Of YacOOb, or as the SchlesWig-
Holstein imbrogliO once was
The French courts have just decided
that q murderer, named Casimir
Nignal, who, in a fit of jealousy, dis
posed of his wife by saving her into
pieces, and throwing the detached
portions into the river, and who was
afterwards tried and convicted, was
"guilty, but without premeditation," ;"
and has consequently sentenced him |
- Toh Co. H.
qualified verdict Is not uncommon in |
French courts.
According to a recent census, the |
population of Berlin proves to be |
eight hundred and twenty-eight thou
sand and thirteen, making the Ger
man capital the fourth among Euro |
pean cities. Besides London, Paris |
and COnstantinOple Outnumber it in |
population. The next most populOus |
cities are Vienna, and probably Ma
pies.
The treasury department has de-
cided that when q British vessel en-
ters an American port, with evidence |
that the tax has not been paid upon |
spaces not exempt from admeasure-
ment by American laws, it is the duty /
of the collector at such port to ascer-
fain the number Of tons omitted, col
lect the tax thereon, and give the
usual certificate.
The internal revenue bureau calls
attention to the fact that parties pur-
chasing cigars under the impression
that they are imported by reason of
having the imitation customs revenue
stamp affixed, can readily tell the do
mestie from the imported by the
notice which must be af-
fixed to every box of cigars, ,but which
are not required on the boxes Of i'm.
ported cigars.
According to recent English mar
ket report, there was falling of in
the Irish fax crop last year, estimated
at more than twenty thousand tons,
and had il not been Tor large supplies
from Russia, many of the mills would
have had to stand idle. English mer-
chants are looking for future supplies
from South Australia, where the eul-
tivatiOn of fax is receiving much
The postal card issued by the Cana
dian government Is four and a halfl
inches long by three inches wide, and
n thickness but little more substan-
ial than heavy letter paper. On its
ace are the words, "Canaia Post
Cards." a fac &inaile of a one cent J
stamp, and 1.-THE address only to be
written on this side" Below are
ihree lines upon which to write the |
iirection, and that is all.
The price of wool is now from sixty
% eighty cents. Last year there were
into the country 40, ,O62, ,929 !
pounds of wool that would have been
aised in the country but for protec-
ion. The tariff on wool stimulated
N over production of sheep, so that
WOOL became so low that in 1S6S-69,
Millions of sheep were butchered that
hOuld have been kept, and scarcity !
u wool produced. Now, prices being {
high, all the farmers will raise sheep.
Since the commencement Of the
in Cuba in october, 1858, c
10000 Spanish soldiers have been
EFT to the island. or this number (
ully 10000 have been killed in battle,
T have died of wounds and disease.
his enormous loss of life speaks
-olumes in favor of the probable sue
essful result of the war in favor OF the y
'ubans. Certainly, Spain cannot long
ontinue to dispatch to Cuba her arms
earring population at this rate, to fall
eneath the malarial influences OF the
rOpical climate.
The government of Brazil is about
0 organize a steamship line between
sio Janeiro and Bristol, in England,
hn Of inn 1-kr
SraZil annually, ten thousand English,
Welsh, Irish, and Scotch immigrants.
'heSe immigrants will be sent to the q
Orthern part OF Brazil, where they y
7ill themselves be permitted to select =
be land upon which they will estab d
sh themselves. This is a grand p
eheme of colonization, but 1t is to be u
oubted if it prove successful. 81
The New York Tribune, In an in @
3resting article, shows that CONNER .
al fertilizers are sixty five per cent.
igher in this country than In Liver o.
OOl or Hamburg, and that the cause p
it is the tariff, which, until a year pl
90, taxed bone dust ammonia, phos- al
hates, etc, twenty per cent, and in
hich still taxes sulphuric acid twenty al
pillars per ton. So this tariff tax of a;
Venty per cent, when its hurthen &C
,aches the people, is sWelled to a tax ~
siXty-hve per cent. y
The last news which has been re-
lived Of the celebrated traveller Fer
lnand Won RechthOfen announced
lat he has been obliged to suspend
le fourth journey which he had un- =
9rtaken on the west Of China, the J
of Tien-tsin having made 10
70 country unsafe for Europeans. Is
g went to Japan In the hope of pen.
rating into the interior, but was
fused permission by the Japanese
,vernment. In the Isles Of Liou-