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HOW THE WORLD WILL END.

Lecture of Prof. Fiske before the American
Geographical Society,"
Planets are continually migrating
diffUsed materials which they encounter
in their progress through space, and il
has been estimated that the earth adds
to itself nearly one hundred and fifty
billions of such meteoric particles every
year. Secondly, it has been proved that
every planet must be slowly losing a part
of its mOlar motion of rotation. The
effect Of tidal waves, which are caused
blythe gravitatiOn of liquid toward other
planetary bodies, is to retard diurnal
rotation; and, In fact, the terrestrial
day is heightened by reason of the fric-
ton of the tides, and it is destined in
the remote future to give about four
hundred and eighty hours between sun
rise and sunset. The earth is also losing
molecular motion by radiation. That
some terrestrial heat is lost without
compensation-and very slowly, of
course-can hardly be doubted, and for
the state of things thus ultimately to be
produced, we may find a parallel IN the
present condition of the MOON. That
appears to afford an example of the uni
verSal death which, in an inconceivably
distant future, awaits the entire solar
system. If, along with the dissipation
of the mOlar and molecular motions, the
planets are also losing angular velocity,
this loss of motion will ultimately result
in their Indignation with the sun. Of
two facts which bear upon the subject,
one familiar to all students of science)
is the observed ~retardation of Encke's
comet by the resistance of the medium
through which it move The other,
which, so far as / know, has not hither-
to been mentioned, is that all the plan
cts are nearer the sun than they ought
to be, according to Bodies law, the va
riatiOns being most conspicuous, as
might be expected, in the case of Nep-
tune. 1t is at least worthy of notice
that the discrepancy is such as might
have been caused by a slow diminution
of the angular velOcities of the planets.
Another fact, that the interplanetary
spaces are filed with matter, and that,
consequently, all planetary bodies rush
ing through them must meet with
resistance and lose momentum, |
proves that immense momentum will
be eaten up by the resistance force. This
loss Of tangential momentum must
bring all the planets into the sun. As
the planet slowly draws neal the sun,
its lost tangential momentum is re-
placed, and somewhat more than re-
placed, by the added velocity due to
the increased gravitative force exerted
by the sun at the shorter distance. At
the last the planet must strike the sun
with tremendous force. The heat gem
Grated by the earth and the sun alone in
such a collision would suffice to produce
a temperature of nearly five million de-
grees centigrade. OF course, disintegra-
lion would Immediately follow. and the
next stage is the dissipation of the whole
into a nebula.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-23

nominations have been received. In
the convention, the friends of the vari-
Gus candidates, whose high characters
and great popularity placed them in the
category Of candidates for the honor OF
nominations, struggled with commend
able zeal for their respective favorites.
But after the choice was fairly
made, according to the usages of the
party and the rules of the conven
ton, all yielded up their par
ticular preferences, and hastened to
rally under the banner of the successful
candidates. In every part of the
country there seems to be a determina-
ton to consolidate and harmonic on
the ticket The honest taxpayer and
the horny-handed laborer cordially
unite on the nominees. Such a spirit of
union, such a disposition to conciliate
and harmonize, and such enthusiasm
and determination, exhibited at the
very threshold of the contest, inspires
No WIN lut nlOSO NOul1utllb DtlItI III a
triumphant campaign and a crowning
victory. But let no man be lukewarm
or indifferent-we have no ordinary
battle to fight. The Radical candidates,
who oppose the Democratic nominees,
will make one more desperate effort to
get possession of power in Shelby
county. They will be bafiied, routed,
if the Democrats do their duty, and
that duty consists in organizing, acting
and giving a Jealous and ungrudging
support to the nominations made in
conformity to the usages of the party.
In a few days more the Democratic
hosts Of Shelby county will be organ
lied, and organized for victory. The
blightning curse of Radicalism must
not be permitted to scourge u COM
munity again.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-23
ARKANSAS.

The action of the Democratic State
Convention, which adjourned Friday
last at Little Rock, Arkansas, was in
the highest degree favorable to the
Liberal Reform movement in hat State.
The convention was the largest ever
held in the State, was composed OF
the best citizens Of the State, and its
deliberations having been marked with
the most earnest and honest purpose TO
relieve Arkansas from the oppression
of its present administration, its action
goes to the world as the strongest proof
Of the will and wishes of the people Of
the State in the premises. 1t is true
there was conflict Of opinion and divi-
sion Of sentiment as to the ways and
means of Accomplishing the common
object for which the convention was
called-to-wit, the redemption of the
State-but that wa the great object,
the central thought round which every
individual opinion in the convention
revolved. This being the case, and a
very large majority of the convention
fully eight-tenths of that body-haying
adopted q certain course of action, it
follows that every member of
the convention, whatever may have
been his individual views, OF what
ever may be his opinion Of the
wisdom or expediency of the course
adopted, should give a most hearty sup
port to the policy marked out by the
convention, and leave nothing undOne
to make that policy successful. The
convention adopted as a whole the plat
form, and virtually Endorsed the ticket
of the Brooks, or Brindle, Liberal Re-
publicans of Arkansas. This platform
has nothing in it that the most ardent
Democrat cannot wisely accept, while
the men on its ticket, whatever their
respective merits, are battling for pre-
cisely the same object and have in view
the accomplishment of the same ends
for which the Conservative Democratic
party of Arkansas have been working
and praying since the reconstruction
laws were forced upon the State, name
the overthrow Of the Clayton faction
and Of the Infamous rings that have
plundered the State and made her for
the last four years the common quarry
Of Radical birds Of prey. This should
be enough to silence any objection to the
Of the convention, enough TO en-
cooperation, united and determined,
all classes, to the end that this great
purpose be accomplished.
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BEECHER ON DAMNATORY PRAYERS.

Henry Ward Beecher has received the
following note:
DEAR SRA short time ago / heard
a minister, while exhOrting, relate the
following story to the congregation: He
said that in n of the Eastern States a
certain minister had commenced a re-
vival in a neighborhood which was con
trOlled by infidels-that is, that all the
influential men in the n~eighborhood
were infidels, who would not attend
church, and Influenced others to stay
away. After he had tried in vain to
convert them, he prayed ~fervently that
they might be removed. He said there
were five of them, and that in a few
days four were removed by death, and
the other was f'terribly shaken as he
expressed it. Now / wish to know if you
think the story true, whether 1t was
right for him to pray for such a thing?
Is there anything in the Bible in favor
of such q course?n
Mr.. Beecher writes to the Ledger that
this story is " very suspicious" but he
gives his opinion on the general subject
thus:
"What a time there would be if every
unsuccessful preacher should be justified
in denOuncing those who did not feel
moved by his sermons! Broad as is the
road that leads to destruction, il would
have to be widened still more to take in
all that would swarm it, if everybody
was to be damned that poor preachers
and unwise sermons did not convert.
1--WE are not without a striking case
bearing upon this subject in the history
of our Lord. AS he was approaching a
village of the Samaritans, the villagers
refused to receive him, inasmuch as he
was on his way to Jerusalem. james
and John, fiercely Jealous of their Mas
ter's honor, asked, Lord, wilt thou that
we command fire to come down from
heaven and consume them?' The Lord
rebuked them, saying, tYe know not
what spirit We are of; for the Son of Man
is not come to destroy mems lives, but
to save them. This was the very John
whose name is a synonym of all gentle-
ness and loveableness! That he was
early subject to such bursts of cruel pas
sion, all the more shows the nobleness
of that growth which afterward took
place in him.
CLOSELY allied to thissubject is the oe-
casional instances which occur of weak
men, called good, praying for the imme-
diate interposition of God against those
whom they regard as false teachers.
Theodore Parker seems never to have
gotten ove the fact hat a poor igTo-
rant fellow, in one of the Boston morn
ing prayer-meetings, prayed that God
would convert him, or else remove him,
Again and again Mr.. Parker alluded to
it, As if it Were. a fair exponent Of the
spirit of those who disliked his teach
whereas it was n of those foolish
u~tteranees that occur in all free meet
ings, and it shocked the people present
full as much as it could have done the
gentleman concerned
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AMERICAN CANOE TRAVELLING.

A young New York journalist, Julius
Chambers, DESTROYS of emulating the IA
meus ''ROb Roy Canoe" traveller, is try
ing to introduce travelling in the
United States, and in order to further
insure the success of his enterprise he
has christened his craft with the all-pre-
vailing name of Dolly Warden. The ca
o was built to order in May, 1872, by
Waters, Balch & Co., ofTroy, New York,
and is of one-tenth ton burden. The
weight of the boat and rigging is sixty
six and a quarter pounds; baggage, six
teen and three-quarters, and gallery,
four and a half. The weight of the crew
is one hundred and twenty-eight and a
quarter pounds. The hull is Of paper,
with cedar deck; length, fourteen
feet; breadth, twenty-eight inches; and
draught, four inches. She has a strong
shear, raising from a depth of ten and a
half inches amidships to twenty and a
half inches at the stem and seventeen
and a half at stern post; rugged to carry
a spreet sail, jib and miZzen, and fitted
with ample accommodations for cooking
and sleeping on board.
The Dolly Warden is the pioneer cruz
ing canoe in America. She left New
York on the twenty-first of May, sailing
westward Ella the lakes, and left ST
Paul, Minnesota, for Lake Itasca on the
twenty-ninth. She is now nearSt. Louis,
on her way to New Orleans, having al
ready travelled a distance Of three thou
sand six hundred miles.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-23
POLITICAL

Gerritt Smith has a son and nephew
who are both out for Greeley.
General Jos. E. Johnston opposes 6
Democratic nomination at Baltimore.
There are six German newspapers in
Michigan, and five Of them are fol
Greeley and Brown.
Colfax may yet be President. Grant
may break his neck at Long Branch be-
hind a couple of fast horses.
"Now, I'll tell you about Ireland y
said Henry Wilson (GIids. ETC. less than
a year ago: "Those who are not beggars
are natural thieves.n
Otsego county, New York, gave one
thousand Radical majority in 1870. II
Greeley is nominated at Baltimore it is
counted on as certain for fifteen hundred
the other way.
By the reapportionment of New York,
for Congressman, Messrs. S. S. Cox and
James Brooks become residents of the
same district; and Cox will be reelected
as representative at large.
The man who does not now see that
all roads which lead from Greeley go to
Grant, could not tell a mile-post from a
hand-organ, nor distinguish between a
mud-cart and a coach-and4six.
A new German daily was issued at
Newark, New jersey, on Monday. tits
called the &d1ts-Z eit1ng, and win sup
port the Cincinnati ticket, under the
editorial direction of DR.. Lehlbach.
The election of Greeley will break up
the military ring, purify the whole adj
m~lnistration, elevate the Judiciary, re-
duce expenditures and taxation, and
give freedom to the South. That's
what's the matter.
That staunch Conservative journal,
the Hiads County Gazette, hoists the
Greeley and Brown ticket, "subject to
the ratification of the people at the bal
lot-bOX." This makes fourteen Conser-
vative and Democratic papers in Missis-
sippi that now fly the Cincinnati ticket.
Hon. C. NJ. Conrad, a distinguished
politician of Louisiana, in a letter to the
New Orleans Times, advocates the cleo
ton of Greeley and Brown. General
Fitzpatrick and Joe Hooker, Generals of
distinction in the Federal army, are also
strong friends of the Cincinnati ticket.
A poll was taken of the editors in at
tendance upon the Mississippi Press AS
ISOLATION, which met at Columbus the
other day. OF the ffty-fve present, 1t
was found that %forty-nine We're opposed
to a straight-out nomination at Balti-
more.
The Cincinnati Enquirer claims that
at least nine-tenths Of the Democratic
papers of the United States are now for
the Endorsement of Greeley and Brown
by the Baltimore Convention. The
Enquirer adds that most of the other
tenth will say likewise before the ninth
Of July.
Pennsylvania, it is claimed, is to be
one of the battle-fields of the great po-
litical revolution now progressing IN
this country; and as a straw, indicating
the ~disaffection in the ranks of the So
called Republican party, it is stated by
hose who profess to know, that thirty
hitherto staunch Republican journals IN
State refuse to indorse the nomna-
ion of General Hartsauff, lately made
~ the Radical party in State Conven-
ion.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-23

SPEAKING of Mr.. Greeley's popularity
among the Irish, The Irish People says.
" From the expressions of opinion thai
appear in the columns Of the newspapers
which reach us from every part of the
UniOn-from the four points of the CON-
pass-it would appear that, in view Of
the coming Presidential campaign, the
almost universal voice of Irish citizen
ship is in favor of Horace Greeley. He
may now be said to be emphatically the
favOrite candidate of most Irish citi-
ZONE -
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-23

IF VAUGHAN remain in Congress h
will have this whole valley striated will
canals a substitutes for railways, givin.
this people the richest farms and mean.
of cheapest transportation known t.
civilized States. His Memphis Custom.
house bill failed because we have nc
representative in the Senate, and be.
cause it has failed, Vaughan intends to
have the Mississippi tunneled. To test
the feeling of Congress on the subject,
he presented a bill which was enacted,
appropriating five thousand dollars for
the purpose of prosecuting the search for
the sources of the Forky-deer river, a
matter involving as much interest
among savants as the search for the
Of the Nile. In any
event Mr.. Vaughan, as no other
man could have done, secured the
appropriation. This is the first dollar of
Federal money expended in West Ten
since the days of Davy Crockett
and Fred Stanton. Vaughan meant
business when he went to Washington.
He was no gas-bag, and never once,
happily for his constituents, INDUCED in
a windy harangue.
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DIDN'T LIKE MUTTON.

A good story is told of the recent ex-
cellent performance of Handels "Mes-
siah" at the Broadway Baptist church.
A farmer took his wife to hear the grand
music so splendidly rendered on that
occasion, and, after listening with ap-
parent enjoyment, the pair became sud-
denly interested in one of the grand
choruses: 1--WE all, like sheep, have
gone estray."
Firsta sharp soprano voice exclaimed,
awe ali, like sheep"
Next a deep bass voice uttered, in the
most earnest tones:
1--WE all, like sheep
Then all the singers at onc asserted:
ave all, like sheep
"Darn'd il I dOIn exclaimed old rusti-
Gus to his partner. 81 like beef and ba-
con, but l can't bear sheep meat!"
There was an audible litter in that
vicinity, but the splendid music attract
ed attention from the pair, and they
quietly slipped out.-LouisviHe Courier
Journal.
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PRINCE OF WALES AT THE MABILLE.
Another Text for BradIaugn and Odge

Another Text for BradIaugh and Odger.
1t seems that the Prince of Wales took
his wife to the Jardin Mabille in Paris
during his recent vista place where
decent French women won't go. The
Prince, like George the ", is a bad boy.
Hes a very bad boy. American gentle
men tourists frequently go to the Ma
bile, but they do not take their wives
there. The Mabille is like the Orpheum
of Berlin, or the Esler of st. Petersburg
a very low place. The Prince went on
Saturday night. The correspondent of
the TTI6hns says:
On this night the smartest of the Paris
cOcottes, as it is the fashion to call loose
women in this gay city, make a point of
appearing at Mabille. They do not
themselves dance, but walk about and
display their brazen charms and exhibit
more than half indecent toilettes. About
every third Saturday the police inter-
fere, and stop the dancing for the night,
on account of its being too indecent even
for Partisan tolerance. This is the place
to which the heir to the British throne
thought fit to take his wife. Norespect-
able workman in the FaubOurg st. An
tome would ever dream of taking his
wife; nay, many a workman would not
even take his mistress to a similar place
of entertainment. AS to French ladies,
it is needless to say that they
are always conspicuous by their absence
from such a resort. Just before the war
there was quite an cutlery in the French
papers because some members of the
Corps Legislatifhad beenat the Mabille.
So much scandal wa raised that one of
the deputies in question-M. Glais-Bi-
zon-actually wrote to the papers that
he was not by any means in the habit
of going to the Mabille. but that he had
looked in casually while waiting for a
friend who lived near. So, where depu-
ties were ashamed to be seen under the
Empire, the Prince of Wales is not
ashamed to take his wife under the Re
Duhlic.
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PERSONAL.

Bayard Taylor is off for Europe again.
Jubilee Gilmore has an liberated
throat.
Frederick Douglass will build anew in
Rochester.
Miss Nilsson is to be married the last
week in July.
Our President will spend the month
of August at Cape May.
Brigham Young now has his sermons
reported Uer6dtiDI, like Beecher.
Marshal Bazaine's wife urged her hus-
band to give the authorities 'leg bail. y
The marriage bond of David Crockett
is to be presented to the State Library of
Tennessee. 1t bears David's signature.
The Empress Eugene had the pleas
ure Of seeing her name set up in an
English paper as 'the Express Engine"
He-Never-W eeps is the name of Red
Clouds only brother, and some of the
papers disrespectfully speak Of him as
Old-Dry-Up.
1t is said that Able Michaud is about
to open a spacious chapel in Paris for
Old Catholics, " and that Father Hya-
cinthe will preach there.
Professor Alpheus D. Crosby will pro
nOunce a eulogy at Hanover, New
Hampshire, June 26th, on the late ex-
President Nathan Lord, of Dartmouth
College.
Horace White, the editor Of the Chi
cago Tribune, owns three hundred and
fifty-eight shares in the concern, and the
other principal owners are: Mayor Me-
dill, forty-five shares; Governor Bross,
fifty shares; Mr.. Cowles, the business
manager, sixty-ive and one-half shares.
General Custar from the Plains reports
that itch Is prevalent among the Sioux
tribe; also, the remarkable fact that
whenever a brave takes the disease he
Immediately becomes transformed into
Indian-rubber.
The father ofThOmas Mast, the carica-
turist, was a professional musician, a
calling which he intended his son should
follow, to which end he used to thrash
him with a leather strap nos enthusias-
tically and faithfully, in order to make
him learn the scales on the violin,
Thomas, however, had a genius for
drawing, and he knew it. He is happily
married to the daughter of al English
lady, and has three children, all living.
To writings consequent upon these
thrashings is ascribed the lossOf the "y''
at the end of Thomas's surname.
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COLONEL Jesse A. Poorest.

The card published elsewhere from
Colonel Forrest is creditable alike to hi
head and heart. 1t sounds like the bias
of a bugle summoning warriors to arms
We trust his appeal to his friends and tt
the Democracy of Shelby county will bC
answered with alacrity and enthusiasm
So far as we can learn, every aspirant
before the late convention supports the
nominees, and expresses a determine.
ton to enter the contest with
the spirit of a Spartan. The card
of Colonel Forrest has the ring o.
genuine metal. With him there are
no murmers of mutiny in the camp, nc
logged disaffectiOn or indifference to
duty. Like a true soldier, marshaled in
the great interest of the people, and
proud of the standard-bearer who won
the prize for which he struggled, Col
onel Forrest has buckled on his armor.
Like a true Trojan, when the Greeks are
at the gates, he goes into the battle
with Roman resolution. Colonel Forrest
lost the nomination, but in writing and
publishing his card he has won more
honor than a nomination could have
conferred upon him.
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and would have the "bloody chasm'
made by the wal effaced from the land
But true to those cruel and revengefu
instincts which prompted him to sup
port Brownlow and Stokes, Colonel A
P. Curry r~epudiates Greeley, the pacifi.
Gator and honest man, and again hug:
to his congenial bosom Grant, the cor.
rupt despot, who seeks to perpetuate bis
reelection by putting his iron hoofs upon
the necks Of the Southern people. God
forbid that the people of Shelby county
should sink so low as to elevate such a
man over Jack Doyle; because, forsooth,
now that it suits his purposes, he would
turn patriot by invoking "no politics in
local elections.'