Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-13

NEWS fAhAUEaAr1A 1Ac.
New Jersey is to have g reformatOr.
school for girls. .7rvr-~
Rafting lumber has commenced on th
SusquehannR.
Women are now admitted to fit!
American colleges.
Louisville, Kentucky, is organizing al
industrial exposition.
The United States Senate has ad.
jOurned till Monday.
The cork tree is being successfully cul-
tivated in California.
All hat one Of Queen Victories ladies
in waiting are widows.
Shad are being caught in considerable
numbers in the Potomac.
Green peas and new potatoes are IN
the markets at Savannah l- ts4.
A Scotch chemist has succeeded Ia
distilling whisky from thistles. &
The average yield of orange trees IN
California is fifteen hundred oranges.
In London yesterday the thermome-
Ter stood at ninety-three in the shade.
Coal has been discovered near the
surface in Stearns county, Minnesota. (
Navigation will be resumed on the
Delaware and Hudson canal on the
18th instant.
a seventy-five thousand dollar fire
destroyed a wOOlen mill in Springfield,
Massachusetts, yesterday.
An engineering party left Cincinnati
for Kentucky yesterday morning, to
make surveys for the Southern railroad.
The postmaster at Rock Island, Illi-
nOis. has established street letter-boxes
throughout the city at his own expense.
The New York Assembly refused 70
allow the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany 10 reduce its capital stock yester-
day. r--a
The ladies of Dublin and Cork strong
ly object to having Mrs. Woodruff lee
ture on free love in those cities. Cork
ladies, especially, are light enough with
out her.
The French government has Just been
warned that several German officers
have been for some time back busily en-
gagged in taking plans of the fOrtresses
and strategical routes in Savoy and
Franche COmte. ----
The Mormons have just been taking a
census of their own, which slightly diff
fers from the Federal counting done two
years ago. According 10 the govern
nent report the population Of Salt Lake
City was set down at twelve thousand
eight hundred and fifty-fOur, and that
of the rest Of the county at fifteen thou
sand three hundred and thirty-seven.
In France much anxiety is felt at the
rapid increase of drunkenness, which,
since the war, threatens to become a
national vice. French .refOrmers are
preaching an active crusade against it,
and hundreds of plans have been sug-
gested 10 put a stop to this invasion
which, if we are to believe French wri-
ters, promises 10 become more disastrous
than even the German invasion.
Dublin is just at present pleasantly ex-
cited over its approaching exhibition.
The Guinnesses, known far and near for
their porter and generosity, purchased
some time ago the Winter Garden Ex-
hibition Palace. This they have placed
at the disposal of the exhibition commit
tee, who are sparing no efforts to make
creditable display. Tourists to Europe
this summer should not forget TO "take !
in" the handsome Irish capital and It's |
exhibition.
The Aberdeen Miss. Examiner has /
the following sensible remarks upon /
foolish Radical enactment: "The Legis-
latuTe, in its insane desire to confer IL ]
legal privileges upon the freedmen, has |
passed q bill eXempting one hundred (
dollars of the wages earned by laborers |
from execution and garnishment. The /
result will be that instead of, in the |
slightest degree, benefiting the freed /
men, it win ruin the credit of the la
borer. and force each employer, in self |
defense, to refrain from making any ad-
Yances TO him"
The Columbus Miss Hadex SAYS:
'fAr. Allen Cotton, WHO resides near
this place, and who has Just returned
from Oktibbeha county, brings the sad
intelligence of the explosion Ofthe boiler
of Henry & COoper's mill, on Trim Cane,
sixteen miles west Of Starkviile, on last II
Thursday. The engineer, Mr.. Harden,
was killed instantly, and Mr. COtton's
younger brother, Mr.. VIM. NJ. Cotton,
who was acting fireman, survived the
accident three hours. George Craig
was wounded in the arm, but not Sc
verely. Mr.. Harden leaves a wife and
seven children, quite dependent. Mr..
Cotton was young man of twenty-five
years, and unmarried. At the time of
the accident the guage indicated eighty
pounds of steam. Mud in the boiler was
the supposed cause of explosion
The Vicksburg (Nississippi) Herald
thus summarizes the proceedings of the
Legislature of that State, which ad-
jOnTned last Friday: 1.-The new code has
been amended until there is but little
left of the original document, and an
army Of boys and girls made men and
women merely to advance personal in
terest and advance individual ambition. II
Acts Of incorporation without number
have been passed, and q quantity of
measures Of no importance whatever
rushed through at heavy expense 10 the
people. The general acts embrace the
penitentiaTy bill, q funding bill, a bill
reducing the salaries of State officers,
two Others reducing the number of chan
ceTy and circuit court districts, and still
another curtailiug the price paid for do
ing the public printing. We are glad the
has fallen.u
Hhe Ohio Legislature yesterday failed
TO flX the time for electing delegates to
the Constitutional Convention to be I
held in April, 1873. II failed to pass for
the want of a constitutional majority,
lacking five votes. As this vote was re-
it is probable that the bill
will pass next week. The contest on
this question of fixing the day when
these convention delegates shall be
elected, has been q warm one. The
being divided as to which {
was the most feasible time The Re
publican caucus decided i'm favor of
alecting I'm October, but some of the ;
claimed that this was not !
party question and refused to be gov /
sIned by the caucus, and so combined
with the Democrats and selected 1873 as
The time for the election. In the House
3 bill 10 authorize the appointment Of
three commissioners TO re-arrange the
Morgan raid claims was passed