Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-30

piled by a race OF improved ~vagabonds
that need watching ny improved detee-
tives.
The precious colored who stole the
horn out Of the Exposition Building Is
an old offender. He was u~precently for
stealing from a eolOred woman but was
turned loose, the Grand Jury not find
ing bills against him. Captain Smith
was anxious TO have him held at the
time and prosecuted, but because the
witnesses were not always 'iust thar
to give testimony the e0lored thief was
let go. In two days afteFward be
nabbed the horn. The penitentiary is
his deom this time, sure.
Prescott, of the Raleigh road, has a
letter from New York giving particulars
Of q recent invention by which horses
may be dispensed with in street railroad
travel. 1t is a steam car which will 20
at the rate of fifteen miles per hour, and
climb q grade Of four hundred feet TO the
mile. This il a very Opportune inven-
ton in view Of the fact that the horses
1 are all giving out. 1t would be a wind
fall TO Darwin, Spencer and the others il
the horse, like the potato, should give
indubitable signs of wasting away and
dropping into the long list Of extinct
animals.
The Theater and the O~perahouse
were both well filled last evening, and
the performances at both We're admira-
bic. 1t viii hardly again occur that
such actors in such characters viii oecu-
Ply, at the anne time, the boards in two
admirably conducted theaters in this
city-morality most s~traight-laced ear
hardly find cause for condemnation in
the legitimate drama. The richest les
sons Of philosophy and Of practical
wisdom and clearest d~elineatiOns Of hu-
man character and passion are now pre-
sented by those masters Of the art
which Shakespeare and those who al
most rivaied Shakespeare have popular
lied. Both theaters should be crowded
during the current week.
"A casewas placed before Justice
Miller yesterday, involving a question
Of damage to the amount Of thirty-three
dollars. One Of the counsel, a young
lawyerOf great rhetorical promise, ex-
coriated one Of the opposite witnesses in
this fashion: "'That fellow is an epitome
Of sublime stupidity; he is an army Of
exclamation points pounded into a col
umn Of blurred typography; he is a con-
glOmeratiOn Of chaotic nonsense; he is
a prismatie idiot; he is a volumin0us
paragraph Of contradictions The
Squire said it was the finest speech he
had heard since he was an s~'Oratation-
ist' himself at school, and took all the
premiums for elOquence every Thursday,
when the boys "declamated" for candy.
Among the immigrants from Alsace
are many agriculturists and cotton and
wOOllen operatives and other artisans,
who have had a thorough training, and
possess abilities for performing first-class
work. 1t is well known that the prov
ince Of Alsace, with Lorraine, has been
the seat Of the most extensive cotton and
wOOllen manufactures in France, and
the drift Of the population from thence
toward the United States may prove of
the utmost importance TO our textile
manufactures. In the province Of Alsace
two hundred thousand bales Of the finest /
Louisiana cotton have been consumed
annually, yielding a manufactured pro-
duct valued at one hundred and fifty
million dollars. The cotton fabrics of
these Alsatian factories are celebrated
the world over. Schools of design and
chemistry are established there, and
the industries are conducted with a
scientific skill unapproached in any part
Of the world. No doubt the American,
As well as the English manufacturer,
viii take advantage Of the political rev.
in Alsace, by securing a portion
IF that frst-class talent 50 essential to
he production of all the finer classes Of
These are the sort OF people we
want in Memphis.