Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-08
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

-COlored anvil chorus at the Exposi.
ton Monday night.
Or. Rogers lectures in the Grand
OperahOuse Sunday night.
The latest name for the horse mala.
dy is ~the hipporhlnorrheRirthus.'
The great drawing at Cochran Hal
on WEDNESDAY November Sth. Who VIII
win the ten t~housand2'
The next session Of the Legislature
commences the first Monday in January,
when the new members take their seats.
Last Sunday the new Catholic Gem
etery, ar Little Rock. was consecrated by
Bishop Fitzgerald. It is named Calvary
Cemetery.
Standardization is now the order Of
me day. Tennessee, for the second time, IN
dergoes the prOcess-with the difference that
the boot Is now on tother leg. 1t kicks well.
nevertheless.
At the last municipal election
| Nashville cast five thousand votes. On Tues
day Memphis east about nine thousand i've
hundred vOres-thus showing that Memphis
8 nearly twice as large as the capital OF the
The Chief of Police had a lively time
Of it Yesterday, looking after two suspicious
.haTgtters in the Exposition. They were
closely eyed during the two hours that they
Offered within It's walls.
L. Q. c. Lamar, is elected to Con-
EIcoS III l4E NOrLueasLeEn district OF MIEslz-
~.ppii and NJ, Hodge is supposed % be
chosen in the eastern district OF Arkansas;
can.
-COllieTvile deserves aleather medal.
II Is right on the line Of the Charleston road.
and yet 40 returns Of the election have been
received FROM IL. Even Baskerville, the pro-
EerplaLly slow, sent in the returns yesterday.
The ColderviIlians are not patriotic.
The name Of Peter Tracey appears
an the r.HHaa dob -- .
This Irace-ee Is not our {" Peter" II II were I
we would send for George Francis at once. 10
SPeaA LsLe On me subject Of restricting and
RECOMMENDING and expressing the press.
News has reached some Of his rela-
ives IN Memphis that Mr.. John Francis Ma
5ulre, the ~weu-knOWn Irish member OF Par
.lamenI for Cork city, and proprietor and
principal editor Of the Cork E1aniaer. died
Friday night. Mr.. Mcguire was in ne 6ftv-
seventh year OF his age.
Butler, Thornburg, Crutchfeld.
Bright Democrat, Harrison. Gibbs. Atkins
Democrat, Nunn, Lewis and Maynard, are
-Eo Republicans. II Is not absolutely certain 4
hat Whlrthorne has been defeated bv Gibbs.
out IL Is quite as well 10 believe il.
The story comes that the Radicals
and Democrats have polled about an equal
lumber OF votes In Upton. Il Is said that the !
aaoleal candidate has been elected 10 the
-telslaIure a. that county. Barbour Lewis's 3
majority Ia Eayette is said TO be seventeen
hundred, and In this district about tbres
~ "
1t is astonishing the amount Of J
water that falls IN the course Of a year OF a
Iuare-m-e Of territory. Allowing TIA
0rJy-ihree inches Of rain descends IN a year,
&c have the quantity Of SIX huns ]
RED ana twenty-five millions. i've hundred 4
ninety-foUr thousand nine hundred {
ma seventy gallons nearly. or three millions.
ne hundred and twelve thousand seven num-
lreO and seVeuty-fOur tons Of two thousand I
'oands each. This is Just about one-half the &
nFHHNEHH1 WafwhW nH HLaHaaEaaH - IT, - IL
mds- To convey this amount BY railway car !
iase> OF eight tons each capacity. would re- !
10y 0Ise uhdred ana elghty-nine thousand
~ nundfed and rwenty-one carriages, and II
twenty rect length they would make a train
niles long. &
The night after the October elections |
"a tennsylyania, Ohio and Indiana several j
'outhern gentlemen, editors and others-,lI Z
lcnocr3ts or Liberal Hepublicau-met NOT /
away nom this spot and discussed the
nsct Of the recent Northern political eveuts. Z
Z was stated that since the south had agreed 2
o support Greeley, in order 20 assure the I
Norlh OF southern assent 20 the exactions OF ]
ar and lhe North as shown by the recent
leeuons- stiil refused % cooperate with OF 9
9nnae IA the south, il was agreed that the I
rue poncy OF the south consisted in its con- c
cAdated support Of Grant. several OF those Q
resent persisted in adhesion TO the opfnfou 7
aen disclosed, and the elections OF Tuesday Q
now that the reasoning Of the caucus was ap- 5
roFed BY vast numbers Of Tennesseans. e
The frog has played a useful part in y
ne columns Of newspapers and magazines for q
PC past hundred years or more, and IL is too 3
,Le IN We Gay 70 attempt 70 degrade him e
eN. ne mas been discovered alive in Jumps I
Z coal, blocks granite, trunks Of trees, and Il
= every strata rom the old red sandstone up. a
L. mas come IN showers, dropped from clouds. Il
cen borne on the wings Of the wind gproufed q,
rom The ground Ike weeds over night. There h
sc4Icety any lmposslbilty In the animal q
insdom thai ne has not been accused Of /.
Ding until he has become an object Of pro-
respect 20 the entire world. scientific y
~ 2lnefwlse Any attempt TO behtte him e
lo4l4 meet WIN profound ~reprobation, and i
5 the iouow1ng Is a step in this reprehensible n
Liectlong We trust 30 Will be frOwned down At 4
nee: Mu. Newton, Of Bernard Castle, Eng
md, found a frog Undecided in the middle sri
potato thai she was about % eat This is i
ally not q requisite thickness. It is a bold j
lq magnificent attempt, but IL Is a complete d
1hat 4 frog should swallow a potato A
not out Of al probability; but that a potato :
loulo swallow a irog-no, no! We are cred ~
louS But we have not quite lost our self-re- y
The boosted knowledge Of the sci a
lusts does not amount 20 much after all, ana d
ever can amount % much compared with I
y Naat hloIes 9I knoWledge that are beyond 9,
lman reach ia this life We have no means b
getting at knowledge save through our 81
nses-and how defective these are. The nj
-tlpest eye cannot detect The inequalities on O
.e surface OF uue glass nor see the spokss Of Do
wheel making a hundred revolutions in a b
NO ear can detect a sound repeated
ie nundred times a second. II appears a. a "a
.utinuOus sound. A series Of odOrs bron0bf ca
succession rapidly under the nose become th
dlsllngulshable. u an object as large as 81. 50
tu-1s church passed before our eyes a. the NJ
te OF a million OF miles In a minute it would Al
y appear any thicker than a hair. and n n 70
ould 60 Al The rate Of Eve million miles a 50
mute we should not see IL az all-and yet we ~
y Of knowledge. Lei the philosopher study ~
lfetime and he caunOt tel why the violet W
blue, and It's leaf green; why the rose is 81
y and me lily just beside H. growing in vi
G same soil Watered b. the same showers pT
r dews, and kissed by the same breezeg and sti
is white, With all his pudy Wis on
what philosopher can tell why the same qu
and grass turn 10 han upon the COW 70 n
iol upon The sheep, % brlstles on the swine ab
d feathers on the g0Ose2 Why one tree Oh
afs acorns and another pluIns7 WI Dis sa
gs tail grows az one end, instead Of IL &c an
ler2 Why be Is himself instead Of some sol
iy else? vi