Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-01-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.

For the present, Rev. Father
Thomas Mulvey, Of Petersburg, vicar
general Of the diocese, i. in charge OF
the duties of the Church lately dis
charged by Bishop McGill.
The senate of the Virginia general
assembly held a secret session on the
18th instant to consider the testimony
which has been taken here and in
England as to the true boundary line
between Maryland and Virginia.
The Ferro Carril, a newspaper pub
lished in the city Of Mexico, estimates
the forces OF the revolutionists at
twenty generals, fifty colonies, two
hundred captains, ETC., six hundred
subalterns and eighteen hundred SOL
diers.
The Roman Catholics of Boston.
wanting more money for the compile
ton Of their fine cathedral, held a fair
the other day, the financial report of
which is perfectly rosy. Here is the
whole in brief: Total receipts, $7O,-
6C3; expenditures, 1894; net, $64,629.
Professor Davidson, of the United
States coast survey, found that q sand
stone Cliff, seventy feet high, was so
much affec ed by the suns rays that
he was obliged to remove his instru-
ments one hundred feet from the edge.
in order to find a sufficiently steady
support.
The death is announced of MI. Mel
son Lee, for many years lessee and
manager OF the City Of London thea
ter, and who until recent period had
tho wnnnGnnnnnnf If thu &kNaEso,T
pantOmimic and other holiday amuse-
ments at the Crystal Palace. Mr..
Lee was well known in the theatrical
world as an experienced writer of
p-antOmimes.
Mr.. sSilber's method Of lighting
towns, factories, ETC., by vegetable or
m~inerafOils, has been discussed and
f~avOrably received by the English So
ciety Of Arts. The system proposed
by Mr.. Sibler for accomplishing this
purpose is to distribute the oil over
the house in pipes, like water, from a
general reservoir containing a few gal
Ions at the top Of the building.
The Passion Play" at the Oberam-
meIgau seems to be a very profitable
speculation. Nhe total receipts are
said to amount to 81, 600 ifs. OF these,
1900 have been the cost, divided
among 600 co~-OperatOrs; 10,050 are
laid aside for the erection of a theatre;
700 are given to the p~oOrchest; 5000
for village improvements, etc.; the
balance carried over to the next repre-
.sentation is 5000.
"WOman's Rights may be attain
able or not; they may be mythical or
not; woman may, in the struggle, |
in heart, and be wounded in
but should inrOads be made up
on her physical health, which is quite
possible; the stomach be weakened
and her nerves shaken, her remedy Is
the prompt use of DR.. Brett's Distilled
Milk Punch, to be had at all the prin-
'ipal drug stores and grOcers.
An extraordinary dissertation of The
dead has just been discovered at Ly-
pms. A Waterman at La Guillo-
-ierre cemetery, named Tabarel, ap.
pears TO have for a long time past
been ia the habit of violating at
the tOmbs of females to cut of
heir hair, which he sold for making
,hignons. The crime was discovered
accidentally by a cat drawing some
,resses from a hole in which he had
concealed them.
The programme of the spring meet
ng of the Metaire Jockey club, New
Orleans, which win begin March 80
md continue six days, has been an
lounced. Many Of the famous Sta
,les are repreSented-among them
hose Of w. r. Babcock, NJ. II. Sand
ord, Major Bacon and Captain Moore,
and Nellie Ransom, which ran
t the fall meeting OF the Maryland
club, are entered for the open
ng two-mile race for four-year Olds.
During the past twelve months the
lie-bOats OF the English Lifeboat In-
tit0tiOn rescued SIX hundred and
lives, in addition to thirty
ne vessels saved from destruction.
thesame period the Lifeboat
institution granted rewards for saving
hundred and thirty lives by fish,
az and other boats, making q grand
otal Of eight hundred and eighty
ight lives saved last year m inIy =
trough its inslrumentality.
Abstract of the New Zealand census
for the presentyear have been
lade and prove conelusively that the
olony is making satisfactory pro- {
ress. The census shows that the to-
population of the various pro-
inces on the night of the
9TH of February was 256, 1893, consist 4
Of 159,356 males and LOG, OBJ fe-
lales, exclusive of abOrigines. The
roYince Of Auckland stands highest in
Oint Of numbers-62,935 and Ota9o
ext, 60,722, Canterbury ranking third =.
it'll 46,6 0 inhabitants.