Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-01-14


years, and during that period the ave-
rage annual attendance has been l.
659, 900 persons, while during 1871 the
building was visited by 2,I20,000 per.
soma. The receipts for 1871 amounted
70 $739, $50, and the expenditures to
S4S5,l7O, leaving a balance of S254.390.
At recent meeting of the
an annual dividend Of one and a half
per cent. was declared out of the
profits for 1871, leaving SS4,675 to be
carried to the reserve fund.
Pennsylvania superintendent Of
education, W~ickersham, in his an
nuRl report just published, argues
strongly against compulsory educa-
ton, and Just as strongly in favor of
county homes. His idea is that these
homes would prove not only educs-
tional, but also re'0rmatoTy iDstitu-
tons, where children who have
neither parents nor friends, or who
are uncared for, would be made good
members of society. He also earnestly
advocates a more complete provision
by the State for higher education.
A leading commercial journal gives
some advice to clerks, which will an
swer Tor young men generally who
desire to improve themselves men
tally and morally, that they may be
the better fitted to seize whatever OPP
pOrtunity may be offered. To those
who are in doubt where to begin, it
says: begin anywhere, but let the
first book ycu read, or lecture heard,
or intelligent conversation engaged
in, be regarded as only q beginning"
rnhn an-H urNnaF nnTnf "a IN raBnnmahnr
what Is learned, for as with property
70 ii is with knowledge, more depends
On how much Is retained than how
much Is acquired.
With the increase Of the smallpox
there Is also an increase Of paragraphs
shout vaccination in he newspapers
One of them speaks of 1.-THE courageous
Lady Montsgu, who suffered the first
attempt at vaccination to be made
upon her daughter" Lady Mary did
nothing Of the kind; she introduced
the eastern practice OF incubation into
England. Jenner's discovery of vac.
eination is an entirely different mat
ter, and rests upon an entirely differ
ent physiological principle, which is
that kinepOx is prOphylactic of small
pOx. There has been no incubation
proper for many years.
The actual value Of the products of
the manufacturing establishments of
Richmond, Virginia, during 1871 is
placed at Sl4,Sa0, 146, distributed I'M
der the following heads: Tobacco, 81
2I8, 0i6; iron, including railroad cars
and all branches of iron works, So
2 5000; -four, 81, 247, $50; agricultural
implements, 1913, Oil; fertilizers, dye
stUfs and oils, $3.50, O00; furniture and
wooden ware, 23S 600; small wares,
S200,0 boots, shoes, trunks and
leather goods, 1858, 500; refined sugars
and lager beer, $50, 600; and printers
types and material, picture frames,
photographs and paper boxes, $4,000.
The immigration into New York
during 1871 amounted to DOS. 962 per-
sons, or l6, 1872 more than in 1870. OF
these immigrants lis, 112 were from
Great Britain, "a 298 were Germans.
including 2099 HOllanders, and Is, 595
were Scsndinavians. There were g.
500 immigrants from Ireland, and 1896
from Wales. The Mormon immi-
grants amounted to 1909, of whom 637
were English, 332 Danish, and 264
Swedish, The vessels transporting
these immigrants were $40 in number,
and included % barks with S716 pas
sengers, SO ships with l0,84S passen-
gers, and 522 steamers with PA, 89S
passengers.
The various States ofthe Union rank
in the following order with regard TO
population: 1, New York; 2, Penn
sylvania; 8, Ohio; 4, Illinois; 8, Mis-
6Ouri 6, Indiana; 7, Massachusetts; s,
Kentucky; 8, Tennessee; 10, Virginia;
II, Iowa; y, Georgia; Is, Michigan;
Il, North Carolina; 10, Wisconsin;
l6, Alabama; IL, New Jersey; Is, Mis-
slssippi; 10, Texas; 20, Maryland; q,
Louisiana; q, South Carolina; %, |
Maine; "a, California; %. Connecticut;
26. Arkansas; p, West Virginia; Is,
Minnesota %, Kansas; 30, Vermont;
Hampshire; 80, Rhode Island;
SO, Florida; 81, Delaware; IS, Nebras-
ka; Sc, Oregon; 81, Nevada.
A company of Scotch capitalists
recently purchased Ave hundred
acres Of land in Tuscsrawss county,
Ohio, containing deposits Of black
band iron ore, from three TO thirteen
feet in thickness, for which they paid
$3.50, 900. The ore is said to be Of the
same description as that which toTms
the basis Of the iron industry OF Scot
land. Four furnaces are 20 be i'm
mediately put ~ by this company, |
and q large manufacture of pig-irOR
viii be begun. The land Is on the
line of the Lake Shore and Tuseara-
was Valley railroad, now in course of
construction from Cleveland to Denni-
a station on the line of the
Ptttsburg and St. Louis railroad.
The new civil service reform, ao-
cording to the Pittsburg Commercials
Washington advices, has been applied
to the appointment OF 8 messenger, |
had been promised to a sena
tor, who Is In favor at-the White
house. His formal application having
been delayed until January ID, how
ever, the senator received notice that
the appointment could not now be
made except in the way prescribed ia
the new regulations. The Washing
ton Chronicle says that Commissioner |
Is postpOniDg several inter.
nal revenue appointments until the |
service commission prescribe a
plan Of procedure for examinations of
AIasl what next? Now that the
portrait by Guido, supposed to be
that of Beatrice Cenci, has been sd
mired Tor several ages, and has In
spired q great many poets and been
made cheap by chrome TYPOGRAPHY,
Mr.. Story, in RlaekWOOd'e Magazine,
asserts that there is no evidence that
the picture is q portrait at all, and
that It is, therefore, not a portrait OF
Beatrice. It is not easy to find any
thing in this work suggestive Of the
dreadful story of the damsel. OF
We do not expect q tragic Me-
dusa facet but there is in the Guido q
sort Of calm serenity incompatible
with the best controlled emotion. A
sufficient exercise Of the Imagination
will invest anv picture with the de-
sired character, and what it has be-
come traditional to admire will never
lack admirers.