Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-20
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At q recent London dinner, peaches
costing one guinea a piece were among
the desert.
the English railway men begin t.
think they do not like to work eighteen
hours q day.
An enthusiastic gentleman kissed
Longfellow's sable rider after he haC
won the Long Branch
A Georgia lady has raised and sold il
forty-five days, n hundred and nine
dollars worth Of vegetables.
A chief of the Chippewa Indians is il
London soliciting money ID start an in
dustrial school among his people.
An attraction at the fall exhibition o.
the Norfolk's Farmers Club will be
full line of paper clothing from Japan
A couple were married at Lafayette
Indiana, the other day in a balloon, ono
mile above the earth. A wedding il
high life.
The Jews of Bessarabia (ROumaDia
have formally rendered their thanks t.
the United States Consul for timely as
sistance.
An English gentleman is erecting {
mill in Florida, and will manufacture
paper for the Bank of England note:
from palmetto wood.
A colored brother in HillsbOrO, Nortl
Carolina, was turned out of his churcl
for telling on two other brethren who
had been stealing a hog.
Catalina Island, in the bay of SaT
Pedro, California, was recently sold fol
one million two hundred and fifty thou.
~,-l I,lIo-- anA nDn Trron UvaG nna ~
the purchasers.
Mr.. Elliott, one of South Carolina's
colored Congressman, is about to select
a boy of his own race to be a midship-
man in the Annapolis Naval Academy,
Consequently, there will soon be 'high
Jinks" in that institution.
The convict Francois, Governor Of
La Hoquette prison, now under sentence
of death as an accOmplice in the muir
der of the Archbishop of Paris and other
hostages, was married in Versailles Pri-
son a fortnight ago. The object of the
ceremony was to legitimatize a child by
retrospectiOn, which French law, like
Scotch law, allows.
A French engineer, NJ. Dupuy de
Lorne, has at last invented mean fol
.prOpelling and steering balloons. His ex-
periments were begun during the Fran
co-Prussian war, during which he met
with sufficient encouragement to justify
him in further pursuing his experiments
which have resulted most favOrably, and
which will give the balloon to the world
as a means OF travel in course of time.
J. DeOtis & Co, a firm of New York,
lately decamped from that city leaving
damaging stories behind regarding q
two hundred thousand dollar swindle,
Detectives were put on their trail, whose
labOrs resulted in the discovery and cap
ture of Nh. DeOtis in the village Of ROs-
set, England. Proper measures are be-
ing taken to return him to New York,
where the character Of the swindle will
be investigated.
Emilis CASTELAR,, in giving his views
of the present tendency and condition
of Spain, says that the indifference OF
the King to modern ideas, the worship
of the Queen for ancient ideas, the un-
happy experience of the past few
mouths, the conviction of the incompat-
Utility between democracy and the mon
archy, are alternating the Radicals from
the palace, and impelling them into the
arms of the republic.
1t is at length announced that the
tenth and last volume of Mr.. George
B~ancroft's "History of the United
States'' will appear shortly from the
press Of Little, Brown 4 Co, Of Boston.
As the ninth volume only took the
reader down to the year 1878, it is evil
IDENTIFY the purpose of the distinguished
author TO close his work at the end of
the revolutionary war, in 1883, instead
of bringing il down to the adoption of
the Constitution, as originally intended.
Iceland is now thrown open to the
tourist. 4 line of steamers has been
established to run summer tripsn from
Scotland to that country. The passen-
gers on the initial trip are said to have
been much pleased with their eXpedi-
ton, Notwithstanding the i%neonveni-
ences arising from the want of roads,
means of conveyance and hotel accom-
mOdations. These wants, however, will
soon be supplied, when Iceland will be-
come quite a favorable resort during the
dog days.
Bayard Of Delaware says in q letter to
q friend: al hope our State Convention
Will promptly and decidedly nominate
electoral ticket in opposition to Grant
and Wilson, and in favor of the only
candidates who, as matters now stand,
can be hopefully expected to defeat
them-I mean Greeley and Brown-fOr
whom l expect to vote on the fifth day
Of November next. l hope to return
home by the middle of September, with
my health restored and enabled to take
part in thepolitical canvass.
The Knoxville Press and Herald was
recently indicted for libel for the publ
of an article in May, 1879, giving
the professed details of the "mobbing''
of a Methodist minister in Blount
county. The cas- came on for trial on
ths eleventh, and was soon disposed of.
There was a fatal variance between the
libel alleged and set forth in the indiet-
ment and the article as published, and
so the prosecution broke down hopelessly
the offer to read the newspaper in ev-
The jury, by direction of the
Court, returned q verdict of mot gull
ty," without leaving the box.
The Santa Clara (Oregon) Herald, in
describing a substance found in that 10
says that ii is composed of all the
nasty things known in the science of
and that the land in which
il is found will not grow anything what
ever, but the substance is wonderful for
bread. Two ~spOonfulls will make
large loaf sc light that, when it is
from the oven, it is necessary to
lie il to a fiat iron, or employ a boy to
hold it, to keep the loaf from flying off
ike a balloon. a barrel of it iudicious-
y administered to the German army
IN Paris would have lifted it out of its
boots and the French out of trouble.
"Septimius," says an English critic,
is ON the whole a failure, which a wise
,ditor will do well to leave out of Haw-
-horne's collected works. Though it
a few paragraphs full of eerie
thoughts such as would hardly have Oc-
;urred to any man save the author, il is,
IS a whole, weak and lacking in origin
llity. Hawthorne, as we have pointed
nut before, uses once more the vulgar old
for immortality, a concoction of
wonderful drugs, instead of one of the
cores of spiritual fancies he might have
Employed, and he evidently grew
weary Of the task he had set himself
it was nearly done, altered his
Ian, and ended his story with a catas-
of which the central idea might
ave been suggested by any manufac-
urer of melo-dramas."
The effect of mixing with a new peo-
lie, who have new ideas and new meth
dis of thought, is very salutary. Always
o see the same people do the same
feel the anne way, produces a
condition ofthe mindand heart
hat is distressing TO behold. There are
thousands of invalids who might be
benefited by getting away from
Iome, if only for a short time, to mix
nth strangers, and be touched with a
Magnetism of the great world as it
curses in its accustomed rounds. And
here are mental and moral invalids,
Tho need the same change to get their
linds and hearts enlarged, and let in a
tile more of the great light of life. Out
influences are very valuable to those
at home have been well trained by