Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-25
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souri,, and had at various times held
several offices of trust and profit, having
at n time been United States Pension
Agent at st. Louis. 1t is said that he
gave Thurl0w Weed a pony to fill his
place in the wal of 1872, being unable to.
perform military duty at the time. He
was about eighty years old at the time
of his death.
Believers of the miraculous stories
told about the phenomena of spiritual
ism, and the transportation of mediums
bodily through the air and closed doors
without the agency of any visible force,
may take -countenance from the still
prevalent belief in witches. The belief
in witches exists in the south and south
west of England to q terrible extent yet.
Only nine years ago a poor frenchman
was drowned by the entire population OF
a country village in the belief that he
was a wizard.
Mexican Buchanan, who died at Den
Yer, Colorado, on the seventeenth, was
born in Philadelphia February Is, s
He was a son of Paymaster Buchanan,
of the navy, and nephew of Admiral
/ Buchanan. He was educated for the
navy, and served three years as mid
shipman in the slOop-of-war st. Louis
commanded by Commodore Alexander
IL. Dallas. He made his debut on the
stage at the st. Charles Theater, New
iOrleans, a Hamlet Mr.. Buchanan,
after playing in the principal Western
and Northern cities, madea professional
tour to Europe and Australia.
Peter G. Van Wrinkle, formerly United
States Senator from West Virginia, who
died in P~arkersburg, in that State, a
short time since, was born in New York
in IS0S, but removed to Parkersburg in
1885. He will be best and most favOra-
bly, remembered as having had the man
illness and sense of justice, nOtwithstand-
ing his Republican principles, to differ
with the majority of his party on the
question of the Impeachment of ex-
President johnson. He was n of the
seven Republican Senators who voted
against the impeachment, and whose
votes, added to those of the Democratic
Senators, defeated the Ubiquitous mea-
sure.
The New York San is authority for
the statement that though New Eng
land was the cradle of Abolitionism,
and the politicians are loudest in the
cry for equal rights, it is certain that in
no other part of the Union at the pres
emit day are the eolOred people so kept
Under. They are never permitted to-
raise their voices in the legislatiye coun-
ellis, and the petty office of village con-
stable is the highest to which any mem
Der of the race has successfully aspired,
! either in Massachusetts, or Rhode Island.
Crowded together in the slums of the
larger cities, they are kept in a state of
mental and moral degradation, while
the charitable societies who send mis-
5ionaries to Fejee look with lofty scorn
on the colored heathens in their midst.
CUNDURANGo, il is reported has re-
Gently been subjected to a p~rOtracted
trial in the cancer wards of the Middle
sex Hospital, London, and the physi-
clans of that institution have arrived at
the conclusion that the alleged remedy
has no effect whatever upon cancer. A
short time ago the two medical gentle
men who had been conducting the in
vestigation read papers describing the
experiments before the Clinical Society
of London. It was stated that not a
single indication of improvement had
been observed in any of the cases treated
by cundurango, and that in fact the dis
ease of cancer either ran its usual course
or the patients showed symptoms of de-
rangements of the system which might
ldiIlN Dt dLAlAbulEu W Tic dAlNSCh
remedy.
A remarkable example of religious
liberation has, according to the Cologne
Gazette, been displayed by the Greek
clergy on a recent occasion. The fOm-
dation stone of a Protestant church wa
laid at Patras on the twenty-first of
February. Besides the Protestant con-
gregatiOn many Greeks attended the
ceremony. The Greek clergy of the
town, who had been invited to attend
the solemnity, did not fail to appear, and ;
the Archbishop of Patras, CyrillOs, after
offering the customary prayers, laid the
foundation-stone with his own hands,
an action which produced the most ia
vOrable impression on all present. The F;
Bishop at the same time recommended !
the church to the protection of st. An
drew, who, according to the tradition, !
suffered martyrdom at Patras. :
The bad effect of politics on the femi- :
nine mind is exemplified by the I'M !
happy termination of the thirty years of !
married life of G. w. and PAMELA A.
Franklin. After three decades of hap a
piness, Mrs. Franklin unfortunately got +
a mission and devoted herself to adYo- +
eating a certain pOlitico-social theory. \
When her rash spouse declined TO vote +
as she wished, she had resort to argu- n
ments of greater potency than mere i
words. She choked him, struck him, q
beat him, threw him down, varied the
tedium of breakfast by hurting sticks of
wood at him, and finally stabbed him..
Mr.. Franklin at last sued for a divorce.
He offers to give this terrible woman all =,
his property, provided only that she will A
him and allow him to hereafter
live and vote in peace.
The German Jewish papers furnish
additional detailso of the terrible catastro-
Dhe that occurred on the first ultimo, in r
he Judengasse at Frankfort by the sud
len falling Of two houses. One of the st
was uninhabited, but in the b
thirty-twc persons resided. Steps SC
we're Immediately taken to extricate the a
inmates. Thirteen lead ia
bodies were found in the ruins, of whom &C
me was a Jew, named Rosenthal, eI
eleven were injured, one the mother Of bl
Essential; and, strange to relate, eight A
escaped without injury. The policei issued m
notification ordering the Inhabitants al
esiding in the street to quit their houses IN
Immediately, stating that they would
temporary shelter in the bar al
'aeks and other places. The entire 1t
Iudengasse street viii be pulled down, ii
md a new and spacious thoroughfare al
quilt on the site. te
A singular reason is assigned for the u
murder Of Bishop Patteson by the ma =
ives of the South Pacific. He was the y
Tictim of a shocking imposition prac- ~
iced upon them by the ~kidnappers, who ~ =
AIRY On an organized slaYe-trade among y
hose islands. Taking advantage O fthe " y
God name of the Bishop and his peace ~
III mission among the natives, il was W
be practice Of the k%idnappers to land ~
ne of their number dressed in a white ~
who, with suitable attendants, -
7ould proceed TO hold a mock religious -
erviee on the beach. The natives, de- =
by the sight, would unsuspect- ~ -
lgly go OF board the kidnapping YES ~
which would then make sail and =,
ear them off to years of servitude in ~
queensland or Fiji. Exasperated by ~
be constant repetition of this trick, and III
al last that the Bishop con- as az
ived at ii, it Is supposed that the Island -
rs slew him from motives of revenge. "
The Pittsburg Post, treating of Hurl- II.
urd, the late Comptroller of the United Il
tates Treasury, says: 1.-THE Memphis -,
.ank, which was IN of HurlburdJs :
was peculiarly unfortunate. In bo
re first place, the Radicals made it the 10,
.pOsitory of the State funds on eondi- N
that it would help the party. Help an
* the party, in Radical Tennessee, we
Irned ont TO mean, in plain English, iro
the State deposits TO Radical fro
lembers of the Legislature. Over six on
undred thousand dollars Of State money nv
as deposited in the bank, and, sayst the wa
resident of the bank in his testimony, of
Immediately afterward curious loans dir
ere demanded of US; members of the wa
glslatnre ana other State onlcers gave CHI