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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-12-01

LONDON, December L. Dispatches 5from
Cape Coast Castle report another engagement
with the Ashantees, near DunQuah, in
which ferty Englishmen and native auxiha-
tees boldly attacked the British position at
Abbracrampta, but were driven OF after am
hours light with a loss OF thirty men. The
British were protected by field-works, and
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a LIfe.PoIicy and . sudden DeatL.

An agent for a life insurance company OF
this city was waited upon recently by a gen.
tleman and his wife, from Guthrie the inter.
view resulting in the writing OF policy on
the wife's life in favor OF her husband for the
sum OF three thousand dollars, the lady being
IN perfect health al the time. The Guthrie par.
ties went home, and the policy " as forwarded
BY mail. Four days after the applica-
ton and remittance of the policy
the agent received a letter from the
husband OF the lady. acknowledging briefly
the receipt Of the policy. adding, q L have to
inform you OF the death OF my wife, yester-
day, with suggestion that the insurance
money should be forthcoming. This letter
look1ng rather cold-blOoded, the agent sus-
pecsed fraud, scarce four days having elapsed
since the wife appeared IN his Office in robust
health. He, therefore, started for Guthrie to
look into the business. and found, by autopsy
performed BY medical practitioner, that the
lady had died a perfectly natural des n, and
thai fha rnnnnH- ,rnrlla l,at-a u II. "a
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-12-01
What viii First Engage the Attention
Of Our NATIONAL LegisIatnre.

miscellaneous.
Fifty thousand dollars were invested
in a conhAgration at New Orleans Friday.
d. NJ. Hall, for the murder of John
Copeland, was executed at Austin, Nevada,
Friday.
1t is stated that theepizootic has APP
peared again among the horses of the car and
stage routes in New York city.
IngersOll's bodybuilding establish
ment, on South street, New York, was burned
last night. Loss, forty thousand dollars.
Judge McCue, of Brooklyn, has begun
libel suit against the New York Tribune
placing his damages at one hundred thousand
dollars.
The NelOs, the Salt Lake Mormon Or
gan, says the Mormons are not for war in Gu
ban affairs unless 1t cannot be honorably
avoided.
A man named Jacobs was shot and
killed by negro, IN the parish of st. John the
Baptist, Louisiana, yesterday. The murderer
was permitted TO escape.
AT an election to fill vacancy in the
fifth legislative district Of Louisville, Sat
urday, Major J. NJ. Wright, Democrat, was
elected without opposition.
Smith q Co.'s tobacco factory, at
Montreal, WIS burned saturday morning,
Loss on stock and machinery thirty thousand
dollars; insurance, twenty Thousand dollars.
A telegram from San Francisco last
night says that there was heavy rain there
Saturday night, which was generally distrib-
uted throughout the state, and generally well
coined by the farmers.
Myers, editor of the Corinne Reporter
who committed suicide on Tuesday last It Is
stated was impelled to the rash act by hailuci.
nation, superinduced by an interview with a
spiritual medium there named Foster, nom
New York.
A San Francisco telegram says it is
believed among politicians that Ex-Governor
Haight, anti-raiiroad Democrat Will be
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-13

ter-house examinations for 1878, under the
head of botany, where the scholar Is told TO
explain the following terms: "Malva has
a gamosepalous calyx, polypetalous by.
gogynous corrolla, polyandrous monadei'
phous epipetalous stamens, and supe
rior syncarpous pistil."
A careful census of ST. Paul, in order
to discover how many critics there are in
that city capable of deciding what should
and what should not be published in the
newspapers issued there, has resulted in
establishing the fact that all are capabel
Of running a newspaper-according to
their own opinions. This condition OF
things seems TO exist everywhere.
Horace +. Clark's estate, at his death,
which took place few months since in
New York, owing to over-work in pursuit
of wealth, was estimated to yield an in,
come Of thousand dollars day, and
to be worth seven millions. The New
York Times says that now the estate is
believed to be worth absolutely nothing,
owing to the panic. "Riches take unto, "
etc.
Washington Irving once, when pick.
ing up an apple under tree In his own
orchard, was accosted by an urchin Of the
eighborhood, who, not recognizing him
as the proprietor, offered to show him a
tree where he could get some better ap.
pies than those. But" said the boy, eve
must take care the old man doesn't see
us. 4" IL went with him." said Irving, "and
we stole dozen Of my own apples"
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tue is necessary to the young, comfortable
to the aged, serviceabie to the poor, orna-
mental to the rich, honorable to the for
tunate. succorous to the unfortunate,
ennobiing to the slave, and elevating
TO the noble.
--Hartz has produced a new trick in
New York. He washes his hands In a
basin of water, throws the contents OF
the vessel over the audience, and TO the
amusement of the spectators they are
smothered with flowers, instead OF being
deluged with water.
"A muddy stream, flowing into one
clear and sparkling, for time rolls along
by itself A little further down they
unite, and the whole is impure. 80
youth, untouched by sin, may, for time,
keep its purity in foul company; but a
little later, and they mingle.
Grim care, anxiety, moroseness, all
this rust Of life, ought to be secured oil
by the oil of mirth 1t is better than
emery. Every man ought to rub himself
with it, A man without mirth is like a
wagon without springs, in which every
one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every
pebble over which it runs.
Gail hamilton knows woman who
"can speak Greek as naturally as pigs
squeak; to whom Latin is nc more diff
cult than to blackbird tits to whistle
who dreams in German and thinks in
French; who yet embroiders her own
capes and gowns, and those of her
friends" A good many other people
would like TO know her.
Home is not NAME nor form, nor
a routine. 1t is spirit, a presence, prin-
ciple. Material and method will not, and
cannot, make it. 1t must get its light
and sweetness from those who inhabit il,
from flowers and sunshine, from the SYM
pathetic natures which, in their exercise
of sympathy, can lay aside the tyranny
of the broom and the awful duty of end
less scrubbing.-Dr. Holland.
When man comes home and tries
to bolt his door with sweet potato,
pokes the fire with the spout of coffee
pot, attempts to wind up the clock with
his boot jack, tries to cut kindling-wood
for the morning with paper-knife, takes
a cold potato in his hand to light him to
bed, and prefers sleeping in his hat and
boots, you may reasonably infer that he
has been making the acquaintance of
some very friendly people.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-13
How Oil Wells are Sunk.

The business Of drilling wells has now
fallen almost entirely into the hands of
professional drillers. When q man ora
company has decided upon well, and
selected its site, the first step taken is to
put up derrick, or, as it is termed here,
carpenters rig" This is frame work,
made mostly of plank, from sixty five to
seventy five feet high, about fourteen feet
square at the bottom, and running nearly
to point at the top. The cost of der
rick is about $500. The tools used in
drilling are the bit, which is like any
other rock drill, but larger, being about
three feet in length; above that is the au-
ger stem, then two chain links called the
Glars" and above that the ''sinker bar"
This is attached g. the upper end to the
rope which passes over pulley at the top
of the derrick, and thence down to large
windlass outside of the derrick. The
drilling is done by steam engine with
crank movement, which keeps the drill
at work day and night, man standing
by in the derrick to give the tools more
rope at proper intervals, and to turn the
drill while it is operating. After the drill
has reduced a certain quantity of rock to
sand, it is drawn from the well up into
the derrick, and the sand pump is lowered
and the sand is brought out, when the
drill is again inserted. The rope used
must be of the very best quality, and in
digging deep wells it requires two ropes,
as the sand very soon cuts them out. The
expense is a very considerable one, being
$500 for each rope. The tools for drilling
that are now used weigh 1900 pounds,
those that were first used weighing only
ninety pounds. A good set of drillers
will put well down in about sixty five
working days, provided they have good
luck and no accidents; but it oftentimes
takes six months to reach the oil sand.
The rock in which the oil is found has
a very decided dip from the north to the
south, it being about sixteen feet TO the
mile. In the old or northern part of the
oil region, it is found at a depth of from
four to seven hundred feet, whereas the
new wells at Modoc are from fourteen to
seventeen hundred feet deep, the expense
of drilling one of the new wells being
nearly double that of one of the old ones.
The drillers generally know where they
are by the kind of sand that they bring
| out.-Scientifc Amertcan.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-13

The following is the full text of the
two letters which recently passed between
the Emperor Of Germany and the Pope
THE PoPE's LETTER TO THE EMPEROR
VATICAN, Aug z, 1878.
Your MAJESTY: Measures which have been
adopted by your Majesty's Government for
some time past all aim more and more at the
destruction Of Catholicism. When seriously
ponder over the causes which may have led to
these very hard measures, confess that / am
unable to discover any reasons for such
course On the other hand, | am informed
that your Majesty does not countenance the
proceedings Of your government, and does not
approve of the harshness OF the measures
adopted against the Catholic relgion. If, then,
it be true that your Majesty does not approve
thereof, and letters which your august Majes-
ty has addressed to me formerly might sufii-
GENTLY demonstrate that you cannot approve
that which is now occurring-if, l say, your
Majesty does not approve OF your Government
continuing in the path it has chosen offuIther
extending its vigorous measures against the
religion OF Jesus Christ, whereby the latter is
most injuriously affected, will your Majesty
then not become convinced that these measures
have no other effect than that of undermining
your Majestys own throne? l speak with
frankness, for my banner is truth. ] speak
in order to fulfill one of my duties, which con-
sists in telling the truth to all-even to those
who are not Catholics, for every one who has
been baptized belongs-in some way or other,
which to define more precisely would be here
out Of place-to the Pope cherish the con-
viction that your Majesty will receive my OBJ
servations with your usual goodness, and will
adopt measures necessary in the present case.
While offering to your most gracious Majesty
the expression Of my devotion and esteem, /
pray to God that He may enfold your Majesty
and myself in one and the same bond Of
mercy.
tSigned) Pro.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-13
Postal Cards.

Postmaster Jones, of New York h..
issued the following rules and reorIa
tions as to the treatment of nos.a,
cards:
The superintendent, clerks and 90.
riers of this office and its stations s,a
hereby instructed that postal cards -
| their treatment as mail matter, are 10 ~
regarded the same as sealed letters and NJ.
as printed matter with this excent;on
viz: That when unbelievable. mn
claimed, or unavailable, they are not 10
be returned to writers or sent to the Dead
Letter Office. No return request wri,
ten or printed on postal card is 10 he
| regarded Postal cards ~
which are printed, or written any obscene
| vulgar, or indecent words or pictures ~
any scurrilous epithets or disloyal do
| vices, cannot be delivered by Carriers or
conveyed in the mail, and ali which NAV
be discovered bearing such Objectionable
| pictures or devices will be sent once each
day in a package or envelope addressed
to "Searcher's Department, Post Office -
and marked "X P. c." Al.
though unprotected by a SEAL postal.
| cards are nevertheless mail matter in.
| trusted to the Post Office for TRANSMISSION
| and delivery only, and as such should he
exempt from all idle curiosity and com.
ment on the part of Post Office employees
| Clerks and letter-carriers are therefore
instructed not to make the messages, etc
| on postal cards the subject of converse
ton among themselves or with persons
not employed in the Post Office, and lex.
cept as may be required by the preced-
ing paragraph not to give special atten.
ton to any part of the pOstal-card except
the address. In no case will any clerk or
carrier be allowed to exhibit an addressed
postal-card, or communicate any message
which may be written upon it, to any one
not employed in the Post Office, except
to person authorized to receive it.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-13
Foreign Gossip.

Coal is abundant at Greenland, and
laborers are plenty at 81 cents day and
feed
The net duty on dogs in England,
during the last financial year, amounted
10 no less than 81 ,5l0,09S.
The Shah has taken the Grand Vizier
back into his royal favor, being convinced
that he meant no har(e)m!
Many of the balconies in London are
reported in dangerous condition, and
people are warned against stepping out
upon them.
AT the funeral of Sir Edwin Land
seer, u wreath of canclas, sent by Queen
Victoria, was laid on the coffin of the
deceased.
Great Britain, in prosecuting the
Ashantee war, has blockaded the gold
coast of Africa from Cape Coast Castle
To the river Assince.
Some Dutch officials have been assas
sinated at Benkoelen, near Lais. How
they found the place on the map, and got
there, does not appear
1t is the correct thing in British Co
lumbia TO walk about with chunks o
gold quartz in your pocket worth few
hundred dollars apiece.
Switzerland has Z, 900 primary schools
5000 teachers, and 10000 scholars. The
education Of children is compulsory in
all the cantons except Geneva and Uri.
The English have just made the an
noying discovery that considerable
slave traffic is carried on through Malta
between Tripoli, Smyrna and CONSTANT
nople.
Victor Emanuel. while in Berlin, Wa.
extremely generous to Prussian officials
Besides the presents to higher ones, h,
distributed among the small officials 15(
gold watches.
"A new theater Is talked of In Paris
II is to be built by stock company will
a capital Of 100000 francs. The hous,
Is to hold twenty thousand people, ant
four years will be required to build it.
The vexed question whether the Jew
in Germany can be compelled to appea
before magistrate, if summoned to al
tend on their Sabbath, has once NOR,
been brought on the tapis and decided II
the affirmative
AT Belwell, in Ireland, on October 8,
large bog shifted its position during tn
.night-owing to heavy rains-on to tn
adjoining lowlands, destroying corn, ha,
and other crops. The bog now covers SO'
acres Of good pasture land.
"A new newspaper, edited By women
has been established at Puebla, Mexico
A Roman Catholic priest, who haa recent
ly married, contributes to the journal
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know how to bring up their children, and
who are continually having more and
more added to their flock; people who
want TO know where the next hod OF coal
is coming from people who are afraid of
the sheriff; mer who are pricked with the
ten thousand neatles Of human life-they
come to church and hear a long discus
sion on the fall of Adam. Well, that is
not opportune, but still they are so fiat
themselves that they feel as if they would
like to know something that deadens the
struggle that is going on within them !;
they want some one who will take part
with them, minister who brings God
down to the side of men, not as an ever
lasting condemner, but one who brings
God down as a present help in time of
trouble-Henry Ward Beecher.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-13
Miscellaneous.

"A lie has no legs, but scandal has
wings.
"A great mans foolish sayings pass for
wise ones.
"A single fact is worth shipload of
argument.
"A young twig is easier twisted than
an old tree.
Adversely is easier borne than pros
perity forgot
"A smart reproof is better than a
smooth deceit.
"A man, like a watch, is to be valued
for his goings.
Every cord of wood given to the poor
is recorded above.
"A great fortune, in the hands of a
fool, is great misfortune.
Complaints of drouth are rising in
dusty chorus all over the State of Geor-
gia.
The floating debt of the Buffalo Gen
eral Hospital-$16, 0O0-has been paid of
by subscription.
1t has now become a question as to
whether phrenologist can tell what bar
rel contains by examining its head.
The editor of Nevada newspaper
gives notice that he cannot be bribed
with tive-cent cigar to write five-dollar
puff.
Miss Darlington writes to her aunt
that the bridal wave, which the papers
talk SO much about, has not touched that
town for six years.
One result of the panic has
proved that if the rich are often envied
there Is good luck sometimes in being in
dependently poor.
--Bloggy says he was knocked almost
fla. the other day by suddenly rejecting
that nearly all the pretty girls are but in
cipient mothers-in-law.
"A writer says: ut is not the drink
ing, but getting sober, that is so terrible
in drunkard's lifer" "Why get sober at
all, then W says Swiggles.
General Custer listened to lecture in
Duluth on how to save the Indians He
said the doctrine was good for the inside
of church, but no man could practice it
on the plains and save his hair
There is no such thing as mental
office when you put true man into it.
A mental office is an Office with q mean
man in it; and it makes no difference
whether it be kings Office or scav-
enger's office.-AnOn.
"A lady writes that she wants music
with sentimental words that almost ST.
lently flow from depth of concealed sor-
ton in tone that would melt an iceberg
and crumble adamant to dust"
1T was saying of Aristotle, that vir-
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actively to assist the enemies of all law, but 1t
certainly is my mission to protect the internal
peace and preserve the authority Of the laws
in the States whose government has been en-
trusted TO me by God, to whom | am con-
scious that | owe hereafter an account of the
accomplishment of this, my kingly duty.
/ shall maintain law and order In my
States against all attacks as long as God gives
me power ! am in duty bound to do it, as a
Christian Monarch, even when, to my sorrow
l have to fulfill this royal duty aga inst ser
wants OF the Church, which, / suppose, ac-
| knowledge no less than the Evangelical
Church, that the commandment OF obedience
| to secular authorityi is an emanation Of the
| revealed will of God. Many of the priests in
Prussia subject to your Holiness disown, to
| my regret, Christian doctrines in this respect,
| and place my government under the necessity,
supported by great majority OF loyal Catho-
lie and evangelical subjects, of extorting obe-
dience to law by worldly means. | willingly
entertain hope that your Holiness, upon
being Informed OF the true position OF affairs,
will use your authority to put an end TO the
agitation carried on amid the deplorable dis
tortion of truth and abuse Of priestly author
ity. The religion of Jesus Christ has, as
attest to your Holiness before God, nothing to
do with these intrigues any more than has
truth, to whose banner, invoked by your Holt
ness, unreservedly subscribe.
There is one more expression in the letter
of your Holiness which i cannot pass over
without contradiction, although 1t is not
based upon previous information, but upon
the belief of your Holiness, namely: The
expression that every one who has received
baptism belongs to the Pope. The evangel-
cal creed which, as must be known to your
Holiness, /, like my ancestors and the major.
ity Of my subjects profess, does not permit US
to accept In our relations to God any other
| mediator than our Lord Jesus Christ. This
difference Of belief does not prevent me from
living in peace with those who do not share
mine, and offering your Holiness the EXPIRES.
sion Of my personal devotion and esteem.
WILLIAM
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-13
Personal and Literary.

-Lucca IS twenty-clght years OLD.
Young Bennett doesn't see the New
York Herald once a month.
Pat Ragland, the Secretary of the
State of Alabama, died recently
The Emperor of Brazil says he will
attend the Philadelphia Centennial.
Richard Proctor comes to America to
popularize the study Of astronomy.
Sir Samuel Baker is seriously i'll at
London with inflammation of the lungs.
Genera, John Tyler, son of President
Tyler, has joined a Florida Baptist
Church.
Nelson Dingley, Jr., Governor elect of
Maine, is threatened with congestion of
the lungs.
Rev. DR.. John Lord has been deliver
ing his course of historical lectures in San
Francisco.
Vice President Wilson hasn't been in
better health than now for the past TWEEN
tyfive years.
"A member of the Oregon Legislature
writes his name "Percival Raynor Siglin
Southwcather"
Miss Maggie Anderson, of Salina,
Kansas, aged eight years, can read any
music ~ sight
Justin Mccarthy has a boy who is
said to be great American, The great
American" what?"
Gin, of La Crosse, petitions to have
his name changed, because If he don't his
adored one will sling Gin.
Samuel Calvis, of Dubuque, Iowa, has
been appointed Professor of Natural Sci
ence in the Iowa State University.
The Library Association of South
| bridge, Mass, refuses to allow Rev. Mr.
| Murray's horse book place on its
| shelves.
George w. Smith, formerly one Of the
| Judges of the Supreme Court of Texas
was a few days ago one of the victims OF
yellow fever at Columbus, in that State.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves face
seems to Chicago writer like "a glimpse
of the last century" The reporters
| ''cheek" seems to Mrs Stowe essentially
| of the present epoch.
General John Eaton, Of the Bureau OF
| Education in Washington, has been cor
daily received by the Italian Minister OF
Instruction, who promised him every
facility for visiting the schools of Italy.
Rev. s. V. Lee, Of the Christian
Church, a veteran of seventy-three years
is still vigorously at work in Kentucky
He has been preaching fitty-three years
and has added to the Church Of Christ
4,707 by baptism, and organized seventy.
five congregations in Kentucky and one
| in Missouri.
Some time ago the Amherst students
honored Daniel Pratt, the Great American
Traveller. with the title of G. o. ID. That
illustrious man has now been still further
complimented by the Dartmouth boys,
who last week nominated him for the
Presidency in 1876, and gave him the
honorary degree of S. T.-1S60-X.
When GOunod, the French composer
is at work writing music, he keeps a tub
of very cold water under his desk to put
his feet in. After working an hour his
head grows extremely hot, and then he
plunges his feet in the water and obtains
relief. 1t is a dangerous remedy. He
works from twelve to fourteen hours Q
day
An excellent specimen of the crack
jaw tongue is found in the (English) Char