Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-20
CURRENT ITEAg.


in London OF oak, alder and willow
trees, most of them standing. Bones Of
the great fossil OK were found in the
peat.
In the cemeteries adjacent to Brook
lyu, and embraced within Its limit,
there lie at least one hundred thousand
more dead than are living wi hin the
limits Of that city Of five hundred thOu-
sand people.
The royal family Of Denmark en-
baTked for S.. Petersburg on the twenty
sixth of July. The party consisted OF
the king and queen of Denmark, the
king and queen OF Grefee and their
children, Princess Thyra and Prince
Waldemar.
Lunacy is still inereA sing IN Ireland;
At the close Of last year, me NUMBER OF
patients under the supervision CT the III
sDecI,sr general was eleven tn, 'uSshu
seven huGdred and ssventy.ssyen - an
increase Of oEe hundred and ninety. fOn,
on the preceding Sear.
A Young man eslle3 on some young
ladies on Sunday evening, July sub,
near Portsville, Delaware, and while
standing on the gallery talking to them
he gently knocked the ashes from hls'
cigar: the wind lodged spark In the
dress of one Of the young ladies, setting
IL on fire, and she was burned very So
vereIy, in spite Of the efforts Of her COM
panions.
According to q Dublin paper, IS many
as twenty Of the twenty-eigh thousand
two hundred and ninety persons, whose
deaths were registered in Ireland IN the
first quarter OF the present year, are
described as centensrians. There are
| three among them registered St one
| hundred and six years old; one one
| hundred and nine; ole woman, one
| hundred and ten; and two men, oas
| hundred and eleven years old.
! A pevIy-arrived convict at the Au-
burr, New York, State prison, has had
| curf 1EIs experience. He was sentenced
| To the prison from Buffalo for four years
in 1871. Tor intent to kill, but escaped en-
the way there. Soon after, he was con-
victed of bu .rgIsry in another part Of the
| State. served tOIIr yesrs at Auburn and
was Discharged without being reccg-
nizsd. But now ~ is caught again and
has gone back to seA We out MS oid SEN
| tence.
DR.. Yakshieh, Of BeIg. 'ade, great au'
thority on the subject, estimates the
population OF European Tn- Key, e e1c GU
sive Of the prircipalities, a. e'VO9 uVO,
| of whom 1900 coo sre slaves. Au1 10
these latter !, 800, 900 SsTVians AM S1ou-
tenegrins, and we have 4, 500 600 = ayes
among q population of 8 500, 900. Il ne
number Of MOhammedaDs is estimated
| by the same authority at 8, 3S0, coo, and
| although theze are inferior IL number to
| the CHRISTIANS, they possess all the ad-
| vantages to be derived from holding the
reins of power.
A family gathering occurred at the
home OF Mr.. Clinton House, iu Buck
| ingham. EAST Glastonbury, en-
| Wednesday last. For pleasure and con-
yenienee table was set under the trees
! in the garden djJining the residence,
| in the afternoon. When the repAst was
| over some Of the company were not a
| little astOnished to discover in The grass
under or near the table where all had
| lust been seated rsttlesDake that was
/ four feet in length and had nine Tattles.
| TIE veDomous reptile was quickly dis
pat, hed.-HaTU0Td Comm TsHgsS.
Tba London Examiner mentions an
amustus' interpOla ion in one Of the re-
cent psrllA mentsTy reports Of leading
| IonGoD new 'spspeT. l. is Of course
| known thst rgr,, rtsrs take their work in
turo. and. as q ,Iule, ths rp1rteT on
leaving writes on his c1py the name OF
| the reporter who fUl.oN 5 blm, as tn Us:
"Brown fellows Jones'. This IS, OF
course, merely a matter o. reference
and in noWise intended for pub. 'cSt'oh
| but ia the case re erred To, tbs rep Ut OF
| grave and imp1r' ant sIesch was .'i-
lowed by the announcement, wholly
unimpOrIant to the world q. large, that
"BIJ flI0Ws J5nes."
An iltere, Dg arcl Ge 'ogical discovery
has beea maze at the town of VCltCsa,
near Placer "a, in Italy. About the be-
ginning July The excavations Oh the,
site of the cid tOWp, which had been dis
continued s. me years ago, were renew
ed, and IN a few days some graves Of the
ancient l. gurjau were brought to light,
who lived Ia. that rec. Ol LetOre the RO-
mans. the discovery j. cOnsiteIed iI1-
pOrtant, inssmUoh Is It s-ts st rest all
doubts Concerning articles similar 10
| those found in the graves which had
heretofore bsen found 1T various p ms
in the Apennines, end which some an
tiquaries had declared to be OF Ligurlan
origin.
AS to the ides Of opening Shakes
peare's grave, the Bi6ijC p3ljst says
'5hakespeaTe died in April, 1916, and
he has therefore been dead and buried
Just two hundred and sixty years. Many
will exclaim, 'Of what benefit VIII this
be after such lapse Of time? Nothing
but dust would be found there Are We
sure of this? Very often the features
and the clothing Of the dead are ire
served for hundreds Of years after burial,
and on opening their graves wonderful
sights have been seen. In few min
utes all cTumble away, and nothing but
dust remains, but for short time the il
lUsion is wonderful. There have been
many graves opened in cases where
their tenants have been buried far longer
than Shakespeare, and very often the
features and clothing were recognizable,
and still more often we're the skeletons
perfect. 1t ia true that they soon erum-
Bile to dust, but they remained whole
long enough for photographs to be taken
of them"
BY their fruits ye shall know them.
The Republicans have had complete
control for years OF such States as Mis-.
sissippi and South Carolina. The Re-
publican party has firss reconstructed
these States to suit itseh, and then re-
constructed its own Iec,H INSTRUCTION..
What is the result by the showing Of
the Republican politicians and the he
publican press? Almost every speech
made by any Of their public men, almost
every lesder in their papers, has told the
same story for weeks past. The Repub-
licaus insist that the south is given up
to disorder and anarchy, and that the
killing Of negroes is an every day mat
ter, particularly in the States which are
absolutely under Republican control.
Either the Republicans lie or they tell
the truth. Our own belief is that they
lie. But il they tell the truth, with
what face can they ask the American
people to grant them q new lease of
power on the evidence furnished by
themselves, which shows them absO-
lutely unfit to hold power World.