Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-02-20
ARCADIANA.

New York ArcadisD.l
DR.. Kenealy having failed in almost
| everything else, ia uow about t. tee me
q prophet snd exponent o. a new firm
Of religion.
La France, a Paris newspaper, has
been fined thousand francs for publish
ing false news. How would tEis law
work in New York?
Y-Brother Joe Howard seems 10 be
thinking OF suicide with q pistol Let
US recommend him 10 borrow g little Of
Beeeher's poWder-Or philosophy.
The Chicago whisky fraud investlga.
tors have discovered that they have got
bold Of the wrong BAbe0ck. Perhaps
the 81 LOuisisns nave made q similar
mistake.
Beecher's picked council remind Us Of
Bslsam aud his ass. They s-art ont de-
termined TO vote for Bsai; but they NAV
alter their minds after they get 10
Brooklyn.
"WRlsiDghan," Of the Baltirnor. B,l-
tetin, and 'SspphiF," Of the Washington
Capital. are the same ptr2un and Publish
the same alsshOOds-Auaulss and Sap
phirs combined in one sp1ndent.
The new play Of Nasty aud GsyIor il
TO be called Initiation. There has been
blowing enough about 10 % make Bal
Loon a letter us me; but II is qu Be- equal
IN its way to GHdsd Age aud AfJhty
Dollar. Mr.. Andrews, the dialect lee
tnreri has been asked 10 plsy the princi-
pal part.
Somebody out west has been passing
herself of as Bessie Turner. This IL =
depth Of deception to y hieh imagination
refuses to descend. We prtf.r to believe.
for the credit OF human nsturs. that Res.
sic Turner has been attempting TO PASS
herself of IS somebody,
The World hesds 8 report Of Tire Bap-
tist ministers cOL ference IN the Mari
ners' church, I'D Ministers Kiss Chill
dren too Mu3h?' We can say yefv
little about the children, but from late
exposes, il il very evident that certain
ministers do kiss some OF the lady mem.
oefs OF their congregation altogether too
much.
It IS sad 70 lesrn that, though the
Centennial managers are DESTROYS Of
havJ 6 one or more dIs--class temDar-
snce Ie .RuTs8ts- not one aDylicatio1 Of
that kind has yet been made. The love
OF making money and the love for sell
ing liquor are too often o0rrelative. and
We fear that this 10 the case in the pres
ent instance.
A Jewish rabbi inauel Dr.. Brown To-
bently lost, through the iUadyeTtepcv Of
a Terre HRute EOtsl clerk, a vslise cor
tanning certain lectures written by him
Dr.. Brown claims fifteen thousand DOL
lars damage. F.r TIE sake Of toe bigh
opinion We are inclined u have Of DR..
Brown, we hope that his estimste il not
too high. Taxing, however, as a unit of
measure, the estimate indicated by the
average attendance az lectures, We shOa!d
say that Dr.. Browns claims err uoon
the side Of sZoTbitsrcV.
Rev. Mr.. Smith II. Pratt, Of the Fleet
street, Brooklyn, Methodist church. sqvs
that he was cured II Ian ess ty PRAYER.
He cOnfasses that he had en- Tor tEen-
ty years ariiviDg 1t the cor ciusiOn that
his prayer would be answered. After
having delayed 90 long, perhaps it il
only natural that he should insist that
the credit Of the cure belonged to his
own prayers, and rot to scybOdy else's.
We think II peculiar credit is due IN sDy
quarter, 1t is due to that whence the cure
was granted, particularly when thu
blessing was granted to 8 sufferer vino
had spent the best years OF his life in
doubling direct promises which cOpsis-
tency demanded heshCuld accept as in.
spirstioH.-A,
DR.. Hall lately had q slap at brokers,
and now d.. Deems hEs a slap st dead
heads. In announcing, recently, a con-
cert for the benefit OF ire Sisters Of the
Stranger, he aid to the children OF the
orphan asy'um occupying seats in the
gallery: "AE opportunity VIII be given
you to attend this concert. Tbs seats
which you will occupy have been paid
for by lady Of this congregation. You
will Therefore be Tested ~ gentlemen
and ladies, ard not as desdhsads. the
age Of deadhFa ism is fast diving away.
1 hope the dsy is lot f. defiant when
in ca-s, in concerts and in
churches viii be 90 longer Known
This is very good. But DR.. Deems ought
to have iDc.uled the clerical Gesdhsads,
who plead the divinity Of their mission
rs reason for getting Twenty-Five per
cent. taken of tie p-ice OF ali books
they purchase.
Sixteen yesrs ago Mr.. T1omss Carlyle
got eff an epitbeJ which is so unique
and happy, tcas we hold il up for the
admiration OF all young gentlemen who
are trying to wife. Ia giving advice to
3 young man, who il Gui5ed what were
the best qualifications for q teacher, Mr..
Carlyle replied that the FIaud secret for
and teaching virtues ard
yrsees Is that a man honestly, and with
more or less CT sincerity, have them
himself lodged in the silent dseps
If his being. h then tells his
inquirer that he takes him TO te
ID ingenious young man Coz course the
newspapers print it ingenious, they
always dO), and adds that If man try
% teach such virtues and grsees without
G them, the result is funb,essed
Ipery." Think Of that! Unblessed
Ipery! No mere word huIlsr could
quail that. 1t requires something more
han thumbing the dictionary OF finger
ng the thesaUrus.