Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The usual pay of sepoy is about fourteen
shllilngs per month, out Of which he has to
buy his own food. When On active service
mis- pay is about doubled.
President MacMahon and wife are invited
by the king and queen of Italy to spend a
few weeks with them in Florence, where the
court will be from August to October.
Asher w. Hartman, Of Virginia, who in
cludes the famous Natural bridge among his
possessions, has been adjudged bankrupt,
and rates the bridge among his assets at four
teen thousand dollars.
little girl at Yonkers, New York, swal-
lowed her toy balloon tube downward. 1t
slipped into her windpipe, partly filling
whenever she breathed, and, rs no relief
could be afforded. she was choked to death.
The London World calls Mr.. Bright to ao-
count for sueering at Disraei for his Jewish
descent, since Mr.. Bright himself has Jewish
blood III his veins, his great grandfather hav-
ing married a pretty Jewess named Martha
Jacobs.
Last words of Count SchouvaIoff to Lord
Salisbury, as the former was bidding adieu
to the latter previous to his departure for
Russia: Nov remember, if any good is to
come out OF my journey: not another soldier
from India till l return!'
General Spinner, he of the eccentric sigma
ture, has spent an enjoyable winter in hard
ty pounds of flesh and is as bronzed as a
Turk, but has stocked his place with nearly
every vegetable, fruit, vine, shrub or tree
that will thrive there, and is now planting tea
plants for his own drinking and olive trees
for his children s eating.
The old method of firing guns by means of
a lanyard on shipboard will probably soon be
abandoned in the British navy. By means
of electricity the gun can be more rapidly
discharged, a far more accurate aim can be
taken, and any number of guns In broad
side can be fired simultaneously, concentrat-
ing the full strength of battery upon a
given spot, and rendering defensive armor
futile.
The Russian head of the police depart
ment, General Trepof, after being shot by
the girl Vera Vassolovitch, thought himself
mOrtalIy wounded and made his will, leav-
ing about three million dollars to his family.
This caused his dismissal, and not public sem
tment. The car had always considered him
poor and honest, and was shocked to find that
a man whom he thought was serving him
through personal devotion had shared in the
common corruption of official life.
Subjoined is an advertisement which ap-
peared some weeks ago in the London Athe-
n@un, that must drop upon the grey head of
some English curate of mot less than eighty
years of age" like a whole omer full CT
mama: ''To Aged Clergymen.-The patron
of a rectory of about seven hundred pounds
a year is DESTROYS of presenting it, in the
most legitimate manner, to a Clergyman not
less than eighty years OF age, of sound high
church principles. Applications, with testI-
monials, ETC., to be addressed to -. All
communications will be considered quite con-
hdential."
Achilles, by having had plunging bath
IN the river Styx, was rendered invulnerable,
all but his heel. There is a gentleman in
Snoi bo hoc tna oHu ~
hero, in being bullet-proof all over. The
HerdidO states that ia man has just arrived
at Madrid whose body bullets cannot enter.
He proposes being publicly shot at by the
soldiers of the garrison, and if this be not
permitted, he will shoot himself by means of
a machine which will let off several rifles at
the same time. The strange fellow is said to
have invented a garment of tissue which
will resist any bullet
Father Cuddihy, the Roman Cat nolic priest
of Milford, Massachusetts, spiritedly contln-
ues his fight against the Hibernians. He has
been making speeches on the subject IN vari-
GUS New England manufacturing cities, and
his denunciatlons of the order are IN exceed
lngly forcible language. The Milford society
is not disposed to yield, and Is makiag prep
aratlons tor great picnic on the Fourth OF
July as a demonstration Of defiance. Father
Cdddihy will give a picnic on the same day.
and he appeals to his people to stand by INN.
In a sermon he said Hibernians are generally
grog sellers; that their supposed benevolence
Is sham, and that they are antagonistic to
the Roman Catholic church.
In Naples, recently, every one has been on
the lookout for great eruption, and Prof. |
Palmieri has been so tormented by kilograms
asking for information that he has at length |
issued bill OF health for the mountain. The |
new mouth, which opened at the bottom of |
the crater In 1872, has been active since De- |
cember, 1875. On May 2, 1878, it gave indi- |
cations OF increased activity, but what this |
partial eruption will result in cannot be fore |
told. long time, however, must elapse |
before the lava will roll down the sides of |
the cone, as the cavity of the crater Is far |
from being full. But should the cone be |
opened laterally by some extraordinary erup- |
tive force, the lava will pour out IN deluge. |
The fire cannot now be seen from Naples, as |
it is at the bottom of the crater, and only its |
reflection Is visible on the smoke.
Slgnor Bertolotti has extracted from the |
archives of Rome some new facts relating to |
Beatrice Cenci and her incestuous father The |
latter he portrays as vicious and violent no. |
BILE of type common enough In the sixteenth |
century, but by no means a monster; the lat |
ter as a criminal to be pitied rather than a |
victim one would wish to exalt. He says she |
was twenty one years of age at that time, in |
stead of sixteen, and suggests that her hav-
ing remained until that age un-
married is presumptive proof that she |
was not good-looking, Guido's |
portrait to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Iuerra, her lover, and her accomplice in the |
murder of her father, instead of being young |
and handsome, was fat, ruddy and middle
aged. And, to strip the poetry more COM
oletely from this famous story, it is intimated |
hat Beatrice shared the prohigate tastes of
Ter father and brothers, and was no better
han she ought to be.
Thomas D. Jones, of Syracuse, New York,
| Welshman, has had dream with millions
n It," for it has already secured him one
promises to yield other golden eggs in the
uture. Jones is a,miller, and from boyhood
las brooded over some means for improving
lour by granulating instead of crushing the
kernels of wheat He was poor and it was |