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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-01

1T is now thought certain that the Presi-
dent will veto the anti-Cbinese bill. We
hone 80.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-01

in Vermont, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Califor-
MIA, Arkansas and Georgia.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-01

Tar bill for the improvement Of the Mis-
sissippi and the Missouri will be called up
in the Senate on Monday.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-01
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE
At Forrest city. Ark.-A Number of
Houses Burned 10 the Ground.

Special to the Appeal
FORREST CITY, March 3l.-A fire broke
out here at 80 o'clock this morning The
front block of frame buildings occupied by
L. Rollwage & Co., Hancock * Co., J. II.
Avery, Thompson & II Hs1cher. Becker & Lewis,
j. p. Warren, and two other buildings Hnoc-
cupied, were burned to the ground. The total
loss is about $4,000 or S35, 900. The cause
Of the fire is not known.
Associated Press Report.l
LITTLE Rock, March 31.-The Gazette's s
special from Forrest City, ffty-ive miles
from Memphis, on the Memphis and Little
Rock road, says: "a fire broke out here this
morning at 4 o'clock in the drugstore of
Hancock & Co. Before it could be checked
it burned an entire block and half Eight
buildings were destroyed. The loss Is esti-
mated at $4,000; insured for probably one
half. The firms burnt out were: Rollwage &
Co., stock and building, valued at $1,000, in
cured for $4500; Hancock & Co.. stock, valued
at $500, insured for $1,000; J. II. Avery,
stock, valued at $500, insured for $1,000
Thompson & Hatcher, stock and building,
valued at Sl2, 500, insured for $4,000; Becker
& Lewis, stock and building, valued at S.
500, insured for $1,000; J. p. Warren, stock,
valued at $500 insured for $500; two store
houses, valued at about $500 Rollwsge &
Co. lost all except their books. Hancock K
Co. lost all. The other merchants got out
probably one-fourth of their goods in badly
damaged condition. The fire was undoubt-
edly the work of an incendiary. All the
merchants are getting ready and will open
again as socn as they can get houses and
goods. The block is on the north side and
FACING tha railroad
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-01

A GOOD law is that recently enacted in
Maryland prescribing fifty lashes for wife
beating.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-01

THIS is April Fools Day. The greatest
f1oIs are those who perpetrate silly jokes.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-01

SITTING BULL wants to be granger, ard
see his squaws tearing up Che turf aropnda.
some retired reservation. ~, ~ ~ -.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-01
JACOBS & HEXTER.
Cotton Factors
AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
2S4 Front Street,
REWARD
UNPAH TAXES.

ENoR ANY OF THE BODIES LOST BY THE
Il steamer Golden City. Address, care c. B.
Bryan & Co., s G. MCINTYRE Master
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-01

BEFORE dancing put your feet in good
order by using German Corn Remover. 25c.
Sold bY druggists.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-01

TINS is free country, sure but you can't
get DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup free of charge; 1t
costs you quarter every time!
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-01
RECEIVER ManfesI.

INDIANAPoLIs, IND, March 31.-Charles
O'Connor fled a petition to-day in the
United States Court, asking the appointment
of a receiver for the indianapolis and St.
Louis railroad. The plaintiffs claim is
S34 600.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-01

Commissioner Price is quoted. as saying:
Il think this is the last pow WOW we shall
have here while l am commissioner. 1t is
perfect nonsense their coming here. They
don't know what they want when they start,
and the longer they stay here the less they
know, and it is only waste OF time and
money"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-01
NOTICE.

~ Prank e. Hass, Pat. j. Moran and
John II. Williams have this day been ad-
mitted 10 an interest I'm the prenfs Of
our business
OLIVER, FIaNIE d CO.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-01

rTNHE unpaid Taxing District City Tax-BilIs for
i the year 1857 on Merchants Capital and all
other property. have been placed in my bands for
collection. All those who have not paid will
please call at sherifFs office at once and settle.
Pl r ATHY Sheriff
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-01
DISSOLUTION.

THE copsrtnership heretofore suhsisting be-
l. tween the undersigned, under the style of
Jacobs & Booker, has this day been dissolved by
mutual consent. The unsettled business OF the
firm will be wound up at their I'D stand. No. 2S4
Front street. in this ci y, now the Office OF Jacobs
& Hexter. W. J. BOOKER
J. JACOBS.
Memphis, Tenn. March 81. ISS2.
nSr Referring to the above. I recommend the
new firm of Jacobs & Hsxter to the liberal patron
age which The house enjoyed during my pleasant
connection herewith. w. J. BOOKER
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-01

Secretary Kirkwood has informed the
commissioner-general of the land office,
ferriDg to the Toledo swamp land case, that
the department will recognize any of the
homestead entries made Subsequent to the
advertisement of sale. This decision practi-
cally confirms the sale of these lands made
few weeks ago.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-01
INDICATIONS.
THE cotton market yesterday opened and

For Tennessee and The Ohio raHey, warmer,
fair lredher south 10 ioest ,5inds, lotoer barometer.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-01
The Chinese Bill 70 be Disposed of Mon

The President announceI at the close of
the cabinet session special session to be
held Monday, when the Chinese bill will be
disposed of. Wednesday is the last day the
President can hold the bill. Senators Mil
Ter, of California, and Jones, of Nevada,
called ON the President after the cabinet
meeting. Both are sure there will be no
veto. Others who visited the President
think the bill will be returned TO Congress
with the request that the twenty-year clause
be reduced to ten years, when he will sign it.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-02-28
A SIG HAMPER.

In an account Of the quaint and Gu
rious ways Of the Ephrata pa commu-
nifty, in the Century Mag zine, appears
this paragraph: :,
We now crossed the meadow ground
to take look u. the other large build
ing, and on our way passed two dilapi'
dated little dwellings, one Of which
probably is the one occupied for long
time by Conrad Beissel, tho founder OF
the Ephrata cloister. Tho second con-
vent we now came to, designated as
.Saron,' or the Sisters house, is in its
external appearance very much like its
mate, Be.hania-huge, oppressive, and
gloomy, sheathed in black shingles, and
dotted with little square windows. The
rooms and passages, however, are quite
differently plotted, and seem to have
been altered to suit the uses Of more
recent times. In one OF the cells We
noticed O huge hamper; its size, In
fact, compared with the dimensions oil
the door, was suggestive Of the Chinese
puzzle, the imprisoned ivory ball much
too large for the apertures OF the meas
ing cell. How was this oyererown bas.
ket ever squeezed through so narrow
an opening? II never was. An indus.
trious nun, bent upon doing some good
and useful work for the monastery,
piled in her cell, for many days and
weeks, her busy hands, to weave for do.
nestle needs that extraordinary piece OF
wicker-work. She did lot discover,
until she had finished it, that it was
much too large to pass through the
door of her cell. And there it remains.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-02-28
MONKEYS.

A keeper in the Geological Gardens,
vhlo kneeling on the floor OF the cage,
wac suddenly attacked by fierce ba-
booy A little American monkey, which
was u warm friend Of the keeper, lived
in the same compartment with, and was
dreadfully afraid OF. the great baboon.
But as soon as the poor little fellow saw
his friend, the keeper in peril he rushed
to the rescue, and 10y screlms and bites
so distracted the baboon that the man
was enabled to effect his escape, not,
however, without having run great risk
of losing his life, according to the opin-
ion OF the surgeon who attended him.
MONKEYS have long memories, and
some Of them can infict cruel punish
ment.
Mrs. Lee tells OF having greatly an
moved one in the Jardin des Plantes, at
Paris. by tapping him on the hands for
ill-treating one of his fellow-prisoners,
and he never forgave her. Whenever
he saw her on future occasions, or even
when he heard her voice, he flew into a
passion and rolled about in rage, in one
instance seizing her gown through the
bars of his cage, and fearing piece out
Of it, although it was of stout material.
OF another monkey, whose place OF
exile was in the West Indies, q crueler
revenge is not known. This individual,
kept tied to u stake, was often robbed
of his food by the crows. This was
how he revenged himself. he lay quite
still on the ground and pretended to be
dead. BY degrees the birds approached
and repeated their thefts. The artful
little fellow never stirred but let the
crows steal to their hearts content until
he was sure of them. When he was
sure that one was within reach of his
fingers he made grab at it and caught
it. When he had got hold of the luck
less bird, he sat down and deliberately
plucked the feathers ont of it and then
dung it toward its screaming comrades
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-02-28
SOLID PETROLEUM.

According to st. Petersburg paper
a German, Herr z. n. Dittmar, has
practically solved the problem OF
rendering petroleum solid-a problem
considerably studied by chemists OF late
in view OF the large question eitransport.
A company has been formed in Russia
TO work the patent when completed.
The transformation OF the substance will
not cost more than about ten cents per
thirty-six pounds. The mode OF treat
ment is not yet disclosed, and chemists
TO whom small samples OF the solid
petroleum have been sent have not been
ablet make ont the nature OF the foreign
substances that arc added in proportion
Of two, or at most three per cent. to
solidify the petroleum. The reporter
of the st. Petersburg paper saw the
product he says il is Of wine yellow
color, ard has the consistency OF very
stiff gelatine it can be kneaded with
the fingers like wax, and is yet somewhat
breakable. A small piece OF the thick
ness OF lead pencil and about an inch
long could be Lit at one end and held
with .he fingers. II melted like wax,
and it was only after a little, when hot
drops ran down, that the flame had to
be blown out. The danger OF fire IS
considerably less than with liquid
petroleum. The product can be easily
hquofcd when required by the addition
Of vinegar, and the process Is rapid.
The vinegar in time separates OFT below
aud the petroleum above. II IS not
stated whether the same vinegar can be
used reneatedlY.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-02-28
BOLD MAN.

According to the Express OF Atlanta,
Texas, the champion wielder Of the pistol
in close fight is Captain Joe Peevey,
formerly citizen of Arkansas, residing
close to the Choctaw line. He was u
deputy. United States marshal for o
long time, and often had the command
of a posse when that was more danger.
Gus business than it is in New York
During the war he was arrested by the
Federal troops on the charge OF being q
spy, court-martialed, and sentenced to
be shot. he made his escape, and from
that time until the downfall of the Con-
federacy hls name and daring deeds
were we'll known in both armies. Sew.
enty men have fallen at the report OF
his pistol, and yet in all his personal
encounters he was known only once to
be wounded, and that was while trying
to arrest desperate in the Indian
Territory. Captain Peevy is now q
citizen OF Oregon, where he is reported
to have killed five roughs who recently
attacked him. Yet with all this he is
said to be pleasant companion and an
answering friend.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-02-28
COMFORTABLE BEDS.
Twilights are very short.

Every nation has its own opinions
and customs concerning beds, and their
fitness for the comfortable repose OF
the occupants very much depends upon
that occupants idea OF what constitutes
comfort. A Persian ambassador was
shown into bedroom where q grand
canopied state bed had been prepared
for him. He supposed 1t was throne
in his audience chamber, received bis
visitors seated on it, and retired to sleep
on the carpet in corner OF the room'
in accordance with the Eastern custom
In taking furnished house in Russia,
on inauiring for the servants bedrooms
and beds, it comes out that the Russian
servants are in the habit OF lying any
wherein the passage, on the floor, on
the mats ut the room doors, or even on
the carpets in the sitting rooms ener-
ally as near as possible TO the stoves in
the winter season. Beds have been
stuffed W til all sorts of commodities =
feathers, wool, horsehair, what is called
flock, which is an oninitsr gRhs11al oil
all sorts Of productions, shavings, bay
straw--and in the south OF Europe W.T.
the soft and elastic dried leaves OF
maize dried seaweed has also been
used, but it is apt to become moist
with use, and is therefore not desirable.
In one Of the seasons when hops were
abundant in England it is related OF c
farmer that no sold tho feathers from
all the beds in his house and replaced
them With hops. In another year or
two, when the hops failed, and the price
became very high, the same hops were
disinterred from their bed, and fetched
considerable sum, far more than
sufficient to replace the former feathers
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-02-28
SCIENTIFIC.

An artificial building stone which, it
is said, will not absorb moistr-e, has
been invented in Germany. The con-
stituents are clay, lime, a solution OF
waterglass, hair, and pulverized cork.
Hay; like most vegetable products,
contains much material which i5 solu-
BILE in water. On this material its
nutritive value depends, and its removal
by dampness seriously injuries the
crop.
In Italy Like Funcino, lying about
fifty miles distant from Rome, among
the mountains Of AbraZzio, has been
completely drained and II, 600 acres OF
land reclaimed. The water In the lake
in 1871 was seventy-iive feet deep. 1t
took two years to complete this work.
One pound OF dried grape skins,
placed in white-hot retort, will pro-
1uce in seven minutes three hundred
and fifty quarts OF excellent gas, with
white flame, odorleSs, and with less
smoke than that from pit coal.
Marble is generally considered to DO
very rigid material A remarkable
case, however, is given by NJ. Guebhard'
in which marble slab ut one side OF
loor in the AlhamJra OF Grenada has
been bent considerably out OF shape
by superincumb, mt weight, without
breaking. The slab is ten feet high,
nine inches broad and two inches thick.
Large contracts have recently BEEN
made for the importation Of Rio Tinto
pyrites. One chenical works in the
vicinity OF New York is to receive 10, COO
tons. The guaranteed proportion OF
sulphur III these ores is, We hear, 4Si
PER cent. and they contain about q per
cent. OF copper. After roasting, the
copper is to be extracted by the Hunt
and Douglas process.
Ia his address before the British As
ISOLATION of Science at its recent fifty
first animal meeting, Sir John Lubbock,
The President, said /: Summing up the
principal results which have been OBJ
tanned in the last half-century, We may
mention lover and above the accumula.
ton OF factsl the theory Of evolution,
the antiquity of man, and the far greater
antiquity o.; the world itself; the
correlation OF the physical forces and
The conservation OF energy; spectrum
analysis and its application to celestial
physics, the higher algebra and the
modern geometry, lastly, the innumer-
able applications of science to practical
life as, for instance, in photography,
The locomotive engine aud electric
Telegraph. the spectroscope, aud most
recently, the electric light and the tele-
phone"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-02-28
CIRCUS STOCK.

In Europe there are large gardens
devoted to Wholesale traffic in wild
beasts, birds snd reptiles, for exhi-
bition purposes, and all the pretentions
If great showmen to tho contrary not
withstanding, from these geological es-
Adjustments come the attractions OF
The menageries and museums. One oil
the largest in the world is Carl Hagen
bech's Handel menagerie and ThieY
park at Hamburg. IL the same man
her that dry goods or grocery estab-
lishment would issLe its price list, a
semi-annual circular is issaed by Ha-
genbach, giving the ruling prices for
The wonders OF animal life. The last
issued gives the following information
As to the value OF animals:
Double horned rhinoceros, two, one
with horns six inches long, 81 $50 each.
One male and two female lions from
Abyssinia, 81, go for 'he lot.
Pair Of Persian lions six years old
81, 900. Cape lionesses, $3.50 each.
A happy family consisting OF one
male Abyssinian lion, ono female Ben
gal tigress, u pair of black bears, q
striped byona, and pair OF Danish
dogs, about fifteen months old, feed
and sleep together, $1,000 for the lot.
Leopards from india and Africa, $3.50
per pair; single, $40.
Spotted and striped hyenas, 500
each.
Happy family of two polar bears, o
black bear and bulldog. 5000.
Female Polar bears, $3.50 each.
Female Thibet bears, sl25 each.
Brown bears, 500 each.
Male black panther and female Loop
ard together, 5000.
Zebns, broken. 81, $50 per pair.
Male zebras, $3.50 each.
Female zebras, S7a5 each.
Wild llamas, $3.50 per pair.
Double backed Bactrian camels, 500
per pair.
White Baestrian double.humped cam
els, sS75 per pair.
African riding dromedaries, $500 per
pair.
American tapirs, $500 per pair.
Chamois goats. $3.50 per pair.
Kangaroos, $500 per pair.
Pelicans, African, 500 per pair.
Small monkeys Of all classes, SIC
each.
Snakes, from Asia, Africa and India,
Sl5 to $3.50 each, according to length.
The circular concludes with the
statement that animals not on hand
will be procured on short notice.
The city OF New York also does q
business in selling surplus stock from
the Central Park garden. and offers 70!
sale pair OF royal Bengal tigers nj
SLIPS each; blesbok antelope, 1873
sable deer, sl75; Indian deer, SID
ibex, 500; axis deer, $50; pair emus,
$500; golden pheasants, SIS each
African snakes, eight TO twelve feet
long, s25 to s75; balloons, sl5 &c
$3.50; flying foxes. $3.50 each.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-02-28
CURRENT ITEMS.
Slouch hats predominant.

SIOuch hats predominhte'
Telegraph poles arc all square.
Church services commence ut III A. NJ.
The north wind is bet and the south
cold.
Admission TO circus is always 81.
Sidewalks are most unanimously
plank.
Bow windows in houses are in the
majority. -,
Liauor bars are indispensable with
grocery stores.
Oyercoats and linen busters are COM
panions, summer and winter.
Fog, night and morning, the year
through.
Thunder and lightning rarely ever
heard or seen.
Snow was never known to fall in the
city.
MOSQUITOES are few, but fees abound.
Coal yard signs read wood and coal.
Pineapples are seventy-Gye cents to
81 each.
Theaters and side-shows in full blast
Sundays.
First Of May MAY day. is holiday.
All daily papers are five cents, moth
ing less than that used in money.
Mercury seldom reaches eighty or
goes down to forty.
Windmills nre largely used for yard
irrigation and supplying steam power.
Street process ions and ball matches
are common spectacles on the Sabbath
Trade winds blow every afternoon
from the southwest.
The sun shines every day for eight
months and the other four the sky is a
waterspout.
One-third the population live on the
European plan, furnished rooms, board
ing at restaurants.
Costs fifty cents month for carriage
OF ashes from your door. -.
Fifty cents is called four bits, while
u IL cents is bit, and ten cents
short bit.
Potatoes, onions and all kinds OF
fruit sold by weight.
Thousands of sea gulls inhabit the
water front, building Tia cir nests on tops
of warehouses.
Chinese are required TO pay poll
tax, but not allowed to vote or become
citizens.
Costs fifteen cents to Brooklyn or
Oakland, and takes twenty five min
utes.
Saloons OF ferries are on the upper
deck, while the first contains a lunch
counter and bar.
The notorious sand lot" adjoics the
city hall.
Twenty miles Of cable street railroads
operated by stationary steam engines.
Chinese do all the washing, perform
housework, cook, raise all the vegetables
and manufacture nearly ell the cigas
and shoes.
Must buy whole ham or sack OF
-four. No smaller quantity sold.
Salaries of clerks and statesmen gen.
orally are lower than in New York.
Tie number of judges, generals,
colonies, majors and captains is aston
tshing.
Crate fires and warm blankets are
Injuries every night in the year.
Coal and wood is sold by the bag.
Ice cream saloons are scarce.
Number Of stout and flesLy women is
remarkable.
Roses bloom in yards the year
round.
Oysters are the size OF hickory nuts.
White pigs are as scarce as black in
the East.
Hills and mountains are all peaked
like volcanoes.
When the moon is supposed to chine
the street lights are shut of.
Lending ard borrowing money upon
honor is legitimate business.
Temperature in different pats OF
the city will vary ten degrees at the
same hour.
Twilights are very short.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-02-28
BOUND TO PAY.

A Missouri paper, TO illustrate a
hopeful feeling that some men have
when they are in debt, tells Of farmer
who owed Walt Perkins twenty five
dollars, and had owed him for years.
One day he met Walt and said, "Don't
be uneasy, Walt. 1 have the thing all
fixed by which l can pay you" Walt
asked him how he had got it fixed. and
the old granger said, "well, Walt, if
nothing happens, next year hope to
raise good crop of corn and intend
to trade some of the corn for yoke of
oxen, and I know an old man in st.
Charles county that owns an old mare
and he wants to trade her for yoke OF
oxen. Now, Walt, when l raise the
corn and get the oxen I will make the
trade for the old mare and then will
bring her home and raise mule colts
and Walt, the very first mule colt / sell
you shall have the money"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-02-28
LpTIrIPs nP PAPER.

To the Japanese we are Indebted Tor
the discovery that paper can be maue
into hundreds OF articles for human
use. At the Atlanta exposition we're to
be seen most extraordinary variety OF
articles Which had been made from
common paper pslp. These included
car wheels, kitchen furLi,ure, wash
basins, tubs, trucks, and even houses
A car wheel made OF paper Will run
9 400. 600 miles without breaking and
is stronger than steel or iron, and then
i. is very much cheaper. Paper IS OF
surprising strength. A twisted note OF
the Bank Of England will not tear even
though three hundred and twenty-nlne
pounds weight is suspended from the
end Of it. Paper can be compressed so
hard that il will tear a chisel into pieces
il the latter is held against It. one OF
the great values OF paper is that 1t can
be made TO take the place OF wood.
Furniture made OF it looks like black
walnut. ana is re lily stronger as well
as cheaper indeed there Is now less
danger from the wasting OF our forest
trees than there was before the various
uses OF paper were discovered. stoves
are made Of paper and are 80 incom-
bustibie that it is impossible ~ Durn
them. 1t is possible even to make a
steam engine of paper; in short it has
been found that the linen tber from
which the best paper is made vii IN
the future be as valuable 80 mankind
as wood or iron.