Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-06
CURRENT NEWS.

| Immigrant arrivals at Castle Garden for
| the week Guiding Saturday aggregated 20, 1911,
making total of 5000 for the month thus far.
! The Arizona Star declares that by the aid
of artesan wells the desert lands of Arizona can
be made the most productive wheatgrowing dis
| tricts in the country.
There mas been rise in the price OF cop
per in England which is partly due 10 the belief
| the demand 1oT that metal
The deepest known hole in the ground is
artesian wen at st. Louis, $3.50 feet below the
| surface The water was salt and useless. Brook
| Ign has one $500 feet deep.
In the census year 1880 the wooden mills
employed 16, 23l persons; capital employed, sl5s,
Zi0,050 wages paid sI7. pa, coo; material used
sl63, O5S,92s; value of products S266 I9S 454
A movement is on foot among the Masons
of Washington TO raise funds TO erect a Garfield
Masonic memorial in the shape OF an industrial
school for the SONS of deceased Master Masons
All Master Masons in the United States are invited
to contribute
Our importation of ccffee from Mexico has
increased from 2,G9l, $50 pounds during the fiscal
year ending June 30 1873 to 1891. 80 pounds dur
crease is very gratifying. During the last mem
400 1S9 ,543 pounds
Postm as,er- General Howe is in favor of
abolishing the postage onwhat is known as second
odloGls. The idea is neither valuable nor practi-
cal nor is it asked by the peop.e What is desired
of some benef fit TO The public
The Iron Londou) SAYS: "There are many
articles in which several countries are long way
periority OF the tools which now 50 largely I'M
ported into this country from America, and which,
much less costly than those Of English produc-
ton
The promenade over the East River
bridge promises to be the most attractive Of any in
the World THE walk for foot passengers is in the
Toesyyay Tor ca Tfises and railroad cars, and the
VII tax ] a
sound, and the area OF the two oensely populated
cities wiz be such rs thousands viii delight 10
iinger ever. The distance between the towers is
1895 feet five inches and including the approaches
about one mile.
An English Journal predicts that ivory
win soon become so scarce that its use for piano
forte keys knifehandles and fans viii be reserved
for the wealthy. All descriptions, except for bill
llard-b&ll purposes, have gone up from $i5 to so
per hundred weight in the London market. There
IS a scarcity of the supply from the Cape OF Good
Hope and the West Coast. 4 Sheffield dealer just
had iuvoieed to him 522 tusks, and these repre-
sent 276 elephants. At this rae the JumbOites
may be extinct in a caleulable time.
Land in grain-growing parts of England
is falling of in value. \ small estate in one of
the eastern counties, which four years ago was
weeks ago and the highest price offered for it
S45 600. II mprises $50 acre and was bought in
England much arabic land Is running 70 waste for
want Of capital to pay Tor the labor which il re
quires No farming. except grazing and dairy
farming, Is said nov to pay for the ouilays.
The New Orleans Medical and Surgical
Association at its last meeting unanimously in
dorsed aud recommended that the Legislature
Immediately enact the proposed pharmacy law for
the state OF Louisi, ns which had previously been
adopted by the Louisiana State Pharmaceutical
Association. The bill makes elaborate and care
full provision to prevent incompetent or unsuthor-
lied persons from engaging in pharmacy, and also
for the prevention of The adulteratlon Of drugs,
me dieines medicinal preparations and chemicals
E1glish rssidsnis OF Rome declare that
the health OF thar city during the past winter has
been excellent, and further say that, with proper
"a Rome in h1altHfu.EGSE CITY
in the world. The deaths OF English Paotestants
during the winter were sixteen, and of these the
rCeS OF seven were. respectively, ninety seven.
eighty6v eighty-tbree, ssventy-six, sixty eiit,
nd sixty eight years Two were Cue to diphshe-