Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-18

dred and three graded ones. The cost OF !nstruC
ton last wear reF caufts

dred and three graded ones. The cost OF instrue-
ton was last year 81 GO per capita
The Washington Star says that a caller at
P qe m a9ge 4onday who wanted TO see The
friend OF one OF your groomsmen-"
The statement OF the National Cotton Ex-
change for four months. ending December SIst,
shows that the amount OF the crop of lssl s. that
has appeared in sigDt, is bales or l52 81
bales les than al the same date last year.
The csmels set sdrift in the Arizona deserts
about twenty-five years ago, have grown TO very
Large size, The Indians, whose horses are fright
ened by them, capturing these caInels and sell
ing them 10 Inensgcries Tor triaing SIMS.
Within a region bounded By Van Buren,,
Fourteenth, State and Clark streets Chicago there
Prostitution aud one hundred and fifty concert
saloons. gambling houses and poelrooms
The consolstions of infdelity in the pres
ence of death are like apples of sodom. all ashes
in the mouth The man who is an inhdel- and
who does not intrude that infdeIity others is
more an object Of pity and sorrow than OF anger
The number of hogs slaughtered and sailed
by Chicago packers during the present winter
packing season sums up one million eight hundred
and twenty four thousand, against TWO million ana
eighty-four thousand for the corresponding period
last season
1t is said that the near descendants OF the
man who hanged Robert Emmett ia Ireland live
tity is known only to the family and a Catholic
priest who refuses TO reveal it, although he claims
that he is prosecuted by the family The hRngman
died in Auburn.
A dispatch fron San Antonio, Texas, Gays
disease resent bling the Asistic plague has broken
out among the cattle men. red spot shows it,
self the face, and spreading toe head swells up.
and death always ensles, and IN an incredibly
short time. The doctors are rs demoralized by it
as the cattle men.
A nine-pound nugget of gold was recently
found near Dahlonega, GeDrgia. In the mine of
hundred and-fort y-two penuywefSht gold nugget
was recently taken out, ana there is considerable
excitement just now in the Nacoochee valley
owing to the opening OF a new deposit OF gold,
probably the richest in the State.
A correspondent writes to the New Orleans
Times Democrat to correct the reiterated SANDER
sgsiust Packenhem. of making his watchword,
beauty and. booty and thus calling to his aid
the vilest passions of his 'ldisr. This writer
quotes from q New Orleans correspondent OF the
Courier Journal who gives the counter and conclu-
sive statements of British officers, made as soon
the change reached them.
Mr.. Thomas II. Durham, a rope-maker of
Boston, of forty years experience, the son OF
ropc-nnker OF sixty years experience, states that
over one hundred and fifty tons of hemp rope is
made in the United States daily, and that the hemp
is mostly imported He also Us that the cotton
fiber is preferable, and that cotton rope can be
made for fifty per cent less than hemp rope, and
that cotton rope is better for all shipping uses,
cables, bolt rope, helyards, tow rope hawsers,
tackle and falls, hosting, etc. For caulking, he
holds that it is superior hemp and believes that
il can be used for roofing, and instead of duck,
and a substitute for leather and rubber in hose
and betting, and for tubing to inclose telegraph
wire and telephone wires, both overhead and
underground.