Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-08


law" while James S. Rollins writes that Mr..
Lincoln soften spoke to him about the eman-
cipatfon proclamation" and "had no great
faith in its efficacy" Is is plain that each
of these writers seeks In Mr.. Lincoln the re-
hex of his own opinions.
CURRENT NEWS AND VIEWS.
The public debt statement for August
shows decrease for the month OF Sic, u.s.
26l; cash in treasury, $242, 960, SIS; total
debt TO date, 81 800, 2Sl ,403.
About 120 persons we're drowned by the
Coueho food in Texas, and 5000 sheep, cat
tie and horses were lost The loss to prop
erty ranges from S75, 600 to 100000. The
river rose fifty feet. Bodies are coming to
the surface daily.
At the coming election of the London
School Board candidates will be asked to
pledge themselves 10 support the demand for
the restitution of Christi's Hospital, st. Paul's
School, the Charterhouse and other great
foundations to their original objects, the
education OF the poor. and not of the rich, to
whom they are row almost exclusively con-
fined.
The great cattle range of Wyoming, under
the military protection of Fort Mckinney, il
about 300 miles square. In this are are now
grazing 500, 900 head of cattle, worth S27 per
head, amounting to SIS, 500 600, to which can
be added the value of the horses and ranches
OF the cattle men and the farmers and stock
of the grangers, making at least 81 900 600 Of
property under the protection of this post.
In England military drill is systematically
taught 10 the boys attending 1172 day
schools; cookery is taught in 800 schools; in
1857 savings banks have been established;
81
lures of the Board Schools are steadily de-
creasing; the average cost per child through.
out England and Wales has diminished dur
ing the last six or seven years by more thaa
81 %.
1t is announced from Scotland that the
Scotch Church Assembly" banished this
year spirituous liquors from its arefreshmens
bar" "snd progress" says the New York In
dependent, sin high temperance principles
was evident in the Free and United Assem-
blies." There was a time wien to have
abolished spirituous liquors from church re-
freshment tables might have been reported -
progress in this country long time ago.
The Free Church of Scotland is in a way
10 divide over the propriety or improperly
of instrumental music. In the late Puritan
times the battle ragged iercely, but for many
years there has been a peace, or at least
truce. DIR. Begg, Scotch preacher, with not
few followers, is now striving to have or
gans abolished from the house of worship Of
his sect. He has prepared a petition to the
General Assembly, and is getting signatures
thereto.
Earnum is said to have an agent watching
upon the growth of a child born unto Mrs.
Stoddard, No. rs Franklin street, New York
The youngster made its appearance three
months ago, and weighed exactly one pound.
Since then it has gained two pounds. The
mothers wedding ring can be passed over
its hand to its wrist. The child is healthy,
and bids fair to live and outrivsl any mod
ern Lilliputian known to museum or circus
annex of the present day.
The Hon. Carter 81. Harrison, mayor Of
Chicago, advocates reducing the roadway of
streets occupied chiefly for residences, and
the beautifying of the street by deve:ing the
space thus reclaimed to grass and trees. This
is good, sound sense, whether the subject is
looked at from the business, or the sanitary,
or the aesthetic point OF view. As the mayor
says in effect, the citizens are never tired of
dilating on the greatness of Chicago, and it
is now lime that they paid some attention
10 making the city attractive and comfort
able 10 live in.
The Pal Mall Gazette says at the interna-
tional conference on commercial law, at Liv-
erpool, presided over by Lord O'Hagan,
discussion arose upon proposal to expunge
the words "by the act of God" from bills of
lsding. Mr.. David Dudley Field suggested,
instead, the words 'superhuman cause" NJ.
Clunet said the term was useless the tend
ency of modern legislation being to omit
reference TO divinity. M. Glover protested
against discussing the tendency of conti-
mental legislation: Eventually the words
'by the act of God" were retained by vote
of 81 to IL.
Dr. l. E. Nagle, of Vicksburg, Miss, sug-
gests the use of uncovered electric lights for
killing the moths, AIctia, from whose eggs
the destructive cotton-worm is Matched. He
believes that few lamps properly placed
would attract and destroy the moths, so as
to protect a wide belt of cotton country. The
plan would be we'll worth trying wherever
electric lamps are in use. 1t some parts OF
the South planters have found that brush
fires or burning rubbish will attract the
moths in swarms; and every female moth
promptly killed prevents the birth of many
worms. Whether electric lamps would prove
more efficient or economical, only trial can
determine.
The great engineering feat of tunneling
the Hudson proceeds slowly, twenty-five feet
being all the progress made on the Jersey
City end in a week. The men are compelled
to work under an atmospheric pressure of
tWenty-six pounds, which they are enabled TO
advisable 10 let them back and forth between
the inner and outar atmospheres by degrees.
For this purpose they pass through an inter-
mediate chamber, in which the pressure ia
sixteen pounds. There have been no deaths
recently. But there have been enough in the
past to last some time. These immense works
of construction cost about as many lives az
Il small battle.
A movement is on foot in Philadelphia TO
celebrate the bi-ceDtennial anniversary of
the landing OF Francis Daniel Pastorius, who
brought over the first Germans who settled
in Pennsylvania. A correspondent of the
who was an intimate friend of William
Penn, founded a society at Frankfort-on-the-
Main for the purchase of land in Pennsylva-
mia, He came over sooH afterWard and
secured $4,000 acres where Germantown now
stands. On October 6, 1858, the first German
immigrants, thirteen families, making fifty
persons in all, arrived and settled upon 500
acres of the land. Others soon followed,
and in short time the settlement became q
flourishing community and PastoriuB elected
mayor.
1t is estimated that the total annual pro-
duction of sugar by the whole world is 12,-
600, O00, 600 pounds, and that Great Britain
and the United States consume one-fourth of
the whole amount. Our imports of sugar
for the year ending July ], 1872, were ! &c.,
l73 S97 pounds, on which the consumers paid
a tax of So, 933, 900, which was nearly one
fourth of our entire customs revenue. The
planters of southern Louisiana were able 10
raise and sell some 100000, 900 pounds of
sugar. The present prospects for large
crop of sugar in Louisiana are also good.
The weather during this and next month,
however, will have an important bearing
upon the latter, though, as yet, nothing has
occurred to mar the prospect OF large
yield on our gulf coast.
Amsterdam, once the chief commercial
city of the world, now in decline, will re-
yive the memory of by-gone days next spring
by an International fair. 1t was at tirst pro-
posed to have it an exhibition of Dutch con-
Iinental and colonial wares merely, bit the |
scheme has rather broadened since its incep-
ton. Circulars inviting contributions have
been sent out in every language, from En-
glish to Chinese, and many favorable replies |
have been received. Ths exhibition will |
have five principal sections. The hrst will /
display colonial products; the second goods L
exported from Holland; the third hne art i
products and the products and appliances Of
industrial art; the fourth, special wares,
those from foreign countries, and
the fifth, scientific apparatus ana inventions.
for export in every country |
will be likely to take advantage OF this OPP |
to make manifest what they can do. |
Oscar Wilde was complaining at Cape
Nav The other day OF the high prices of /
things in this country. "My gloves, for e1-
ample" he said, "whieh might have bought
for 81 in London, cost 3 90 here" $50
thew ought" exclaimed Ex-Mayor Stokley,
of Philadelphia, who was in the room, they
are Injuries" @Luxuries, sirw echoed the
IN wide eyed Amusement; do you
call gloves luxuries? How would you 20 /
on the street, how could you travel in the
see these hsnds?D returned Mr.. Stokley, |
warmly; "before / became mayor OF Phila-
delphia / worked 30 hard at my shop that
nv hands became all covered with corns
that you might have cut with knife; and
those hands, sir, have never had pair OF
gloves on them. And you talk about work!
WHY, it's good for youl I've worked nearly