Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-29
CURRENT NEWS,

A Western youth thinks Billy Patterson
must have been struck by lightning; lots of
the article about there this year.
A Georgia man named Smallwood has
eighty living children; but he is eighty six
and then more than one woman in the case.
A colony of 200 Mississippi negroes is to
settle in Mexico. A good many negroes have
been planted in Mexican soil, but they don't
come up.
You can buy turtles eggs at Key West
for two cents dozen; but you are fnrnisht d
with cockroaches without charge in any
house you rent.
Nebraska has town called Weeping Win
| ter The New Orleans Picayune thinks it
should have called itself Eye Water AID
done with it.
There ought to be a great many red ears
| in the corn crop this season, ii las been
| talked about so much.-B0ston Commercial
Bulletin.
He who farms and buys on credit,
WIN make crop and never FIJI;
Viii never be cramped by debts and signs.
Murat HaIstead SAYS Robson is very
| modest when he asks 5ut Sl5, O00, 600 to start
a navy with be coulS spend ten times the
sum and you coulR never see where it was
| put
Virginia drinks up her entire wheat crop
anllu ally, and the liquor drank in louisiana
costs SAL, O00, 000-S2 000,000 more than its
combined cotton, sugar and rice crop; but
who codld live with nothing TO drink?
A company of Chicago capitalists has
been incorporated to buiI - railway, to be
operated by electricity, t0tween that city
ard Pullman, some fifteen miles distant.
Within the city it is to be an elevated road
City physicians now establish themselves
at watering place hotels to kill two birds
with one stone, and cure sick people of their
ailments and of any disposition to be eco
nomical as well. Great is the city physician
away from home.
The Philadelphia Press says sending assess
ment circulars 10 the one-legged, one-armed
soldiers who swing doors about the House is
about the meanest, smallest political steal on
record; yet in principle all other assess
ments are equally bad.
A guarantee bond of 100000 has been
fled in the comptroller's office, New York
City, for the completion of the Broadway
underground railroad. If the road is not
completed within four years from the Ist of
next month, the bond will be forfeited.
In the seven States of Georgia, Alabama,
Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and the
two Carolinas there has been an increase
OF 36l 600 in the number OF cotton spindles
during the year, representing an addition
to the manufacturing industries of nearly
s1O,OOO,0oO.
The only silk factory in San Francisco was
destroyed by FIRE recently. A new factory
will be built at once. The business of silk
culture and manufacture has proved very
lucrative in California, and the credit of the
companr is excellent. The factory employed
100 girls and twelve men.
At the defamation exercises of the Uni
versity of Mississippi, Messrs. Walter P.
Tackett and w. J. Bowen took the first and
second prizes, respectively. These gentle
men are of the Freshman class. At the Phi
Sigma exhibition Of the same class B. S.
Humphreys and T. c. Hindman took the
first and second prizes.
Osceols, on the Arkansas side of the Mis-
sissippi river, directly opposite Plum Point,
Tenn, is strict temperance place, and no
game of chance Is allowed within three miles
of the corporate limits of the town. Plum
Point, its rival, supports two bar-rooms,
faro bank, keno-rooms. poker table, roulette,
chucS-a-luek, and all the other known mod |
ern gambling games.
The bill passed by the House to retire the |
trade dollar will, il it becomes q law yield |
quite snug profit to the government. II |
directs that standard silver dollars shall be |
exchanged for trade dollars. OF the trade |
dollars coined by the, government about |
S, 900 900 remain in this country, the others
having been exported. This dollar contains
420 grains of silver, while the standard dol
lar contains but 412A grains. Therefore, on /
every dollar exchanged the government win |
make seven and one-hslf grains of silver
But as the standard dollar is worth Just as
much In circulating as Ghe trade dollar, the
will make tn. profit without any
oss whatever TO anybody.