Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-10
NEWS AND VIEWS.

posed to be in the ruins
NEWS AND VIEWS.
By census made by the Galveston NeWs
the population of that city appears be 27 40. a,
against - 253 in 1885, a gain OF twenty three pei
cent.
The Maltese are protesting against havi ne
the English language forced upon them A peu
ton against this signed by fifteen thousand per
sons, is TO be sent 10 Queen Victoria
Froude says, 1--WE cannot live on probable
tiles. The probability is that we cannot but they
after taking up his paper--LotueH Citizen
The young Epglishman, just over, read to
his wife the heading of a medicine advertisement
| Gained eight pounds in ten days'-and re-
marked, "Hexcellent wages that, Mary"
IA Sailor on the Tennessee" writes to New
YORK. paper that he has been in the navy nearly
time. His Christmas dinner was hard taes, sails
| junk and 'scouse.
A rich man can go to Mexico and buy a
State and be governor OF i 1t is much more
ing elected and letting the ring do the governing.
-Neo Orleans Ptcdyane.
The house which Samuel Rogers occupied at
| Stoke Remington is to be torn down soon. There
| are still remaining the garden stretching TO the
aud the mushroom beds which he cultivated with
| such care.
Cigar smoke pulled in a mans face by
another man is assault and battery" says a New
buried anywhere in ones neishborhood should be
| considered murder in The first degree.-AoRon9d-
heid Republican.
Some portions of Montreal are 50 overrun
| with hungry rsts that cats frequently become
upon pussy in battaIions and when they depart a
few bones and little fur only remains OF the I'M
fortunate feline.
The Mountain Of the Lord is a solid
rock, one hundred feet in hight, rising above the
building this eminence a temple of fine marble,
ninety five by hundred and sixty feet in area,
and handsomely adorfieo'
The recommendation of the superintendent
of native affairs in the Transvaa to reinstate Getty
favor in England, but was regarded as possible
measure in case that turbulent kingdom did not
assume q more settled aspect
The sphinxes at the base of Cleopatra's
Needle, on the Thames embankment, have been
placed with their heads toward the needle and
their tails toward the spectators This Is entirely
contrary to the intentions of the architect, but
accomplished by committee of aldermen.
A well-filIed pocketbook over the heart of
siotstise Exhausted LlIc enelRy af- tive biillat@
fired by a desperate villain in Harrisburg last
articles which made the pocketbook impeuetrable
the warrant for the arrest of the man who fired
the sho s.
In the Sandwich Islands the Chinese are
supplanting the natives extensively They make
shoes, sewing machines, keep market stall s.
peddle calicocs, raise garden truck, and in numer
GUS instances have married kanaka women and
reared broods of half breed children. The lazy
islan6 eIs easily cut out in every direc ion.
Our growing relations with Mexico and
the South American Republics should stimulate
the study of Spanish-that beautiful and perfect
tongue, which Charles V honored by styling it
very useful, and the rising generation cannot do
better than devote their time to acquiring it,
America as sending US prime beef and
mutton. American wool is oustibg English from
the market. American apples are more numerous
sending US English" plum puddings ready for
boiling. american horses have this year won the
TTlah
A young man captured New York police
telegraph for ambulances, issue hospital permits
and stand around generally. He simply announced
wanted. His smaie.i wish was attended to on con-
dition that he go back home and wait till he was
sent for.
Captain Howgate, having embezzled some
si490,9 OF gov erhmen. funds was ai6Wed 70 Leave
of course some allowance must be made for the
queer CONTAMINATION OF lastice IN the District OF
grand old party WAS vaccinated for reform, it
didn I take.
The Emperor Francis Joseph is not con-
tent quietly 10 see his subjects burned to death:
He has been personally inspecting every part of
the Burg lheiter in Vienna, aud has given orders
for adding - and widening the doors of egress
and constructing additional staircase. He also
directed the OF the two last rows OF seats
in the fourth gallery
1t is one Of the most agreeable signs OF the |
times throughout the Southern ststss that an ac-
tive demand for mechanics and artisans just |
is at fha and
extent Of the Cotton Exposition at Atlanta. which
has impaired an immense impetus 10 many inr-'
portant branches Of industry.
There is altogether too much talk about
the Blackburn Burbridge affair. Boiled down it is
very contemplate. General Burbridse is very
very Infamous lie was dressed in a little brief
ana, Whl-e exercising il, committed
many acts OF atrocity, equally repugnant to all
law, human, military and divine,
In Massachusetts during the year ending
October Slst there was an increase, as compared
with 1887. in the number of accounts in savings |
banks of thiTty-two thousand i've hundred and
fifty six in the amount of deposits of sl5,S26,55
IN the amount of earnings, of $500 63I; in the rate
IF dividends OF seven tenths OF one per cent This
ayonble exhibit viii no doubt appear substan-
tally in other States, and there is no surer sign of
wide spread industrial prosperity, instead Of the
1anics and disorders which we've predicted last
View Years day.
A female rat had the misfortune to be
,ausht alive in Philadelphia trap not long ago,
md the following day soc presented her captor
an into a bIttie from which il could not get out
wing to the smoothness of its prison walls. There
t was found, and the old rat and bottled young
me wee placed together in a cage. Since that
ime the mother has fed her offspring by dropping
Iuenched its thirst by sticking into the same or
nee ner tail dripping with water from the pan pro-
-ided for her own use
OF steamships owned in China, the first to
and a cargo in London was the Aeifoo, which
tpl Y NAT Urarf Ia don L.
rdph hopes that her arrival is prophetic of time
lot far distant when cargo of Chinese servants
n England, elsewhere, there are more good
laces than good servants and John, says the Tel-
born cook though his own national cuisine is
laborat ly nasty. IN these capacities Chinese
Tould be welcomed in London. but housemaids
re different matter. end British prejudice might
evolt at the notion If a neat-handed Phyllis with
piStail.
We find the following rather singular
tatements with respect TO Texas public lands
eserved her public domain-nearly two hundred |
million acres. II seems now that she has not only
Exhausted this great landed empire, but that she
ctually has issued land certificates for two million
hree hundred and thirty nine thousand nve nun |
~ xro-t 81 issning SIN Zoos brayeiy on This
rror was caused by not making allowance for the
bout million acres other mistakes swell the
otal 10 the figures mentioned. somebody, II Is
ifcates- Most of this magnificent domain has
cen given away TO railway companies
The golden taken to Cape Coast Castle
asst February by the messengers OF the King OF
.shantee caused little embarrassment 70 the
.nglish officials II was vaIiously regarded as a
leilaee complimentary Offering, and a sacred
yInbOl, and no one seemed 10 know IN what man
er to accept it. However, the difficulty was sur
lounted and last July the golden ak was safely
tored in Windsor Castle, where upon the author
" of Lord Kimberley. il will be preserved with
are the Queen having been pleased TO receive II
cry racioIisy "a proof OF the sincerity of the
ing and his people IN their desire 10 remain on
arms OF peace and friendship with her Majesty
nd her government In case OF future dincul-