Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-18
NEWS AND VIEWS.

The General Grand Chapter of Knights
Templsr of the United States will convene
in Denver, COL, on the 18th of August.
LAST year wss an exceedingly prosperous
one for the American farmer. The total
value of agricultural products sum up, &C.
cording to DIR. Dorings, to 100000, 900.
NEW WORKERS are enjoying a new comic
opera entitled Countess Duabarry. 1t is by
Millocker, and was FIRST presented last Mon.
day night at the Fifth Avenue Theater.
UGLY disclosures in regard to the cruel
treatment of patients in the Nebraska insau
asylum have been made to the legislative
committee investigating the management of
TIL institution.
In view of the numerous terrible acct
dents continually arising from the use of
coal aud Illuminating oils, it becomes the
imperative duty of Legislatures TO throw all
the safeguards around its use possible.
THE invention Of Mr.. Edward J. MaIIet,,
for the consumption of smoke, ia 10 receive a
thorough Test by a locomotive, now beipg
built for the Erie railroad, which will make
a trip across the continent for the express
purpose.
The free-sest system is spreading 30 rap
idly among the London dissenting churches
tbs soon the only people 10 whom seats in
church will be sold will be members of The
Church OF England, to whom as parishioners
their seats actually belong.
The capital stock of the South Tredegar
Nail Works, Chattanooga, has been fixed at
100000. One thousand men will be EN-.
ployed, and the daily capacity OF the works
will be 100000 pounds OF spliced bars, 1900
kegs of nails, and 500 kegs of spikes.
IT ia weakness on the part of the warden
OF Slng-SiDg prison TO prohibit the introduce
ton of newspapers. Good newspapers are
great reformers, and they will probably re-
form abuses in the management of Sing.
Sing, Notwithstanding the warden's edict.
THE Chicago Board OF Trade, the mem
bership of which fairly represents the intel
ligent sentiment of the community, has
adopted resolution in favor of State law
fixing the license rate for liquor saloons at
minimum of $500. The vote was almost
unanimous.
THE children OF public school of Ham
ilton, Canada, had been told what to do in
csse of fre and so, when some woodwork
broke into flame from the heat of a stove
pipe, they coolly and steadily formed files
under the direction of the teachers and
marched unconfusedly out of the building.
COMPETITION is lively among the mer-
chants of Manchester, n. III. One adver-
tises that he is marking three-cent postage
stamps down TO two-csnts, in view of the
probable reduction in postage rates by the
government, though he thoughtfully stipu-
lates that only single stamp shall be sold
10 one person.
The ceiling in Cornelius Vanderbilt's
drawing room is of iridescent glass in mosaic
work. The effect at night is said to be won-
derfully brilliant. The glass came from the
ruins of Pompeii, Thebes and other places
The walls are covered with hand-wrought
tapestries, and the curtains are of delicate
yellow satin. There is a constantly flowing
fountain in the place where the fireplace
ought TO be.
We learn with sincere regret that Mrs.
John A. Campbell, the wife of John A..
Campbell, chief justice of the Confederate
Supreme Court, died in Baltimore on Tues
day night. Mrs Campbell was we'll known
throughout the South aud in Washington for
her rare intellectual gifts and thorough cul-
iivation; she adorned every circle of society
in which she moved, ana was much admired
and beloved by all who knew her. She was
the sister of the Hon. Henry Goldthwajte,
formerly OF the Supreme Court of Alabama,
aod of the Hon. George Goldthwaite, lately
United States senator from that State.
The Vicksburg Herald says: "The corner
fruit-stands have to go, the City Council
having determined that they are nuisanees
to be abated within the next thirty days. If
the streets are public highways for the bene-
fit OF the general public it is very clear
they can only be used for the convenience Of
the public. If this is 80, the fruit-stands have
no right 10 obstruet them. The same is also
true with regard TO any other business, and
the deposed corner vendors certainly have
the right TO complain of partially, or class
legislation, if the sidewalks are wilfully OBJ.
structed with boxes and barrels which should
be kept within the store-rooms or ware
houseso