Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-27

wears out the lives of employes as rapidly as
manual labor or outdoor employment. Brain
work is as hAId work as any other, and kills as
quick unless some extra hazardous employments
be excepted.
BEAUTIFUL are the prairies Of the 70 zgni6-
cent West gorgeous is the rising and setting Of
e9Tn, and tall Is the grass. But the tearing. terri
bic, nunderous tomatoes that make mineemeat
are not for us We prefer TO lake our chance on
the hank Of protecting mountains and run the risk
OF their falling down on US.
A CHICAGO real estate firm has completed
the purchase Of an immense tract of land in Mis-
sssippi II is supposed for German capitalists. The
transaction includes 600 coo acres in the cotton
the State. The price paid per acre waSsi S. the
totsi consideration being 81 g75 coo This Immense
purchase is only the INST of four such tracts
10 pass into European hands
OF the six standing highest in the West
Point graduating class last year. four were West
ern boys Out Of the frst six in this years grsdu-
Ohio and one from Pennsylvania At present, in
all the classes. South Carolina stands higher than
in best prepared are from New England owing TO
the high excellence OF its schools.
The oldest tree in the world, ssys KRotri-
edge so far as anyone knows, is the Bo tree OF the
planted 2ss B. c.. and is therefore now 2l7l years
old. Sir James Emerson Tennet gives reasons for
believing that the tree IS really OF this wonderful
age, and refers TO historic documents in which II
IS mentioned at different dates, ls2 A. D., rs
A. D. and so on to the present day.
"NoTHINa strengthens the demand for a
new religion more than speeches from The gal
an extract from Iie "a Paso TINES which says
1T would seem as though the path 90 Paradise
honest, true life offered but hope Of eternal re-
| ward, and g criminal career eliminating in muir
| der rendered that reward certainty"
The landing Of the French in Madagascar
| has surprised the Malagasy Embassy at London.
They state that the natives win fight the French te
\ the death. Some members of the embassy will
hasten home to assist in defending their country
Many of the rifles, newly purchased, are on theil
| way to Madagascar and now nearly due. The
| Queen of Madagascar will issue war loan. Amer.
| leans and English are expected to assist VIII
| money and arms
As many as 100000 barrels of whisky will
| be shipped, principally from Newport News ant
reimpoTted. ~ to evsde the tax fsiling dive. III,
| money which Will thus be kept out of Ihe Treas
Tbe pep 10 % Se wbskx Viii
great and timely. Congress Is to be asked 10 re
peal the law which allows the whisky distillers {
| eyade the payment OF the tax by this method
which is OF questionable legality.
IT ia going the rounds, that an Englisl
physician has found cure for rheumatism in to
tai abstinence from food. He declares that man
cured by fasting from four to eight days. Will
| chronic rheumatism was also alleviated. NJ
cold water and iemenade IN moderation. Tn
doctor states that rheumatism is only phase G
indigestion, and, therefore, can be cured by CIV
ing complete and continued rest TO all the digei
tive organs.
The Italians propose to rrorganizs tn
provincial and district electoral laws with the vie'
OF permitting women 70 vote. on condition tina
the feminine voter shall be over twenty-one, tina
she can read and write possesses full civil rights
and can pay axes of the minimum amount {
authorities will spare the ladies the trouble {
personal attendance at the POLLS, and will allo'
| them to send their written votes in sealed en-
| VelODS TO the commissioner. their signature De
ing duly sttested by the mayor.
AT the bauqnet OF the Army Of the Poto
mac in Washington Thursday, Gen. h Il. Bins
Potomac" said when see a bill appropiiatin
Sl00 900 900 for pensions TO Union soldiers passe
Of whose members fought for the confeSerscy,
. say the men of the South recognize the results
the war and glory with you in the greatness Of OF
; what a future has our country before it."
JOHN w. HARPER, OF Harper & Brother
e said in q recent conversation among other thing
Gen. George H. Thomas and Gen. George
Meade were the noblest soldiers developed BY II
| war. The one gained the victory in the East upc
which the whole struggle turned and the otn,
the victory in the West which was decisive Their
8 Had Meade been defeated at Gettysburg, Il
4 would have been in Washington in sixty hour
l Philadelphia a few days later, The blockaC
I, | would have been raised the Confeaeracy reco
J. nized and the Union divided. Meade saved Il
Union If any one man saved it.
: LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CoLERIDGE, of f
| gland, has just decided in the alleged blasphen
case of Foote that Christianity is not now, as W
I formerly held, part of the law of the land sin
| disSenters and Jews have been enfranchised, al
: therefore it is possible that judge might be
Jew and there might be jurors who were Jew
Evidently, says the chief justice the old dfctum
a | not true. Parliament has made laws which mu
modify the application OF the common la
/ Therefore, decent argument against Christisni
e he will not call blasphemy, aud decent argume
q | on monarchy and republicauism he cannot Ct
sedition, though ii was held in the last century
Z. be sedition to argue in general terms for repu
q lie as a suitable form of government.