Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-20
NEWS AND VIEWS.

The assessed valuation OF chicago prop
erty in 1873 s3l2 $685. and in 1850 1t was only
sll7, CAB.
The cotton. mills at Admission, Ala, have
inst shipped 1000 bales Of goods 10 China and haYe
orders for GOO more.
The Itslisn government charges admission
to all the public art galleries heretofore free and
makes Sl0O, 900 year out of it,
MACON Telegraph: Down South we have
occasionally heard OF the niger IN the wood
psie p III AAAAAH D'''' " : ' " $50 ''''
JUDGE HAMMOND, of Georgia, has refused
to appoint a receiver for the Atlanta Post Appeal
The Post Appeal is to be published by STOCK COM
pany, with n capital OF s5e'OOO
ANTIQUARIAN are iubilant over the dis
coyery at Cairo of the tombs OF the Abassides
hich scientists have searched for 30 long in vain.
The hs,I cnntaining the tombs is crowned with q
i ~ 81 stsfns, class and is mkgnitcently carved
with detailed incriptI~ns
The German capital bSs pop ua a.lon OF
l. 122 600 souls which is larger by Ito, wv ia,
combined populations OF the four neAs S5rg
cities of the empire. These four are Ham,
with 2S9 S59 Breslau, with Hl9l0; Munich, with
go, COO and Dresden, with 22O,6IO.
THE Boston Heraid has solution Of the
Indian problem, which must strike the New In.
gland philanthropists with peculiar emphasis. II
proposes to initiate the European governments,
VIII ich now shipping their paupers TO America,
and suggests that vessels be chartered, filed with
Indians and started for England with thirty days
rations.
In the seventeenth century London mer-
chants sent their superfuous funds to the Tower
of London, where the mint then was, for sale
keeping They abandoned the habit, however.
after Charles / had helped himself TO 81 100000
which he found there, although he CONSIDERABLY
explained that he would take II as ioan"
THERE are 100000 spindles in the cotton
mills OF Lowell in 1883 against less than coo 600 in
and and the WOODEN mills Of Maine and New Hsmp
shire has increased in about the same ratio.
Hence, water-powerE that were sufhcient ten
years ago are inadequate to-day. Electric motors
will solve that difficulty In less than decade.
The largest piece Of granite claimed 10
have been quarried since the time OF Solomon was
lately exhumed at Thomaston, Me- II measured
sixty feet 10 length and seven feet square at the
base. Its weight was estimated at $50 tons. With
the improved method OF blasting, blocks Of stone
almost any siEe and shape can be separated rom
the solid rock.
The New York press il engaged in dis
cussing an APPROPRIATE name for the East river
bridge. A correspondent Of the New York Sun
seems anxious TO provoke the dynamite party BY
proposing that IL be called the Victons bridge;
but apart from other objections the fact that there
is already one bridge Of that name on this con-
unent is an insuperable objection.
NEARLY $4,000 will be required TO psy
the expenses of the Chicago Baseball Clab this
season. The improvements on the ground and
buildings foot up $40 900, which added 10 the ex-
pense account, will swell the amount TO $50,
Ninety-six games are TO be played, which must net
S625 per game TO enable the management 70 come
out even at the end Of the season.
The st. Petersburg correspondent oil the
Iadspendeace Beige ayers that political prisoners
in Russia who are sentenced TO hard labor lead in
fact usually life of utter ideness. No books but
Testament; no one to speak TO; the strait waist,
the prisoner il taken for a walk once month for
q quarter of an hour. Under this treatment body
and mind soon break down.
FEMALE wolf. Belonging to the collsc-
ton of animals in Lincoln Park, Chicago, gave
birth to four miniatures Of herself last Friday,
said TO be the first Of their race ever born IN cap
tivity. But the triumph of the attendants Wac
khort-lived for on Saturday morning not a trace
OF the little wolves could be found Their mother
thought II was not worth her while 70 rear them,
and 50 devoured them during the night.
QUITE a stir has been caused in Russia by
a proposition 20 tax citizens who leave the coun
try on buSiuess or pleasure So a year, the pay
ment 10 be made 20 the nearest Russian consul.
Persons who fail 70 do this viii be retained on the
frontier when they return, and there obliged 70
pay their arrears plus ten per cent. compound IN
tsrest. II is estimated that on an average
about 100 persons cross the frontier business
or pleasure every year.
ACCORDING to the Railtcgy Age, during the
fnt four months of the present year there were
1850 miles of main track laid, against 300 miles
decrease il owing 70 the cold winter and backward
spring interfering with the work. So-withstAnd-
ing this fact the mileage thus far for this season
IL greater than for the same period Of any previous
year except lssZ The work was done on seventy
five different lines in thirty-one states and Terri
tories. Those which lead in construction are Cali
iornIs 10 miles; Utah, l5S; New York, us; Penn
~.
Missouri. u. The estimated railway building for
the yeAris 5000 miles
The Treasury Department destroyed 49,
600 go of WORKOUT greenbaek currency last year.
ana since the hrkt issue Of these notes and hae-
tiOnal currency and silver certificates they have
been redeemed and destroyed 70 the amount OF
q 505, J0O 90 Millions OF dollars In notes have
never come back Tor redemption and never will
Tne Chicago Ere destroyed a larxe amount, probA-
Dig 81 00P 90. OF the once common fractional
currency fully $ 900 900 has never been presented
for rere nptiOD, and thai currency has nearly dis
Appeared. Uncle sam is the gaineT, BY the disap-
pexrznca Of his D per- 10 the extent Of one per
cent OF The whole amount issued. according 70 the
estimate Of the Treasury officials.
NAL WAssOS Of he Uni'ed ) ace army,
Who Teceotly confessed dedication OF several
tbousAGd dolsrs and az attempt - h dc It by
umpct up siOrT 81 robbery. had previously en-
jOyed the conf lence Of the department. the esteem
Of his felios-fIi1eis erd the sdmi 'sto1 Of the
cite society. He had serysd in The army as PM
vats I'm a. IowAIegiment duiiag the war a. by,
God Al the cloEe wss admitted " We Point a.
CADET. had graiuKted with fbe hlehtst honors
ever conferred by that institution, rhuking only
states pruy; hal more distinction in the service
ent poe tiOn IN the mi. ~ arm Of the national
goyernme1f 70 the unsolicited friendly Offices OF
Gen Grant who had been impressed with his in
strumentaiity IN ici'liDg the sfsir between Japan
and FormOsa services ibat had won for Mai Was
son decorations from the Ena pefor Of japan and
the rank Of colonel IN hts service.