Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-16
CURRENT ITEMS.

A CoLoRED man was consecrated rs an
Episcopal clergyman at Cairo, ILL.,, on Tues
day. He has organized parish OF colorsd
people in that city.
The returns show that during the year
ended September 30, 175, 4lS persons arrived
in Canada from Europe, OF whom 76.72S
came 10 the United States.
Politics aad ether things make strange
bedfellows when Simon Cameron and Charles
A. Dana 60 off to California together in q
special private sleeping-car.
The announcement is made that Miss
Mary Anderson is TO appear next season ct
the Lyceum 1heater, in London, during
Henry Irving's American engagement.
THE auditor Of Arkansas reports the total
valuation of mechanical tools and farming
implements in tina. State at $305, 1928; and
that of guns, pistols and dirks at $354, PAT.
A SHORT time ago "postal notes" were in
troduced into the French postofice, and now
another innovation has been adopted, where.
by deposits of fractional amounts may be
made in the savings banks BY means OF post
age stamps affixed to specially prepared
forms. Each of these forms will be divided
into twenty compartments, in which stamps
to the value of one.hslf penny and upward
may be set until the aggregate sum reaches
one franc, the lowest sum received on de-
post, when it may be paid 10 to the credit
OF the owner in any savings bank.
BosroN has free library with 404 ,22I
volumes, while the total issue 10 its patrons
for the last year was 1,040,553. Cincinnati
has free library containing IA 1875 vol.
umes. and total issue of 773,427. Chicago
has free library with 87,272 volumes, and
q total issue of $50, $50. San Francisco has
afree library only four years old with SO, 107
volumes, and total issue OF $4,000. The
number Of books injured or lost from the
free public libraries is an extraordinarily
small percentage. A sense of property 10.
terest in the library manifests itself in the
public using its advantages.
Mr.. F. 3. HoUGH has read before the Sem
ate Committee on Education and Labor a
paper setting forth proposition to prepare
a summary of legislation for the first 100
years of the government, ending with 1880
He proposes TO make an index Of every law
aud resolution passed by Congress, with an
abstract OF its substance; every treaty mad,
by the government within that time; q com
plete digest and index OF all executive com.
munications and other papers referring to OF
emanating from the executive branches oil
the government; and everything else oil
WblSh tucTc IS an OklCiaf TcCOfu 10
Federal legislation or executive aciion.
Coy. ROBERTS. OF Texas, in his annu al
message, says: "The State debt has been re.
ducsd approximate in round numbers from
5,400, 900 on January !, 1879, to "a, 100000
on January l, 1888, difference of abou,
81 100000 The interest thereof has been
reduced proportionately greatly by caIling in
the ten per cent. bonds and issuing five per
cent. bonds in place of them, by which there
was an annual diminulion of over $50, 00t
interest. The interest on the public debt wa,
annually 1865, 900 on Japusry !, 1879, and
90 January l, 1888, 1927 ,000, making a diff
ference of about $4,000 in the interest. OF
the 81 100000 OF bonded debt, less than 81 :,
100000 is owned BY individuals, and oveI
S2,500, 900 of it is in the State treasury
owned By the special school fund.-, the uni.
verify and other funds, the interest or
which amount is annually paid TO .hess
funds for our own bens6t. The taxable
property has increased from $3.50, 000. 900 in
1877 TO $4,000, 600 in 1888, as estimated.