Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-18
NEWS AND VIEWS.

1T seems That come OF the leading English
financiers are abandoning the theory that ina
uonal debts a national bless ng. and will advo-
cate the payment oil tAe E-ilIsh debt
A NEW department, with the neat title of
Open Letters" is to be added TO The Century. 1t
subjects each of them TO be signed by The writer.
Mr.. ROBERT WADE city editor of the
Philadelphia Ledger, while in Canada few days
ago, took occasion TO curse the Queen and the
Canadian govern ment, and was arrested and paid
$40 for INDUCING in that luxury.
The Paris Gdtlois has adopted 4 novel
plan for attracting patronage It issues to every
subscriber an insurance policy OF 1000 against
death by railroad carriage accident, and in case
OF injury promises to pay proportionate amount
OF that sum.
IT is hoped in political circles in Vienna
that the United States government will put stop
TO dynamite plotting aud such things in this coun-
try. sc long as the American Indian is able ito go
on the war path with government rifle this coua-
try Will have no time to waste on dynamite plot
| tiers.
ACCORDING 10 Eectricite, spiders, which are
| very numerous in Japan, spin their webs during
| the night between the telegraph wires and theiT
| supports As the dews are very abundant the
| webs become conductors of electricity and give
rise to great disturbance in the transmission OF
messages.
The narrowed house in New York City
may be seen at the northwest corner of Lexington
avenue and Ei2hty.second street The building,
which has been finished for some months is five
feet wide 100 feet deep and four stories high 1t
is divided into houses, each ii ty feet long, and
the entrance doors are of course, on the avenue,
as there is 40 room for door at either end of the
| building.
Mr.. JONES, superintendent OF the Randall
Island prison, is of the opinion that it i mistake
to think that cTiminsls should be dealt vii ten
derby. Men who boldly aud often murderOusly
violate the laws of God and man. ought to be pun
ished with well-measlTed severity. They ought
to be taught that the way of the trsnsgressor is
hard" And there Sre good many other people
who are beginning to be of Mr.. Jones's opinion.
A WRITER in the Scientific Amsrican who
| has critically examined the Egyptian obelisk,
says that it is made of concrete granite broken in
pieces, bituminous matter and hydraulic lime. ii
his theory Is correct it disposes of the engineering
difficulties that were supposed 10 have been sur
mounted by the Egyptians in quarrying and trans
porting huge block, of one Tor long distances II
| they were masters OF the art Of making durable
stone like that in the obelisk the wonder ceases.
EX-MARsHAL BAZkINE's defense, which
he published at Madrid, has made its appearance
| in London. 1t IS decidedly weak, and makes his
| case rather worse than 1t was before. The ex-
marshal has really no explanation to makefor his
surrender, and military or ties unanimously think
| that he has condemned himself, especially the
| only defense possioe-that he acted viii an eye
TO political conllngenc1es-GonGeInn him from the
soldiers point of view. The TIm6s passes the
same judgment upon him.
TIE French vintage OF 1882 has been a
failure, snd it is said tbat growers in the cham
payne districts will not make bottle OF sparkling
wine this year. The greater part OF the product
of the vineyards viii be made in Ito common table
wine; but as the champagne makers have nearly
60 COG, coo bottles OF sparkling wine of previous
vintages on hand, the market can be supplied for
three or four years to come Besides this, ii
there should not be another crop for years. is there
not the gooseoerry 10 fall back upon?
A GENTLEMAN in Dsnielsonville, Conn,
whose faverite dog enjoys following his carriage
by accident left the animal some miles from home
The people, recognizing the dog, shut him in the
mouse over night. The n9Xt morning a voice
asked through the telephone: Have you lost a
dogf' YES: where is he?" Voice: Call him %
He did so. The telephone was put near the dog,
when he recognized his masters voice. and. in his
dog way, manifested joy, licking the instrument,
and jumping about, eager to answer the call.
A NOVEL organization has been set in mo-
ton in Cincinnati. 1t is a stock company 10 step
in between the distillers and the banks who have
made advances on their whisky. The capital
stock is s25e 900, which will be invested in good
securities as the concern will not do anytning ex-
cept guarantee TRANSPORTATION bonds TO the banks
in order to allow the whisky to be exported. This
czipt, and the standing of the company will be so
strong that such receipts will be taken by the
banks as good collateral. The company expects
to be able to move 100 600 barrels in this way.
JoRDoN, MARSH & Co, Of Boston, have re-
tired from the wholesale Gry.ggods trade, finding
it no longer profitable. In he last ten or fifteen
years, the Boston Adp6rtsstr says, in commenting
on the withdrawal of this firm, the wholesale trade
in textile has been reduced in volume and profit
by the multi pication of iobbing houses in Chica-
go. and the enormous increase IN the cost of car
rying the business on by orummers. Jordan,
Marsh & Co. were believed to carry a business
OF IS 900 900, and the expenses OF selling thegOods
seems to nave steadily Kept pace with the increase
in the volume OF the business. Two large firms
in Boston retired from the same trade last year,
making 5000 600 of business closed out in q
single branch of domestic commerce in which
Boston was once conspicuous. Long credits have
cash now means sixty days and credit sales
in proportion.