Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-19
NEWS AND VIEWS.

MISSOURI has created State Board OF
Health aud passed law regulating the practice
of medicine 1t Furnishes quackery IN all us forms,
and prescrbes heavy penalties for alleged doctors
who kill people under false pretenses.
THAT tough old warrior, Gen. Harvey,
still lives" and a banquet was given at his villa
near Pass Christian, Mi.s few evenings since,
in which the veteran OF many wars ano scars par
be very old, as he is the only surviving gene
erai officer of the Mexican war.
TIeERTAIL. the once ferocious chief OF the
seminoles, smoked the pipe of peace with Presi-
dent Arthur in the everglades OF Ftorloa, tamil,
light ms own cneroot. He afterward borrowed
Chandeliers jack-knie to PICK his tsetn ana lorgot
to return it Bill can include it in the bill OF ex
penses for the trip.
SCHOOL, of pharmacy for women, said to
be the only institution of the kind in the country
has been organized at Louisville, KY, under con-
success. The projected course et stndy covers
Two years, each year being divided into TWO terms
beginning September LIST and February Ioth' anu
Goa tanning twenty weeks EACH
TWENTY-THREE homicides are in the Chi
cago Jail rder indictments for crimes com mitted
since last september. Why they are detained go
long without trial II Is imposspte 10
lihood there is that the witnesses may ole or De
come scattered and the facts IN the case
only the criminal profits by these long oe4aSs'
WHEN Gen. Gordon completes his rail-
road to a point on the peninsula of Florida, only
| seventy i've mixes from Cuba and involving only
| hve hours travel by boat. we tolnk rlorloa WI !
guffsr greatly as winter resort CUBA Will theu pe
~ ACCESSIBLE and convenient that thousanGs Will
desert Florida and spend the winter there There Is
no frost line in Cuba, and II Is the nome Oh the
| orange and all tropical fruit.
HUMAN nature is generally on the aide OF
| fair play truth and responsibility, and the paper
| which appeals to the bassr elements generally
fails with the Ieac9n a o. sqe Of Mschiayeiis and
| cold FLOODED prosecutions have passed away Lnj
night owls of Journalism ana tneit " iS
must certzinly disappear peIoie the Eusn VI hen
| of public intelligence.
/ AN interesting case was decided by the
| limited States Supreme Court lately. J. b. wall
OF Florida was dlsbarIed Tor assisting IN lyncnne
| n n,isouer at Tampa Wall coRtended that inc
TTpit states District Court could not legally dis
| mar MIN unless he was tried for crime aud found
guilty. The supreme GonIt ns top candpct tbs
brings disgrace and scandal upon the court
YOUNG woman in San Francisco son'
| time ago gave her infant in charge OF another Wo
man promising to pay her Tor taxing l care OF m
| mercensry care taker attempted TO eonnscate TN
| hapIess infant by process OF law. But tender
he's TED Judge decided that infants could not D
lsarded avsiiahA assets the eyes Of the law
| and the mother bore away her child In Triumph
i The British government Is sending tn
impoysrished Irish to this country, $50 having ar
rived In Boston last saturday. their passage bein
| paid out of the national treasury, This Is thln
that government has no rig 1t to DO Making gu
cOuutry the asylum for the world Is one thing, tu
permitting foreign nation to De use US with II
| paupers Is quite another. his business wa
| promptly stopped when attempted by the ltalial
| government. VIII it be permitted from Grea
| Britain
THERE is wide diff renee OF opinion
saws the Chicago Tribune. between what is de
, | handed as public morality by the clergy and wha
is deemed necessary by the great human iamil!
The newspapers are not the organs Of seetaIla
morals: their useiulnes. as teachers and guide
! would be destroyed by their persistant yarianc
, | and conflicting theories. The newspapers teacn
broader mora ity, something not too pure for ord
{ | nary nortals, but something appealing 10 u
| nimon sense and generous sympathies of mai
9 kind The result is that they have larger al
Z | dience than the pulpit. ana exercise great'
| control a. teachers of morals aud moral gulo'
than Is exercised by the more contracted lnfuen'
| of the pulpit
WILL be missed when | step on II
I other shore?is asked by every one OF matu
q | thought. Yes, we answer, by many for fe
DAYS or1nonths, but for years by very few-on
g those who are near and dear-those bound by u
of blood or ompanionShip. True friends are fe'
q | You can mum Der them ON the fingers OF your "
HANDS If YOU doubt it, reflect, then count
>, those you know, those you have weighed and D
}, found wanting. If you have never thought car
fully on this subject you will be surprise at L
e disclosures your Investigation will reveal. The
: may be family that cannot forget, who will "a
VI yoli-who will store your memory in the cherish
% spot of future remembrance. But the world W
not miss you, only Tor day.