Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-06
NEWS AND VIEWS.

ured by receipts at san Francisco. has risen from
3.S64,6O1 gallons in 1873 TO 1000 COO in 1882.
THERE is a remarkable progress iu rail.
road building in the coal regions of Pennsylvania.
The railroad kings are reaching out in their III
Valry for the mastery in that rich field.
FRANCE has the largest national debt 10 |
the world, the result Of the Prus,ian indemnify |
II amounts to si,6S3 $4,000, or sll7 70 to every
man. woman and child in the country.
The Episcopal Church in Mexico, which |
was organized subsequent TO the downfall of Max
lmiilau, now has twenty-seven congregations |
eight clergyman, bishoF and 500 school CHILDREN
GANG OF thieves in Western Indi ma |
stole 5000 horses in six years. Notwithstanding the
fact that they hang horse thief out there quicker,
derer.
IT is announced that the President has Sc
lected Boston, Atlanta aud Chicago as the names
for the three new menof war which are shortly
to be built the names are at once Ineligible
! and decent. 4
QUEEN VICToRIA's lameuess will prevent
her opening the International Fish Exposition in
ftre:s of things she has sgnifed her intention OF
being represented on the occasion by the Prince of
/ Wth)ales.
PROBABLY about the poorest weakest daily
nswspaperi in the country is the Cincinnati Com
r1eTriGt Gazette. Once the Gazette was rather re,
spectacle, and the Commercial came limplng after,
but the consolidation of the two fixes the hyphen-
| ated product as most decided tlat failure.
The French Minister of Marine, Mr. Brun,
has asked for grant of si0Jo.0o0 toward the Tou-
| glish are buying land everywhere. The French
are fighting for it. Il would not be ct all surprls-
| cost
| The death rate in Vienna has allen from
eighty nine per 1000 OF population at the beginning
OF the century t. tweniy-seven per 1000 last year.
| The one agency which is assigned as chiefly re-
sponsible for this great sanitary improvement is
| the introduct on OF pure drinking water from the
| Semmering mountains
| THE total expenditure per head in Canada
| nj II xUb kut in,
| the United States, and during the same time the
| Canadian debt increased $500 900, while the
Th5 Canadian exports to Great Britain lei of
S6S 07S. and those OF the United states Increased
over az, OOO,O OO,
IRIsHMEN should take hint from Mr.
| OF the inherent strength with which the conten-
| ton OF tue Irish people fairly bristles. But Mr..
| Bradlaugn persisted in season and out of season
He never lost heart or scattered his FIRE. And now
| he sits In Parliament: having won his battle oy
| legitimate methods"
A LONDON letter says: "Ths vigilance of
the police just now in London is extraordinary. 1
AN Iod and can quite believe that there
nearly as many men on guard in PLATA clothes as
| in uniform. Their e-es are everywhere aud
good deal OF Inconvenience to perfectly ecta
| bic people, guileless of conspiracies to blow up
anything. IS naturally the result"
The Columbia Register SAYS: "New En-
CHAMBERS consoit better with our people when they
come here than those Of any o. her section of the
Union, and this has been so for generations So
|
along and welcome" In one way or another mis-
wish is being accomplished. Some Of them come
to stay, Others send their capital for investment.
THERE ia a movement Ia Inc direction OF
iron fortifcations, citizen of Madg; hurgh has
invented II shield that bears his name-the Gruson
shield-and it is claimed that this shield will be
bardment as that of Alexandria 1t would be
strange, indeed, If iron forts could not be con-
structed to resist any gun that could be made.
THREE HUNDRED Come mara immigrants
daStfn Cor nbal,fv Fnr a.
vile colony, arrived In New York last week. in 8
miseraely destitute condition. The St. Paul spon-
their hands full when this rev contingent err
have taught them to take careful measures 10
avoid suffering next winter.
TIE electricity generated by the m achinery
in one of the great Harmony mills, at Cohoes, N
Y, owing to peculiar conditions, which are no.
| perfectly understood, has OF late so charged the
atmosphere as TO affect the employees uupleasantly
Various attempts were n ade without result 10 re-
move the nuisance, but at last a network of wire
running through the mill has been successfully
employed 10 collect the electricity and conduct it
to the ground.
The Interior Department has made a
proposition to all the agricultural colleges in the
country to take each, certain number of A pache
Indians to civiltze and educate. The Mississippi
| Agricultural and Mechanical College has been
asked TO take forty, for each of whom the govern
ment proposes TO nay Sl6T annually. President
Lee very properly replied that the matter would
have to be considered BY the trustees, who meet
at the college in June.
The country has seen 80 many felegrs oh
concerns organized only to be swallowed by the
Western Union, that 1t will listen to the promises
of the new Postal Company with natural incredu.
| lily. Other corporations have found that they
could make more money by selling out than by
| carrying on the business OF telegraphy. 1t is by
no means certain that the Postal Company will
not make similar discovery after it has created
competition enough 10 get bid.
The proposition to clear away a number
of ancient relies on Capitoliue hill st Rome, for
the purpose of securing suitable site for the
ten OF statue to Victor Emanuel, has been aban
doneG. 1t was held that the memories of ancient
Rome and the 1000 years Of history illustrated on
thai htll were precious to the whole world and il
woulc be an Outrage to the fame of a msgnani-
nous ruler If a number of important historical
memories were obliterated for the erection of a
, | monument to him
Ina couvers 'tion with representative OF
the sun, an old New York gambler made the fol-
lowing remark; God only knows how many
blasted every year in the gambling places of this
| CITY," 10 less extent, perhaps but the truth q
this qteranee is equally applicable to all ci les Of
tne Union; we may tax as we please about
sbridging the natural rights OF man, but there is
no remedy for the ruin thus wrought except
through absolute prohibition,
MADAGASCAR il making an earnest eff,r,
to Induce some strong power to take up the cud-
| gels Tor her and relieve her from the Oppressive
interest which France takes in her affairs. The
Aalagasy envoys invite every nation they visit to
help their country They are just now appealing
to Germany France, on her part, notifies every
body that she will protect her interests in NADIA
gascar, the efforts OF the ENJOYS to the contrary
Notwithstanding II anyone seriously wants to
get up fight with France, here is The Opportunity
THE growth of telegraph business in Eo-
gland since the State hiss acquired control of the
| lines, Is said to have been enormous. The num-
Der OF messages per week have grown from I26 600
| to 6OSOOO. In 1873 the average number of mes
ssges per mile OF wire was 147; now it is 256 In
press messages, 5000 words per diem have grown
already TO 934,154 per day The telegraphs In use
on railways have grown from p, 600 miles of wire
l. 1863 to 69 coo IN 1852, and the Instruments from
4i2S 10 1870 In Japan, last year. 2223,2I4 mes
| sages were dispatched, of which ninety-eight per
cent. were in the native tongue.
The attention of those who call for the
total abolition of yvisection is called to the % OOO
annual deaths from snakebites in India Rewards
are paid 10 snake destroyers-so much a head-sor
all the poisonous serpents they kill and althoupb
they slaughter several hundred thousand of them
\ year, this does not seem to diminish the death
| rate from bit S. Now the medical profession
Is strongly of opinion that, by praeticiug with
snake poison upon some lower orders OF aTlimsis
prophy Tactic or an antidote may be found which
| would release the snAke-oitten human animal
from the doom of almost instant death
The breuz. memorial tablet in front of
| the site OF the Hancock house on Beacon street
| is as follows: '-'-'
| HIRE rom TUE prcrpu>-or On