Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-10


doubt prove an able, interesting and valuable
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A SHORT time ago DR.. McLacklen, Of
Chick county, Miss, look out Of his pond
a carp weighing three or four pounds and
seventeen and half inches long. When
placed in the pond about one year ago it
weighed only an ouEce, and was about two
inches leng. -s-a---
The Illinois Legislature has ordered an
investigation into the charge that the Illinois
Central railroad has defraGded the State oct
OF q portion of the seven per cent. of its
gross earnings, which it is required by law
to pay annually 10 the State in lieu of taxes.
The officials OF the road emphatical!y deny
the allegation, and invite an investigation OF
the books and business of the company.
A PHILADELPHIA electrician gives his own
experience as proving that near proximity 10
a powerful electric Light will tan or burn
the skin the same as exposure TO summer
sunlight. But inquiry among shop girls
employed in this light has failed to show
that their fair faces are freckled by it, The
paleness of girls by gaslight is largely the
result of combustion, the gas eating up the
oxygen.
A MEASURE has been introduced in tn Q
Ohio Legislature, in the interest Of the For
restry Association OF that State, concerning
tree planting. 1t defines the kind OF trees
and the distance apart fer them TO be
planted; provides that the fourth Friday 10
April shall be "Arbor Day" in the public
schools, aud reward of 81 per tree ia TO be
paid for planting on the highways and keep
ing alive for one year. 1t also provides for
a State forester.
The mystery which surrounds the Pension
-. I'll
though at times a certain amount OF light lie
vouchsaied. But nobody knows who re-
ceives pensions, when they are paid, and how
much more will be required. The very rea.
sonable suggestion for publishing a specified
list of all pensioners was not entertained,
and now the requirements of the bureau
form a wholly incalculable element in the
treasury disbursements.
NEARLY Sl1 100000 is invested in cotton
Industries in Maine-lsrSely in Lewiston
and Auburn-and about So 600, 900 in woolea
manufactures. For every 81 900, 900 invested
100000 yards of cloth are manufactured
annually, 1000 hands employed, and 1920 900
disbursed for labor every year. The $ll $780,
coo invested in that State, therefore, pro-
duces 100000 yards of cloth annually,
and gives employment TO IL 800 hands, who
are paid SS,500,00O for their labor.
The Boston Globe says the latest electric
wonder is the portable electric lighter.
= IL IN ct--i s---ll chemical battery, oc-
cupyiug space OF FIVE square inches AMI
weighing but i've pounds, with all it's ft-
tiDgs. BY pressing upon knob the current
is produced, a strip Of platinum is heated 10
incsndesceuce and light instantaneous. This
can be carried from room to room and placed
upon the desk or the table. At slight adj
dilioual expense it can be so arranged as 10
ring an alarm or signal bell, or 10 light gas
In any part OF the house. The contriyance
Is move, slmple, convenient and cheap.
THE States OF Kentucky, Tennessee, Geor-
gia and Alabama aggregate nearly $1,000
square miles Of the finest btuminous coal
territory, nearly four times that OF like de-
pOsits ia Pennsylvania. In Texas there are
said to be 5000 square miles of bituminous
coal fields, while through the Indian Terri
tory, Kansas and Missouri, soft coal veins Of
excellent quality are worked day with
great profit. The great Missouri basio, in
which deposits are found, is estimated TO
cover 81, 900 square miles of territory The
Appalachian coal fields extending south are
narrower in crossing Kentucky, but widen
again in Tennessee, and expand across the
northwest corner OF Georgia and into Ala
bams, terminating in the vicinity of Tusca-
loosa. Tennessee has largely developed her
coal resources, and in Alsbama the work of
building up the local coal-producing indus
try is rapidly going on. Enthusiasts have
gone so far as 10 claim that Alabama IS
enough colt coal 10 supply the country for a
century.
The Boston Thealer was packed Friday
evening on the occasion of the testimonial
to Mr.. Mccullough, who gave performance
of John Howard Payne's Brtttus at the
special request of Gov. Butler and a mum
Der of prominent citizens. After the last act
Mr.. Mccullough was called before the cur
tain and made brief address, in which he
referred to the beginning OF his career at
the Boston Theater twenty-five years ago,
his subsequent experience with Forrest in
Philadelphis, and his return TO Boston in
the company OF that great actor. He al
luded TO his nervousness on the occasion of
his first appearance in Boston with Forrest,
and of the kind manner in which Forrest
encouraged him. The Boston Ifareller, re-
viewing editorially Mr.. McCullough's re-
cent engagement in that city, says: "There
are bu. three prominent tragedians before
Barrett; but in so far as the tragic element
of the mimetic art is concerned, Mr.. McCul.
Tough must be ranked az the leader.n
Born fire insurance companies and those
property owners who went short on" insur-
ance, found January fiery month. As in
1882, the year has begun in wasteful fashion
as regards whatever was com bustible. "Our
own files" says the New York Commercial
Bulletin, sin addition 10 hundreds of less
costly fires, have recorded no less than 1873
where the loss was $4,000 or more-the ag-
gregate destruction by the 18S fires footing
up 81 100000. With due allowance for the
smaller and the unrecorded fires, our esti-
nate is that the total loss for the month
would not fall short OF S., 5000 In the
list we give OF these sizeable January fires,
will be found sixty-nine where the loss was
between $4,000 and $4,000, lhirty-rine be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000, twen,y-eight be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000, twenty-one be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000; eight between
$4,000 and 100000; twenty between $780,
900 and 100000 and three where the loss
was 100000 or more. OF this estimated
IS, 100000 Of aggregate loss, some $1,000 600
was borne by the insurance companies" a.
THE Louisiana Sugar Bo,Ui repo rts the
completion of an outlet for Lake Long
through Bayou Bien ridge and Point au
Chen ridge and the intervening prairie,
into Bayou jean La Croix. The canal is
twenty-five feet wide, seven feet deep in the
ridges and four in prairie, and eleven and a
half miles long. 1he work occupied eight
months. The lakes are already lowered to
the full depth of the cutting. A mile and a
half is cut on the canal which is 10 run from
the upper end of Lake Fields, beginning at
the head Of Bayou False, up toward Thibo-
daux. This canal will cross several ridges
and swsmps. If canals OF the width above
are inadequate to effectual drainage, they
can be cut thirty or forty feet wide. The
Sugar Bout thinks that the drained lands
will prove 10 be the moss productive soil,
and will grow cane, rice, corn, etc. There is
no doubt of il, nor that if a complete system
of canalization were we'll planned for the en-
tire Grand Lake basin the advantages would
not be confined 10 drained acreage, TO inter-
communication and cheap transport, but
would extend also 10 more rapid evacuation
of inundalion.
A SENSATIONAL murder in The Swiss can
ton of Vaud some months ago has led 10 the
re-establishment of the death penalty in two
other cantoRs, st. Gall and Lncerue. In the
Wand canton there is no capital punishment,
and this criminal was sentenced to twenty
i've years imprisonment, the maximum al
lowed by law; but there, too, the re-enact-
ment OF death sentences is possible. The
council OF The canton of Lucerne passed the
law establishing them by vote OF seven
ty-three to eight, aud the debates showed
that there is general agreement among the
Swiss people that The practice Of sentencing
criminals TO twenty or twenty-five years
confinement has produced no good results.
In F<snce, since President Crews accession
to the cAief magisiracy, executions have
been very. infrequsH. though the number Of
murders Is said to be inczAasing every year.
In Belgium there has been no execution
during the reign Of the present king, Who alb.
jects to sign death warrants. In Holland
aud in Saxony there is no capital punisil-
meui, and it has become practically extinct
in Italy. Switzerland may Get the example
for It's revival in other countries.
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