Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-24
PROGRESSIVE NOTES.

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The New York Legislature has passed
bill prohibiting the manufacture Of cigars in tene
ment houses.
THE Brooklyn bridge is TO be lighted with
seventy electric lights. The bridge will likely be
completed in June.
In Great Britain The large sum OF S40,-
000, 000, 900 is invested in railway Some oil the
engines weigh forty-five tons. and take load of
ninety tons at speed of from forty to fifty miles
an hour.
DURINe the year 1882 Germany, including
Lu1emburg, produced a total of $,170957 tons OF
raw iron, as against 9ls 0O9 tons IN 1851 ZsOSs
protection are naturally proud of this ascending
scale.
SEVERAL capitalists have purchased the
Philadelphia and Reading shipyards at Philadel-
Ing OF vessels, 1t is said that Lieut., Commander
Gorringe of the United States navy, will be gen
eral manager of the company.
AT last the impossible has happened. A
has failed actually, But the managers had not
studied the metrical system properly. No gas
scale can faii.-Balilaore American.
DURISa the lset thirty years the Cali
forna quicksilver mines have produced 100 %, 267
pounds, of which 81, 397 500 pounds were exported.
IN tSs Word al Tse
control the Austrian and Spanish mines.
AN important decision has been rendered
by the Supreme Court OF Brooklyn. which holds
Ludl WnSIe companies, lQkurlDE &C
cordins to the "tontine" system fail to keep the
premiums SO paid and their accumulations sep
arate from the risks Of their general business in
sured parties can recover forfeited premiums with
interest.
CAPT. RICHARD F. BURTON believes that
the influx of few thousand coolies on the gold
coast o. western Africa WI cause smong the ma.
ny only way Of teaching AITcSns
Burton's wisdom makes no provision for a black
Dennis Kearney AID thousands of ebony hood
lums.
JUDGE BARRETT has decided, in the Su-
prene Court, that the tripartite agreement under
which the Manhattan Company absorbed the
elevated railway system is invalid. No authority
is known, he says, for directors to make organic
fundamental changes looking to the practical OBJ.
liberation OF corporation distinct and indie
pendent legal entity without the consent OF the
stockholders.
PROF. w. G. SUMNER, OF Yale College,
is writing for HdrpTs Weekly series of articles
on industrial and social topics, which will form
most important contribution to the discussion of
questions of vital moment. The title of the series
will be What Our Social Glasses Owe to Each
Other" The first article will appear in Hdrper's
Weekly for next week.
The progress of the cotton crop in the
United States is shown by the following figures:
loS0 1863 0g3 bales
....3,Ull,y90 bales
g 90 SS9 paies
In those States planters paid for fertilizers dur.
ing the year 1879 sl1, 076,365.
JAMES d. FISH, president of the Marine
Bank, who has purchased from Oliver Ames, of
Boston, the Booths Theater property, is native
OF Stonington, Conn, or thereabout, and came to
New York City when q boy. and has reared a large
family Of business sons and daughters. one of the
latter actidg as his amanuensis at the bank while
be, now q widower resides in one of the upper
stories of the bank building, amid books and arti
cles of Uerfu.
THE disastrous failure of the Hudson river
ms fa t1a
| ion OF peach-growers to be repeated the coming
| season. An examination Of the buds shows that
they are in excellent condition, and If third
| of the sound ones come to maturity the crop VIII
be enormous This satisfactory prospect is largely
blanketed In snow all winter.
Mr.. LOUIS J. JENNINGS lie Of opinion that
England contains more people than she can sup
port. Yet there are over 100000 of fertile
by tho pillow, and the land now under cultivation
produces but twenty-six bushels of wheat TO the
acre: The soil is capable Of sustaining a much
in the political social and industrial conditions
| that re;ard Development by crushing the many
and elevating the few.
ABOUT the effect of the winter on peach
trees New York paper says: The late storms
have not been utilized in predi ting the failure of
the years peach crop. In former seasons The total
| and irremediable destruction of this crop was
sometimes announced even in December, or by
January al least. Here we are after the middle of
somewhere" But there is time enough yet to to-
| tally destroy the peach crop with predictions.
The Louisiana Press Association recently
tried to stimulate the literary zeal of the people
and to help the State indlstriously. by offering;
two valuable prizes, one for essay setting forth
the resources OF the commonwealth It's forests its
sions. After waiting due time the committee on
opening the essays found that no citizen OF the
State had cared enough about the matter to SUBJ
nit contribution on this subject. This incident
is regarded by the Louisiana papers discourag-
ing.
THE increase in tbs ;r,-osperity OF the
country is indicated by the New Yois ss'1lngs
mented during the last three Years in the sum Of
S236, 307, 2S4. This is increase of wealth. The
savings banks of the United States now hold
gate the amount Of earnings of labor over and
above expenses of living. About two-thirds of
verted into property, and made productive in one
shape or another.
OF the condition of its rsce in the South,
the New York Globe NEGRO orgsnl says: 'Ther
ago. and ten years hence iL will be vastly better
then it is now. They will bring this about by
economy, and by the acquisition of Intelligence
which discovers to man the subtleties by which
oppression thrives and arms him with the weapon
III retaliation. This he win accomplish, not as a
black man, but as an American citizen-a term
which every man is free to define TO suit his own
tastes
L
is arranging for international electrical exhibit
ton TO be held in that city about year from
The exact time has not been fixed, though lead
ing managers of the institute in favor of hold
ing II in May or June, 1854. joint resolution,
modelled after the resolution OF June, 1874 which
admitted free of duty goods intended for the CEN
tennial exhibition, has Just been passed by Con-
gress. With this encouragement before them, the
necessary money to assure the success of the I'M
dertaking can be raised.
The ISOLATED city OF the great Northwest
Is up the Missouri river. 100 miles beyond Bis
marck, away from any railroad, hemmed in by
mountains and at this season shut out from all
the world II beans the name of Benton, in honor
of "Old Bullion" and il is the magazine Of the
British Northwest. 1t is a substantial town. be-
cause lumber Is costly there that il is economy
| TO build with brick. During navigation, twenty
two steamboats, carry freight TO this remote CITY
| and the volume OF business there justifes Cham.
Der OF Conmerceiand mammoth brick blocks.
| There are 5000 souls In this mountain fastness.
TEE Boston Herald says there is a notice
able revival throughout Massachusetts in the mat
| ter OF sheep-raising, an industry which has been
sadly neglected by farmers in that State OF late
i Ihls decline In what was once profitable branch
OF New England farming is owing, in great meas
ure, 70 the ravages of sheep-killing dogs. Last
July the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion
of Agriculture imported thirty choice rams,
ent sections oil the commonwealth. Next June the
society VIII import 100 thoroughbred ewes, and
they, with the rams, will be sold to farmers in