Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-15


dec ney."
BEEcHER, in a letter to a friend, says:
| II 90 not take any slSck in what ia known as
the orthodox basis of revivalism, and az il
| Illustrated by the 20 called Salvation Army
L think the whole q travesty of a sacred
thing. You can no more grow q soul in tve
minutes in the heated and contagious air OF
3 tabernacle than cat ajuggler mature rose
on the stage before you"
The Montgomery AdUTtiser tells about
young man In that city who started few
years ago with small capital in the bust
ness of truck" farming, or market garden
ing. His name is w. NJ. Stringfellow, and
hs ia now making handsome living and
winning his way to fortune. The more young
men who go at this sort Of business, the bet
Ter for themselves aud the better for the coun-
try.
FRANKFORT, KY, is alive with bats, those
dreadful creatures which were made to fly
around bedchambers at night, frightening
the wits of wives and driving husbands 10
distraction in their mad efforts to kill the
little monsters The creatures have collected
IN grest numbers about the roof of the
bridge, and at night all dart about so plentI-
fully that pedestrians on the bridge have
found it necessary to be continually on the
alert for them
LABoUCHERE, in London Truth, says: "The
total acreage of Scotland is 18,946 694 One
single noblemsn owns 1,326,000 acres, and
his wife las, ,S79. Another has 43l 900 acrea,
a third 424, 900, and fourth 37S, 900. Twelve
proprietors own one-quarter OF the whole
acreage of the country; seventy proprietors
own one-balf. Nine-tenths of Scotland be-
longs TO 100 persons, snd 1000, GOO of Scotch
men spend their lives earning rent for these
100 monopolists.
NJ. JULES FERRY has issued an edict for
the abolition in French schools of the pun
ishment known as sequestrstion. This pun
ishment was solitary confinement from one
TO hve days in q repulsive dungeon, with
diet OF bread aud water. The French papers
call attention to the superiority of The
English schools, where such grim discipline
has never been prsctic ID and where there is
no need OF walls or barriers, no youth being
ever tempted to escspe out of bounds.
A NEW YORK court has decided that
money left TO pay for masses for the reposs
oil mans soul, after the man is dead, cannot
be considered IN the nature of a trust fund.
Ii you think your soul is in danger, the best
plan ia to tske care oil 1t while you are alive. /
You can attend to il better than anybody
else. II you leave money to some friend to
pay for getting your soul out of trouble after
you die, 1t is more than likely that he will
sink 1t iu stocks or baseball pools.
IT is interesting 10 note the experience of
Fulton, No., with the new high license law.
The pl0ce has 5000 people and, under the
new law, only four liquor saloons. Each
pays license OF $500 annually, and State
and county taxes besidss. The license fees
more than hall pay the COS; of the town gov
ernmeni. The 81. Louis Republican is author
ity for the statement that the people of Ful-
ton are much pleased with the decided i'm
provement noticed under the high license
law.
AMERICAN clergymeL at the Evangelical
Alliance bapquets in Ersand and elsewhere
IN Europe, twenty years ago, used TO be con-
spicuous for their "white glasses," as few
clergy men besides them abstained from wine,
and none except dissepters; but London
correspondent, writing this year to the Leeds
Mercury of the May meetings, says that "it
was noticeable feature this year that many
of the religious teachers wore the blue rib.
bon, 1t is estimated that at no previous
time have there been 30 many teetotal di-
vines in London"
THE Little Rock Democrat, of Wednesday,
says: "In his address last night at the hall of
the House of Representatives, the Hon. L.
@. McRae told u plain, blunt truth when he
To draw immigration and capital, except in
1875, when the Legislature made hand
some appropriation for representation at the
Centennial Exposition. He told another
plain, unvarnished truth when he said that
all that had been done to encourage immi-
grafton and capital had been accomplished
by the press ald the railroads"
A SUGGESTIVE letter from Ell Paso Tex,
in the Boston Baptist Wdtchman sheds some
light on the state Of religion or perhapsrath
on the methods of missionary work, on the
frontier. The writer speaks Of Las Cruces,
a New Mexican town of 1000 inhabitants, on
the railroad about forty miles north of Ell
Psso. 1t has"s convent and r ,mish church :"
it has also "a small Mexican Methodist
church. established there few yesls since :"
and three weeks ago a Presbyterian church
was organized with Elk persons" Here, then,
are three religious societies-though the
other two do not consider the Romsnists
public school," What now does the Baptist
brother who writes the letter do? AK for
aid for the struggling Presbyterian church
which has only six members? Advise a
union of this weak society with the stronger
Methodis. congregation? Not at all. He
begs piteously for some "benevol5nt brother,
| sister, Sundsy-school or church" to send him
300 to start Baptist church with, for
which, go far as appears, he has found just
| five members! 1t must strike the average
| man, Christian or not, that if ever there was
| an instsnce of misguided zeal this is one.
| How coon will the world be made Christian
| by such means?