Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-21
CURRENT EVENTS.

GUITEAU said some OF the men who had
him hanged would soon follow him or be punish
ed. Marshal Henry lost his official head, and now
DR.. Noble Young. whose medical expert testimony
really did more than the legal Arguments to fix
the iury's verdict, is dead.
EVANGELIST MOODY Gays he does not fear
infdelity half SO much he does the cold formal
ism which is creeping over Cnristianity-the want
OF heart, fire, interest and enthusiasm. And he is
right Lukewarmness," says the Good Book, lis
worse than inhdehty."
THE total land srea of the United States,
not including Alaska is l. 900 800 600 acres and
the total amount of farms according 10 the last
census, 360Sl ,S35 acres. The number of acres
owned by tine government at the time that census
was taken was l ,273, 6.45S.
IL crems,ories are to be established in
modern kitchens for the disposal of beeisteaks
they should do their work more thoroughly, and
send the sacrifci.l meats up the ehiInneys in
gaseous vapor and not leave so much charred re-
sidlInu1 To end It's sV-y tn the breakfast '.bfes.
The uo-packsge-delivery rule, adopted by
leading Boston dry goods houses, is a success
though people OF the suburbs are much dissatis-
fed. The cost OF sending spool of thread or a
shoe string three or four miles TO the house of
purchaser eats hole in the profits of the sale.
A MISSOURI paper makes itself happy by
saying that the average Englishmsn is not any
more ignorant about the United States at large
Ihan the average resident of the New England OF
Eastern States about any OF the great Gordon OF
Mississippi Valley States on the west side of the
river.
The Philadelphia Press announces sim
gular discovery. 1t is that the use OF garlic con-
duees to the hallucnatlon of the brain on the part
OF the indulger that he is possessed of Valuable
secrets which it is his conscientious duty i'm part
to others by putting his mouth close to the ears of
his victim. Z
THE committee of experts enrsged in
counting the money in the United States Treasury
vaults at Washington will finish its task in about
have now been counted, as well toe larger part
OF the gold revenue, and everything has been
found correct.
MAYOR Low, Of Brooklyn. advocates the
spuou Undar TIM s system c peer aa ;
vided into excise districts the number Of SALOONS
to population aud exclusive rights to s.ii iauefs
are sold at public auction to the highest bidder.
A BOY OF eight years, in one of the Massa-
chusetts schools. wss asked by his teacher where
heavens directly over ene's head" 10 test his
knowledge further the teacher asked: Can two
TheR ts zsgita ma at ib the .ne
the others head"
A LARGE number OF rich New Workers
are trying to purchase a suitable piece of ground
in Newport, with large grounds for tennis and
ballroom, cafe and theater attached. This is
much-needed institution, and Mr.. Coreoran is one
OF the originators OF the scheme.
On account of the reported existence of
yellow. fever in Cuba and other Southern islands
the National Board of Health has decided to es-
tablish quarantine stations on the Southern coast
earlier than usual this year. 1t is proBosed tn
open the station at New Orleans the LIST proximo
and those at other Southern ports not later thai
the 10Th proximo.
HUBERT HERKoMER, the artist. az the
Boston correspondent of the SpringfeldI Republi-
learns, will carry off 500 600 as the re-
writer adds: THE prices he has received have
been something astonishing. The sum of $500 a
pictuTe-a porIrait-hss not been an uncommon
one for him to receive"
tbs reproach of having SORRY boteln
is abost to be taken from Mobile. william Butler
Duncan, president of the Mobile and Ohio road
representing local and New York capitalists hss
succeeded at last in capturing controlling inter
esS in the Battle House, the largest and best an
pointed hotel there he will greatly improve it
ana make II the leading attraction OF this popular
winter resort.
GEN. WRIGHT, chief of engineers, declares
officially that the failure to pass a river and har-
Dor bill entails immense losses upon the govern
ment, besides checking the completion of i'm
portant national works. He says that work
once begun should be steadily continued until its
completion for economical reasons. Either that
should be done or the policy of improving rivers
and harbors should be abandoned altogether
A GENTLEMAN in New York, who was left
by European steamship upon which his family
had taken passage, succeeded in overtaking the
vessel just as she was leaving Sandy Hook BY hir-
ing swift tug. The steamship had a ha1f.hour's
start, tut the tug did not have to keep the main
plish THAT at the start was considered even bv
ner captain, as an almost hopeless undertaking
WHAT nice potatoes" exclaimed Mrs
Paryenu at dinner party the other day. "How
made inquiry OF my chef as to his node of prepar-
ing vegetables repied the hostess. Haven't
yon?'' went on Mrs. Parvenu; why, used al
ways to fuss round the kitchen when we had foiE.
come to take dinner with u :" a quiet Beethoven
laugh without words went all around the table
Neir York Mail and Express.
HERE are four odd wsgers: The winner
of q corn-Taising contest near Rome Ga raised
thirty-seyen bushels on a half acre. A Salina Mo-,
woman won $40 on a wager that she could chop
Of in fQzg
could. For a sum of money two package wrap
pers, ct Davenport, Ia. entered into contest
using 1000 yards of Irvine. William Cam pbel a
young farmer OF Mexico, Mo-. won u sger of sl0g
for his labor at corn shucking bee. In eight
days he threw over his shoulder 542 bushels OF corn
THE Baltimore papers describe the snn;-
yersary at St. Ignatius church in that city as
ofave Of the godsn Jubilee Of the Jesui pro
vince of Maryland and the two hundre1 and
iftieth anniversary of the landing OF the Jesuit
Haydn's Imperial Mass In d, sung BY fac
chorus, accom- panied by sn orchestra of twenty
pieces Archbishop GIBBONS occupied a magnif,
the close OF the services pronOunl ed the papal ben
ediction. The sermon was preached by the Rev.
w. Z. Clarke, S. ].
DURING its exisieuos Of twenty years thu
Medical College for Women in New Orleans has
had III grad uates, OF whom eleven have died. OF
the remaining 60 some have married and use
families while Others have drifted to various parts
OF the country, taking positions generally in the
departments of hospitals devoted to the diseases
of wsnnen and children, combining their efforts
to private practice in the same branches. About
a dozen have q regular practice ia New Orleans
and vicinity. One has helped 500 children into
the world without losing patient. Another has
become an authority on skin diseases, and has
more calls than she can attend to. DR.. Mary SAT-
ford is professor in the Medical College of the
University of Boston, where cOeducation has been
successfully established. Mrs DR.. Furne.s Wells
and 6nAthpr Pradnate have had
college in San Francisco, which is q regularly
chartered State institution. Dr.. Harriet Uhristy
has founded an industrial and educational iHsti-
tuition in Boston, where poor women are cared for
during illness and also taught various branches of
industry. Right dispeusaries in New York and
Brooklyn are sustained by graduates of the col
lege, which has also under its care diet kitchens
where proper food is prepared for distribution
among the sick poor. There are frequent calls
from the West for graduates to come and settle
and lew, going abroad to continue their studies,
have remained TO practice in foreign cities.