Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-15
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furnishing free books in the public schools. The
sum of S75, 900 has been set apart for this purpose
during 1854. There are many who doubt the sue
cess of the PLAN.
NEWPORT, ARK, wants a park, a thing
for there are so many Newports all over the
country that are old, that a Newport that was
new was not required
TIL manner in which personal property
escapes taxation is graphically illustrated in New
York by the difference between actual wealth and
tbat listed for taxation. IN that city alone the
difference amounts to 81, POS ,2s7 ,S4s.
ACTIVE preparations for the great May
Ing, president Of the Boafd 6f DIRECTORS. has Is
sued a stirring appeal to the citizens Of Mobile to
rally TO the support of the enterprise.
ALABAMA will some day-and the time
is not a long way off, either-be one of the most
important manufaeturing States in the Union IL
i beautifully blest with irexhadstible mineral
sIbllities.
The Hartford Times has begun a vigor-
Gus war upon Goldfish on the ground that that ia
yorite and eminently popular article, of food is
close at hand, II would have been we'll if this
declaration of war had been deferred.
Mr.. JAMES McHENRy, of England, who
SAYS he Is respousible for the investment of about
roads, Is in this country now looking after those
interests, aud complains bitterly of the ,manner
in which the investors have been treated by the
railroad managers.
AN Englishman, who came to the United
States. with 500, 6o0 to invest in land in Texas.
has .rsturped to the old countr," with his
owners in the Lone Star State are insecure, "and,
in truth, the country is worse than Ireland"
Texas made a narrow escape.
THE New York Sun aptly says it is not
the size of n sheet, or the amount of type set, but
the quality and quantity of brains employed that
make q newspaper, Double sheets, with the news
arc much more easily edited than compact Sheets
with the news prepared for quick reading.
DURING the past year the South showed
a greater activity in the production Of iron than
any other section of the country. The general
depression in the iron trade more seriously at
tected the manufactures in the East and West
than in the Southern States. This should be a
matter OF eongratuiation to Southern iron pro-
ducers-
THE Eagle and Phoenix Cotton-Mills at
Columbus, Ca, Gained a ret revenue. in 1888 of
S93,OOO, out OF which an eight per cent. dividend
has just been paid. The company have projected
a new mill to cost 9OO,00O. The mills have earned
since 1867, and paid out, 81, 80, 600 in dividends,
new mill.
THE latest estimates place the population
Of the globe at ], 4S5, 800, 900, indicating n decrease
as a matter of fact, there has been an actual in
crease of some 5000, 900. This apparent dis
crepancy is accounted for by the fact that the
o~verestimated.
THE Egyptian soldiers are no better than
50 many sheep. Gen. Wolseley was loaded with
"a anu. Ohp v II 10 w etGh ~ " " u
monstrous burlesque of war. He holds to his peli
and decorations, but the private soldiers are so
ashamed of the medals bestowed upon them that
they are throwing them away, in spite of threats
of court-mertial.
THE dime museum people are after
James Mutt. the boy who slew the traducer of his
was acquitted Of the decd by a Pittsburg jury re-
Gently. The lad refuses to. make an exhibition
reer has been altogether too ~tragical to close in
the SHOW business
THE Supreme Court of Tennessee has
reafirmed the constitutionality of the four-mile
law. 1t says, however. that taxing-disiricts of
the second-class are corporations and cannot avail
themselves of the provisions of the law. Also,
that in order for an incorporated school to be OPP;
%eratiye, there must be teacher and pupils as well
as sehoOlhousea and trustees.
A FEW years ( a measure wss adopted
providing for the gradual of slaves
in Cuba, This worked exceedingly we'll indeed,
and under II %, 900 slaves have already been
peacefully liberated, with entire satisfaction to
the owners. There are now hardly more than
100000 slaves on the island, and most of them
will be set free during the year.
The Washington Star deprecates the
rumored intention of the Maryland authorities
to utilize the vessels of the United States navy
against the pirates of PocomOke sound, on the
ground that, as between. oyster d~redgers, and
American ships of war, "the odds would be so
heavy in favor of the pirates that a combat would
simply be the useless sacrifice Of brave men,"
AT the shingle mills, Little Rock, on
Monday, a raft broke loose with the owner aboard.
He called to parties ashore to come to his relief
and two cOlored men went out in a skif, but soon
found they could not manage the raft, which
struck the b~reakwater and was dashed to pieces.
The raftman fell in the water, but being n good
swimmer reached the shore a quarter of a mile
below: The negroes jumped out of the skif and
climbing up the drift pile were saved.
THE mongoose is a small animal similar
to a weasel. and it is the mortal enemy of rabbits,
rats and snakes. 1t is being used to destroy rab-
bits in Australia. where the latter are so numer-
Gus as to threaten the ruin of the sheep pastures.
/ N i ~ ran : hoe hA.n mead 70 Artnrnnt n = rafa
and it it said to have destroyed all the snakes as
well. It is now being introduced into the Sand
wieh Islands, where rats are getting numerous
and doing mischief In the cane-felds.
SOME months ago, in the little town of
Elmerslaben, Saxony, trichinosis appeared with
such yirulence that ont of a population of $50 in
habitants 27 died with the disease. An imperial
medical commission has been inquiring into the
cause, and has recently made its report. 1t was
discovered that a large PROPORTION of the people
had been in the habit of eating raw minced pork
upon their bread, under the idiotic impression
that 1t was more nutritious in that way.
THE Alabama land sales bave been in
definitely postponed. The people of that State
began to get scared at the number of land specu-
tlcipation of being able to gobble up immense
tracts, and Representative Hewitt, of that State,
being appealed to, succeeded in having the Pres
ident order Il postponement of the sales while he
has introduced in Congress. a bill declaring the
lands agricultural and subject to disposal only
under the homestead laws.
OhNLL mas lCOClNto IlEC blSilLlSuiDllCu
confederation of a special invitation, signed by
the Duke of Argyll, who not only is chancellor of
the University of Edinburgh, but also is father
in-law of the Queens daughter, Princess Louise,
wife of the late Governor-General of Canada and
putative own father of Lorne himself. Sir STAFF
ford Northcote, rector of the University of Edin-
burgh. also signs the dispatch to Cornell, which is
a cordial invitation to send a representative to
the S0Oth anniversary of the founding of the insti-
tuition at Edinburgh, next Easter. Hold US down,
somebody.
cit is a singular fact" says a Naples
correspondent, that we are indebted to Pompeii
for the great industry of canning fruit. Years
ago, when the excavation was just beginning, n
party of Cincinnatians found in what had been a
pantry of a house many jars of preserved figs.
and good. Investigation shows that they had
been put into the jars in. a heated state and then
next year canning was introduced into the United
States, the process being identical with that in
vogue In Pompeii twenty centuries ago."
BISHOP GEORGE F. PIERCE, speaking of
the negroes. recently said: 81 think they are en-
whites from the hands of the State. 1t is the duty
of the Church to improve the colored ministry,
but rather by theological training than by literary
education. In my Judgment higher education,
so-called, would be n positive calamity to the ne
the races, producing endless strifes, elevate negro
aspirations far above the station he was created
to fill, and resolve the whole race into a political
faction, full OF strife, mischief and turbulence.
"THE draining and replanting of the
OdinUdgldY says INC Tutt NUT uHlfftcy mas
been n iayorite idea with the Italians since Rome
became the capital of united Italy, and now the
attempt is going to be made on q large scale. A
certain amount of drainage-work was made COM
pulsOry on the different landowners, and no less
than eighty irrigation companies under govern
ment control have been set on foot to reclaim the
waste of centuries, One or two minor expert
ments have been fairly successful, and among
other things plantations OF eucaly Plus have made
certain long deserted spots h ~abitable, notably
about 5. Paolo tuori 10 Mura.'
THE London correspondent of the New
York Tribune writes that 1.-The controversy about
Mr.. Barnum's slate-colored white elephant, with
will continue, but the public has perhaps, had
enough Of it. One great journal devotes a lead
give portraits. of him in every hue and shade of
notified, blackness, save one, which is really
plies and portraits of Mr.. Barnum, are published,
apropos of his newest speculation. L read in one
aiist, and has lectured to 700 audiences upon the
conduct of life. And of such, l suppose, are the
kingdom of heaven"
WHAT New York society" is may be
gathered from the. following taken from the New
again superseded that of the head in society this
winter, and the literary clubs have waned while
the dancing societies have grown and hourished
nightly. The Nineteenth Century. Club indeed
seems to be the only one left of the numerous
three preceding seasons. The Thursday Evening
Club, which was started some five years since as a
literary club, has now degenerated into a fort
nightly meeting, where amateur theatricsls, tab
leaux and the like are presented, Does the Nine
teenth Century entirely supply the literary needs
of fashionable society?
WHAT does Family FAIR mean by stating
that ''large fortunes are rare in Germany?' asks
the New York World. On the contrary, there is no
country where there are so many large fortunes
among 1.-THE territorial aristocracy.' In Ger
many proper there are twenty-six estates which
are larger than any in Great Britain with the ex-
ception of the Duke of Sutherland's domain I:
but an enormous number of acres of his Scotch
estate are a trackless waste. The landed posses,
sions of Prince Schwartzenberg Gin Austria and
Hungary cover l2a German square miles; those
of Prince Lichtenstein extend over l4 square
| miles, Prince Esterhazy's eighty miles, and