Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-13

. The Broadway theater, New York
opened on Monday with Mr.. and Mrs
Florence and Mrs. Chanfrau.
Maximilian Is said TO have been de
2 scendant Of Alexander the Great.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is going t
Europe in few weeks.
It is rumored that Major Perry, lateIy
connected with the detective force o
Gen. Sheridan, is to be made chief o
police Of Galveston.
Rev. Jabez Brooks, DID,, has beer
elected president Of the H&mlin univer
sity, st. Paul, MINI.
That Col. Fred Seward has a stronl
head, his writings and his accident ar'
thought to cOnclUsively prove.
Wilkes says there is now no more dOub
of SheridSn's administrative ability thar
of his military genius.
Judge Hamlin, street cleaning con.
tractor in New York city, is about TO in
stitute a suit against the New Yorl
World for charging him with dishonesty
and Sinking his duty.
Michael P. Pope, late of Boston, ha
100000 to different institutions in tina
city.
The friends Of Archbishop Purcell, o
Cincinnati, are looking to see him com
home with cardinals hat.
Lewis D. Campbell, late Mexican Mia
lister, is at home in Butler county, Ohio
A special dispatch to the Herald from
Canada says that Jacob Thompson il
said to have a good chance for thl
appointment as secretary of the interiO
, in the new dominion.
Queen Victoria gave the duchess Of st
AIbans, for her wedding gift, a golC
chain and two shawls. Her husbandi
gift was diamond tiara and his love.
Private advices from abroad say tha
John Mitchell is to bemade head FeniaI
in this country and Europe. Many
prominent Irishmen here are fiercelI
opposed 10 this. ..-
Mace and O'Baldwin intend soon Il
mash " each others "smellers" anC
close each others "Oglersn - for tht
championship of England.
Miss Carrie Clapp, formerly of Hamp
ton, Va, drowned herself in a pond a.
AtwoOdviile, Conn, on Monday night
Cause, unrequited love.
Francis J. Barrett, a harness maker O
New Bedford, by the decesse Of an eldel
brother in Ireland, comes into possession
of an estate worth S137, 900.
A number of politicians met in New
York on Wednesday and declared in IA
vOr of Chase for the presidency.
! A drover, from Iowa, was victimizeC
in Chicago, on Tuesday, by two conf.
dence men, to the tune of six hundred
dollars.
Mrs. Catherine Triel was buried il
Philadelphia on Wednesday. She dice
at the age Of one hundred and sever
years.
Some of the friends of Hon. Plat
Smith, Of Dubuque, have just testified
I their respect and esteem by presenting
him a costly watch (S4S0) and chain
I (SlS0) and cane with head Of solid gold
Hon. Thomas f. Bramlette, the out.
going governor of Kentucky, will take
I Up his residence in Louisville, as law.
yer. His residence has heretofore been
in Columbia, Adair county.
The venerable John Neal, who has
lived at Portland nearly three score years
is the most popular man there.
"Balmoral suffrage" " is the designs.
ton which the Galveston Bulletin applies
20 the point in dispute between Mr.. and
Mrs. Horace Greeley.
The New York Herald gives as rea-
son Of the TFibl1e's nOn-defense of STAN
ton in this his trying hour, that Stanton,
at the time of Greeley's peace negotia'
tions in Canada, made out an order fol
the philosophers arrest, but that Lincoln
would not sign it.
An old lady recently died in Truro
Mass, who had just passed her ninety
third birthday. She leaves behind hel
/ seven surviving children, forty five grand
children, and five great grand children
Geo. Worth, of North Carolina, in s
letter to Raleigh paper, urges that the
people Of that state to register under the
reconstruction act, in order that they
may have an opportunity TO vote on 8
state constitution, to be submitted by the
convention.
Gen. Sylvanus Thsyer, of Braintree,
1 Mass once cOmmandant of the West
Point academy, and a graduate Of the
class of 1907, at Dartsmouth, has given
the latter institution $40, 600 wherewith
to endOw prOfessorship of architecture
and civil engineering.
Charles Winton, q prisoner, under SEN
tence of death in the Jefferson county
( Pa jail, when his death warrant was
read 70 him, replied, "Al right, they
can hang me and be d-d." Charles may
change his tune before the fatal day Of
execution.
1t is said that the king of Greece will
not accept the Russian religion on his
marriage with the Grand Duchess Olga,
because his father, the king of Denmark,
does not desire it. His children will
however, be brought up in the orthodox
Greek faith.
The Russian Grand Duke Alexis, the
Czar's youngest son, after stay at Con-
stantinople, left On the 26th on board the
Russian steamer Oteg, TO visit the mo-
nRsteries of Mount Athos, from whence
he proceeds to Cadiz, where he is to en-
bark OF board the Alexander Nevski
/ frigate, ia which he will visit the West
Indies and the United States. He viii
return to Russia by ConstsntinOple.
Rev. Jno. Hall, of Dublin, one Of the
/ Irish delegates to the late Presbyterian
assembly in this country, has accepted
the pastOrate of the Nineteenth street
| Presbyterian church of New York, salary
5000 in gold. The church recently dis
missed, at his own request, DIR. Rice, for
merly Of Cincinnati, presenting him on
his retirement with a sum sufficient 70
support him comfortably the remainder
of his days.
The reason assigned for Mr.. Tenny-
/ sons abandonment of his beautiful resi-.
denee at Harrington, Isle of Wight, and
his retreat to Hashmere, in Surrey, is,
that he was tormented by the Obtrusive
I attentions of the " lion-hunters,N who
hung on to his palings, peeped through
his gates, and fairly crammed Fresh
water church, on Sunday, in the hope oi
seeing how a poet laureate said his
prayers.
At the last commencement exercises
of Georgetown college, tie honorary de-
| gree Of master Of arts wss conferred upon
Messrs. G. P. A. and John B. s. Dlmitry,
sons of Prof Alexander Dimitry, so well
known in this city. rFH..
The junior pastor, Mr.. Conner, of the
Second Universalist church, in Boston,
| founded by Hosea BallOu, and now un-
der the pastorate Of Rev. DIR. Miner,
president of Tufts college, has been in
| vited TO resign for entertaining material
istic views, disbeheving in miracles, etc.
The Paris critics are loud in their
/ praises of Mr.. Lothern. Theophile
Gautier, who acknowledged that he has
no English, says he almost understood
and thoroughly appreciated the actor.
The critic Of the titaltionlaei, beating
about for terms to describe Mr.. SotheFn's
loss Of faculty, is highly complimentary,
and SAYS he passes from yegetatiVe
i'm becility" TO ruminstiye idiocy."
Jordan Potter, of Wiscasset, Maine,
recently drove nail into his own head,
while partially insane, and died from the
results in few days after.
There is a flirOre In Paris for new
stvIe of watch at the present moment.
II IL large, made of ebony, and orna-
naented at the back with the initials OF
az the owner in silver, or with fancifui
srabesoues. The dial plate, which is
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