Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-20
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Thurlow Weed has been dubbed
LID.
Jean Ingelow is tw~enty-eight, unmar.
ried sRd hOmely.
Bismark made recently 100000 by
successful real estate investment il
Pomersnia.
Greeley is older than wss supposed.
He begins the record of his busy life, il
the Ledger, about $50 years ago.
The duke OF Brunswick is the last o
his race. After his death his dynasty
one Of the oldest in Europe, will be ex'
tinct,
The young Russian Grand Duke Alexis
seventeen years old, and the third SOD OI
the emperor, is coming to the United
States. He is colonel Of a Russian in
fantTy regiment.
Gen. Salger, late minister Of the repub'
lie Of Colombia, presented his letter oi
recall to the president.
Gov. Bramlette has psrdoned jack
Sheppard, upon whose Indictment fOl
murder on the second trial the jury failed
70 agree.
Mrs Mary Walbridge, the mother Of
Gen. Hiram Walbridge, Of New York
died yesterday near Washington.
Geo. L. B. Buckley, originator of the
Knights of the Golden Fleece, died al
Baltimore on Saturday.
David J. Files has paid the fine imposed
for bis participation in the Mobile not
and been released from Fort Gaines.
Hon. Jesse D. Bright, formerly United
States senator from Indiana, has been
elected q member of the Kentucky legis-
ture. He is q resident of that state.
Col. Bocher, a promising young officer
of the French army, who belongs TO one
of the first families in France, has re-
Gently married Miss Clara Louise Edger-
ton, of New York, who is said to be
" young, beautiful, highly educated, ele-
CANT and refined"
Ex-Queen Mary Of Hanover, was, a
year ago, still a fine looking matrOn
with let black hair. Her grief at the
sudden dethronement of her husband,
and the blasted hopes Of her son Ernest,
have exerted such an effect upon her APP
pearance that she looks now like a
woman Of sixty, and her hair has turned
entirely white.
The rumors Ofthe insanity OF the Arch
duchess Sophia are confirmed. She
SHOW l SLAolS y nktDulS VI AAAlASS9 III
mediately aaer Francis Joseph told her
that his brother, her son, had been shot,
An utter prostration succeeded the
first violent oUtburst of her grief, and
this was followed again by appalling hts
of rage and despair. The old archduchess
having always possessed an excitable,
headstrOng and violent temper, little or
no hope of her recovery is entertained.
Hon. Isaac Spalding, ofNashua, mem
Der Of the governors council, is the rich
est mar in New Hampshire, with a for
tune OF his own acquiring.
Rev. Thomas B. Wood, who has had
charge Of the department. Of natural sci
ences in Wilbraham Mass academy,
has accepted the presidency Of the male
and female college at Valparaiso, lad.
Gen. Chas. NJ. Provost, q gallant Penn
.svlvania soldier, and late commandment
at Springfield, Ill, is a candidate for the
republican nomination for sheriff OF
Philadelphia.
There has just died q European sOve-
reign Of whom very little notice was
taken, yet Henry LNVII, Of Renss
SchletZ, was the Oldest sovereign in
Europe. He was a model ruler in his
way; he granted constitutions at pleas
ure, and in his displeasure withdrew
them. BE was a mt representation Of
Heine's Prince, who had to cross the
boundaries Of his domain to turn his
horse around. He had an army Of 997
men nominslly; in reality about half that
number. The number of his subjects
was IS, goo, and his revenue 100000.