Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-20
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! BOMBAY Gfeslu6uc9s
"A Methodist sisterhoOd has been Or
ganized in Cincinnati.
-Gounod is vegetarian, and has not
drank any wine for many years.
Charleston is to have Italian and
/ German opera.
San Francisco has organized q
! Handel and Haydn Society.
Most Of Nilsson's earnings are in
vested in real estate in Paris.
The Sultan intends to have his son
! educated in Vienna at private school,
The Colorado journals are out of pa
per in consequence Of the snow blockade
There are sixty-nine Jewish congre'
| cations in Italy, numbering AZ, $50 souls
Richmond is to have new evening
daily. to be edited by J. Harmer Gil
mer, jr.
Alexander of Russia receives a;
much for day as Grant does for veal
of official life.
No editor in Copenhagen receives
over one Thousand riX dollars (S5iO
salary.
The principal stockholder in the In
dependence Beige, is a young girl o
| seventeen.
"A gallery has Just been appropriated
to newspaper editors in tue French Leg
| islative Chamber.
"A 5000 monument is to be erected
over Sam HoustOn's grave, at Houston,
Texas.
Prince Metternich allows his butler
! thirty eervants and the salary Of Cen
eral Of Division.
M. Ricci's new opera, U1e 'Folie a
| Rome, has had q great success atthe Fan
tastes Psrisiennes.
-Liszt, at the Pope's request, is about
to rescue sacred music from its low es-
tate in Italy.
-Rossini's "Stabat Mater was per-
formed by an amateur society In Charles
ton, lately.
-Auber, 8ounod, Verdi and Wagner,
the four great composers, are worth to-
gether over 0O0, 600 francs.
| -Gounod is hard at work on his oritO-
| ri, st. Cecilia, which will be performed
/ in April neEt st Rome.
The Russian CHURCH doesn't allow
gas in its edifces, because ii Isn't men
toned by the fathers.
The Sioux call Sherman Walk-a'
! Hesp. They call Grant Whisky-heap
and Sheridan Cures-s- Heap.
Since the invasion Of the Papa
States. the Catholic Churches in Paris
| have given 1O5, ,OOO, 600 francs 70 the Pope
DIR. hudson bapiizsd the first Burmsr
| convert in 1915. Since that time more
than 10000 have been baptized.
Wagner has just completed lie third
part Of his great Operatic trllogy, tht
l Eibelungen.
Erie Opera Fisk is trying to secnre q
controlling interest in the New foih
! Times.
Victor Hugo has invited G4ribald
to take up hss sbode at his house IL
| Guernsey.
-Marshal McMahon tells the Algerian
editors that if they oppose his policy he'll
shoot them, press laws or none.
Alexander Dumas, senior, Is going t.
| start a daily paper in Madrid, which viii
be printed in French and Spanish.
The Presbyterians, as well as the
| Methodists, have ten different OrgsniZa'
tions in this country,
-Ofenbach Is busily engaged superin'
tending the rehearsal OF the lie Sdut d'
! Leucade," for the Varieties.
| Christianity was first brought h
! Scotland by st. NiDisn, who built hii
house OF Candida Casa, on the point o
Whithorn.
-Sol'Smith's property Is worth $780,
| coo, which is TO be divided equally
among his seven sons after the death o
! his widow.
| 1t is said that Victor Hugo will pub
| Iish 8 paper after all, lie RGppet, q u
Figaro, to which Il }chefort is to con
tribute.
M. dc Bismarck, Proceurer- Genera
and nephew Of the Court. has just mar
ried the daughter Of Berlin pastry
cook.
The Berryer monument fund hsl
reached 100 coo francs, and two statues
are proposed, one to the politician anC
the other to the advocate.
Rev. Joseph Wall, d. D OF Palmer
the oldest member OF the Massachusetts
Legislature, died last Monday week, ,age'
seventy eight.
The son Of a. New Ocleans banker i
to marry the Princess Carolina Bona
parte, the one furnishing the title, the
other the cash.
The orthodox Quakers OF this coun
try number 81 600. They have 76
churches that furnish sittings for 269 OO
persons.
The last libel suit sgsint the Cincin
nati Commercial for $4,000 damages
ended last week by a disagreement o
the jury.
-Holyoke, Mass, has 299 Frencl
families, with 1746 members, and an ef
fort is making to provide them with
French minister.
, In an Oregon paper births are men
: toned under the head Of "come;" mar
: riages fixed to stay" and deaths
"gone."
-Lsmbele displays her Versatility i
New Orleans by playing In "Orpheus
a Les Huguenots" I" Barbe Blue" an
La Prophete" on successive nights.
Cardinal Cullen, in his regulation
: for Lent, says that "Catholics, If Free
masons, RiEbonmen, or Feniaps, cAnno
be admitted to the saeraments."
The latest "oldsst Mason in th
world y is VIM. Hamlin, of Providence
who is niBety-seven years old, and wa
initiated sixty-fve years ago.
Dumas, pere, has been lowering hi
dignity by 8 reading tour in the proviu
ees with Vieuxtemps and Carlotta PAtt
and is now writing culinary articles fC
half-penny papers.
-Kossuth makes a living by copyiu
legal documents in Turin. He refuse
10 accept any money at the hands OF h
friends. Despite the low ebb at whic
his fortunes are now, he is still confider
that he will one day again be at Ii
head Of the Hungarian government.
Don Piatt mentions q rumOr that
serious difficulty has sprung up betwee
the French minister and his cOnfesso
The holy father gave his diplomatic il
iauity, as q penance, an order to read th
morning Washington Chronicle ever
day before breakfast. The minister r,
Dlied that he would see himself spiri
. ualIy condemned first.
Chang and Eug are married TO tw
sisters. the daughters OF an America
clergyman. Each brother has nine Chi
dren. The family of Eng consists
ak Sons snd three daughters the famil
of Chang consists of three sons and 81
daughters. Their first children wei
8 born within three or four dsys of eaC
other; the others at irregular interval
pl.o.ats psnfI, child Ogaa horn fhr,