Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-01-25
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

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NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.
1t ia stated, to the credit Of Hon.
Garret Davis, that he has allowed no
! other person than himself TO use his frank.
We have recent trustworthy infor-
nation from Paris to the effect that
hoops are 10 longer in use there and
/ that the pdaieT is almost unknown in
good society.
Next week Roberts Brothers will
publish letters of two OF the best letter
writers who ever iived-Lsdy MOntsgu
and Madame S~evigne. The new edition
is edited by Mrs. Sarah J. Hale.
DIR. Hoffman argues, IN the Pacific
Medical and Surgical Journal, that
the use Of tobacco, Uy impeding the cir
culstion and preventing the free ana
natural supply or nourisbment 10 the
hair, occasions badness,
Mr.. Booth Is personally suDerinteDd-
ing the arrangements for n opening Of
his new theaIsr, which viii be Opentd
by the most brilliant ana distinguished
audience seen in New York for years.
! The choice seats viii obtain fabulous
prices at the auction.
Hartford r~ejoices In a new opera
house, which WAS opened last evening
by q dramatic company, OF which john
Z. Ovens was the star. Next week Mr..
/ and Mrs. Barney Williams viii begin an
engagement there. Hartford is getting
along in the weird.
-Forney says that mo reAscting
gtatesman has ever contended Tor the
..---Frng TgfronahTa1p nrr fF rna an.
thaIs Of the rebellion" That's the way
ne tr&duce5 the memory OF Thac. Ste
yens for the sake Of making his Southern
farms sell.
-Mormonlsm is likely to have an III
comfortable time OF u il Mr.. Ashley's
bill passes through Congress. It VIII Of
~fectuslly dismember Gt2E, take away
piece alter piece OF the Territory, sp0
giving TO Colorado, Nevada, Montana,
and Wyoming, Brigham Young wall find
mis- premises 50 contracted that instead
Of g State he will rule ovet q township.
Every few months we see E HeW IL
dicatIOD OF The great and growing wealth
Of the Masonic Order in this country, |
especially il the erection Of costly and
elegant Masonic Temples" 1t 10 re-
ported now that the Michigan Mssons
propose 10 erect IN Detroit q grand Ma
sonic Temple, to cost $500, O0O, exclusive
OF the site, aud to establish IN connection
with it q library and art gallery.
The toilet worn ~ Eugene On the
day she left COmDiegHs was = chameleon
silk, red, brown Ii black shades. The
weather was lovely and the sun quite
warm. Her mantle was q kind of Hun
gsrian cloak, OF tack velvet, Tlchiy
braided with gimp aud trimmed win
hf.aE lana. h.r T-aThgva IN E.g ga4uar
diadem hat were suited TO the shsdes Of
her SILK robe. Her fayorile color I'll
present is tobacco or cigar.
The editor Of the Galveston, Texas,
Bulletin, has read a letter frOn 3 promi-
nent Texan now in Washington
70 q friend ia Texas, from which
he is permitted TO make the fol-
lowing extract; Il hsve just seen
and converted with Gen, Grant
on the situation Of affairs IN Texas. Gen.
Grant expressed himself decidediy
against dividing the State. He said the
Convention had 10 authority 70 DO SO,
and was bringing the Republican party
Of TexasintO disrepute and further, thAt
it might be necessary 10 keep Texas ii
military custody for an indetiaIte Pc
Rod"
"A Washington special Of Saturday
says The bill which WAS agreed upon
to-day by the Banking CommIttee,
against allowing National Banks 10 loan
money and take gceenbscks as collateral
security, although IL was objected 10 this
morning, will be brought before the
House On Monday, and IT is believed II
Will pass. the committees OF bOth
Houses, who have the matter IN charge, |
are strongly urged by iesdiDg financial
men TO secure the adoption OF legislation
that will put y stop 10 the practices Of
loaning money on greenoack collsJerals, |
and break up the speculative combina-
tiOns.
A correspondent O! the New York
Times writes from LONDON, January ii
Mr.. Dickens reads for the first time in
public, next Tuesday, Tie scene from
!" Oliver Twist u describing the murder
Of Nancy Skies. The reauing produced
an extraordinary effect when It wes
given in private Dy way Of experiment.
The audience consisted Of most Of the
actors and sstresses Of the day. 81
never saw anything TO equal it-it was
the grRndeet piece OF scJiug sean IN our
day, and casts all Mr.. Dickens former
efforts far into the shade" SO g very
popular actress told me, who was herself
the idol Of English audiences for many
years. / shall endeagOT 70 give some &c
count of next Tuesdays resding.
"A letter from Gen. John {. Breek
inridgs, dated Niagara, Outario, January
I3, hiss been received by L Of his friends
in Columbus. Ga. He says 81 hope to
cave Canada in q few weeks and return
to nav former home" Fhe following IN.
cident. is also mentioned about his c5l-
Ored servant: Thomas wen VITA me
to Cuba. he gszed on the Atlantic
ocean with a~mszsmeDt, and was ia great
terror when we launched our little boat,
but his fidelity proved stronger than his
fears, and be embarked With nee. I8uc-
ceeded 10 sending him back to his friends
from Havana, although he wished TO re-
main with me, and declared that If l ever
returned, he would find me out and live
with me. The last l heard Of him he
was solicited to become q candidate for
some convention In Arkansas, but after
inquiTing what q convention was, he de-
clined the HONOR
Henry G. Bowen, editor Of the New
York Independent, in his reply to Gree
Jeyis financial letter, makes this eXtrsor-
diusry avOwal / can at this moment
name ten men wbe could and probably
would arrange, within one week after
resumption on your plan, TO take out Of
the market from $4,000 600 to $780,
600, 600 OF gold and lock it up behind bolts
and bars so tight that no power on earth
but q military power could touch 1t.
This would cause a panic here such as
never was known In the history OF the
world. There are men here whose busi-
ness operations amount to hundreds of
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