Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-19
THE NE WS.

mOre. her unfortunate Illness mas qulte
broken up her concert arrangements,
and it Is doubtful whether she will APP
pear in public again before next fall,
when she hopes to import into this coun-
try a irst-class English opera troupe.
The Columbus (Ga Sun says it learns
from q private letter received by q gen.
tleman in that city, that Raw. D. P. Bes-
tor, one of the most eloquent and infhu-
entail ministers of the Baptist denomi-
nation in Alabama, died in Mobile on
the 9th inst.
"a History Of the Good Templars,"
containing an accountof the origin and
growth OF this order of temperance re-
formers, written and published.by New
ton Pierce, will be ready the last Of the
month, from the press of ]. B. LiPpin-
colt & Co., Philadelphia.
-Ex-President Jefferson Davis says
in a recent letter to q gentleman in New
Orleans: at has been my purpose to re-
turn this spring to Whist was my home,
and II permitted to do so, without in
jury or embarrassment to my friends, to
engsge in some business which may
yield q support"
In the New York Legislature,
Thursday morning, the Rev. nr. Beld-
ing, In his opening prayer, besought the
Ruler Of the universe TO "thwart the de-
signs OF those who loiter about the halls
of the Legislature with bribery in their
hands, and, still worse, with bribery in
their hearts, to corrupt the Representa-
tives of the people, and promote wicked
legislation"
CHARLES Il. Wilder, confirmed IS
Postmaster al Columbia, s. c., was 8
slave until after the breaking out of the
war, and up to the time of gaining his
freedom worked at his trade es q eArpen-
ter. Since then ne has been Deputy
United States Marshal and member OF
the Legislature. He is represented as g
tall, well made, good looking mulsttO,
possessing q fair education and a good
character. His Office is worth $1,000 per
anDum
The distillery of Cassidy, Gilmore &
Co., at Lewisburg, Mason county, KY,
was destroyed by fire on Saturday night,
and the Gistiller, an old man named
Smith, from Cincinnati, met bis death
in the flames. It ia not known how the
fire originated, some suFmising that it
caught from the engine, snd some that
it proceeded from the roona& Smith,
where there was q fire and s lamp, and
Smith himself is known to have been
under the influence of liquor that night
"A writer in the Paris GauIois says
Mile Christina Nilsson, the greatest ap-
cratic artistic now in Paris, if not il Eu-
is t~Wenty-four years OF age, with
deep blue eyes, and q dreamy smile shed
ding q flood of light over her face, which
hears q strange yet charming expression.
Her light blonde hair harmoniOusly
crowns a square and expansive forehead,
end her complexion is of that wilderness
peculiar to the daughters Of the North.
There is in her person something OF a
child, OF a fairy, and OF an appsrition.
"A writer in the WatchmGn and Re
says that soon after ths American
revolution the sister of Richard Lac, Of
Virginia, then q widow, possessed OF
landed interests in r chmond, |
q letter, still preserved, il which,
with the skill Of an advocate, she asked
what became of the doctrine on which
the colonies commended for Independence,
. No taxation without representation"
II women paying large taxes had NJ
representation, while = beardless boy,
he was q male and twenty, one, |
had a controlling vote in governmental
affairs.
Two prominent planters in Barbour
Ala, have entered this spring
lpon a series Of experiments in cotton
with different kinds of msuures
and seeds, and a pretty heavy wager had
been laid between them on the result of
heir experiments. Each planter is to
but one acre OF ground, aud use
he manure and seed of his choice, and
me q tbat raises the largest amount OF
iEt cotton on his acre is to take the
The one has planted the Peeler
cotton seed, and ia using the Peruvian
,uano; the other has planted the Dick.
on seed, and is using only the manure
generated about the barnyards and sta
lies.
Mrs. O'Neii, near Bradford, Smith
Virginia, committed suicide
Monday evening last, by drowning her
The Abingdon HiTgiRi0n- says:
She had gone three miles from her
lome-lRid her bonnet and shawl upon
limb, near the bank Of a mill dam,
threw herself eff the bank, about
even feat above the water, into water
on seven or eight feet deep. Before
IOing so, she had tied her feet together
Tery securely, and her hands with her
handkerchief, tueking the corners OF the
under the folds SO as to
veil secure them. No cause has been
ssigned for this cad affair. She had
so far as we are Informed, evinced
ny signs Of insanity and her family
Citations were Of the most pleasant
h~aracter." {
Sir Joseph Ollife died recently in
'sris. he had an extensive practice in ]
families, and was frequently {
.eked to sdvise them in the most deli f,
ate circumstances. He was by birth an
rishman, Of excellent family. One of !
is brothers is, or was until recently, q
roman Catholic bishop In Ireland. Ae.
idsnt ~befriended him soon after he made {
'Aris his home. He happened to live in Z
he same house with Princess de Lieyen.
night she was suddenly seized with
o violent an illness it became of the ut .
nost Importance to procure the nearest :
medical adviser. A servant had heard !
hat an Eoglish physician lived in the c
ouse. He was summoned. He made c
favorable an impression that the Prin- c
ess de Lievsn kept him for her physi-
ian, and blew his trumpet 80 loudly
mong her friends, that he leaped almost
lstantIy into 3 fashionable and lucrative
A,
"A certain English actress, who =
alues herself quite as highly as others :
0, was lately ~telegraphed TO In the 9
Vest 70 know her terms for playing the 8
art OF " Miranda in the Tempest At Z
he Twenty-third street Opera House.
he replied zone thousand dollars a |,
eek, third OF the house clear once o a
eek one thousand dollars to break an :
lgagement in ST. Louis, and railroad Il
Zpanses for three people from New Or e.
sns:o The manager replied /: an ii. q
n-Your terms are much too low. Yla
AL have all that comes in the hou e G
r. Fisk will present you with the .,
pera House and 200 miles Of the ErIe y
besides what personal property "
has accumulated In 6 life Of toll and
lf-denial also, all what he may make s
r the next five years. which, IL We Ia
ay judge By the past, will be no incou- y
amount. If these terms ii
ouId not meet with your appreciation p
may be possible to make Gould give "a
what little be bias, that the light Of "
ur refulgent genius may not be lost to O,
e stage.n :;
The "Colissum," which they are rs
ilding In Boston for Gilmore's absurd Il