Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-01-07
ITEMS.
Religious EiteFary- Artistic and
Theatrical.

-Mareiz B had poor season IN RaIi.
more.
-stEakosch IS trying to buy RossiDT4
I last msss.
The Yearbook Of the Unitarian AS
socistiOn is just out.
N apolenn expects 30 die OF 8 hunting
aoeitent. A gypsy told him so.
In France to one person who reads
g book one hundred 60 TO the theater.
"A German Presbyterian theological
school Lss been founded at Dubuque.
Miss Thackery Is writing 8 new SO.
rial for the C0THhiH, From an IslsHd." i"
The Pareps troup made SIS, coo in
gold by forty one nights OF opera in Cal.
ii0rnia.
Mr.. Ohorley, the eminent London
musical critic, is to write The art lie OF
Ro5sini.
An Evangelical Church mas been or
gan.zsd al Athens, o. the basis OF the
Nicine Greed.
The French put q higher estimate on
WHkie Collins - literary man than on
Charles Dickens.
Major Ben Perley Po0ra has been
elected President Of the Washington
Correspondents Club.
Sir Samuel Bakers Gew book is Cast
up Gy The Sea, aud il is dedicated to boys
from eight years old 10 eighty.
"A first rate box often sells at $1,000
Tor the first nights Of OHsnbach's operas
in Paris.
Verdi is said Go bs at work on q 'i Ro-
me0 and Juliet,N to be given at st. Pc
tersburg, with Nine. Patti.
Mr.. WilHam Chambers, the we'll
known publisher, has been reelected
Lord Provost Of Edinburgh.
Last year the damages done 10 the
crops in France by insects exceeded
Sl05 000 co.,
"A memorial window has lately been
set up in Westminster Abbey, over
ChaUceT'5 tomb.
Some gentleman Of Buffalo presented
Bishop Coke with q check for $500
Christmas morning.
Fourteen millions worth Of scclesias-
teal property has been sold in Italy
within year.
PATHS health is still subject Of Sc
rious anxiety. She has obstinate cold
and sore throat.
A volume Of Essays in Defence OF
Women has 5eeu published anonymous
Iy ia London.
The first number Of the Louisville
Commercial q daily Republican paper,
viii appear about the lsJ Of February.
-Parks G0dwln is sill in France and
hss nearly finished the third volume OF
his History Of France.
Sunday schools have been opened ia
many Ct the villages q Russia for the
instruction % the peasants,
-Benan's St. Paul is with the binder,
ia Paris, bat viii not BE- given to the pub
lie lill Marco.
The most ancient Of the plantations
laid out at Paris Is that Of the Champs
E.yssass Which goes bsck to 1916.
-T0ik, the Chicago sculptor, has q
statue Df q soldier now about completed,
for s. soldiers monument in Illinois.
The Russian clergy after long discus
sion, have decided that Sabbath Schools
are or.EC3ox, and may be permitted.
The church ct Woodstock, VI, has
voted TO have but one sermon on the
Sabbath, and that il the forenoon.
-KierolE formerly editor Of the secesh
Sentinel on the Border, has i'm press 3
work entitled Brick R0meroy JRDGsHsd.
j. Anthony FfoU3s, editor Of Fra-
-g7'a Magazine. is sSld 10 be the hand
souest literary man ia London.
There are I9f.0i5 Sunday school
scholars in the Protestant Episcopal
Church throughout the Z United States.
That $ =tss nurse, who poisoned nine
Of her patients for the fun Cf the thiBg,
has been sent to prison i0F twenty years.
A canal, that viii closely connect
Athens With Western Europe, is to be
cot through the IsihBus Of C0rin5b.
The veteran of German artists, the
PAINTER John Martin Won EnOdeD, died
recently in Rome, at the age OF ninety
one.
Col. @. Y. Henry has ready for PUB
icatiun q military history Of the officers
OF the regular army appointed from civil
lie.
DIR. Eoyes' translation Of jhs New
Testament, the last york of this accom-.
plished scholar and critic, viii be brought
Out next week.
The first Protestant church OF Cen.
trsl China was dedicated at Hankow 10y
the Bishop Of Victoria on the 27th O.
/ November.
-Uimsn, the manaeeg, used to say
that The hight Of his ambition vas q
make money enough cut Of an opera
season 10 buy twelve white shirts.
-D5Fo has executed q remarkable
draw ing ia black and blue pencil. oi
R0sslni IS he lay after death before being
placed ia the coffin.
"A band OF religious enthusiasts re,
Gently paTsded the streets Of Peckhsm,
near London, singing the hymn Come
20 God,n 10 the tune of " Tommy Dodd.H
An English Catholic paper prints q
list of two Arehbighops aud ten Bishops
shortly 10 he app0inte0 Catholic hier-
arcby in Scotland.
The Rector Of ST. James, Toronto.
has an income Of Sl2 O0O q year, and
this year, owing to t5s falling ia of s
lease, IL viii reach $40, ,000.
The Central Committee Of the Uni-
versal Israt iitish Alliance is al present
occupied III forming jewish library,
theological, literary and historical.
The United Presbyterian Board re.
/ ports z great falling of ia the contribu-
tion for foreign missions chiehya a result
I Of the Stuart difficulty.
az DL AAAEt S5fo MS new mover tsF
CE-eEu 10 five volumes, and relating TO
QGeen Anue's times, F" will contain Teve-
/ Iatious even for England"
The London EralaiH iHer says Mex
. Muller's style Is so pure that with the
+ minutest care readers W III fail to detect
an ldiOmatic error.
-Breugh, Dutch painter, drew one oi
I the Magi in g surpiice and spurs, pre-.
seuting Christ with q model Of q Dutch
! seVenty-fcug.
An actress now the rage Ia Paris IN
. the muslcal eEtravsgeLzs Chiideric, y
wears sb0.Ce0 worth Of diamonds in one
act, ana $40 600 turquoises in another.
Rev. Dr.. HsoEett, Of Newton, Is al
work on the translation OF the book oil
Exodus FOR the Eew Baptiss version. and
( Rev. DR.. ConRnt on the FsalE1s and Pro-
verbs.
The Second Baptist Church Of New.
mort. organized in 1856 is the third Oldest
Baptist ChuTeh in America, Six of its
ministers have died in Office aged eighty
( years and over.
--Au exchange says that Matilda
/ Heron will soon come 10 the public " IL
I the role Of lecturer Jan impulaiion
upon her sob-iety which we indidnantly
deny.
The allegorical figures, 'SColoniaI