Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-01-20

lSl2, IL IN PItsburg, Pa, on Fri
day.
Samuel Hoar, son of Attorney-Gen
eral HOar, is soon to marry Miss
Laura Wise, n of the bellies of Balti-
more.
Father Hyacinthe is reported en-
gagged on an essay entitled the "The
Role of Religion in Democratic SOcie-
ties"
Porter is consulting the tailors on
another change Of naval uniform, in
stead Of combining himself to mortar
practice.
The parricidal Prince Imperial is
said to have executed his mothers
bust and hung his fathers picture in
his room.
Gen. Beauregard has invented ma
chinery for p%rOpelling cars and boats
by overhead wire or rope, with sta
tiOnary power.
De Lesseps is writing his own ac-
count OF the Suez Canal. He means
to have one of his accounts, at least,
on the right side.
DR.. James Prince Lee, Bishop OF
Manchester, (Eng.), since the creation
of the See, in 1913, died on Christmas
Eve, at the age of Is.
ROchefort, having fortified himself
with a mess of frogs, has put on his
war paint and continues to brandish
his tomahawk at the Bonapartes.
Gen. Grant is deaf to the ~entreaties
Of Mrs. Sherman on behalf of her
brother, Gen. Ewing, who wants to re-
main at the Hague until nextspring.
David and Annie Watkins, who
lived together as man and wife tor
ifty-seven years, died last week at
Warren, Mass, and were buried in
one grave.
Hon. Chas. O'Connor, of New York,
is receiving great attention from the
prelates and other high dignitaries at
Rome. He had a special reception
from the Pope.
Henry Ward Beecher says that al
most every scrape into which ne ever
fell has been In consequence of at
tempting to befriend some unpopular
cause or some unfortunate man..
Samuel Chandler, Esq, father Of
Senator Chandler, who died at his
residence in Bedford, n. H, on the
evening of the llth inst, was g5
years, Z months and IA days old.
Gen. Robert E. Lee and some of the
Trustees Of Washington College will
attend the funeral of Mr.. Peabody,
by invitation of the Committee of
Arrangements, in Peabody, Mass.
Mr.. Gilbert Rhett, formerly aide-de-
camp on Gen. StOnewall Jackson's
staff, is to be married, on the 26th
inst, to Mrs. Bailey, Of New York
city. The wedding viii take place on
Rhett's plantation in Virginia.
Hon. Robert c. Schenck, of Ohio,
is the "Father of the House." He
entered it in 1913, and (having been
out from 1851 TO 1868 is now serving
his eighth term. 1t is time ne was
reprieved; but then he is such an old
offender!
Bishop Chase, of New Hampshire,
although feeble from illness, attended
the Episcopal church in Claremont,
\. H., on Christmas, and stated that
il was the siXtieth Christmas consecu-
lively on which he had been present
at service.
Napoleon, besides his own box at
the theaters, has also Il iOQe de service,
used by the household and distin-
guished foreigners; for these he pays,
at the Grand Opera, $20,000 per year;
at the Opera COmique, Italiens and
Francois, $1,000 each; Gymnase, $1,000;
OdeOn, $1,000. AT the other theaters
he pays 500 a box whenever he goes
TO them.
Lady Harrietta Cowper, widow of
Count d'Orsay and wife Of the Hon.
Charles Spencer COwper, has Just died
IN Paris. She was a daughter of the
famous Lady BlessingtOn, and her
separation from Count d'Orsay soon
after marriage was attended with cir
cumStanceS which involved her moth
er in very ugly scandals.
THE ADVANCING FEMALE.
The best parlor game-cOurting.
Wyoming now claims one thousand
women voters.
Hon. Mrs. Yelverton passed through
Salt Lake City last week.
Harriet H0smer's estate foots up
one hundred and fifteen thousand
dollars.
MILDLY Morgan is the female who
reports the cattle-market for the New
York Times.
Ellen Wood is the pretty little dam
sci who writes shorthand for Henry
Ward Beecher.
In Buffalo, about nightfall, may be
seen several young women acting as
street lamplighters.
A bill has been introduced into the
New Mexico Legislature, granting the
of suffrage to females.
King Louis, Of Bavaria, intends to
marry his mistress-a young actress of
great beauty and little talent.
a young Kentuckian has literally
- gone back on" his family by marry
ing his grandmother sister.
Vermont ladies think the divorce
of that State need tinkering.
That is because they break them too
A Tennessee girl, in order to make
a sure thing of it, allowed two young
men to take out a license to marry
her.
A young married lady attempted to
choke herself recently because her
husband had been out for two nights
after I2o'cleck.
In spite Of Isabella's denials, there
Is said to be no doubt whatever that
she took the Spanish crown diamonds
with her to Paris.
Chicago statistics show that the di-
fever is at its hight among the
wives in July, and among the hus-
bands in November.
Chicago has a fresh divorce case, In
a vile of only one day'sexperi-
ence is plaintiff. She declares that
her lord abuses her shanefully.
The Paris Project of Police received
last year over two thousand applica-
ions for permission to open nseisOas
le tolerance (houses of ill-fame.)
The statement that Miss Anna E.
Dickinson is about 10 take charge of
hat fiery and altogether potentous Z
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