Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-23
CURRENT NEWS.

The Holy See may be transferred to
Belgium.
Boston contributes $1,000 for the
suffering French.
Two children were burned TO death
ar Clinton, ILL.,, on Sunday last.
Gladstone denies that he ever criti-
cised the habltull conduct Of the Pope.
Harry Flash, the poet, is in Calves
ton, Texas, dealing in pork and poetry.
ms. Beulah Evans Wilson is said
90 De wTiiug another cyclOpedian
novel.
GrfHaIdians have been ordered out
oi Nice. They are said to be not
nice fellows.
An unknown man, hailIng from
Mobile, committed suicide in Louis
vile Cl Monday.
All the Temperance Societies of
Mass7ch chusetts are combining for more
effective WlEE.
The people q Mississippi will not
allow negroes to ride in the cars with
white passenger,
Miss 5slIie A. Brock, Of Virginia,
is engaged upon new collection OF
Southern war poetry.
Mrs. Martha Hsiues Butt Bennett,
of Virginia, q popular writer Of juve-
nile literature, D. dead.
The Pres dent has signed a bin to
provide for territorial government
Tor the District Gt Columbia.
Charles Dimitry, author Of "The
Old House Il BsliOur Street" is upon
the editorial staff OF the Washington
PHriOt.
Governor AIc0Tn has very properly
vetoed the bin 90 prevent railroad
companies from running trains on
Sunday.
one hundred persons appeared in
the New Orleans procession which
represented the characters in Spen-
GERS % Fairie Queen"
Ada Earle, a servant girl Of Pitts
burg. was Oh Monday fatally shot by
an assassin who fred at her through
the kitchen window.
Yesterday was very generally OBJ
served as Ash Wednesday. la al
the cities of the country the Catholics
and Episcopalians held services.
John r. Thompson, formerly editor
Of the Literary Messenger, and a poet
,f same note. Is ON the editorial staff
OF the New York EUeping Post.
The auth0r 81 Valerie Aylmer,
50 Christian Read, " is said to be Mrs.
Rattie johnson, OF North Carolina.
A new novel is promised by her, 10
make its appearance soon.
Mrs. Bates, Of Spllville, Iowa, gave
birth the other day 10 four healthy
children at one fell sWOOp. The Spill
willie Bateses. 10 would seem, are lit
Sic inclined 70 put on heirs.
The As.g MJHtF'y Magazine is the
title Of nGW literary venture, issued
10y the publishing house Of the Meth
Odist Episcopal Church South, with
the Rev. W. p. Harrison, ID. D., as
editor.
Grant Is iu favor Of woman suffrage.
He thinks that, iB order TO secure his
reelection 10 the Presidency, it is nee
essary only to give bis political friends
the bayCnet and their wives the
ballot.
Swinburne, they say, hss developed
into a "red republican" and is de-
voting bis poems to the eX8ltati0n OF
revOiutiOuists and revolutionary
principle. His +" Songs Before Sun
rise" Is dedicated 10 MsZzini.
PanOl2 county has placed an iron
bridge aCrOss the Tallahatchie river
at the town % Pamela, 80 feet in
length and erected 100 feet Of wooden
trestle work in the approaches, at
cost Of Slj, 900. Some public spirit In
all that.
Anna Dickinson fatty told the Chi
cagO folks, when some Of them +" got
up and got" before she was through,
that she regarded it as a sign Of very
poor breeding. The people who re-
mained in their seats applaUded en-
Enthusiastically.
Mrs. Jane Rollins Randolph, wife
Of Colonel Thomas Jefferson Ran
dOlph, and daughter Of the late Gov
ernOr Wilson Cary Nicholas, died at
the residence Of her husband. in Al
bemarIe county, Virginia, on the lgsh
inst, in the seventy-fourth year Of
her age.