Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-09
1910
PERSONAL.

James Gordon Bennett is engaged :
a Washington belle.
Thiers does not want to be Presiden
for life. Life is too short.
Father Ryan, the "poet priest" Of tn
South, is on his way TO Rome.
Mrs. Carl Formes has Joined the pes
tiferOus army Of women lecturers.
Mrs. Abby Sage Mcfarland Richard
son is reading dramatically to the Colo
radisns.
Rev. F. P. Lowe, brother Of Rober
Lowe, Chancellor Of the English Ex
chequer, is dead.
Some Of the new issue Of revenue
stamps are 10 be ornanented with pic
ture Of Thad. Stevens.
Joaquin Miller's father was In business
in Cincinnati many years ago, and there
married the poets mother.
Fred. Grant il going 10 be married
early next year, TO Miss Wright, daugh-
OF the late General Wright Of the United
States army.
Ira Paine, a New York sportsman, Il
going to sue Mr.. Bergh for one thousand
dollars damages for interfering with hi.
pigeou-natch.
That solemn idiot, BlantOn Duncan,
has cast a gloom over the entire country
by a contradiction Of the report that he
had sailed for Europe.
Colonel Higginson ssys that one pc
culiarity Of Hawthorne was that he
never spoke Of & literary work Of his
Own unth il was finished.
Ralph Waldo Emerson and his eldest
daughter sailed for Europe q few DAYS
since. They intend to travel in Eng
land, Italy Greece and Egypt
c. c. Flint, the "Druid'' correspond
ent Of the New York World during the
war, is writing London letters FOR that
journal, over the signature Of "Picca-
Oily"
Mr.. Edmund Winston Henry, the
youngest and last Of the sons OF Patrick
Henry, died recently in the county Of
Charlotte, Virginia, in the seyenty-ninth
year Of his age.
Johl Wesley, at the age Of seventeen,
wrote; "I do not remember to have
felt l0wness Of spirits for one-quarter Of
an hour since I was born" He didn't
marry until after he was over seven
teen.
keenan,, late ofthe New York Tribune.
has succeeded Joseph J. Bingham o. ed
itor Of the indianapolis Sentinel. The
change is a triumph Tor Young Ameri-
ca, Mr.. Keenan, being only seventeen
years Of age.
Rev. DR.. Sunderland, Of Washington,
D. C., threatens TO exclude newspaper
reporters from the benefit Of his ser
mons. The Washington Sdr advises
him not to do it, saying his sermons will
lose half their elOquence il he hasn't a
reporter in his eye.
\ cOuntryman snd his wife srose and
left the thesJeT, the other night, Just as
'Lucca' was commencing the disrObing
scene, thinking that the free manner in
which she went at il pOrtended things
uuDeet for modest eyes to look upon. In
point Of fact, " Iucca - is one Of the
modestest, eouectest women on the
stage.
DR.. Hulse, a prospective candidate
for Mayor in Cairo, is also hos -
doctor, his speciality being bolts. His
treatment is thus described by the Bsg-
lCtiH: " The horses head is turned
toward the sunrise, ald, after cere- (
mOuy Of the weird description, the
curer makes three points toward the |
east, and says: Go, bottsp and the |
bolts go.'
DR.. Caruthers. CT Inverness. has given 1
his authority 10 the correspondent Of ths
fgdependeGf for saving that Robert I
Chambers was not the author Of the .
% Nestiges Of Creation % although he
had a hand in It. II Chambers, then, /
was really present and took an active
part when the world wss created be and |
susan 3. Anthony are the only sur
viyors Of the event.
Having escaped the gallows, Mn.
Laura Fair is now making a determined
effort % save her money, and has re-
Dudiated Judge CUNTS little bill Of
eight thousand seventy-five dollars for
legal services. She declares that Il Il
he quint-essenCe Of meanness to charge
= poor, lone woman such an outrageous
Zee, and that the Judge is no great
shakes as lawyer, anyhow. The
Judge has brought suit.
Miss Sarah Church Stetson. an artist
If much merit, who returned last spring
rom q years sQjourn in Europe, died
very suddenly az the house Of q friend
N Chelsea, a few days ago, Of malig-
lant smallpox. Such was the violence
# the disease and the terror it excited,
hat She, who had given pleasure and
lrotit % 50 many who had loved the
'eautiful, was buried silently and at
midnight, with none 10 follow her to the
rave but those men Of death whose
-ery faces make us tremble-the under
aker and the graye-digger.