Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-01-14
PERSONALS.

Francis de Haes Janvier, the poet,
is soon TO marry the daughter Of DR..
Sims, of Philadelphia.
Secretary Robson will be married
on the 18th instant, and Will occupy
the Willard mansion, on K street
Washington.
The Emperor of China Is TO be ms
rled soon. His bride is economical,
If not handsome. Her dresses cost
only 81, 600, 900.
Andrew johnson says that q man
with & middle name, especially one
weak enough to write it ont, viii
never amount to snything.
Victor Caponl has been engaged for
a season of two years in st. Peters
burg, beginning in 1873. The next
season ne viii sing in London.
Senator Chandler gave his daughter
Minnie, who was recently married to
Congressman Hale, of Maine, a house
worth $4,000 as a wedding present.
The Right Rev. DR.. Smith, who
was the first Protestant bishop Of
Hong.K Kong, and had charge of that
see fifteen years, died recently in
England.
Mr.. John Bright, n. p, is about 10
receive a handsome ebony cabinet
containing a collection of the choicest
art pottery, from his admirers in the
StsfiOrdshire Potteries.
Sir Charles Dixie, on visiting Paris,
the other day was greatly ast0nished
to find the myrmidOns Of the Theirs
government watching him as an ennis
sary OF the commune.
Mr.. Henry Ward Beecher has pub
lished a little temperance pamphlet,
entitled Liberty and Love--An APP
peal to the Conscience to Danish the
Wine Cup"
The death at Paris is announced
of Baron de P0sant, at the age lO2
wears. He had been page to Louis
XIV, and was imprisoned during the
Reign of Terror, but made his escape
70 Holland.
The mansion Just erected for Mr..
George w. Childs, of the Philadelphia
Ledger, on the corner of Walnut and
Twenty-second streets, Philadelphia,
is said to be q OF the finest private
Al Alb MOElu.
Count KaroIyi, the recently an
pointed ambassador st Berlin, has se-
cured for himself and his retinus of
thirty servants, part OF the Butcher
palace, for which he has agreed to pay
$4,000 a year rent.
The London correspondent of the
Paris Gaulois, "a Frenchman, OF
cOurse), in n of his recent letters
speaks of t'Sir Delke ct Hodger. " by
whom are meant the republican ora.
tors, III Ohsrles Dixie and Mr.. 0dger.
Gouuod's new cantata, aeaallia,''
described as q lamentatiOn referring
to the misfOrtunes of France, has been
produced at the Paris Opera OOmiQue,
with fine accessories of scenery, COS.
tune and tableaux, and has been
warmly received.
London, says Mr.. Justin Mccarthy,
In the Evening Mail, Is Just now dis
cussing a coming marriage in high
life, to which the contracting parties
are William Henry Gladstone, son Of
the prime minister, and Miss Morley,
daughter of Samuel Morley, NJ. p, Of
Bristol.
The Queen OF Prussia has invited
the English Laureaute, Tennyson, TO
visit Berlin. The Queen Augusta Is
said to be the most intelligent sover-
eign IN Europe, more Of a diplomat
than her husband, aud not an uneuua.
match for the Premier, whom she has
frequently conquered in political in
trigue.
II 10 nrorosad n aroot . wt -
the poet COwper in the church OF his
place, Great Birkhampstead,
Hertiordshlre, OF which his father was
rector. Is will be In the form Of an
east window, immediately over the
grave OF the poets family, In the
really magnificent and recently re-
stored parish church. ~
Mr.. W. ". COrcoran, the Washing
ton banker, has Just returned from
Europe, A letter which ne wrote
home to his agent closed by directing
the customary annual contribution of
IA holiday dinner 10 each OF the orphan
asyiums ia Washington, and one hum
dred dollars in cash on New Years.
The late Charles Babbage, the emil
nent mathematician, died worth
ADONE SLUGtOOOY Un0 0CAOC0NuCA 70 nl1
son Henry, for his own absolute use
and disposal, his calculating machines
and the machinery, tools, models and
Of every kind relating there
10, and all the contents and materials
OF his work rooms.
Mr.. John Macgreg0r, Of Rob Roy
canoe fame, has been devoting q little
time 20 observing the habits Of Lon
don crossing-sweepers. He finds that
they earn very good wsges indeed,
the boys averaging thirty cents an
hour, the women nearly a dollar an
hour and the men about fifty cents an
hour, But IL should be remembered
that the business Is not very brisk q
large part OF the time.
The Baltimore sun Of January I'd
v "The Most Rev. Archblshipl
SpaldiDg, who has been confined to
bis room for some time past from 3 Sc
rfons bronchial affection, grew worse
IN Sunday. and Yesterday the PRAYER |