Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-02-16
PERSONAL.

Miss KATE REYNOLDS made her
first appearance as a lecturer in BOs-
ton, on Thursday evening last. Her
lecture, entitled "Charles Reade and
his Works." was delivered in fremont
Temple, and was listened to by a very
large audience.
The Cincinnati Commercial says
Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson, who
has recently been called to Christ
church, on Fifth avenue, New York,
at a salary of $4,000, was formerly a
Underwater at a clearinghouse in
Cleveland, Ohio.
STEPHEN CURRY, aged one hundred
and two, who died recently at Ora
Evansville, Sullivan county, was born
at Tarrytown in 1770, and saw Major
Andre taken to WashingtOn's head
quarters, after his capture, under a
guard of horsemen.
GENERAL MACADARAs, a member
Of the French National Assembly, is
at the Fifth avenue hotel, in New
York. He was general OF the Irish
brigade in the francois German war,
and commanded the Second army Of
the Loire after General Chanzy's re-
tirement.
THE New York Star says: 'sThe
colOnelcy of the Ninth regiment is Of
fered to ]. G. Bennett. jr. 1Ir. Bennett
won't take it. 1t costs $4,000 q year
to be a colonel-that is, a liberal and
p~ublic-spirited colonel, and that's a
figure which Mr.. Bennett would re-
gard a rather steep for the return.
CHARLES LECoCQ, author of "Fleur-
de-The" and other successful opera
boufeS, has composed an Operetta, in
three acts, for the FOlies Dramatiques,
Paris. It is entitled "Gesier XIV"
{" Gizzard the Fourteenth The
words are by Jules MOinaux, author
of LES Deux S0urds."
CAROLINE RICHINGs has been g
great success with II. DrsytOn in mu-
steal dramas. The past week she was
in Rochester, opened in Pittsburg on
the 9th, and goes thence to Peters
burg, Norfolk, Richmond, and opens
in Boston on March 4. She then goes
to Chicago, and probably to CalitOr-
MIA.
Two Or THREE nights ago Steinway
Hall, New York, wa crowded to lis
ten to q lecture on "The Good in
James, Fisk, Jr.,n by ResenbUrg, tbs
well-knewn artist. Speaking Of the
strange career of the man, the lecturer
.discOursed, after q brief sketch, on his
vigorous brain, which was the prin-
cipal motive power in all his actions.
Underlying this motive power was a
yet much deeper quality. This
seemed an instinct of his heart, and
this was his singularly large and I'M
oStentatious liberality."
Mr.. JOHN BRIGHT, MP, has writ
ten a letter on the subject of home
rule in Ireland, in which he denies the
truth of a rumor that he is an advo-
cate of that measure now agitating
Ireland. He thinks that two legis-
lative assemblies or parliaments in
the United Kingdom would be On in
tolerable mischief" and that ''nO
sensible man can wish for two within
the limits Of the present United King
dom who does not wish the United
to become two or more ma.
lions, entirely separate from each
other" This conclusion, by the way,
is Just what most Irishmen and the
friends OF home rule, as 1t is called,
u6SI6s L
ABALFIMORE correspondent says oil
Mrs. Wharton: $50 strong Is the feel
ing against her here that it is under
stood that Mrs. Wharton has engaged
quarters in Annapolis to await her
trial in April for the alleged attempt
to poison MI. Van Ness. The prose
will, it is understood, push this
case with vigoI, and not a few sntiei-
pate it may result in conviction. 1t
should be stated, however, that the
counsel for Mrs. Wharton and their
are confident that she is a
Wronged and innocent woman;
and l hear that Mrs. Ste,3e proposes
give her a reception and at an
day, and o strike of from her
visiting list all who fail to attend.
This shows that the unfortunate wO-
man is not without strong adherents,
sven IN a community $50 very hostile
o her.O