Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-04
PERSONAL TELEGRAMS.

Henry Wand Beeoher fsvors the wo-
men'8 temperance movement.
Mr.. CYRUS w. Field is expected home
from Europe some time this month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cuffee, of Ashantee,
may possibly visit England during The
coming season.
Hon. A. G. Curtin and family,
Of Pennsylvania, are on visit to jack
sonville, Florida.
Governor Allen, of Ohio, with COM
mendable antipathy to deadheadism,
refuses to accept any free passes.
The late DR.. David Frederick Strauss
left two unfinished works, Life OF
Lessing and Life Of BeethoUeR.
Rev. Mrs. Van Colt is so popular in
Omaha that no church in town is large
eDOugb to contain the congregation
which she gathers.
DIR. George B. Loring, Of Boston will
deliver the Grafton before the literary
societies of Dartmouth college at the
next commencement.
Rev. DR.. John Hall is announced as
one of the speakers at the Indiana State
Sunday-schOOl convention, to be held at
New Albany, June Sd.
NJ. de Iesseps has had the good for
tune to secure a decree from the czar,
sauctiOning his scheme for the construc-
ton of a Central Asian railway.
The fortune left by the late Baron
Never de Rothschild, though not so
large as was expected, is likely to eX-
reed fifteen million dollars in gold.
A Pennsylvania man tried to work
,,oss ont of Tom Scott by writing him
fhat he used to know him when he,
Scott. peddled apples, but the pass
didn't come.
II Is runored in Washington city that
Judge Durell, of New Orleans, has au-
fhorized the tender of his resignation in
case the house judiciary committee re-
mort in favor of impeachment.
A Buffalo, New York, dispatch, re-
cefved late Monday night, reported EX-
President Filmore's condition slightly
imDroyed. His physicians think there
is a chance of his getting up again.
The O'Donoghue having been elected
in Tralee, Ireland, by a majority OF
three over the home-rule candidate, part
~ tbe town was draped in mourning,
and the local newspaper appeared with
black border.
President Eliot, it is reported, has not
,,ona to Europe so much to find sue
seassOr to a AgassiZ, as TO be present at the
annual examinations in Oxford and
Cambridge, and to gather thence hints
for the benefit of Harvard.
Some Hartford men rendered Mark
T~ain welcome supper, and the Dill,
amounting to two hundred and eight
dcIlars. was sent to him. He paid it,
With the remark that he'd rigidly ad-
here TO his own table hereafter.
A most unusual case of modest gen.
s.rositv has come to light in Boston. A
Gentleman who obstinately refuses to
have his name published has given
property valued at one hundred thou
sand dollars 70 the Boston university.
Miss Cecilia Cleveland, a niece of
Horace Greeley, an accomplished writer,
bas In tvpe a graceful and appreciative
volume entitled The Story ofG Summer,
Cr .L0,lrnl LedUeS from Chdppdqud
Miss Cleveland has spent some years III
Europe, and is a very fine pianist.
Rev. DIR. OsgoOd says that Agassiz,
not long before his death, declared that
he felt as never before the Importance OF
tbe movement in behalf Of the physical
education OF women. be was under
stood to be in sympathy with the views
ton.
MIR. Emerson, at the last meeting OF
tho overseers of Harvard college, de-
SIs,ad i'm favor of continuing the COM
nuIsory attendance of students on chapel
nTavers. He argued that prayer is the
highest act of the human mind, and
th9t II was not right to take away from
or 10 let Young men deprive themselves
of the benefit Of that act.
THE Mount SteIling (Ky.) Senttnet
Gives this notice OF marriagaole
S,onng female in Montgomery county:
"a v0ng woman in Slate, at party
sba other night, for twenty dollars, ate
Sr,SoIe roast pig, an entire stuffed turkey,
III rf an opossum, ten large corn-dOdg-
- snd drank a gallon of hard cider, at
80 sitfins. Her name is Miss Mary
Tana Gaverence, and she is plump and
-,Tatfv brunette, lively as a cricket"
paris letter, referring to the approach
- NFarch 18th, y hen the prince imperial
Iii attain his eighteenth year and be
- 80 IN govern, says: "for several
,,,oefhs mast the pOstOffice has been
shoUering millions upon millions OF
Ronanartist tracts, handbllis ana songs
--1ar The country. Provincial electors
roth I'm town and country, nave re-
ceiyed visiting cafuS peaii.6 ~ P.-.I'
ymneTialis photograph, and undernealh
tSa words. lao Mars, 1874; appel an l1eo-
g,ien And one cannot uaVel twenty
miles out of Paris without hearing OF
Roma RanansTtist agents at work, in every
village. as patiently and tsnaeiously as
new world pioneers"
Mrs. Eliza Gilpin, who died recenty,
at an advanced age, at her residence IN
PHILADELPHIA, was q native OF Natchl-
tocbas parish, louisiana; daughter OF
fhe late Or. Sibley; married IN carry
iifs Hon. Josiah s. Johnston, VINO was
tbeeIder brotherof Albert Sidney John,
ston, and was first q representative ana
tben q senator from Louisiana in Con-
gress. Judge Johnston was killed III
1881. bv the explosion Of the steamboat
Iioness, on Red river. Mrs; johnston
afterward married Hon. Henry D;
GiIpin, once mayor of Phila4slphia and
then acknowledgement. whilst re-,
siding in Washington, the deceSsea
lady was noted for her Intelligence,
beauty and the elegance of her man-
ners, and was one OF the chief orna-
ments Of Washington society.