Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-12-26
PERSONAL.

The PieSans have killed an Indis
3 sgent. Thus the "whirDgig Of time,
etc.
3 The Leghorn newspapers speak vii
praise Of Miss Emma Howson's "Am
nR."
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Is draw
Ing large and fashioAabie houses"
Texas.
The first volume OF Bryant's Ristoy
Of the United States will be ready /
January.
Tne Duke Of Edinburg is writing
comic opera in three acts for the benef
OF "the men who laugh"
Sothern's final London perform ancC
previous TO hts return TO America, wi
begin on Christmas night.
DR.. Berch&nd is Tracks successor. q
says: Never smoke more than thre
or four pipes or cigars day."
The late Mary Diamond, OF PhiIadel
phia, left sixty thousand dollars to chal
liable and religious institutions.
A prose romance by Robert Buchan
an, the poet, is to run through YAe Gen
ttemon's Magazine.
Oakley Hall is not quite new to tb
boards, having played In New OrIean
for year when still quite young man
w. j. Florence and Barney William
contemplate Leasing the Grand opera
house In New York city for a term o
years.
Before the committees were named il
congress. lote of them cried, "Sunss
Cox " Next day they cried, "Cox'l
SUMS set.n
Miss Brsddon has written thirty-thre.
novels. AS a worker enc isn't what sh,
would De with the ''r' out Of her name
by any mears.
Sunrise Dana is conducting g revival
In Virginia. To avoid errors, IL should
be stated that this is not the Mr, Dana
Of the New York Sun.
"Mount OSss," the residence OF the
late Mrs. John Z. Calhoun, near Pen.
dleton, South Carolina, was aold recent.
ly for three thousand dollars.
A Racine editor calls Olive Logan
'the pride Of the PLATFORM" and gfIds
the compliment with the remark that
"she has been SO for forty years.n
Charles Morton, who was manager of
the Soldepe troupe in their tour through
this country, and who still has that or
Ranization in London, has been declared
q bankrupt.
The Crown Princess OF Prussia will be
presented with q wreath OF finely tinted
autumn leaves, prepared and framed
by the students of the art colleae at
Syracuse, New York.
The New York Herald has q "happy
thought" Let Charlotte Cushman en-
ploy her leisure moments In writing her
recoliections Of the stage. she could
make an interesting book.
MI. E. L. Davenport, the actor, refused
to pay local hcsDss fee Of five dollars
for playing IN Norriatown, Psnnsylvs-
MIA, q few days since, and was fined
hundred dollars by magistrate.
MIR. Lsmuel MIX, Of Kan kakes, ILL.,
nois. came on best Ia q terrific pertonal
encounter . day or two ago. Tbs assziI-
ant got new ideas, doubtless, regarding
the quality Of the MIX OF human kind
ness.
A wealthy New Haven family is hunt.
ing for an unknown woman who boughs
for few cents q fifteen hundred dollar
shawl, which accidentally got among
some articles sent 10 the auction-room
last week.
The New York doctors say that
Charles O'Conor's case is the most re-
mErkable ever known there, and ia surs
to become historical. Ths historian
mustn't forget to say that the patient re-
fused his medicine regularly.
John Forster, in preparing for his
Life Of Jonathan Ss0ift, had among other
things moro than one hundrsd and
1ty unpublished letters Of Swift, who
Is completely rehabilitatsd, not to say
Professor L. Corrsdi CollIerf, French
5wiss by birth, and successful teacher
'f vocal nusic In Washington, District |
If Columbia and formerly Of Cincin- |
lsti), has gone to Kentucky to enter |
he monastery Of the Trappists.
General Doubledsy's "reminiscences of |
Fort Sumter will be published ut once,
md viii contribute much to the early |
history OF the war. General Doubleday /
totes in his preface that of the eleven |
'fhcers In the garrison, only four are
live.
Colonel John Hay has been appointed
y the United States Centennial com.
at PhilAdelphia to dslivsr, on
he second Of July naxt, an Grafton on
he life and character Of Richard Liv-
DgstoD, prominent signer OF the Dec.
Aration OF American Independence.
Princess Louise, in distributing prises
t girlt'Ihiehs-chool, recently, offered
dditionsi prizes for Engliah compost
ion, and for keeping accounts, As abe
Considered that every woman should
'e able to keep her household accounts
DIRECTLY and write good business let
er."
In its glow of indignation over the
dosel explosion, the st. Louis Times
xclsims: "Will Conway or DR.. Hol-
and, or any othe1man, maintain that
here is no hell for the wrstch who tried
o blow up the steamer Mosel? II he is
Iot in he'll, there might as well be
one."
Mary Clemmer Ames is said to be lust
g pleasing in features as her writings
re graceful and popular. And yet she
ouldn't hold her husband, who loved
nd afterward married another woman,
: Chicago Journal. 1t happens that
1Is. Ames cut the matrimonial thread
erself, prsfsrriDg correspondents life
domestic routine ct H2rper's Ferry.H
Miss Linda Gilbert, the good genius
the New York prisons, bss just placed
D Ludlow street Jail o library OF one
and eighty volumes, seven
undred Of which were contributed by
le young ladies Of the New York nor-
lal school. The remainder were pur- ,
1ased hy Mia Gilbert In addition to ,
lis work, Miss Gilbert provides released
rtsoners who are worthy with homes,
othiRg and employment. i
DR.. Clemencesu, the newly elected
OF the consel municipal of {
sris, wss formerly 8 teacher OF the J
renoh language in a New England
He married an American, 6
I'd his sympathies are largely with this q
luutry. He is the hero Of the G1atye 0
tensencedu, which grew out Of his chal- g
nging Paul de CaAsagnRc to fight a I
1el, and is reckoned one Of the best g
stol shOts and swordmen in France.
Mr.. II. E. Bird, the distinguished c
Rglish chess-p'ayer, who has arrived Q
New York, is remarkable fer the =
pidity Of his play and for his powers :
endurance, playing ten or fifteen :
mes or even more a day. He ranks =
th the best European players, and has 2
aged with Andersen, Steinitz, Wisk- y
Boden, Stauptou and with Buckle,
3 author Of the History of Civilization. y
} played with Andersen In the tour =
ment Of 1851. he IL q railway &C. "
infant by profession, Of lArgs expert ~ y
ce, and well known in connection &c
III railway investigations. In 1855 he
me TO this country In the capacity Of q
ditor of the Atlantic and Great West- II
a railway. He has recently produced .
book on chess Chess MdsteTpieces-a Ic
lection Of chess games, with notes.
Cover nor Seymour has written letter q
the editor of the FFeeHdn's Journal n
the subject Of increasing the legisla- a
re. Mr.. Seymour Is OF opinion that IL c.
3 legislature were large body, the c.
smbers Of which served for little pay, Il
lch better material would be chosen q
az is now selected. He thinks some G.
Ing Of the same forces that operate to q
nd the best men TO religious, literary Il
q political conventions would thSn q
We Wy' moreover, large lsgisla- o
70 Nouio De much more difficult to D
rrupt than q small one, aud its work
uld be more carefully distributad L
nong com nmittees and more thoronobIJ, =
atured. The example of the New Ens. i
nd states, he says, proves the sound.
~ Of these theories. "a