Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-13
Personal.

Ismity." That's good word fer him.
Fanny Lear Is in Munich now
tryifg to come it over Luiwig OF Bsva-
lia.
A sis,er Of Sturgeon has entered the
pulpit, and is said to mako al excellent
preacher.
Ole Bull wants to see the man who
told that fib about himself and his wife.
Violint treatment is in store fer him.
Mr.. G Jorge W. Smslley, the. London
corregOndsnt Of the TTibJns, has ar we'd
in New York for two months visit.
TIE New York Herald announces
that the proprietor OF that journal will
be M arried in September to Miss May.
Joaquin Miller wears nosegsy in his
shirt front at Saratoga, and his blue
ribbon shOe-strings are tied in beau
knot.
Dr.. Mary Walker says she was offered
one hundred dollars week to stump for
Hayes, bUt she spurned the bride. Bully
for Mary!
Colonel r. ebert IDgersoll Thinks he can
read his title clear to a sest in the SEN
ate from l,nois, right by the side Ct
Mr.. B sine.
General Crook has no fear Of death,
gays the Boston Post, lu. dreams an ode
by Walt Whitman and Herald mODu-
! mental fund.
Msjor-General Mcdowell is expected
in San FfaIcscO this week, to taBe
command Of the military department
Of the Pacific.
Mr. John Qlincy Adams is so deeply
affected by the recent loss Of his two
| children that he refuses TO take any in
| terest in politics.
Chief Ju tice Waite is the champion
ct Ten. pins st Avon Springs, New York,
and tx Governor DIX is the most suce, So
ful snipe.shCoter at Lorg Island.
Louis Wolow XII the distiBfu shed
writer on physical economy, is desd, ST
| the sga Of sixty-six. H was q pole by
birth, but pur2uei his early studies in
| France.
Seven ex-goverpOrs OF New York are
now living: Hamilton Fish, HOrstiO
| Seymour, Myron 81. CLARK, Edwin d.
Morgan, Reuben E. FentOn, John T.
Hoffman and John a DIX.
Miss Catharine Bsecher, the only
| member Of the Beecher family who has
never been married, was betrotb Ell in
youth to Professor Porter, who persisted
ia the wreck Of the Albion.
The motto Ct the P,errepont family,
made illustrious through its cOnnec ion
with Flint, the medium, is, "Pte, Tep0ne
| ten meaning, "rake 3 rest, preacher"
Il was poetic of the address to the bish-
ps.
DR.. Martin Lutder's first lecture on
| the Fsalms, undertaken in the years
l5l3-15l6 at the desire Of Johann Won
| Staupitz, will be published at Dresden
| in the autumn. TIE autograph Latin
Ms. is in the Iu0iic library OF Dresden.
Brick PJmeroy's wife, under tine stage
rame Of Louise Heath, will make her
deOUt with her own company, IN New
York, in October, aL the Academy Of
| Music, as Lady Macbeth" and 'Juli-
| ct" Macbeth will be deliberately pro-
duce1, with L-cke's music.
Alfred JaelI, says London lett.r, who
IS row well on in years, and is become
cOmicaliy tat, has lost none OF his fire
| and ease. l can recall no pianist whose
| fingers dance over the keys with such
elf-like CELEBRITY and ease, and his play
ing spsrBles like champagne.
General Tchernayeff, the Sqrvisn
commander, puts on a dress. coat st six
| y
! clean shirt, and shaves regularly. He
| also washes bis face and keeps his finger
nails out of mourning. On all of which
points he differs from his compatriOts.
Its not generally known that Oliver
Wendell Holmes is the inventor Of the
common hand stereOscOpe, but such Is
the fact, and his work has been given to
| The world without the protection OF g
l.. Eo1 inn all
| of ste-eosCOpi3 views from all parts OF
! the world.
D0re has never married, but he has
had his dream. In youth ne loved a
| beautiful woman who rel -cted him be-
| cause Of les cORUendnceS. She became
| the wife of . S5uth American who bru-
tally maltreated her, and who is now
| serving term o; eight years in prison
for attempting TO kill her.
Ofenb8ch has retired to the villa,
"O:phee," ct Etretat, to complete the
| manuscript # his new book on America,
| which is to bo published in this country
about S ptember 18th. The iuOrdinate
haste Of the composer to write some.
thing On Q sufj CT of whieh he knows
nothing is Enthusiastically 6Oute,
William E r bins0n, late member OF
congress from Brooklyn, has in course OF
preparation q book designed TO show
that majority of the early settlers OF
the United States were from Ireland,
and that the development of this coun-
Try bag bsen advanced more by Irish
men taan by any other nationality.
A dinner has jdat been given in Lon
don which shows to what depths of
degradation highborn women can sink.
The feast was gwen by the Marchjoness
of t aud Lady T. H, to celebrate
the elopement OF their sister, Lady D,
or, az they are said t. have put it, the
reuniiiEg Of the sisters on the common
ground Of divorce
In spite Of his refusal to hang the boy
PomerOy, Governor Rice seems to have
gained popularity by his administration
IN Massachusetts, The Boston Herald,
which has never been especially friend
ly toward him, say S he has made an IN
exp ctedly good governor; that his adj
minis ration compares faVOrsbly with
that Of his predecessn
.rGlihD says Bessie Turner is literally
starving il Brooklyn. She had good
situation as a schOOl-teacher ct or near
Pittsburg, and was assured Of great con-
sideration and profit if she would give
it up and testify against her master, Til
ton. Sac did te3tiiy, with aplOmb and
assurance, aud now she eats the bread
Of perjury and despair.
Lucy Hooper says OF q French singer:
emile. BOux, who is very young, and
was one OF the sessJn's de6lttQnte8, is q
very stout young woman, with a very
slender voice. II her voice and her
physique could change places, both
would benefit by the change. II T
figure reminds one Of Parepa- Rosa and
her voice Of half starved sparrow"
A magnificent wedding ceremony
took place in st. Paul's church, Buffalo,
on the third instant. Miss Bessie Coke,
daughter Of Bishop Cleveland Coke, was
married 10 MIR. Douglass Merritt, Of
ITvipgton-Ou-theH HUDSON. The wed.
ding and the reception were notably
brilliant. The bridegroom is ssid to
represent one million dollars, and the
bride is as richly endowed with friends.
Commodore Vanderbilt" says a
New York Tribune reporter, " was al
ways very fond Of cards, whist and
p0int-euchrs.' He never played poker
or gsmbled at the faro-table. l asked
him once as 70 the largest amount Of
money be ever made at whist, and he
said that when the southern men were
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