Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-12-28
PERSONALS.

The Ameer of Cabul is Just recovering
fpm a serious illness.
The emperor and empress of Brazil are al
jerusalem in good health.
The wife of Ex-Secretary Belknap is writ
inga book. The title has not yet been an
nounced.
n. Tiegel. Of strasburg, has accepted an
invitation to the professorship of physiology
In Japan.
A son of Earl Russel's stepson, the late
Lord Ribblesdale, has become clerk in the
Bank of England.
Gustavus Adclphus Garlich, once success
full merchant, is spending the winter in the
Cincinnati workhouse
Mr. John B. Cough is so i'll that he has
been obliged to postpone indefinitely his
western engagements.
The Due d'Aumale, in spite of his lofty
rank, is net a bit above taking pay for his ar
ticles IN The Rectie des Deur MOndes.
Theremains of NJ Auber, the French COM
poser, have been removed from Montmartre
to the bomb prepared for them at Pere La
Chaise
Mr.. John Elliott, good man and preacher to
the Indians, is to have monument built on
the spat where he gave the red men his first
discourse:
MmesDyerbeck, the daughter of Mrs. Ad-
nliral Dahlgren, has returned to Europe to
join her husband. They will spend the win
ter at Stuttgart.
Red Cloud, Spotted Tail and other repre-
sentative Sioux chiefs, through the Sioux
commission, have just made President Grant
a present. 1t Is ft-plpe OF peace.
De Baer, a member of the St. Petersburg
academy of music, and savant of wide and
high reputation, has just died in Russia at
the age Of eighty-fve.
The church circles Of Cincinnati are agi-
tated over the sudden resignation of Rev. T.
T. Everett, a popular and eloquent Lutheran
preacn-r. IN Inc; q; don't understand it.
1t is said that the conversations of Lord
Salisbury with Prince Bismarck have led to
direct correspondence between the Emperor
Alexander and Queen Victoria favorable to
the interests Of peace
Judie declines all engagements for The SAM
mer season of 1878, but during the time that
the exposition E open will sing one song each
night at three heaters, at the modest pnce
of one hundred dollars per song.
Pierre Proviti, a well=known singer Of
thirty-fve years ago, afterIFrd manager at
Marseilles, andan early and intimate friend
of Malibran, R.ssini and Merry, has just died
in hospital atMarseilles, aged seventy-two.
George Eliotpught to live upon honey and
rue, but she doesnt. A clever person who
lived for three weeks in the same house with
her in the days before she was known pre-
serves his recollection of her as plain young
woman, with strong liking for beetsteak:
Died recently at Paris Mime. Sallandrouze,
proprietor of tie hotel on the Boulevard Pois-
soniere, which was bombarded at the time OF
the coup d etatby the troops. Rochefort and
other advanced Radicals used the name as a
term of reproGh for the Napoleonic regime.
Comment is made upon the fact that Baron
Werther, German ambassador In Turkey,
was the Pruss.an representative at Copenha-
gen when the war of the duchies broke out;
at Vienna before Sadowa, and in Paris prior
to the breaking out of the Franco German
war.
Blanchard Ierrold lost IN transitu by the
mail from Paris to london the manuscript Of
the third volume of the Life of Napoleon III.
As no copy had been preserved the labor Of a
year will have to be wrought over again
English sensatonalists hint that the French
government ''eonfscated" it.
Mr.. George c. Gorham, secretary of the
senate, was surprised ON his wedding-day by
a joint gift from the senators of the United
States. This was large silver bowl, lined
with gold, raised on high silver standard
and waiter, both evidently intended for fruit
and flowers, as a central ornament for DIM
ner on suppez sssles
1t is authoritatiyely stated that the objec-
tons to the marriage between Alfonso XII Of
Spain and the third daughter of the Duke oi
Montpensier, the Infanta Maria les Mercedes
have been removed.s The match is well as
sorted one in point of age; the royal bride
groom is not yet twenty, and the blushing
bride is In the clear dawn of sweet seventeen
Mr.. Plimsoll, the member of parliament
and the protector of seamen, is a fat, rather
pug-nosed Englishman, whose face abides in
forest of hair and beard, and il decorated
with spectacles. He has been a lawyers
clerk and coal merchant, and is now de-
voting himself principally to parliament and
philanthropy.
John Stuart Mill once wrote to Charles
Kingsley: "Ldudari a laudat0, or by any
other Uij'O, has n yer been very much Of an
object with me. But to be told by a man
who is himself one of the good influences oi
the age, and whose sincerity cannot doubt
that anythingI have written makes him feel
able to be still better influence, is both an
encouragement and reward-the greatest
can look for, now that still greater has beer
taken from me by death"