Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-06
PERSONAL.

Miss Louisa M. Alcott will soon see
her works canonized in Tauchnitz edi-
ton.
Miss Kellogg received five hundred
dollars for singing at the commence
| ment concert OF the State college, at
Orono, Maine, August I'd.
James II. Blood authorizes the state
ment that Victoria G. Woodruff alone
deserves credit for the writings attribut-
ed to her.
Mrs. Berry, while bathing in the Of
taWa (Ontario) river on Sunday with
her husband, was seized with cramps,
and died in his arms while he was car
rying her ashore.
The action of the United States senate,
in reducing the pension Of General Gus.
ter's widow from fifty dollars q month
to thirty dollars, is characterized by the
New York Herald ss "the meanest act
Of q mean senate"
Miss Emeline Shepherd has on exhi-
bition at Philadelphia a cambria hand
kerchief valued at five hundred dollars,
embroidered with fac SiHaile Of Inde-
pendence hall, a liberty cap, and other
national emblems, the work OF two
years.
Mrs. Edgar, of Chicago, a christian
lady who devotes her time to visiting
the sick, says that the hospital of that
city is 80 managed that nurses get
drunk, that insane women are afraid of
the attendants, and that babies die from
neglect.
Mile. lima Di Murska has astonished
the Australians by her redoubtable en-
terprise In having buried one husband
and married another within a month.
"The funeral baked meats" etc. She
was once Mrs. Anderson. She is now
Mrs. Hill.
Francis E. Willard lately lectured in
Oberiin, standing in the pulpit where
Prof. Finney osed to preach. President
Fairchild presided, and the old fear lest
women would speak in public, which
used to abound in ObeIlir, was no.
where visible.
Nine. Bonaparte- Wyse- Rattazi, whose
infinite vivacity ege cannot stale nor
matrimoDy cloy, presented the Grand
Duke Constantine of Russia, when he
called on her to bid her good.by in Paris
the other day, with the portrait of his
father Nicholas, painted by herself
Boston is gradually growing accus-
toned to the ways Of Anna Dickinson.
When she thrusts her hand under her
hustle, where her pistol. pocket hangs,
and says with horrible calmness, "Keep
away from me, sir" everybody knows
that there's dramatic critic somewhere
around.
The divorce suit between Lord and
Lady Aylesford, in which the marquis
of BlandfoTd figures prominently, has
been indefinitely postponed. Lady
Aylesford is beautiful woman Of tweR-
ty-six years, and numbers among her
admirers his royal highness the prince
OF Wales.
Mrs. Maria L. Swift, of New Bed
ford, sang IN "Ruy Bias" at the Teatro
Belli1i, Aci ReRle, Sicily, in June, and
this is the record Of her success: "She
was called before the curtain sixteen
times; seventy-five bouquets were
thrown to her, and eight little birds were
let loose in the flowers"
The ex-Queen Isabella, who lef. Paris
last week for Santander, means to make
herself dear once more to Spain. Her
son is putting the splendid palace Of the
AlcaZsr at Seville in order for her resi-
dence, and the changes and repairs she
has insisted upon have already cost
nearly four hundred Thousand dollars.
The Misses Atwood, of Fryeburg,
Maine, have worked out their highway
taxes, handling their hoes with graceful
diligence. Their neighbors are said to
nave been "sstonished and amused"
but, in Boston, ladies may be seen every
day sweeping the streets with their long
dresses, and nobody is entertained or
shocked apparently.
Mrs. General Custer is still Frustrated,
and confined to her bed most of the time
at Bismarck. On first hearing the news
Of her husbands fate, she was brsver
than any other of the bereaved ladies.
She visited the wounded at the hospital.
Her grief, however, was too great to
bear, and she finally succumbed. She
lies in q swoon for an hour or
more, and her condition is alarming.
Willses's Spirit: "Few have noted the
fact that George Sand was the great
granddaughter of Adrienne Lecouyreur.
Her grandmother was the daughter of
Of the Marshal de SAKE and of Adrienne
LecOuvreur, that great actress. whose
history forms the plot OF one of the most
Of modern plays. Adrienne
was poisoned by the Duchess de BouiL
lon, who was jealous of her inf1uspce
over the SAKE. She was poisoned with |
\ bouquet of fowers."
Mr.. J. 81. Jones recently approached
the presence Of Mr.. r. 81. Nichols, in |
the diningroom of the Newhall house.
and, after preliminary OBJ. |
urgahon, smote him upon the nose and |
poured water over his shirt front. |
Messrs. Jones and Nichols are members
IF the somewhat bellicose organization
as 1.-THE Oates Troupe" and the
.rouble was the same that disturbed
Troy. His honor, strictly approving of |
he truculent Jones, fined him five DOL
ars and costs.
Considerable pleasurable authorization
8 caused by the two notable weddings
% occur this fall. The grooms in both |
Eases are Journalists Of prominence and
wealth. Mr.. MantoD Marble. editor
md proprietor Of the World, is to marry
drs. Danforth, rich widow, and Mf.
ames Gordon Bennett has secured the
Elections Of Miss Carrie MAY, a well.
,noWn and much-admired belle in socj-
ty. The lady insists upon her be-
rothed joining the cold water army be.
ore she will allow the ceremony to be
erformed.
Edmonis Lewis, the colored SCULPTOR.
%, is not idealess. "Fhe Americans
re queer people," says she, according
} an exchange. "Don't you think a
'dy, rich lady, too, came to me and
lid: Miss Lewis, this is q very beauti.
u statue, but don't you think it would
ave been more proper to drspe it?
iothing,' she added, lis necessary to
lristian art Said L: Madam, that
not mOdesty in you. That is worse
ian mock-modesty. You see and think
lily Of evil not intended. Your mind. |
adam, is not so pure, fear, as my ,
atue.'n ,,
Miss Anna Oliver, the black. eyed girl
eacher, who graduated last month '
I'm the Boston theological seminary, I
cached recently in the First Place q
ethodist church, Brooklyn. She is an 3
lio miss, and while at school in Ober- 8
university determined to enter the +
lpit. She took new name, and sp. a
ed for admission to the theological b
of the various denominations, Al
,eiving q refusal from all except the b
sthOdists. There were seventeen b
IN ola II, |