Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-05
Personal.

TaliTOdu CDlltSlOH III t01C-
Carl Rosa proposes to bring out Wsg
ner's Tying Dutohmdn, in English, a
the London Lyceum next season.
Beecher says he is "going to HEAVIER
. ia q cloud" Well, if the half Of what
, they say about him is true, the "cloud'
has the worst of it,
Mrs. Nellie Marshall M'Afee, daUgh
, ter of the late Humphrey Marshall, o
Kentucky, made her debut on the pro-
fessional dramatic stage at Louisville or
Saturday evening.
Mr.. P. S. Gilmore will leave New
York, in April, for San Francisco, with
his oomplete band, Miss Chursby Slhst
Levy, and Arbuckle. The entire trip
will occupy over month.
MIR. George Parker, who kept restau.
rant in olden times in New York, died
recently, millionaire. Ia his obituary
it is stated that in one winter he sold, in
the form of cakes, five and half IONS OF
buckwheat.
1t is noted as significant fact By the
Chicago Times that while Mr.. Beecher
challenged all men, all angels, and God
himself if they had anything TO say to
his detriment TO speak it out, he excepted
| women from the cnallSHge.
Lord Lytton, who has recently heen
appointed to succeed Lord NOTthbrOok as
governor general of India, left the Char
| ing Cross station of the Southeastern
railway Thursday afternoon en- route to
Naples, where he Will embark for India
He was accompanied by Lady Lyttop.
The marriage of Prof. Tyndall to Mis-
Louise Claude Hamilton, recently ante
ipated in our cable new, TOOK place on
! Tuesday at Westminster abbey. The rite
was performed by Dean Stanley. Among
those present we're Thoma= Carlyle, Prof.
Huxley, Dr.. Hooker and Sir f. Pollock.
By letter from Rome, frome a trust
worthy source, says the London Times,
we learn that the story OF Lord RlpOu's
gift of ten thousand pounds steIling to
the pope is an invention. At least
neither his holiness nor Lord r pom ap-
pesr TO have any knowledge of the
affair.
George Eliot, in her new novel, speak
ing of girl seeking her own pleasure at
a time when idess are fresh in tue
world, says: What in the midst of this
mighty drama are girls and their blind
visions? They are the yea and nay OF
that good for which men are enduring
and fighting. In these delicate vessels
IS borne onward through the ages the
treasure OF human affections"
M'Donald, in his cell, denied that he
had ST en- Babcocs at ali. Krum deuied
it at first. But Krum admitted after
ward that he and BabcOck did go there
to talk with the man whom BSbc0ek's
counsel had denounced q " hell dsserv-
ing wretch" And when they refreshed
the "hell deserving wretch's" memory
in the matter, he remembered the cir
cumstsnce likewise. What "hel tie
serving" memory those fellows have. |
Mrs. Paran Stevens's house in Fifth |
avenue, New York, will cost, when COM |
pieted, about two million dollars. The |
mslachite msntels in the drawing4rOom !
alone come to twenty thousand dollars, |
and yet Mrs Paral Stevens will one day |
occupy simple vault, and upon the |
streets of New York there are thousands |
of women starving, Mr.. Paran Stevens, |
the maker of all this wealth, COM
menced business as third-rate tavern
keeper in Boston.
In connection with the Rev. E. D.
Wlnslow, bright little passage in Bull
weI's Pelham occurs 10 u, sRys the Gill;
cinnati Tim g, that is perhaps appropri-
ate to the occasion: "For knave the |
woIl1 may have pity, but knave and
a fool together is combination for which !
there is no s2ving-nothing short Of eter-
nal damnation." This latter portion is
perhaps little too strong, as we pre-
sumo Mr.. WinslOw is not past the saw
ing POWER Of grace.
Two American pianists, Miss Cecilia
Gsu', OF Baltimore, and MIR. Max Pin
ner, Of New York, created g marked sen.
sation in Berlin IN the early paIt OF the
present month. Miss Gaul was presented
by the Crown Princess Of Germany with
8 magnificent lOcket, set in diamonds
Mr.. Primer is considered by many as
having inherited the mantle Ct the
genius o. Tausig, under whom he
studied. The Berlin Critics speak in the
most rapturous terms Of mis- playing at
the Sing Academic.
This is the scene in the house on Tues
lay, when Mr. Blaine attempted to in
-errupt Mr.. Hill, as it appeared TO the
eyes of the Washington correspondent
II the Baltimore Gazette: a. Mr Blaine,
who was standing during the confusion,
leaned eagerly forward, his eyes glaring
and flashing defiance at the Democratic
side. One of the Pennsylvania delega.
lion remarked that Mr.. Blaine, il that
looked like an exasperated
chained tiger. TIE repeated blows of
The speakers gavel riveted more firmly
he chain to the floor, and for once kept
he ambitious gentleman from Maine at
pay"
This "reminiscences OF Miss Cushmau
s recalled by the Boston Traveller: at
g not generally known that Miss Char
Otte Cushman at one time directed the
choir of what was formally known as
he 'CocktreP church, on Hanover
street. This was ut the time when
Ralph Waldo Emerson, then g young
nan, ana unknown, was a COLLEAGUE Of
Rev. DR.. Ware, tins having been his
,nly pastoral charge. II was little
hOught then that the modest young
preacher and the unknown young
inger in the choir at salary Of pr0ba.
)ly three dollars per week, would be-
,Ome 50 famous ali over the worldn
Jonathan Gregory was a new man |
Who bought land and settled near
Rome, Georgia, after the war. For some
years he did not do much but Iaise ,
Feed5 and plow deep and make soil. He
worked on the principle that cotton was .
Tot king, which his neighbors thought |
il wrong. Last year Gregory gathered !
Wo hundred snd seventy five bushels of
l0ver-seed off seventy-five sores, which
,rought him two thousand dollars, and
old two thousand dollars worth Of hay,
wo Thousand five hundred bushels of :
wheat, and raised corn enough to make !
* thousand dollars worth of pork, all
{ which he has marketed and pocket !
d. He averages nine hands only the 1
ear round, all white. No Negroes need
prly. There is not, aud has not been, =
single cotton. seed or cotton plsnt on
is place. He restored the worn-out :
snc, and put:new life in o it by chang.
lR toe crops. He has shown the neigh.
ofs what he knows about farming, and (
hey now think him all right. ]
General Lougstreet writes long letter Z
D the New Orleans Republican in reply 8
D q letter from General Fitzhugh Lee, i
skiing for all the facts ss to the report t
nat Genersl Longstreet had suggested /
} General Lee different plan Of battle 6
t Gettysburg from the one followed. C
General Longstreet resssertsthe truth Of {
ne story, and closes as follows: "FOr y
be information Of General F'ltzhugh a
zee, let me say that some two years ago n