Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-15

have come into favor with the general pub
lie. Liverpool already has about fifty of
these popular rivals of the saloon and public
bar-room.
Bishop Halsey said to the conference OF
the African Methodist Church: 1--WE have
little respect for grammar, but great respect
Tor the gospel. To succeed with Us one
must have loud voice-almOst enough to
raise the dead. We sing loud and shout, but
get true religion"
The new Irish secretary and uuder-secre-
tary are cousins. The father of the latter
was the Rev. Macaulay Hamilton of the
Shetland islands, where Mr.. Hamilton was
born Shetlanders do not consider themselves
Scotch; IN fact, most of them dislike exceed
ingly to be so accounted.
New York has system of kitchen garden
schools, very similar 10 the kindergartens, at
which little bits of children are taught how
TO cook, from the peeling of potatoes to the
making of puddings. The children are
allowed 10 eat all they can make, and conse-
quently the schools are very popular.
Bismarck seems to have faith in both allo-
pathy and homeopathy. At one of the sum-
ner resorts that he frequents he is treated by
DR.. Bohn, OF Hamburg, an allopathist; at
KiSsengen another allopsthic physician han
dies him, and at Berlin a noted homoe-
opathist has been his physician since 1879.
At dinner given in Brooklyn recently by
weakly clergyman TO a number OF his cleri-
cal brethren there was 4 scriptural menu,
and two women Mattresses were dressed re-
spectiyely in Grecian and Roman style, and
a man steward wore a coat Of many colors to
represent Joseph. There was "mishmish"
composed of rice and apricois, and sherbet
made of altar of roses, orange Juice and
spices.
IL IL, l.. ~
death of Prof. James Spence, FIR Sc, r..
Csc. He was seventy years old, and was
graduated from the Royal College of Sur
geons in Edinburgh. In 1864 he was PROBES
sor of surgery in the University of Edin-
burg, and in 1865 was made surgeon in
ordinary to the queez. in Sseo+la.d. He pub
lished, in 1871, two volumes of lectures on
surgery.
Hermann Julius Theodor Hettner, a pro-
lessor in the University of Jena, and noted
German writer on art and literature, is dead
at the age OF sixty years. He was a
native of Silesis, studied at the universities
of Berlin, Heidelberg and Halle, and has
published important works on The Plastic
Arts Of the Aneients, The Romantic School, The
Modern Drama, History Of the Literature Of the
Eighteenth Century, etc.
The grave of President Zachary Taylor,
upon his fathers land and in his own child
hoods home, near Louisville, KY, was deco
rated by his family and old comrades on
Tuesday, May 30th. A eulogy was delivered
by General james A. Ekin.
Sam Ward looks to be about seventy years
old, or even more. He Is a thick-set man.
with short neck, square face, small stray
ing eyes, of self-enjoyiRg expression, a
smile such as is never seen out of clubs,
among the old hdbitues who are always ready
for whist and all-night bottles.
Many years ago Ephraim NJ Baynard,
wealthy planter of South Carolina, be-
queathed $l68, 200 to the College of Charles
ton. And now his grand nephew, Owen
Thomas Baynard, in INDECENT circumstances,
receives back the bread from the waters in
the form of free scholarship from the trus-
tees of the high school, and an annual grant
OF 5000 from the Charleston city council to
enable him to prepare for college. When he
is ready to enter the college he will be
provided with scholarship and maintained
during his course at the city's expense.
A handsome new Methodist Episcopal
church was dedicated in Baltimore last SUM-
day, in memory of Robert Strawbridge, the
first preacher of that denomination in
America. The pulpit desk is made of oak
wood, from a log taken from the first "meet-
ing house" built by Mr.. Strawbridge in Car
roll county, Md, in 1854, and a log Of the
oak tree under which he preached previous
been used in making the other pulpit furni-
ture.
The Rev. DIR. Jesse B. Thomas, Of the First
Baptist church, Brooklyn, last week received
four calls-to a chair in Crozier Theological
Seminary, Pennsylvania; to a chair in An
dover Theological Seminary; to the pulpit
of prominent Baptist church in Rochester,
and to the pulpit of the Seventh Baptist
church, Baltimore. He has declined the first
three, and will doubtless also decline the
fourth, as he is strongly attached to his
church, which is one of the finest
in that city.
The imperial apartments at Gatschina are
warmed only by open fires of wood, and a
of the London Globe tells the
strange story the that car is so fearful lest
some explosive material be introduced into
The flames that he prepares all the fuel with
his own hands. A daily scene in the immediate
vicinity of the palace prison, he declares, is
that of Alexander LII in his shirt-sleevee, ,
saving and splitting huge logs into frewood,
while his son, the Grand Duke Nicholas,
conveys the same to the imperial wood |
cl oset.
D. HIRscH & Co.'s Old Judge cigars, factory
973. Sd Collec. Dist. N. Y. are best. for 25c