Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-11
NEW YORK GOSSIP.
Vanderbilt, Patti, Rernhardf and Other
NOtabiIifies, and What-They
are Doug.
Will There be War with EDgIand P
Yes, IF Ihe IriSIi-A IN orleans Can
Force IL.
From the Appeals Correspondent

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Yes, If the IrisIa-A mericans Can
Force L..
, From the Appeals Correspondent
, NEW YORK, April 6.-The Sun last Sun
day began its column of society news with
the line, Absolutely nothing worth record
ing has happened in social circles during the
week" 1t was a somewhat remarkable SEN
, tence to be put in that place, for it was fol-
lowed by the same columns space" always
devoted to society, and to an ordinary mans
eye it looked as If society had been going on
much as usual. l suppose that it would,
perhaps, be in order for me to begin this let
ter with the same statement, Nothing has
happened for a week." and 1 would not be
far from the truth in one sense, for there has
been only ore genuine sensation, and that
was no shock to anyone, apparently. That
was Vanderbilt'5 fuicide.
cornell"
Poor "Corneel," as he was called by every
body who knew him, and many who did not,
was one of those men who seem always to be
out of place. There seemed to be reason
| why such a man should have been his fathers
son, and yet he never wss anything else but
| his fathers all his life, and the only way
| in which he ever came prominently into
public notice until he shot himself, was when
] he began his Iil-advised struggle for his
| fathers fortune. Nobody ever knew, outside
the little circle of Cornell how much lie
| fnslly received gift from his brother
| William II after he had relinquis she'd the
| legal proceedings, but it was popularity sup
| posed to be million dollars, that be Jared
even better than the lawyers, strange to say
! One of them is known TO have made clear
half-million out OF the enormous estate
! "CorneeP died at last by his own hand, ard
if the rest of the strange family cast
| down by his loss, it is difficult to see why
they should be, and they did not show it at
the funeral, which was at the Church of the
| Strangers last Tuesday morning. The FER
4 vices were absolutely unimpressive as the
solemnity of the ritual allowed them to be.
| GOOD SOCIETY.
Pretty much everybody who could lay
claim to the name of Vanderbilt or who had
married Vanderbilt was present, and the
church was tolerably we'll flled-not entirely
| by the family, of course, though it is large
| but there was no more evidence that the dead
man was one of them than shown in the
| sable garments OF the women. The family is
strange one. There are too many of them
| and they too rich 10 be ignored entirely
by society, but they are as entirely outside
the really good society on which New York
piques itself as the head of the family was
when he piled his ferry sloop between Staten
Island and the city. At the house-warming
kgiven recently 10 the barbaric palaces they
inhabit Fifth avenue, the circle of guests
was as motley a one as ever gathered in one
house. There are some things, even in New
FORK, that money alone will not buy.
~ 81, JIM BENEFITS LIBERALITY
Speaking of money calls to mind the
latest thing Mr.. Bennett has done, in a cas-
ual sort OF way, apparently without any pre-
meditation and without attaching any special
importance TO the act. 1t was brought TO his
notice that the theatrical profession was !
making an effort to collect a permanent fund
/ for the relief Of actors in distress and ex-
tremity, and he at once cabled over $4,000 |
from Paris rs his contribution. 1t is true
that he takes much that from the pro-
fession every two or three weeks for their |
advertisements in the Herald, but it isn't /
every man who gives away money by tens |
and hundreds of thousands as Bennett does, |
ev, if he has such an income as 1.-The COM |
abused and "bully ragged" as much as
he without having more said in his |
praise than he has had, and the rea-
son is simple enough. Those who know
him have no special reason to talk about
him. 1t is only those whom he has attacked
and exposed who care to talk, and they take
cheap revenge in Islander, at which he laughs
carelessly. Ii those who win are entitled 10
laugh he may, for l have il on tolerably
good authority that he refused an offer of
100000 cash for the HeraLd only a little
time ago. The elder Bennett builded better
THE ACTORS FUND.
Speaking of the actors fund reminds one
that the adorable Patti has left America
with her spouse, Nicolini, concerning whom
it is quite good form to talk, even in the good
society of which L spoke. To be sure she
was shamefuIly ill-treated, according to all
reports, by her lawful husband, and, it may
be, driven into the arms of another man,
but why a matter that would net be toll
tod in, to asho
be accepted as a matter of course in one so
gifted, passes tina knowledge of plain men.
Certainly she does not seem to find the thcrns
in her path that are commonly supposed to
pierce the feet of women who go asray.
Neither, by the way does Bernhardt, whose
marriage was recently reported. Speaking
of the so brings Abbey to mind, who man.
aged them both in this country, and who
solemnly asserted when he signed the Patti
contract that he was bound by that docu-
ment to pay the songstress $4,000 perform
ance. The absolute insanity of expecting
any one to swallow so monstrous a story is
apparent when You come to consider how
many tickets it would be necessary to sell at
81, or even So apiece to pay this artistic be-
fore the manager could pos IDLY get any re-
turn for other expenses, leaving profits out
of the question. Yet Abbey declared in SO
many words that this was the price. 1t was
a story worthy of Barnum in his younger
days.
LOWELL AND BEN BUTLER.
II may surprise the West to know that We
are on the very brink of war with England, !
and yet if you were TO take the word OF the .
Irish american citizens here you would be
inclined to think it. The monster mass,
meeting in the Cooper Institute Hall the
other night was strange one, and yet no I
stranger than almost any other in the Irish
interest. When a menb of Congress stands
up in public hall, rs the Hon. William E. G
Robinson did one night recently, and evokes 9
Tho widest snthaeiasm-by shoutiuy v
God bless Victoria, but God - the
queen" II leads TO an indorse mept Of some I,
II the strongest utterarc s ever made con- g
,erning Congress. l couldn't help wonder &
ng the other night when the audience yelled
or dynamite in the Cooper Institute, and
literally yelled its approval Of the sugges- =
ion that Ben Butler should replace Lowell :
IS minister TO 81. James, whether the united
south would fail in on such an issue. How
.yer | don't propose 10 talk Southern poll. Z
les. You have enough Of that at home. a
Certainly you don't want it from here. II
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
1t was hispered to me to-day that the II
roblem which vexes your souls in the Mis- N
issippi valley was likely to be soon consid lie
red by one of the monlhles in a way that
nil impress its Importance on the minds OF OF
he Eastern public. There is here a wide | al
vision in the public mind on the question 81
neither the general government has the 81
over under the constitution 10 undertake
ne regulation OF the Mississippi river. 1t I,
J hard to see why there should be any ques- of
on of that power, bnt there is, and the n,
pinion that is held By many persons here is ali
factor in the problem that cannot be ig-
ored. Ii the utterances are made which / r.
N told will be made, there will perhaps be 9.
n enlightenment Of the public mind. ~
CURTIS, :"
Vigorous war On Polyramy. II