Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-01
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN,

The Ladies' Memorial Association o
Manassas, Va, are making efforts 10 secure fund
with substantial iron railing stone wall. In tn,
event of their success gentleman has promised
$1,000.
Lady Florence Dxie's letter asking wha
has become of the Land League funds has fut
tered the national dove-cote." We shall hear NOR,
on this subject before the year is over. An homes
balance sheet OF the Land League disburseme nti
the history of Irish agitation.
Among the recent deaths in the temper
ance ranks is that of Mrs. Charles A.. Hovey, wife
Of the ex secretary of the National Committee Of
active assistance to her husband in his lsbors in
| the temperance work as secretary of the party in
| Massachusetts, and of the State Allisnee, ana he
| will have the sympathy of all temperance people
| in this bereavement.
1t now appears that it is Miss Annie Barr
| whom Senator David Davis is to marry, and not
Miss Green. She lives at Tokay, N. C., with her
cousin, Mr.. Wharton J. Green, the Democratic can
State. Tokay Is three miles from Fay .tteville.
| The date fixed for the marriage is said to be No
and is a charming woman. She passed last winfer,
In Washington City, where the engagement was
made. Mr. Green is man of great wealth and
l Miss Barr is an heiress in her own right.
| An Atlanta, Ga, woman eloped from her
| husband, and she was captured because of her
love of flowers or rather because of her affection
| for particular flower No trace was obtained of
her for two months. although detectives sent
in all directions l happened that the wife had
| been cult.vating a water lily, and when she left
she carried it with her. A few days ago Officer,
who had been emp oyed In the ne; case in passing
When he entered the house he was not greatly
wife. who had never been absent from Atlanta.
While her husband was searching everywhere for
| her. she remained quiet under his very eyes.
Mrs. Burnaby, wife of the hero of "The
Ride of Khiva," is, personally. very unlike her
husband. being only trifie over five feet tall,
while he stands six feet two inches in his stock,
nation Lately she has been astonishing Alpine
climbers by her achievements in that direction,
having scaled Mont Blanc twice in the course OF
week. first by the Col de Geapt and then by Les
AiguiIes Crises. The latter route is an especially
the snow but she safely accampiished it. and has as
now gone TO the Italian side OF the Alps to at
tempt other and more dangerous ascents.
"Mr. and Mrs. HowelIs, sister of Lsrkin
a recent letter, Arrived in London and settled
house just vacated by Mrs. Proctor widow OF Barry
Cornwall, and belonging to her. Howell has been
class sixpenny magazine which bids fair to revo-
lutionize our periodical world. But this charming
he cannot get on with work upon which he is
engaged. and is about to tear himself away and
Italy"
Mr.. and Mrs. Julian Hawthorne have lust
suffered bereavement in the death of their little
daughter Gladys, at the age of fifteen months She
three days; The funeral took place on Monday
cupied by Mr. and Mrs. George Parsons Latnrop.
The grave was made by the side of Nathaniel
Hawthorne's, in sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Judge
Hoar, Miss Ripley, DR.. and Mrs. Edward W. EIn-
erson, Miss Ellen Emerson and Mr. and Mrs La
throp were among the friends in attendance. The |
services were conducted by the Rev. James Reade,
Boston.
The women OF Quebec are attractive by |
their appearance of good health. Few of them are
pretty, but many of them good-looking and |
pleasant; You meet them almost any hour, re-
turning from mass or confession dressed always in
dark colors, and walking with slow gait. that L
might be Ia ken for a sign of meditation. Their /
pleasantly modulated. The young women, as
you brush close by them on the narrow Sidewalk
ness, and pass on with a direct and modest man
ner. You see the edral steps some ladies of
the old French type, with highbred features and
though dignifed, is graceful and free from haugh
illness; and their manners suggest characters at
once strong, sympathetic and digniied.
Mr.. Fright has given up all idea of ever
visiting America he has never seen the land
whose institutions he has admired so much and
every effort which has been made to induce him |
20 spend q short time in the country of western |
was that made by Mr.. T. B. Potter some years ago |
Mr.. Potter wanted Mr.. Bright to prove to the |
Americans that they did themselves wrong by |
our which was 20 be diversified by the delivery of
MY four political sPeeches-at New York: Boston,
he tempting offer: and, instead of
Ioing to America, offered eulogy of the
country at meeting wherein Mr.. Potter related
,assed, Mr.. Bright became a minister and a voye
xe 10 the States became out of the question. |
lis resignation has revived the American hope
hat ne would visit them: They asked him to at
end the New England fair. He has finally de- |
lined. Though it would give him great pleasure
ye .nna nenIiV raconc;ia. hin,saIf % oa is
he country which he admires more than any ma 1
ION in the world save his own. 4