Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-08
CURRENT NEWS.

A DEACON to one of the editors on the Re
Hqiols Herald: 81 believe your paper would
praise the devil" Editor: swell, deacon,
we have praised you good deal" Then
followed explanations, and the incensed dea-
con left us 10 very happy mood,
Maud Granger, the actress, sued James h.
Tillotson some time ago for 400 NJ q a
contract, and on January 26th she got an
attachment, under which the sheriff seizsd
S577 81 Monday the defendant consented
that this money should be paid to the plain
tiff, on condition that the action should be
discontinued.
THERE are forty-two alleged agricultural
and mechanical colleges in the country, Gre
ated by the act OF July 2, 1862. Most of
these institutions are agricultural and me-
chanical only on psper, and have been
merged in literary and scientific institutions.
OF course the Law has been grossly violated,
Tor the land grant was not intended to sup
port classical colleges. There are not half
dozen Of the agricultural and mechanical
colleges which comply with the law. The
law requires 9 separate and independent or
gsnisalion.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Gilmour, of the
returned home, after a visit OF several
that while abroad he went to Ireland to
study the Irish people and the Irish ques-
ton. He converssd on Irish affairs With
many intelligent men, cleric aud lay, of
every denomination, including seven bishops,
but came away wholly unable to locate the
cause Of 1reland's misery. Misery, he said,
is written all over the land. The wretched-
ness OF Ireland is inconceivable.
1t Is not when we fret know Thackeray-
unless it be in the pages of Vanity Fair or
Robert Lyndon that We discover him-that we
are disposed 10 charge him with thai cyni.
riem which is worst because good natured.
The humor of the great portrait painter ia
80 genial and Irresistible, he mocks and gibes
with such merry face, that We do not at
once begin to feel the force of the sting in
his laughing tongue. 1t is when we have
laid the book down, after second reading,
that we find ourselves experiencing a revul.
sion from it; the sort of sickehing sensation
that comes from the sight of some distress.
ingly malformed creature.
London Society prints the following para.
graph concerning one of our most enterpris.
| ing and successful managers: "Mr. Henry
E. Abbey, the American manager, who per.
senally conducted the Patti Lang.
try engagements and who ID TO pilot Mr.
Henry Irving ana the Lyceum company
through the States this year, commenced hi
| professional career as an oboe player in s
country theater. He is now millionaire
The Dramatic Netos contradicts lhis, and say
Mr.. Abbey's first theatrical venture wal
made in 1877 as the manager of tight-rop,
walker at country fairs. He gave an open
air performances and went about in tn,
! crowd collecting small change in cigar tox
| If the Prince of Wales is seen anywher,
there is an instant clamor of cheers. If AL
fred is seen people stare at him curiously
| but pay him no more than perfunctorl
Difference. Berlin, with its coarse gallant
ries, liz bsrrack air and military preciseneea
pleases him. He always goes over Their
with delight, while to the merry Prince o
Wales, a perfect Stuart, the tout lie ertci
fxion. He hates his pompous kinsielks-
always excepting his sister, the Princess Vic
| tcris, Fri,zs vile. Victoria's quarrels will
her brother Alfred keep the palscs in an up
roar. She is older than he, and there ar
traditions of bair-pulliug of anything but
princeIy sort when the young woman get
the temper of the Guelphs up. Both no'
being mature, Victoria grandmother an
Alfred father, they get on more anaicabl
/ and decorously.