Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-05
PERSONALS.

A PINT of whisky put in fruit-cake will
in man will keen hum down town till O'Clock
in the morning.-1e1ds SgttRgs.
81 HAVE a very dear lover, seventeen years
old What shall send him for birthday pres
ne seaa nim aiu mnsisshe Gnp co dGaT
paper, ii you cannot afford q new one.
Mrs. FRANCES HoDesoN BURNETT. the
well-known novelist, is in Cincinnati, where she
is being handsomely entertained. A brilliant re-
ceptlon was given in her honor on Saturday last
by Mr.. and Mrs Larz Anderson, Of East Walnut
Hills whose guest MIS- Burnett is.
DRAMATIC writers will scarcely feel very
much encouraged to read that Mr.. John Madison
Morton, actor of the most successful farces OF
his day-BoT and Coz among others, which must
have been played thousands of umes-is now, at
seventy-two, poor brother of the Charter
House"
IT is feared that Miss Clara Barton, on &C.
count of i'll health will not be able to accept the
position recently rendered her by Gov. Butler
superintendent of the Women's Reformatory In
sLitutiGn at Sherborn, Mass. The prison is now in
charge of Miss Agnes s. Golding, the deputy super
intendent
The New York Commercial advertiser GAYS:
1.-THE Boston Post asserts that Miss Annie Gesand-
ner, of Milwaukee, is the only woman switch
tender in the United States. This statement
snould be side tracked until all the female school
teachers and the ladies who wear false hair are
heard from. The Post is off the track"
TIE Harlem Times tells why young man
was not encored 1t says: "a gentleman of this
city recently sang at a concert, and there not
a sign of applause when he left the stage. paper
had been quietly circulated through the audience
saying, Don't call him out. Ii you do he is CO.
ing to sing Nancy Lee That accounts for the
extreme silence"
AT Lexington, Va, is G n. Lee icon of
Gen. B. E. Lee at the head Of fine institution;
in charge OF Sayle Female Institute, Lexington,
KY, is Mai Mcclellan, who was on Gen. r. T.
Lees staff; at the University of the South Sewa-
nee, Tenn prominent in tue facultyis Gen. Kirby
Smith, besides mauy Others in other schools. The
widow OF Cen }. Z. b Stuart is the head Of the
large Episcopal school at staunton,-fs.
The sssefs Of Cornell University. New
York. about 81 600 co., and the present annual
income is about s2T5,t 20. Ithss been recommend.
ed that the salaries Of the full professors Shouts
the professors at Harvard aud Yale. This increase
ss.ssse 20 tlaFeat tha tarsnista away Of the
are recognized and greater compensation offered
SOME injtistory steps have been taken
looking toward TO the removal to Nashville of
one of the Oldest educational institutions of the
South, the Mary sharp Colle-e, for young ladies,
of Winchester. which was a famous school in the
o,ate-beiltHn days. aud which for long term of
Its exceptionally heal hiuI moral aIIhorphare and
the excellence of iIdiscipline, for the eminent
ability OF its faculty and the thoroughness of its
! course of study.
SOME Rotable announcements are made for
the popular seIies of American Men OF Letters -
| Emerson will be trea, ed by DR.. Holmes; Bayard
\ Taylor, by ]. &. q. Hassard, OF the New York
| Tribune; 6enismin Franklin, by Mr.. McMaster,
/ whose History Of the United States has made him
L IL. L.
| Edmund Quincy, by Mr.. Sidney Howard Gray;
/ William Cullen Bryant by Mr. JOnn Bigelow, who
| knew him intimately; ard Edgar A. Poe, by Mr..
| George L. Woodbury..
| Nh. JUDAH HART recently obtained a
| judgment il the United States Circuit Court
| against the city of New Orleans for the sum Of
sl21 697 Is, and 10 order to enforce his Judgment
| garnisheed certain funds due the city as bonu:
by the Canal and Claiborne Street Railway Com
| pany and the Orleans Street Railway Company
and seized the city right and title to the New Or
| leans sugar sheds ana grounds. He offers com
promGe the terms of which he sets folth at length
| in petition to the City Council.
CoPIFs of smother edition of Mr.. George
| ". Cables Old Creole Days have reached New Or
| leans The fist edition was issued by Messrs
Chat.o d windus, and the second by Messrs. Fred
| Wayne d Co., both London publishers The eopie!
al hand OF third edition. just issued by DAVID
| Douglas, Castle street, Edinburgh. OF the thret
| publishers Mr. Douglas is the only one who re
| coenizos the authors right and has arranged Il
allow him copyright. Mr. Cable is now engaged il
writing article on New Orleans for the Eacycl0
| plsdiG BIihdRicd Publt7hed by a. i G. Black
Edinburgh.
| BosToN's richest women and the amour
of their possessions notad as follows in the as
SCISSORS list: Mrs. Susan o. Brooks, S1,034, 800
Mrs. John L. Gardner, 81 $3.50; Mrs. Gsrdne
Brewer, $685., ESQ; Mrs. James NJ. Beebe. $3.50 200
Mary ana Anna Wigglesworth, ESQ.,, 500; Isabelle
200; Aida L. Borisnd, ss99' 60; Ellen S Eldredge
SST,SCo; Caroline A. Brewer and IT,, 1876, 90
s36O,C,O; Alkaline d. Hooper It a., sSl9,2C1 Char
l0tte A. johnson, sSl6,5tl; Cora L Shaw, $50 400
| EHZaDStn l.. hlUreQ2e, SZf4r1 l.. MIN Dali
sA62, So; Ellen Brooks, s2,2,o-9; Mary B. slgoqI
ney, S23i, eco; Mary 4. Goddard, s2S1, 200; Mary
Leeds ei al, SOL, 560 Mary A Balou s2c5 200; Ami
NJ. Spaulding, Sd 800; Anna Wigglesworth, 500,
600; Mary Wlgglesworfh, S2Cl,Ooo.
The editor of the London World expresse
the hope that when the great Sara's memoir
make their appearance, sne VIII be found t
have cleared up the mystery of that fit of yexs
ton in which she attempted to commit suicid
fourteen years ago. That was in her comparatiyel
undistinguished days, when she was playing tn
| part of Julia Vidalf' in AdolDhe Belots Drdnle
| Ia Rue de Ia Fdir. have no rencn papers of tn
| period 10 refer to. but have paragraph copie
from the Times, with the date OF April 1859, whic
is follows: mil. Sara Bernie rat an actress Ell
gagged at the Odeon Theater, attempted to Uornmi
| suicide a few evenings back by swallowing
strong dose OF laudanum. Fortunately, one {
her friends was with her at the time, and induce
| her with some difficulty. to take quantity c
| coffee antidote, by which her life was sRvec
though several times duTing the night her lfe wa
ooHsidcrsd - 10 in imminent danger
A DIVORCE granted few weeks ago j
| PHILADELPHIA was in three days followed by ma
rage in Baltimore. 1t has caused genuine SUI
nrise and much comment in army circles in Vast
| lngton, as few even of the most Intimate friend
| OF the efficcr-Maj. A. II. Nickerson-were awaI
| that he had any desire to be divorced from hi
! first wife. She went 10 Europe three years agC
| them of the most amieable character is known
certain of their friends to have been kept up III
| til within year. No one in Washington knew
his divorce until the news of his marriage Mi.
Carter, in Baltimore lea to inquiry, and at frs
| many of his more intimate friends refused TO b'
lieve that he was married. The whole affair is II
| gaTded as very mysterious in Washington. He Wa
retired year ago, at his own request, on a.
count of wounds received during the war. II
| was stationed in Washington for nearly four year
beg inning in 1875 and was prominen membe
OF The Army and Navy German Club, and FRI
: quently seen in society until his wife went !
Europe, when he gave up attending parties almo
entirely, which was thought due TO great circun
: spection on his part during his wifes absenc
She was nearly related ID the California historian
Mr.