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A Canadian correspondent of the New
York Post writes that he loyal frenzy
awakened by the coming of Lorne and his
royal mate has given place to a sentiment
which is a little more than apathy and a
little like contempt-a feeling that was to
be expected ,ftsr the 6r-t gush of fealty and
as soon as royalty became familiar. The
princess has done nothing 10 offset this feel
ing, and, on the whole, is rather unpopular.
She has taken small pains to disguise her
dislike of Canada, and pines for the more
stately and refined splendors of her English
home. Indeed, il is asserted that her long
and swift journeys to various parts OF the
Dominion are part of her plan of exercising
the ennui which affects her life here. The
princess, if Canadians with whom / have
talked may be believed, is endowed by ma
ture with few traits to make her attractive
to the people. While not heartless, she is
cold, and, while a formally refined and
cultivated woman, she is not grsced with
sweet temper and Representatives,. Two
or three little mishaps, like her failure to
establish a Canadian court, with low-necked
dresses. gold lace and the solemn etiquette
of the Victorian palaces, have contributed to
sour her temper and make her apathetie
and Indifferent. A story l have
heard here will suggest one OF ths
causes OIL ner unpOpuidIhy. GUM
months ago, while she was making a trip or
a Canadian river, a large crowd gathered or
one Of the wharves, and as the craft APP
preached greeted it with loyal cheers. But
| the princess sulked in the cabin and persist
emily refused to show herself even for an in
slant. Her relations with her husband, more
over, have not been marked by the sweetness
and confidence that we commonly attribute
to the marrisge relation. Tho match at hAs
appears 10 have been ar ill.assorted one, ant
| the pair seem tc live in that condition o
resignation and welded neutrality which 81
| often characterize state unions. In England
where the wife by her royal rank CONSTANT,
takes precedence Of her husband, the Inc
quality of a union where the two wer
neither mated nor matched is still more con
spicuous than here in Canada. Finally, tn
princess-has a reputation for close econom.
and thrift, which her sisters share. A stor.
which l have heard from very t%rustworth.
sources about the Princess Beatrice will she.
this Victorian trait. 1t is saidlthat she ha'
contracted with a British publisher TO brin;
out a book illustrated by her W sketches
After forcing him up TO a price where he wa
in utter despair of any profits, she added
"Aud now, Mr.. -,if orr book succeeds a
well as we hope it will, l shall expect
handsome present from you besides"
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Railway Postal Clerk Arrested.

ST.. LOUIS, January 3.-B. F~alkenhaimer,
railway postal clerk in charge of the trans.
fer service at the Union depot in this city,
was arrested this morning by Inspector Dice,
of the special postal service. He is charged
with Withholding a bundle Of letters ad.
dressed TO Agent Boardman, Of the Louis
Vile Lottery, and to the Courier-Journai
They were decoy letters. He should have
placed them 10 the Ohio and Mississippi
mail. ssThe letters were found lying on ths
counter in his office. Fslkenhaimer de
clares that the package was simply over
looked, and that he intended returning it t.
the st. Louis Office for transmission tonight
but the authorities seem to be confident o
his guilt. He has been seventeen years il
the service, and wac formerly registry clerl
of the St. Louis postofice, and is highly con
nected.
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Mrs. stiIIweIl'. Confession.

ST. LOUIS, January S.-A dispatch from
Maryville. Mo-, referring to the confession Of
Mrs. ]. V. Stillweil, of Mount Vernon. o.,
that che murdered her former husband, Ben.
jamin Swsigart, at Maryville. says that Swell
CART was found dead in his bed Sunday morn.
ing, March A, 1877, and that the testimony
of Two physicians at the coroner's inquest
was that his death was caused by asphyxia
partly induced by stupor resulting from ex'
cessive drinking, and partly from mechan'
ical causes, he having been found lying on 8
feather bed with his face downward. Moth
lug was brought out at the inquest in any way
duplicating his wife.
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A London letter says that dramatists have
not much 10 complain of nowadays. The
poet laureate received $500 in hard cash for
his rubbishy piece at the Globe, and Henry
Herman has just sold his American rights
for the Sifuer King for $1,000. Miss Fanny
Kelly, the mother of the English stage, who
is now ninety-three years CT ags, has,
through the influence of friends, been
granted a pension of G160 a year from the
civil list by Mr.. Gladstone. Miss Kelly is
the sister of Michael Kelly, who was che
dorcheStre at Dfury Lane under the manage
ment of Sheridan. She made her first ap.
pearsnee when six years old as the "Duke
Of York" in Richard III, and, after a sue.
cessful career, lost her earnings by building
a theater in 1910.
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RENOUNCED THE WORLD.
Novices Invested with The White Veil
at St. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, January 3.-Miss Lizzie Hack
EFT, OF Memphis; Lizzie Nichol. this city;
Jennie Mccormick, Detroit; Mary Nc
Laughlin, Bangor. Mel Katie Cudahy, Mil;
Mary Byrnes, New York, were invested with
the white veil of the erdef of the Sisterhood
of the Good Shepherd his morning. The
following novices took the black veil: Misses
Lawler and Moran, st. Louis; Killein and
Savage, Detroit, and Murphy, St. Paul. The
ceremony was performed by Bishop Ryan,
assisted by several priests. The Sisterhood
of the Good Shepherd devote themselves to
the reclamation OF fallen women, aud sup
port themselves by their own labor.
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A Woman In the Case, of Course.

ST. LOUIS, January 3.-Henry Jackson,
supposed to be doing a prosperous livery
business at Sturgeon, Boone county, Mo-,
disappeared last. Saturday, and it has since
been learned that he forged the name OF his
uncle, DR.. K. S. Stockbridge, 10 notes
amounting to several thousand dollars; that
be owed nearly everybody, and that there is
q uanan nntceinu
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INDIANAPOLIS, January 9.-Jscob Shut
was shot three times and dangerously
wounded this morning on South Illinois
street by Martin Powers. Both are merchant
policemen. Shut attacked Powers with hil
mace, and Powers responded with his re
yolver-
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THEMIGHTY DOLLAR
And the Thirtieth Anniversary Of the
Marriage Of Mr.. and Mrs. Florence
Sarah Jewett and Her Father.
Abbey's 6OOd Luck and His Great Sue
cess with Foreign Ar~tists-BOOth's
Theater Sold at Last.

The year 1882 closed without the destruc-
tiou Of human life in burning theaters, but
the proportion of tbeaters destroyed by FIRE
is again very large. The principal Ameri-
can theater destroyed by fire in 1882 was
Abbey's Park Theater, in New York. In
Europe, out of 1857 theaters, twenty-three
burned down in 1882, against tweuty-eight
in 1881. The cause OF this high rate is as
cribed to the elaborate nature OF modern
decoration, heating and lighting. The aver
age number of theaters destroyed by fire is
now over twenty-five annually, but the pro-
portion ia much higher in Esrope than here,
especially in Great Britain and Russia. The
English bheaters burned down in 1882 were
those in Bolton, Portsmouth, Islingtop,
Brighton, South Shields and London, at
which latter place the Alhambra was de-
stroyed recently,
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Oscar wiIde's Mother Gossfps About
m

Lady Wilde, who is not merely renowned
as the mother of Oscar, but who, thirty
years ago, was, as "Speranzs," the poetess of
young Ireland, communicates to . London
weekly her views on "Manner and Converse
tion." "People are growing weary" she
tells US, "of the fippant grotesque, and are
haunted by a desire for some nobler COM
munion Of souls. 8 . $ Women live 80
apart from practical life that their opinion
on grave, deep subjects is worth nothing"
"The qualities are rare and beautiful that
can make a woman not only a divine guide
to a human heart, but also a splendid power
in social life" This will scarcely be dis
puted, but will, we fear, in some csrping
minds, be held to SAVIOR of platitude. Then
we learn that ga queen of intellect must be
able 10 fash lightly over every subject and
illuminate them all. She must take a run
through the sciences, . . have studied
the art treasures of many capitals, and num-
Der among her friends the leading intellects
of the age" But even with all this she
must beware of talking too much, for "be-
yond even the grace of speech there is the
grace OF listening and the tact CT silence,
even OF entire self-effacement." Poor Lady
Byron then comes in for a terrific rap
for having lacked this "tAm 1 in
your way, Byron?' she asked, one day, enter
ing the poets study while he was at immor-
tai work. There is not, we believe, the
slightest evidence as to the nature of his
work at the time] 'Damnably,' was the
emphatic answer of her poet lord" sand
she deserved it," savagely comments Lady
Wilde. She had no fine instincts. She
ought 10 have known intuitively that she
Uas in the way" So that, according to
"Sperauza," a husband is justified in brutal
rudeness toward a wife because nature hap
pens not to have endowed her with ''6ue in
s~tlnc.s." In proof of the position that good
women who give up society and devote
themselves exclusively to home duties grow
old SO soen," Lady Wilde quotes Lord
Lytton's assertion that "nothing ages like
domestic happiness" It must be conceded
that from this point OF view the late Lady
Lytton ought almost to have enjoyed peren-
NAL youth. As a hostess Lady Wilde's ideal
woman "allows no freezing ice 10 form and
obstruct the full free soil of thought" bui
abe must "beware of originality" which hai
a coalition .gainst it. "What is called chat
debases every subject" "Women of tact car
color the commonplace with a little emo
tional intensity, and then society says they
still are very NICE and they even becom'
exceedingly popular" We have surely ssiC
enough to show what an invaluable text
book Oscars mamma has furnished to tn,
yould-be social star.
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A Remedy for DIphtheria.

A lady at Parkville, Conn, while one of
her children was taken with the prevalent
fever, which lends to blend with diphtheria,
and has proved so fatal, resolved to adopt
preventive measures, 10 save at least the
other children. She hung up sheets in the
carbolic spray; and pretty much everything
else in that aud adjoining rooms were SINH
larry treated. A fast as the wetted articles
got dry the carbolic acid was renewed. Re
suit, the sick child rapidly recovered and
neither of the others got sick.
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Kate Fields Failure.

There was too much sentiment and fuss
and feathers, and too little business sense in
Kate Fields Cooperative Dress Association
enterprise. The thing began too big, and
with Too much trumpeting. Practical people
were either left out or soon driven off by the
squad Of opinionated old maids in control,
who really knew nothing Of the business Of
buying and selling dress goods. A S20,000-a-
year store was leased; Miss Field was paid
$4,000 for the use OF her name as president,
and some fancy assistants 10 help Kate do
less than nothing in a business way, had
$1,000 and 5000 each. In short, the thing
was blown TO the apparent proportions OF
Arnold, Constable & Co.'s great concern the
dsy it was opened. There was no patience
for details; no sense Of perseverance that
meant to earn good will slowly, surely and
solidly. The establishment began a monster
adult; il has now entered Oh q period some
thing similar 10 that a man exhibits who has
been wasted to a skeleton by the ravages Of a
g~alloDing CONSUMPTION.
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MIR. Gladstone at sIolanthe..

The London Neus of December 9Th says:
"Mr. Gladstone Witnessed the performance Of
Messrs. Gilbert & Sullivan's new opera,
Iolanthe, at the Savoy Theater, on Monday
evening: As on the previous occasion when
he visited the same house during the run OF
Patience, the premier was recognized imme-
diately on entering, and received an enthusi-
astic greeting. The assembled audience rose
to their feet and heartily cheered him as, ac-
companied by his son, Mr.. Herbert Glad
stone, MP, he proceeded to take his seat in
the fourth row Of The orchestra stalls. The
performance was received, if possible, with
increased favor, the presence of the premier
giving additional piquancy to the political
illusions with which Mr.. Gilbert's very
original and amusing story is interpreted.
This was especially the case with regard to
the declaration by the "Queen of the
Fairies" in the person OF Miss Alice Barrett,
that members of Parliament
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Both Instantly Killed.

BAIRD, TEX, January S.-Thomas Jones
and George l.. Franks, of Cotton Springs,
getting into a dispute, met on the street,
Frank with a Shotgun, Jones with a re-
v%olver, both fred, and both were Instantly
killed.
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Chicago Gamblers Fined.

CHICAGO, January 3.-The Appellate
Court to-day affirmed the sentence OF Judge
Gary, fning twenty keepers of gambling
houses or hells, in which gambling is carried
on, 500 each. As this comes nearer TO en-
forcing the law with some severity than any
previous legal act has done, it causes much
satisfaction among the better class of citizens.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, January 3.-Dr.
Joseph A. Brooks, president OF the Missouri
Prohibition Alliance, called a meeting of
the Executive Committee of that body to be
held here next Tuesday, when action will be
agreed upon looking to the submission OF a
prohibition amendment to the people. The
contest for the speskership is becoming verg
activa and spirited.
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Abbey and the Metropolitan Opera
house.

The New York Times, OF Sunday, says that
the directors of the Metropolitan Opera
house Company nave had under considera-
ton for some time the subject Of giving out
the contract for the management of the new
operahouse at Broadway, Thirty-ninth and
Fortieth streets. There were IWo nPPliosn,s
for the offce-Henry E. Abbey and Herbert
+. Gye, as representative of the Royal
Italian Opera Company Qimited), of Lon
don. At the meeting OF the directors held
on Thursday last nine out OF the thirteen d.
rectors were present, and it was resolved by
a unanimous vote to give the contract to MIR.
Abbey. The final settlement Of the contract
was referred, however, for the arrangement
of certain details TO a committee consisting
Of Messrs. George G.. Haven, Adrian Iselip,
Robert Goelet and e1 cbicio James A. Roose-
welt, the president of the Metropolitan
Operahouse Company. This committee &C.
lected as its adviser counsel to the corpora
ton William G. Whitney, and a meeting was
held yesterday afternoon at the office in The
Mills building, Broad street, near Wall.
At that meeting all the details were perfected
and the contract was formally executed
by receiving Mr.. Abbey's signature. Mr..
Roosevelt was not present, having been
kept away by other engagements, and the
contract therefore still lacks his signature
as president of the company, but the execu-
ton was made with his consent, and the
understanding that he would add his sigma
ture to the document On Tuesday next. The
contract is for one year, and is renewable al
its expiration at the pleasure OF both par
ties to if. By its Terms Mr.. Abbey has full
control of the stage arrangements, the pre-.
p~aration of costumes, the engagement Of
singers and orchestra and the disposition Of
The building. A member of the committed
said yesterday afternoon that the directors
in giving the contract 10 Mr.. Abbey, had
.een governed by TWO considerations. In the
first place they deemed it advisable to place
the operahouse in the hands of a manager
who would relieve them of the care of il
from one years end to the other, rather thar
place it in the hands of one who would rur
it for only a few months in the year. al
the second place" continued the gentleman
referred TO, "Mr. Abbey has proved hinsel
a very enterprising aud trustworthy mana
ger. Nj. Jay Gould, the owner OF tn
Grand Operahouse, which is leased by Mr.
Abbey, said, when we inquired of him oil
the subject, that Mr.. Abbey had proved tn
most trustworthy manager he had ever ha'
any dealings With,o
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this we think he is wrong. There is no
room for knownolhingism, and the Germans,
so lar from being disliked, are regarded with
the highest favor, especially in the South
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CHICAGO, January 3.-Mrs. Langtry's en-
gagement here will be fairly profitable. The
general expression Of 6rst-nighters and crit
les is that she is the merest amateur in his
triOnic art. Owing to the exerlions OF stage
and travel she is rapidly losing flesh, and sp-
pears quite thin in features and somewhat
csreworn. She expects Mr.. Gebhardt here
ON "Wednesday
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CLEVELAND, January S.-A. W. Oppman,
a prominent brewer of this city, was to-day
convicted iu the Police Court OF resisting an
officer, and fined 500 and sentenced TO the
workhouse for ten days. The sentence created
n aansation
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PHI APPEAL FOR 1888.

The APPEAL has just entered upon the
frty-third year of its existence. During the
year 1888 it will maintain all its honorable
traditions by the adoption of every improve
ment which progress can invent or suggest.
1t will be the constant aim of the manage
ment to make it a complete newspaper and
the reliable exponent of a liberal public
opinion. With this object in view, it will
print all the news of the day, promptly and
as fully as its large and increasing fa%cilities
will permit. While keeping our readers
intelligent upon all the political questions
of the time, we shall continue TO devote a
large share OF our space to agricultural,
educational, religious, scientific, literary, in
dustrial and commercial matters. Political
parties are likely to be recognized upon new
Issues as national politics are assuming new
phases. This will give additional interest TO
all well-conducted newspapers until the next
ffesidentlal election. Every good citizen
should keep himself abreast of the current
politics oil tho day; for that reason the price
oil the APPEAL is placed within the reach of
even the poorest. The history Of the AP-
PEAL for the past forty-two years has been
the history Of Southern thought, Southern
politics, Southern industry, and its future
will be the SAM
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All communications should be addressed 10
GALA WAY & HEATING,
Memphis. Tennessee.
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Mrs. TABOR GeI. her Divorce.

DENVER, January 3.-By mutual agree
ment Mrs. Augusta L. Tabor obtained a di-
vorce from her husband, Gov. Tabor, yester'
day, her alimony being S250,000. She asked
81 ,OO0, 600, but seemed satisfied with thu
compromise. She Withdrew all offensi We
charges, and previous suits lapse.
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A Romance OF a. irish Princess.

Penelope Smyth, Princess OF caPaa. must
be added to the distinguished dead of 1857
She was amous a generation age, but time
and political revolutions have caused her TO
be forgotten by most mature readers, while
she was .inost totally unknown to their
~iuuie4e. Up to 1860 Naples and Sicily we're
2SuIed by the Spanish Bourbons. They be-
came sovsrsigns early in the last century.
In 1859 Ferdinand VI, King OF Spain, died,
leaving no children. Thereupon his half
brother, Charles, King Of the Two sicilies,
succeeded 10 the Spanish throne, leaving his
former dominions 10 his second son, Ferdi-
nand. Ferdinand was succeeded by his ssn
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The Cincinna.i opera FestivaI.

CNCIsNATI, January 3.-Ihe sale OF re-
served seats for the Opera Festival began
this morning with the hall full Of bidders.
The six private boxes cold at premiums
ranging from $50 TO 1905. With the premi-
and price of seats they netted sl259.
The first choice of seats in the body OF the
house sold for $50; the second for $50.
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Mvthfcal mi,,toua,res.

Nothing is more common than to find the
newspaper obituaries grossly exaggeratiDg
the wealth of the rich men whose deaths
they record. When old Cornelius Vanderbilt
died they put him down for any sun from
$50, 100000 to Sle0, DOC, 900, and Alexander
I. Stewards wealth was estimated as high as
SIS, 000, 900. Here is a list which "an old
New Yorker and a gentleman well posted
up" has handed the World. Its accuracy may
we'll be doubted, and many Of those named
might we'll wish it were half the truth. And
from the list is omitted the name Of Jose de
Navarro, one of the few len m~illionaires Of
the city.
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Horaford's Acid Phosphate
mI..ourf ProhIbI.IonIsts.

Is very valuable for professional men. 1t
supplies the phosphates which are always
| lost by severe mental labor. VISA
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Shall sit, if he sees reason,
Through the grouse and salmon season,
n fu rthernore that
He shall end the cherished rights
vo,, anior ON Wednesday, uiohtc

You ENJOY on Weunesday hgHIs'
No less successful were the illusions TO the
House of Peers, or again .he fairy Arcsdian
shepherds description OF himself as a Tory
of the most determined description down to
the waist, with tive Radical legs, which,
being two 10 one, would constitute a strong
working majority, and would take him into
the wrong lobby. All these and many other
sallies were greeted with loud laughter and
applause, in which the premier took part
With evidenf nleasnre.
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CLUB AND PISTOL.
Desperate Fight Between Two Police
men, in Which One is Danger.
Ously Wounded.
Mrs. Tabor's Div0rce-Railway Postal
Clerk Arrested for Robbing the
Mails-Chicago Gamblers.

New YORK, January 3.-The coroner.
jury commended Officer Delaney, who shot
dead Patrick McGovern, BILLY" McGlary's
barkeeper.
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NQW Year.

H.ks's beautiful New Year sschets at
Wills 4 Wildbsrger's, 81 Main.
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GOLD RINGS, medals, ETC., made to order
BY J. n. Mulford 4 Co., jewellers, 1888 Main.
Mohave County miner., 1883-12-09
A Warssing.

The manner in which a Colorado judge has just disposed of libel suit, is a warming to those individu als who seek u repair their damaged rep .tations by an appeal to the courts. The complainant was Guy H. Thompson, late Democratic can didate for justice of the peace in Arapahoe county, Colorado, and Jos. Metzler, who had shown him up'' during the campaign, was the defen- dant. After hearing the case the court decided in favor of the defen- dant. and in rendering his decision the Judge closed as follows:
 ''In my opinion the defendant is a public benefactor aud did only right in showing up the character of such a man who would ask for an office of trust and responsibility. The cause is dismissed, the defendant discharg- ed and the cost of suit assessed upon the complainant"