Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-11-29


A remarkable historic link, the late
Lady Role, was buried Wednesday at
Bicton, near Budleigh Salterton, on the
south coast of Devon. Her ladyship was
the widow of Baron Role, the hero of that
once famous but vulgar satirical poem, the
"Rolliad." She was born in 1898, the year
in which her future husband, who WAS
born 135 years ago, was made peer. She
was the daughter of the seventeenth
Baron Ciinton-a title which dates back
to the time of Edward III-and was mar
ried to Lord Role in 1924, when he was
seventy-four and she was twenty eight.
the great Role Mansion, in Upper Gros-
venor street, where the guests could
hear "reminiscences handed down to her
by her husband, who was born ten years
before George III became King, and who
had been fourteen years in Par
Lament when Louis XVI and Marie An
toinette were executed, as we'll as her own
political recollections from Waterloo to
Khartoum and stories of her social life
from the days OF Carlton House to those
of Marlborough House. She is believed
to have been the original of Thsckersy's
"Lady Kew" and was a naughty and i'm
perious stickler for the rights of the old
nobility. She had great state at her eoun.
try seat of Bicton, where she was near
neighbof OF Lord Coleridge. By her hus-
bands will Bicton and its magnificent
grounds were kept up and 10000 year
was allowed to her during her lifetime cut
of the estate by his heir, the Hon. Marx
Role, who was her ladyship's nephew,
and who will now succeed to Bicton and its
park. Lady Role was eharita-
be old lady. She most bountifuily
endowed the lately created see of
Truro and expended half million in
building churches and schools for the ten
ants on the Bicton estates. Her neighbors,
thanks to her bounty, held throughout
her nonagenarian life many thanksgiving
days. A few winters ago, however, she
created much grumbling among the old
ladies of Budleigh Salterton Ia seaside
place famous for the advanced age of most
of its inhabitants) by imperiously remov-
ing the stove from the church and the
cushions the old ladies had placed in their
hsrd-seated pews to enable them to listen
with comfort to an octogenarian's long
winded sermons. This she did because
they had been put without her leave in
the church, OF which she was patroness.
BRITISH ACTIVITY IN EGYPT.
With the improvement of the prospects
for the continuance of the Conservatives
in power the chances increase for a re-
newal of British activity in Egypt.
Preparations are already being made on
an extensive scale in both Alexandria and
Cairo, under instructions from the London
War Office, for new expedition to Don
COLA to check the advance of the Mahdi's
successors. The indications are that the
proposed expedition will be made sufii-
ciently formidable to effectively protect
the Dongola and Nubisn frontier from the
threatened incuTsion of the hostile armies.
A rlraGont thR iutpnfiOn Of tho War OH,
would seem to be to send out force Of
$500 men, half English and half Eeyptlap.
and to reinforce this army by Nile flo
tlia, comprising about 100 British and
120O native troops. The river transporta-
ton service is now being overhauled, it is
thought for the purpose indicated. The
expedition, it is believed, will soon start.
The retention of 5000 British-Indian troops
at Suakim is taken as an indication of Lord
Salisbury's intention, if he remains III
power, to recover the Soudan.
STOCK SPECULATION.
An enormous development of Stock
Exchange transactions has taken placs in
London within the past month. The
monthly settlement concluded yesterday
was the largest recorded in the history of
London. The dealers in American sacu-
rites were compelled to keep their clerks
at work during the whole of Thursday
night preparing for settlement to-day, and
SO vast was the amount of business 10 be
done the Clearinghouse was almost unable
to cope with it, and paid guineas per day
for the services Of assistant clerks capable
of helping out with the work. The Brit
ish public "a now becoming more largely
interested I1|stock speculation than they
have been at any time in the past five
years. All the boards of trade also report
increased business. The prospects in the
shipping trade are becoming much
brighter, and freight rates are advancing.
NEW CABLES.
The British government is contemplating
an elaborate scheme for acing the mother
country in close and constant cable COM
muuication with all her colonies and de-
Tendencies. The system under considera-
. ton involves the employment of cables en-
tirely under British control. except in
! those cases in which the present trans
atlantic lines are concerned.
SENSATION IN BERLIN
Berlin has sensation of the first order
| in the trial and conviction OF the Marchese
Frita Candice, the daughter of Mario, the
i tenor, and Grisio. The msrchese has been
| prosecuted under fourteen charges of
[ having swindled jewellers, hotel-Eeepers
and modistes Of large sums of money under
! various false pretenses. She has'been con-
! victed of all the charges, and has been
! sentenced to eighteen months impris on
ment with an allowance of six months for
; the detention she has already undergone
/ under a previous sentence less justly in
I f1icted.
! MIR. Wilson Barrett is co-laboring with
/ Mr.. Sidney Grunday a five act tragedy.
/ The material is taken from Greek authors,
! Athens is the scene, and the time that of
( Pericles.
! Robert Buchanan and Hall Caine are
engaged upon dramatization of Gaines
new novel, The Son Of Hagdr, which is
about to appear in Harper's.
! Elizabeth Philip, the popular song
writer, is dead.
The powerful tenor, Hallam, of the AL
fornoma Opera Troupe is passenger on
the steamer Aurania, which sailed from
Liverpool for New York to-day.