Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-12-22
PERSONALITIES.


/ Ake1L4lH wanted pY M1Wauhe6s
Alexis leaves Toronto to dsy for
| Niagara.
The physicians who attended tie Prince
Of Wsles are to be knighted.
The course Of the recovery Of the Primes
% Wales is quite satisfactory.
Swsyne,a a Trenton, New Jersey, banker,
Is reported az 8 "lsme duck"
One OF the Sismese twins is lying ct the
point Of death 81 their home In North Car
olins.
Lord Tenterden and Charles Francis
Adams have returned to London FROM
Geneva.
Weld & Co, Boston, charged with rev.
enue sWlneling, propose TO settle with
the government.
Robert Hodge, while out hunting, near
Hot Springs, Arkansas accidentally shot
and killed himself.
Elizabeth Csdy Stanton and others of
her set are boring congress again in rsfer-
ence 60 woman suffrage.
Bishop osmsn Baker, OF the Methodist
Episcopal church, died at Concord. New
Hampshire, Wednesday afternoon.
Robert W. smyth, of Baltimore, lately
on trial for embezzleing United States
funds, has been acquitted.
I. Vonwie, young man of eighteen,
committed suicide st Madison, Wisoon-
sins Wednesday, by taking poison.
The Chapman sisters, Old John Collins
the Irish comedian, John z Owens, and
Mrs. D. P. Bowers are playing at New Or
leans.
Madame Mssssns, who claims relation
ship with one OF Napcleonis great mar
shsls, edits the Magnolia, New Orleans
msgszine.
Alexis, on his way 70 Montreal, wss
tumbled about very unceremoniously by
his car running on the track nssr Brock
yille, Canada, bnt fortunately was not
burt.
Queen Victoria has received the con-
grsGulatiOnB of the president of ths
French republic on the recovery Of the
Prince Of Wales from his dangerous i'll
ness.
Grsnt Duh, ID. P, In an address the
other night al Elgin, advocated the psr-
severance in the commercial policy of the
late Mr.. Golden, and treEted the Inter
nationals with unsparring rid1cuIe.
A New York dispatch says A. 7, Stew
art, the Lor1llard estate, VIM. 3, Astor.
Moses Taylor, Hugh Smith and Others
have been indicted for understanding
their estates and defrauding the city Of
large taxes.
The Washington correspondent of ths
Ssvannsh News says: Prominent Geor-
gians now here express the opinion that
Blodget viii never return to Georgia. but
viii seek an asylum with his friend Bull
lock in Canada"
E. J. Roye, presiden5 of Liberia. an ex-
Ohiosn, has been deposed and imprisoned.
together with his son, on the charge OF
miSappropr1ating S200,00 Of Libsrisn
hond5. This carpetbagger mistoOk Liberia
for an American satrapy.
The Albany Argus, the official organ,
pronoUncss the recently published &C
count Of an interview with Governor
Hoffman, Of New York, on tbs passive
poncy, a pure invention, manufactured
out OF the whole cloth"
The Rochester Democrat SAYS: ave do
not credit the story of the New York Com
marcial Advertiser that Horace Grselev
has eloped with Mrs. woodruff Il is |
dou5tiess an invention of the enemy
whether the enemy of Mr.. Greeley or Mrs, |
Woodruff can not be yet told"
John Morrlsey, that noble old sport has |
sued John k1lgour, q prominent Cinciu-
NATHAN, for l0CO0-supposed TO be tor the 1
recovery OF 8 debt OF honor. The psti |
ton claims that the sum named was sd- /
vaDced at the special request of defendant. |
The matter is being considerably discuss
The last Of G. F. Trains dispatches was
addressed to Governor Campbell, of
territory, and as might be ex-
pecteds relstes to the veto Of the repeal of
the woman suffrage law in that territory.
IL Il as follows: "You are & trump So /
sre the women. They must be united-to
q man. Next President Of Amsrica."
The Cincinnati Gszstte says that H. V.
B g investigation Of Senator Harian's
fraudulent Indian claims is being pushed,
and that very soon official documents will
be published proving eli that has bsen
charged IN the letters Of Il. Y. B., aud q
ZreaG deal more, and worse.D It seems,
then, that bso as il is the worst has not ?
Oseu told.
The rumor that the Grand Duke Alexis
prefers little women is exercising a mar
Velous effect among the stately young
ladies' OF fashion, who are knocking the
high heels from their shoes, esche wing
.ofsiy coitsurs and otherwise seeking 10
reduce their statue within the limits sup.
posed to be approved by the arrived scion
of royalty,
A Msdrid Ietter received in New York,
states that Sickles received secret orders
% return to Washington immedisteiy for
consultation on important State matters,
most probably the Cuban complications.
The sudden recall precipitsted his msr-
,iage, the ceremony being celebrated OILY
lev hours previous 70 bis departure for
" Nsshington.
When VsnBuren was president his ene-
MES threatened TO impesch him If he
received present from Europe, which it
was reported would be offered him. Since
hen we hsve made such progress, under
Radical rule. that president actually re-
'eived presents of houses, farms, bonds
horses, pups, aid cigars, and any person
Fho says anything against It Is called Gis-
oyal.
Gladstone, while expressing no opinion
IS 70 tbs merits Of the case, regrets the
ih1culty into which General Scbenek
las fallen from his unfortunate pen
hGnt for dsbbling II mining stocks.
Slsdstone tickles Schenek with the very
'oor feather that the Duke of Sunder-
snd was allowed to engage in private |
BUSINESS while representing Her Msjssty's
government ct the Portuguese capital.
Jesse r. Grant, father Of the President,
vas stricken with paralysis at l O'Clock
' Ve0nesdsy afternoon in the Coviugton |
ostcfEce, fell 70 the floor and remained
nsensible for an hour, after which he wss
to bis residences. He was better 1
a late hour that night, having so far re-
oyered es to be able to sit up ard talk
ome with bis friends. His health had
cen OF late IS good, apparently, as usual | J
nth man ssventy-six years old.
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