Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-18
1910.
PERSONAL.
General Frim's estate is estimated
l. l. r--nrtb nr.a r,illinne Of HnlIara

TO be worth i've millions OF dollars
Mrs. George Nandenhoff think
school children should have q reces
every half hour.
Governor Clafiin recommends thl
establishment of an asylum for Inc
briates in Massachusetts,.
An Iowa woman took fourteen kind.
Of medicine for the shakes in one day
There are no shakes In heaven.
James McAuley. President Of the
Iron City Bank, and prominent pol
itician OF Pittsburg, died on Monday
E7rlvin life Peter Cooper broke
down in three different kinds Of busi.
ness. and then tried the manufacture
of glue. That stuck.
The Hsr11d proposes that a statue
Of General Jackson be erected in Jack
son Square on the next anniversary OF
the battle of New Orleans.
BY direction of Pope Plus IX. the
Rev. Father Fray LeOpOldO de Agu.
a-gut8 assumed control of the arch
diocese of san Domingo on the 23d OF
November.
Clark Mills, the sculptor, is not a
lavorite with the critics, who are
almost unanimous in the demand that
Congress shall not give him any more
Jobs for the Government.
Susan B. Anthony holds that il is
as dtu1ra iiZi0E for wife to depend
upon her husband for subsistence as
Do Is for q man to depend upon an
other man iGr his substance.
George William Curtis and Kate
Field are leCtUring throughout the
Eastern States on the subject Of Charles
Dickens, and not uuTequently they
lecture in the same town and are en-
gagged by the same committee.
It's said that Charles Hale, who
was formerly one of the editors Of the
Boston A5uatiSer, bat has lately
served as United States Consul in
Egypt, Is about TO return to this cOun-
Try % resume his old profession.
Truman &. Everts and n. P. Long
ford, of Montana, are in Washington.
They were members Of the famous
Yellowstone expedition, an account
OF whose pCrilOus explorations Mr..
L0ngtOrd viii give iu a lecture to the
Washington people.
Baez. the selfeiected President Of
Hsv-i, Is about fifty years of age, and
possesses OUp--iEteenth negro and
about Che same amount of Carib In
dian blood iu his veins. He is mar
Eied and has several daughters, who
are highly educated.
Lieutenant Commander II. B. Robe
son. L. s n, has sent to the library
Of Yale College about four hundred
japanese and Chinese coins, many Of
them OF gr1a. antiquity. Mrs. WOOs-
ter H1tchkiss has also given the
library large collection of Chinese
% Clsu.'
Mrs Elizabeth De Wolf, Of Salem.
Mass, who IS uiuety-hve years old. at
this time milES her four cows, and her
eyesight Is good go thread a fine cam
brlc needle as quick a. girl Of six
teen. She offers up her daily old
fashioned prayers for this nation to do
iu like manner.
Kate n. D0CEett writes from Rome
that the cause of wOman's advance
meut b. making great progress in Ita-
ly. There Is an International society,
whose headquarters are at Geneva,
and whose aim is to secure TO woman
in the state and in society all the rights
that men enjoy,
A pair Of Kentucky idiots have
given the following utterly heathenish
Christian names 10 their children:
% The children gf gentleman living
in Nelson county, Ky, bear the fol-
lowing Christian names: London
Judge, Greek Wisdom, China Figure.
Hebrew Fashion and Reputable King
DOM
An oh r..-ar of Knoxville, Illinois.
opened DIS haErt .0a nephew who was
going out west, and drew him q check
on the bank for five dollars. hut. By |
mistake. made it five hundred dollars. !
ON learning the extent Of his genpr-
us5ry, neeEc. c.almaI that he was ruined. ]
and Immediately gave up his sbriv- /
eIed ghost.
Robert C0Iyer. OF Chicago. in a ser- |
mon once said ui the inventor Of the /
locomotive: "I would rather take |
my chances as Robert Stephenson |
with that locomotive on my back,
Euu king for admission at the gate of |
So. Peter in Paradise, than the devOUt-
est saint who can carry on his back a /
toms load OF vows and Uenances."
The Portland Press SAYS: The /
paragraph that IS going the rounds Of /
the papers in regard 70 B. ID. Peck, /
formerly State Treasurer Of Maine.
and leading Temperance man, who /
has now reformed aud Joined a tenn /
DeUue7 society, suggests the case of
another gentleman well known i'm this /
State. Sy.vlnu- Cobb, ir., the novel
st, who moved from Norway TO East /
Boston, M8s-dchu-e.ts, In 1864, be- /
came very iutempeF after his arri- /
val there. and was finally sent to the |
House OF Correction. he has now 1
entirely reformed, aud IS Iecturing on /
the subject of temperance. This wiz 1
be- good news 90 an who know Mr.. I
Cobb, since De is universally regarded /
Jy H.s old ueighh.rs as one of the /
zlnda-s most generous and most ge- /
lial Of men." D."