Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-20
PERSONAL.

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contributors.
Mr.. Charles Brooks, a wealthy
HuddersieId manufacturer, has given
$4,000 for baiIdihg and endoWing
home for cOnvaleseentssin that city.
The late Mrs. Margaret Kalbfus, o.
Baltimore, left s125,000, three-quarters
Of her entire estate, to the Humane
Impartial Society and the Aged WCm.
ans Home Of that city.
The Sultan Of Turkey recently sent
Ali VIA Pssha, Governor General OF
BFoussa, who was on leave in Con-
stantinOple, a splendid jsWeled snuff
box of the estimated value Of sI2, 800,
as a mark of his favor.
Horace Greeley, in his address at
Akron, spoke OF the Almighty as the
"AuthOr Of ali things" The Louis
vile Ledger trusts that he did not de-
sign to invoke his Maker in any re-
sponsibility for that book about farm-
ing.
Queen Vietoria's statue in Mon
treaI will be unvailed, il IS said, by
her daughter and sOn-iu-IaW, the
MarchiOne5s and Marquis of Lorne,
on their arrival In Canada, next
month.
Victor HugO's fortune Is estimated
at over two million francs, and yet
since the Franco-Prussian wal he has
had an apprehension that he might
come to want, and many believe he
has grown deranged on the subject Of
money.
The Scotch are delighted by the
believed discovery Of the burial place
Of Mary de Couci, Queen Of their
Alexander III. and mother of AIexau-
der Ill, at NeWbattle Abbey, long in
ruins. She died more than five cen
turtles ago, and their satisfaction is In
proportion to the vanished years.
The son of Martin Farquhar Fup-
per, the prOyerbial prOser, lately
killed near Cape Colony, was en- route
to the diamond fields, where he hoped
to make a fortune, at the time Of the
accident. He was only tWenty-fOur
years Of age, and is represented as a
very promising young man.
Mr.. George GrOte, the eminent his
tOrian, died worth about $500, 900 in
personal property alone. He be-
queathed the copyright Of his "His-
tory Of Greece" and of other works,
and all his books, to his wife for her
life, and after her decease to the Uni
versity Of London, Burlington
Gardens.
A note from Mr.. Geo. j. Holyoake
explains that the illness of Thomas
Hughes resulted from OyerWork. He
had puFpozed spending his Parlia-
mentary vacation in Switzerland, but
has already been ordered out OF Lon
don, and has gone to Great Malvern,
Worcestershire, for Water-cure-treat-
ment.
The truth of Chapman's line, "The
gods on murders fix revengeful
eyes," is shown by the recent suicide
in Mobile, Ala, of Henry B. Couch,
son of Rev. A. b. Couch, q Baptist
clergyman, who two years ago killed
4 man named Jacobs, ia a notorious
oOrdellO OF that city. RemOrse liter
ally drove young Couch to the grave.
The editor of the GlOversville On.
" Standard, from which was copied,
few weeks ago, a paragraph relative
20 the connection OF Foster, the muir
terer, with the J~OnesVilIe Academy,
md his punishment by Professor Viii
on, prints IN his last issue an article |
n which he ~eOnfesSes himself to have !
,een mistaken. He is now convinced
hat he and Foster were not school, {
mates, and that the refieckiOns on Pro- {
sssOr Wilson's management were un- :
list. !
John Hopkins, a Maryland Quaker, Z
egan lifein Baltimore a a small gro :
er, and, by industry, has brought
imsef to be the richest man south Of .
Jason and DixOn's line. He is now :
be largest stoekholder In the Balti- :
lOre and Ohio railroad, worth IS, co., =
Do. much Of which he has given to I
ndOW the John Hopkins University, !
Il the outskirts of Baltimore city. :
Ir. Hopkins is a plain, aged gentle !,
Ian, still diligent and daily in BUSH :.
esq, and was one OF the projectors and :
1dOWeTs Of the line of iron steam :.
hips between Baltimoreand Bremen. !
VIII Carleton, Of HfIIsdale. read a 4
Dem on decoration day, beginning. s
Wen cover them over with beautf- n,
i flowers" and a reverend parson o,
so delivered the same poem on dec 81
'atl0n day, at another place, from A
hich it was inferred by some suspi- ie
Gus editors that both poets stole the h,
But Carleton settles the e.
after in his favor by shO wing that r.
delivered it June I, 1870, one year 81
lead Of the preacher. The preacher th
'Obably delivered it with 'squotation 81
arksso which were accidanAy omit re
in the printed report. W
The Havas agency supplies the To
,ench papers with the following ex- Is
act from a letter written in New ly
Irk: "The present Chief OF the Re- th
IbGe of the United States has arfsto- OF
atic tendencies, which he does not W
en- take pains to conceal. People pc
2 talking more than ever Of q pro 4
ted matrimonial alliance between BIZ
g OF the Presidents sons and the pa
ung sister Of the Warehouses of ter
rne, nee Princess Louise Of Eng Vi
ID. But the reelection Of Mr.. Grant ma
The sine qua non Of this semi-prince- TN
and royal allianee.H or
San Francisco people are much per- Fl
ixed about their proposed new and -
tlY City Hail. The Legislature -
de provision for the erection Of q -
gnifieent pile, TO cost 81, 500, 600, -
be Situated in the extreme south -
part of the city, in a public 81
ervatiOn. Money for purposes Of -
lding was 20 be raised by selling ~
in the reservation. But interest IL
property-holders have intsryened ~
b endless f~0iunctions, and now the seAl
informs Us that the sale OF me
by the Commissioners has again lM
n stopped and indefinitely post :
ed.
young Chinaman, Choy AWah. a -
day school scholar in Washington.
been devOting himself to pigeon -
,lish, and recently rendered the -
lble. in the xviii chapter Of Mat nov
Y, Of the wise aud foolish virgins, inc
his wise: "The kingdom like ten ave
}; never marry; they bring some the
erns; come out till some new con-
ried man come thaG Way, have IN n
i've wise ana i've foonshs ave Wr
/ lanterns with no ell, smart dHe Inka
ave oil inside. The neE married eou1
come late; they Sleeps by-and- loeE
hey all say New maEried1 man
81 all 20 cut to him; Ave makey It
lanterns; Eve fool cay, : YOa give piriE
1il; lamp no Oh, you give my Go CO
The smart saw, IaRo give / SONS