Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-09
PERSONAL.

Mrs. DR.. Walkers Dolly Warden is de-
seribed as the sensation in Washington.
Annie Louise Cary will ooncommence
a concert tour in aid of the Maine Cen
eral Hospital.
Jeon mgelow is said to be engoged on
a long poem, by far more pretentious
than any of her works.
Mr.. E. P. Whipple is to lecture next
season on the relative Crank and
Worth of British Authors"
The President of Costa Rica and the
Presidentofthe United States will meetat
Washington next August, the first in
stance of Presidential visits.
Colonel and Madame Jerome Bona
parte viii spend the ensuing summer at
Newport, where they have a very hand
some cottage on Harrison avenue.
Prof. p. A. Town, the celebrated
mathematical author, has removed from
New York to Paris, Kentucky. He is
engaged in completing his series of
mathematical works.
Gerge Bancroft, at Berlin, is still en-
gagged upon the history of the United
States, and employs William A. Smith,
a graduate of the New York University,
as his amanuensis.
The oldest postmaster in the United
States is John Sieberlin, of Lynnville,
Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, who has
held his Office continuously since Febru-
airy ?, 1S20-fifty-two years and a quar-
ter.
Tom OiConnor, an unassuming Irish
man, is said to be the largest cattle
owner in Texas. He does not know eX-
actly how many he has, but the to-
tai will not vary much from sixththou-
sand head.
"To die of a rose and aromatic pain"
was almost the fate of Nine. Patti
Caux, at her last appearance in Vienna.
She sang in La IFdUidtd, and was called
out over a hundred times. AT the conclu-
sion she was greeted with such a shower
of bouquets, that she could scarcely
leave the stage, to such a depth was
she surrounded.
Sir Charles Dixie is described..by Justin
Mccarthy as dull beyond belief-remem-
boring his age, which is only twenty
eight years-withOut the shadow of elO-
quence, with nothing but facts to make
his speeches worth listening to. He
says, " 1t seems as if his fancy was era
died in blue-books, robed in red-tape,
and fed upon blotting-paper and drying
sand.u
The selection of Charles Francis Adj
ans, jrs, to deliver the fourth of July
Grafton before the authorities of Boston,
is the first case where the third genera
ton has performed that service. The
father was the orator in 184S, and the
grandfather in 1898, Just half a century
apart. Hon. Josiah Quincy was the ora
tor in 1928 and 1926. His son Josiah
was the orator in 1892. Hon. James 4.
Austin was orator in 1926, and his son,
Ivers j. Austin, in 1889.
Grace Greenwood has found a gem of
a genius in California, and writes glow
ingly of her. Mrs. Crosby, the wife. of
a Confederate General, was first inspired
to loftier things while assisting her chill
dren in the manufacture of mud pies
from soft and fascinating adobe. I'm
PEELED by awakening genius, her fingers.
began to fashion a head, which was so
life-like as to surprise and encourage her
to try carving from a piece of chalk
with a truly feminine Implements pair
of scissors. From chalk she went to.
marble, and finds herself wonderfully
successful with ehisel and mallet.
His Grace the Duke of Wellington
has announced his intention of present.
ing to the Chicago Library, Crystal
Palace, a complete set of the dwellings
ton Dispatches, y consisting of twenty
three volumes. Among the other dona-
tons which have been announced to
Mr.. Burgess, Honorable Secretary. are
those from Lords Houghton and LytteI-
ton, Mr.. Darwin, Professor Huxley, the
Bishop of Exeter, the Dean of Canter-
bury, Canon Kingsley, the Master Of the
Temple, Professors Blaekie and Calder
wood, Of Edinburgh; the Royal Institu-
ton, Liverpool, etc. The Secretary also
reports that the growth of the library
has not been seriously affected by recent
political complications.