Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-29
PERSONAL.

Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Thumb are about
to retire. F
Jubal Early refuses to run for Congress
IN Virginia.
A son Of the late Prof. Morse is about
to settle in Austin, Texas
The ex-King of Naples has had two
divorces, and Is now after another.
A Muscatine, Indiana, deaf mar
sneezed himself into the full possession
of hearing the other day.
Prof. Powell is down in the Colorado
eeuntry, shooting out of the canon Of
Kanab.
Judge Robt. J. Alcorn publishes q
letter asserting his adhesion to Greeley
and Brown.
The Alabama Commission are served
with English plum pudding every day
at dinner in Geneva.
Boutwell, and Butler play billiards to-
gether when they are in Washington, Of
evenings. ql ~
A grandson of TippoS ahib has applied
for admission into the bar in London.
Napoleon, ex-Emperor, drew forty
thousand dollars interes last May on
coupons Of United States D1nds.
Bismarck and motley were school
mates for years. Motley taught him
English, while he taught Motley Ger
man.
Poetry and poverty are no longer in
separable companions. Bryant, Sake,
Holmes and Lowell are all rich men.
Mr. Henry Clifford, who died at SYRIA
cuse, New York, last week, in the sew
| enty-frst year of his age, built the first
salt vat ever put up in that city.
II Bazaine be found guilty of the
charges brought against him, the mar
tial Law Of France condemns him to
death. There is no alternative punish
ment.
MI. Appleton, an American gentle
man, resident some time in SwitZer-
land, was lately appointed professor OF
French law at the University of Berne.
The Pope appears to have shown his
luminosity to the italian government by
refusing to receive the Burmese embassy
accompanied by an Italian officer. sc
The lack of pecuniary success attend
ing the Boston noise annoys MI. Gil
more all the more because he Is still as
sured that the jubilee was organized on
a sound basis. ~
Mark Twain says information seems
to stew cut of him naturally, like the
precious ottar of roses out Of the otter.
The more he calks up the sources and
the tighterhe gets, the more he leaks
wisdom.
General John A. Green died at SYRIA
cuse, New York, last week, in the forty
third year Of his age, from exposure in
cured while in command of a brigade
on decoration day. He was a we'll
known member Of the Democratic party,
and a prominent citizen.
The story az a royal marriage for Fred
Grant will hardly be revived in connec-
ton with the Russian Grand Duchesses,
for If the Gar wouldn't give the "heir
apparent" his own hand, he would
hardly carr 30 dispose of his daughters
in that way.
DIR. Joseph H. Smith, n of the
Massachusetts delegates TO Baltimore,
was a member of the first convention Of
Democrats ever held in the country, at
its formal organization in 1882. He was
then delegate for New Hampshire.
Mr.. Isaac Corbett, Of Baltimore,
seventy-two years Of age, visited a cem-
etery In company with his daughter, on
Sunday afternoon, and while there
pointed out a spot where he thought be
would like TO be buried. Soon after re-
turning home he was seized with illness
and within three hours of the time of
selecting his grave, he was dead.
The flag Of the Manhattan Club vas
put at half-mast in honor of General ID.
w. Adams, Of New Orleans, who died
in that city last week very suddenly
while writing q brief &C his desk. Cen
eraI Adams had for five years past been
an esteemed member of the club, and
his sudden death will be cordially re-
GREETED by a large circle Of friends at the
North.
Edward 4. Hardy, Of New York,
on Thursday, shot q man named VIII
liam L. Davis, engaged in business IN
Washington, for an alleged irreparable
wrong 70 the formers daughter. The
Assault was committed ia the city Of
Georgetown. The parties had never be-