Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-02-12
PERSONAL.

: ant Grant, were In Rome yesterday.
y Bussie, the aIdermanic bribe-take
" Of Chicago, is out Of Jail on $500
bail.
Yesterday the James Howard safel!
landed Alexis and his party at New
Orleans.
The President has appointed Sayles
: J. Bowen, ex-mayor OF Washington
? minister to Ecuador.
C George Francis Train has his foot oil
: his native heath again. He is lectur
! ing furiously in Massachusetts.
DR.. Wise, a distinguished Rabbi
located in Galveston, Texas, has been
placed in the asylum for the insane.
Bishop Bayley, of Newark, New
Jersey, in pastoral urges all Cath
olics not to Join or countenance the
International society.
Rev. Daniel Williams, who gath
cred church at Foster, Rhode Island,
fifty years ago, is still its pastor, in ac-
tive service, though eighty-One years
Of age.
Information has been received in
London that Madame Lynch, the
widow of Lopez, dictator OF Paraguay,
is dying at her home, in the south oi
France.
Philip T. Duuford, of Richmond,
who was burned to death the other
day, was soldier In the war OF 1912,
ia Ben Allen company from.Cumber-
land county.
Captain J. B. r, Cooper, who went
to California in 1922, who was once adj
miral of the Mexican navy, died yes
terdsy at San Francisco. The funeral
takes place to-day.
Thomas J. Sutherland and Arthur
d. Rich, prominent lawyers Of Chi
cago had a round of fistcuffs yester-
day, much to the amusement Of a
thousand or more spectators.
In Boston, Massachusetts, John A.
Henson, convicted of forging the name
of his father-in-laW, John J. Clarke,
to a $1,000 check, has been sentenced
to six years in the State prison.
"Oi all sad words Of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these: it might have
been" We are reminded of this by
telegram OF last night which says
that the London Tablet announced
on the very morning of his death that
Bishop Spaulding was to be made
cardinal.
The Duke d'Aumale and the Prince
de Joinville, in communication to
the Paris Official Journal, say if they
had been present in the French as
sembly on Friday, they would have
voted for the return of the assembly
and government to Paris.
Francis P. Blair, senior, who lives
in Washington, is now nearly eighty
one years old, and very feeble. Mrs.
Blair is few years younger, and is in
good health. The two old people Oc-
casionally take q walk together, and
always attract attention. Both are
obliged TO use canes.
Rev. John Skies, d. D., died at his
residence in Springfield, Ohio, at mid
night Friday, aged seventy FIVE years. |
For many years he was resident min
lister in Liberia from the United
States, also missionary in West Africa,
and made ten voyages between his |
country and Africa prior to his final |
return in 1870. The funeral takes
place next Tuesday.
Dick Yates, once governor OF Ili-
nOiS and senator in congress, Is fast |
going to the bad. The other dsy he |
visited banking house in Springfield, |
Illinois, and demanded fifty dollars.
1t was refused him, WhereupOn he |
visited q saloon and asked for a drink |
Of whisky. The bartender told him |
he had none, WhereupOn he grew so |
violent that he was put out by force. |
Natural result Of Radicalism.
w. Riggs, Esq, of Washington,
leaves that city today, en- route for |
Rome, where, early in April she will |
be married to M. Geoffrey, formerly /
an GttGchs of the French Legation in /
this country, and recently appointed /
minister of China by the French
government,
The Washington correspondent of |
the Philadelphia Press gives currency
to rumOr that Minister Curtin il to
be recalled from st. Petersburg, and
that General Banks, OF Massachusetts.
will be nominated as his successor.
The reasons for the recall of Curtin
are not given. 1t is understood that
IIc,:c.eeral Banks Is anxious to 60 abroad.
Colonel James T. Bromlittle, son of
Ex-Governor Bromlittle, died at his
fathers residence, in Louisville, on
night, aged thirty-four
years. He was Lieutenant-COlOnel Of
the Twelfth Kentucky cavalry during
the early part Of the war, and a MEM
Der OF the legislature in 1868. His
mother is now lying very low, and
is not expected to recover.
The Empress OF Russia recently
said: 81 do not know, Mr.. Curtin,
how to express my thanks and my
delight and qualification for the cor
dial and enthusiastic reception that ,
has been rendered Alexis by the great
hearted American people. Believe
me, shall never forget it, and wish
you to tell them how much / have {
been touched by these marks of /
aud kindness shown my
lear son."
After series of careful physiological !
and chemical experiments, by DR.. p. :
D MarmOn of Kingsbridge, New York !
by him to the medical :
world, it was very definitely deter
mined that the cause of poisoning by =
some red flannel was not in the cora
inc or analine dyes, as generally sup
posed, but in tin mOFdsnt used to fix :
,olor upon goods. The symptoms )
produced In the case to WHICH his at J
iention was called was an eruption, :
with severe itching, accompanied with
vertigo. The woman who washed
The garment had her arms up to the !
elbows covered with q red burning l
similar in appearance and
ceiling to scarlet fever.
The Boston Post yays the following !
ust and grateful tribute to the char :
acter OF Senator Davis: ''The report :
hat Hon. Garrett Davis lies dying in :
stricken with paralysis, !
will cause very general regret, even a
among those who differ from the dis i
senator In political opln-
ons and who have judged harshly his
,Ourse in the councils of the nation. '
Fur the senator from Kentucky is one 7
# those relics Of the old order of
hings whom all must all reverence p
or stability even while differing in y
entiment, and whose faithfulness q
through q long public life to those Z
principles which early found in him y
N able champion, is worthy Of uni u
yeTsal admiration. We cannot but y
lOpe that his nlnsss has been exag-
,erated, and that he may long live to o
III his seat in the senate"
Van Neck, the Herald reporter 4
Who committed suicide In New York -
few days since, was said to have n
'een a captain in the British army, a
nd as he was very affable he had hosts :.
f friends, who all speak very high n
y Of him. Mr.. Van Neck was 3
'Orn In Scotland, and was graduate q,
1 Cambridge University. Having q =
lSing ioE the army, he entered the .,
British army where ne held the rank &