Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-15
PERSONAL.

q. s. GOULD. Ssnecs Falls, N. Y; W. n.
King. Louisville; P. Lorr1Ilsroi rev
York: H,Grau, agent AIMEE troupe; h, a.
Wslcott. Detroit; r Davis, Brunswick,
ca /; F. Fritz, Boston,; Jsmes Reynolds,
New Orleans; and L O. Morse, 1t. Louis,
are stopping ct the Peabody Hotel.
J. E, CHADWICK, formerly of this city
fire commissioner OF Chicago, yestafdsy
rendered his resignation to the board 81
underwriters. He has held the office
shout one yepr, and Wss the instigator Ji
the recent reforms in tht fire department.
His successor is Lewis d. Davis sn IN
sursnce agent.
Mr., o'SULLTvAN, of the Little Rock
Evening Journal, has bsen in the city
several days. The propTistors of the Jour
nal need not advertise for him.. He Is
gtuck In Memphis. The newspaper people
hers know q good thing when they see 1t,
and Little Rock may make up Its mind TO
have a vast vacuum left by the extraction
of O'Sullivsn from the brains and bowels
Of the STATE. DE is q fixture in Memphis,
or ought to be.
TIE attention of landowners is called
to the card of ". F. Foster, architect, Z9
Second street, Irving block, who succeeds
the late Msj0r Winters. M. Foster Will
be remembered as the architect VIC plan
ned and built the Jefferson and Adams
blocks. among the best monuments we
bave of ARCHITECTURAL skill and taste. As
a member of the old and distinguished
firm Of Fay, Winters & Foster, our friend
increased his reputation. In the protes'
sional harness again we hope MI. Foster
will find abundant work for hand and
head. and he may have man ~oppOrtuni'
ties afforded him through the munih'
ceuce of our capitalists, Of adding 70 the
favor with which he Is regarded profess
sionally.
MISS OLIVE Logan Wss recently inter
viewed by Anew orlesns Times reporter
Is to her Impression Of the Southern PEG
ole. which she gave as follows: Il have,
on every occasion, found them polite, en-
gsging and courteous in the extreme. III
Memphis, in Vicksburg, Jackson and
elsewhere, 1 had always the pleasure o.
| speaking to the most refined and intelli.
| gent audiences, and have always found
them TO more than sustain their Teputa-
ton for courteous besring and intelli'
gspcs, In Jackson / had every attention
shown me, the governor, legislature and
citizens ct large rendering me every at
teution. But you are sadly misrepresent-
ed; for example, 1 had the pleasure IN
Memphis of being introduced 70 General
Forrest, whom 1 had heard of as q mon
ster. given to ali sorts of outrsgeE, so yoT
CAu W5Al lmaAAuo ml BAso NAoA ApGA-
a dignihed, graceful n polite gentle
man"
TIE LITTLE telegraph instruments
which Colonel Coleman, of the Western
Union Telegraph company has put up, Il
the number of fly, tor the especial bene
TT of our banks and cotton men, was in
\ vented by Mr.. Eddison, g Canadian, who
we sre told, arrived not many years az
In Memphis with only ten cents In hl
| pocket, the hsif Of the sum which he ha'
when he lett the hypeTbOrsan regions o
/ the North for the sunny South. He /
now 10 q fair way to become a millionaire
while Fame with her trumpet tongue vii
| link his name with Franklin and Morse
the illustriOus Americans who made IN
lightning suhservient 70 tbs purposes sn'
! desires # mankind. MI. Edison is on
| Of the bensfactors Of his race, and We re
cord his triumph with pleasure. News
/ papers and telegrsphs 60 together, and VI
| have always felt es IL those who play wit
the lightning 30 hsndily we're first cousin
to US through the dsvil, who Is suppose
70 preside over the dOings of every print
ing ofnce.