Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-29
Personal.

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John Russell Young is said to be OF
the staff of London paper, and he in
tends to stay there.
A Broadway florist is constructing g
one hundred and fifty dollar bouquet fol
Agnes Ethel's benefit.
A daughter of the Duke of Meeklen-
burg-Schwerin is engaged TO the Grand
Duke Vladimir of Russia.
Robert Grant, son of the President,
now in the senior class at Harvard, has
Just been elected class poet.
The Empress of Russia is expected to
visit Naples soon, accompanied by 8
fleet of Russian war vessels.
Justus Lawrence, President of the
Continental Life Insurance Company OF
New York, died Saturday morning.
Baron Todeseo, of Vienna, recently
| paid his family physician fifty thousand
dollars for attending his son two months.
Late English journals alIude to a ru-
NOR that poison, and not rheumatism,
was the cause of the recent illness OF
/ King Amadeus.
An Indiana man has five children
named Maine, New Hampshire, Yer
mont, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.
| He don't expect to get more than hall
through the list.
Giovanni Battista Falcieri, the ser
want in whose arms Lord Byron died, is
a clerk in the Indian-hOuse, London, a
hale old man of seventy-five, and he al
most worships the poet.
George Francis Train sworein a terrible
manner when jailed the other evening
in New York for printing obscene pa
] pers, and when he gets out will wipe
Manhattan Island from the face of the
earth.
Mrs. Mcclure, of DodsOn station, Ohio,
broke the head of a young man who in
sisted on woOing her daughter. Though
dead, he cannot but be congratulated
upon the early escape from such a moth
er-in-law.
A man and his wife named Wilson,
respectively eighty-four and eighty
three years old, died within a few hours
of each other, at Americas, Indiana,
the other day, and were buried in the
same grave.
The Savage Club of London, the same
| that entertained Artemus Ward and
Mark Twain, has applied the last feath-
er necessary to dislOcate its spinal YER
tebrae, by entertaining the peTambulat-
ing lunatic Bates
Mrs. General Sanderson, of Washing
ton, Ohio, owns box said to have been
brought to America by Cortez when he
came to conquer Mexico. 1t is inlaid
with ivory. Its age is stated to be about
four hundred years.
Adelina Patti will render the eharac-
ter of Elsa" in Wagner's Sobengrin
this winter, at st. Petersburg. This
will be an event in musical circles, as
she has so far seriously objected to sing
in any of Wagner's operas.
The Day, of Philadelphia, says the
value of Edwin Forests estate in that
city is estimated at one million two
hundred thousand dollars. No esti-
mate is given of his property in the
States Of New York and Kentucky.
Samuel Marsh, who died recently at
the AstOr House, New York, worth two
million dollars, and in his eighty-eighth
year, was the last of a wealthy bache-
lors' club at that hotel, which at the
close of the war numbered fifteen.
Among the prominent persons who
have died during the year just closing
are Anderson, Bennett, BernadOtte,
DTayton, Fanny Fern, Farragut, For
rest, Greeley, Lever, Mazzini, Meade,
Morse, Persigny, Seward and Arch
bishop Spalding.
William NJ. Rossetti, one of the most
thoughtful and refined of European
writers, says of Walt Whitman: "Mr.
Whitman appears to me to be far the
greatest poet that America has pro-
duced, and great among the poets of
any age or country"
Misses Nelson and Tyler, two young
Springfield, Massachusetts, ladies of
business tact, have taken q two years
contract for the manufacture of a patent
surcingle, and are giving employment
to twenty girls, and producing about fif-
teen dozen surcingles per day.
The decision of the Wisconsin Su-
preme Court, reversing the two thousand
dollar judgment for libel, recovered by
Hon. w. K. Wilson against J. a. Moo
nan, of Milwaukee, is from the hands
Of Chief-Justice Dixon, and concludes
with an elaborate analysis of the mental
operation known as Intent
The London Times, in speaking of the
death Of Greeley in connection with po-
litical events, says: " His death comes
as a sudden and affecting close of the
whole discussion. 1t is like the hush
which falls on the battlefield when the
silent stars come out and seem to look
in reprOachful pity on our strife"
The case of the young man Scharlaeh,
who went from Steubenville, Ohio, to
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, a short time
since, TO have a surgical operation per-
formed on him for the removal of a set
of false teeth that some eight months
before had dropped into his gullet while
he was asleep, resulted fatally last week.
The Boston Transcript remarks, touch
ing the subject of "Noble Wives" that
Mr.. Stewards fame began to wane upon
the death of his wife, to whom he owed
the vitaliZing currents which bore him
on. Disraeli married in 1889, and at
once began to rise to the stature he has
reached. The Viseountess Beseonsfield
is dead, and we shall see how much this
man also owed to the
power behind the throne.
Prince Michel de Lusignan has been
convicted in st. Petersburg of endeav-
oring to negotiate forged bills on the
Russian Bank of Discount. He was SEN
fenced to transportation to Liberia. His
father proved in the trial that he was of
royal blood, descended from the Kings
Of Cyprus and Jerusalem. Temporary
financial distress, that was shared by his
father, was the Indictment to the crime. |
What misfortune to be prince with a
poor father!
An aunt of Horace Greeley, Mrs. |
Dwinell, is now living in the town of
Gaines. Some years ago Mr.. Greeley /
was to deliver the address at the county /
fair, and he, being anxious that his rela- |
ives family should hear his remarks, |
proceeded to his aunty's farm, and pull |
ing off his coat, helped to husk lot of |
corn, at which all the hands on the |
premises were working. The neighbors /
also joined with the distinguished edi- |
tor, and the corn was husked in time TO /
allow all hands to attend the fair and |
hear Mr.. Greeley's address.
The New York Tribune, referring to |
the letter Of Sergeant Bates to a London |
paper, has this: "There is in tins letter, |
however, one statement which is en-
given though it may be in /
language Of exasperatiDg elegance and +!
beauty. Medical men have informed /
me- writes the bold Bates, that an
injury which 1 received in my chest
during the late war will, before many !
years, send me marching over the I
gloomy trails leading to the thorny jun
giles of the condemned, or along the I
bright ways leading TO the fiowery king /
dom of a beautiful and indestructible |
world, in the flower-strewn valleys of
which lie the encampments of the for
given God bless the medical men for
this opinionl Thanks for the eonsola- |
tory diagnosis Whether Bates is TO go I
to the tkorny jungles' or the flower
afraNul1 NrnliaN,st Ia r1.nnnca Of nIrr ht1ainaa