Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-28
Personal.

Lydia Thompson has a grown-up
daugt ter.
/ Carlotta Patti plays a loud hand at
euchre.
Hans Christian Anderson is almost
through story writing in this world.
Thurlow Weed draws a pension be-
cause he blew q fife in the war Of 1912.
Miss Kellogg is going to Havana, but
what We want to know is, who is going
TO have Clara Louise?
The Christian Church at Lynchburg.
! Virginia, uses in sacramento service a
wine-cup which once belonged to George
/ Washington.
! Colonel B. w. Brisbain, Just appointed
/ Consul to Verviers, Belgium, was born
at Prairie du Chen, in 1906, and has al
ways resided there.
The Countess Skenns, Of Sweden, pro-
! jects another search for DR.. Livingstone,
which she intends to head in person if a
sufficient fund be contributed.
George Huntington, of Mason, has
/ been found willing to accept for time)
/ the Judgeship of the Jackson Mich
Circuit. Salary, twelve hu ndred dol
/ lars.
1t is proposed to erect in Berlin a
monument to the distinguished op-
thalmologist Won Graetfe, by subscrip-
/ tons from the medical menof all coun-
/ tries.
Sidney Rigdon, the reputed author of
| the Mormon Bible, and~who at one time
ranked next to Joe Smith in the Latter
| Day Saints Church, was stricken with
paralysis last week in Allegheny county,
New Yerk.
'sYou see that Thurlow Weed has
given up smoking, my son. remarked
gentleman to his son. isWell, / mean
to do the same, - replied hopeful, "when
l reach his age The boy had read the
newspapers.
1t proposed to raise a subscription for
the purpose Of erecting q monument
over the grave of the late Honorable
Alexander w. Randall, Postmaster
General under Johnson, and Governor of
Wisconsin turing the early part Of the
war
A lovely Des Moines girl arises at four
O'Clock every Monday morning and does
the family washing, then prepares the
frugal meal of pancakes and coffee for
all hands, whom she arouses with a |
hot poker. She is as lively as she is beau |
tifUL
William Wroten, a young man of |
Ross county, while preparing to go |
hunting on the fifth instant, blew in the /
muzzle Of his gun to see if it was loaded. |
The crucial test was entirely satisfac- |
tory. Williams younger brother will |
wear his clothes this winter.
The fOrtuit0usly famous Judge DurelI |
is eulOgized by some writer in the New /
York EUeniHq Post as Of the best New |
England blood, classmate Of Wendell /
Phillips, great linguist, staunch I'm
ion man, temperate, quiet, scholarly, q
bater OF politics and a model Judge.
Professor Huxley and the Marquis Of i
Huntley are the most prominent candi-
dates for the Lord RecUorship of Aber-
deem University, in succession to Mr..
Grant-Duf, NJ. p, as Mr.. Darwin and
Mr. Gladstone have declined the honor.
The medical students, it is said, prefer
Huxley, and the art students Huntley
Chief-Justice Taney's bust is at last to
be placed among those Of the other Chief
Justices in the Supreme Court room
The marble effigy of the great jurist has
thus far been exiled from its proper rest
ing place through silly spitefulness, pro-
voked by his decision IN the celebrated
bred Scott case. Even partisan malig-
nifty is cooled by the breath Of time.
Senator Patterson, Of New Hamp-
shire, whose fellow-citizens were foolish
enough not to re-elect him, has been Of
fered the Presidency OF the Ohio Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College at Co
lumbus. But tomorrow is a new day, !
and Senator Cragin's term doesn't last I
forever We don't much expect TO see !
Mr.. Patterson leave New HAMPSHIRE at :
present. A more probable rumor is,
hat he viii return to his old chair 1t
acknowledgement BepU6licoa.