Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-23
Personal.


Mrs. L. o. Tufts drew the Thousand
dollar solitaire in the Homeopathic fai
IA New York on Saturday evening.
M. T.C. DeLeon-oDunne Browne
4 now of the Mobile Register, has beer
~lecturing in that city ON "War Poetry
IN the south, and Charles Dickens. au.
Tor, teacher, and reader"
Prof George NJ. Moybray has pur.
lased land near the Grand Trunk rail
way depot at Kingston, Ontario, ane
Will soon commence the manufacture O
mtro1glyeerine IN a large scale al thai
/ place.
General w. A. Quarles will address
the Alumni of the University of Nir-
ginia on the twenty-seventh of June
next. Senator Trumbull, of Illinois, will
meliyer an address to the Literary SOci-
fety on the twenty-sixth.
The crack compOsitOr Of South Bend,
Indiana, is Mrs. Augusta A Miller.
She learned TO set type in her fathers
lOf1ce at the tender age of thirteen, and
mot long ago a proof of hers, of nine
thousand ems had but two typographi-
cal errors.
Mr.. EIihu Burritt has called an In
lternational Peace Congress, to be held
at the Cooper Institute, New York, on
the fifteenth of next September. This
call is addressed to the leading poll
cists and philanthropists of the world,
and Is 20 be translated into various Ian
guages.
Mrs Putnam and Mrs. Sturtevant,
two sisters, aged eighty-four and eighty
six years respectively, died within a few
hOur of each other, Of the same dis
ease, during last week. Both were
widows and died in the same house in
Grafton, Massachusetts. and were
buried together.
Grants fate may be regarded as de-
cided, Miss Anna Dickinson, the two
nan shrieker, having, in a late speech,
spoken Of Ulysses as 1.-THE fgure-head
u the White House" Forney's Press,
which was formerly very soft on the
gentle Annie is now disguised with
her. OF course.
General w. F. Bartlett, of Pittsheid,
Massachusetts, one of the most gallant
Of the fighting soldiers of the war, is out
n aletter TO the Springfield Republican,
bpudiating Grant and favOring the Gin
Gnnati movement. He names Charles
Francis Adams as candidate for Presi-
lent, and he thinks he would be elected
if nominated.
b Nh. 7. y. Latham, Senator from Eau
3uier county in the Virginia legislature.
who had not been in his seat the past !
session on account of illness, has no
Ihed the clerk that he does not consider |
9imsef entitled TO draw his per diem. |
Ind he has voluntarily relinquished /
about eight hundred and fifty dollars
that the law allows him.
General Goggin, who served in the
Virginia army, and was at one time q
member of Early's staff, by whom he Is |
mentioned very hOnoTably in his history
IF his campaigns, is now residing in
Texas. The General has turned his
sword into a plowshare, and was seen a
short time ago behind this peaceful in
itrument7 turning up the sod, himself
the handles.
Mr.. A. c. Wilcox, of New Haven. /
BOARDING his treasures for future invest
nent, put six hundred and eventv-
i've dollars into a straw m~attrass for
keeping. His thrifty wife, during |
us absence last week, burned the mat 4
ress, and put the SOuse in general into
Is spring attitude Of post-earthauake
.onfusiOn that hetOkens the advent OIL I
l~eanliness. Mn. Wilcox is about to try
o persuade the government to re-
mburse him for the loss. /.
The Rev. w. HI. H. q Adirondack :
Hurry is now one Of the Institutions OF A.,
and his average audience at the i
1usic Hall services is about three thou
and five hundred. Mr.. Murray is /
as one of the best ride-shOts and A.,
.y-fishermen in the country. In skat- {
ng, swimming and boating he is a mas {
er; and az for tWO-forty travellers, be /
them as well as Mr.. Bonner. Hel I
grees with Theodore Parker that "the I.
inside of horse is good for the inside
( a man." He has a fine stock farm in
Connecticut, and once playfully re-
marked to some friends that he knew !
ut three things-Old School theology, y
and the horse" 4