Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-24

PERSONAL.
Surgeons sister has taken to preach
ing.
]. Ross Browne has returned from
China.
The GALAXY calls Spurgeon the coarse
Beecher.
Prince Fred will marry Miss Wrigh
next March.
Now, Rev. Father Boylan, of New
Jersey, is after Froude.
Andrew jackson was publicly whipped
in Paducah the other day.
Tom Mast wants a Consulship, an,
Grant ought to give it to him.
Senator Sumner loses about ten thou
sand dollars by the Boston fire.
Helmbold had only three hundred AM
eighty-six newspaper creditors wheu'h'
failed.
Harper, the famous guerrilla of war.
time, is peacefully raising hogs in Ken.
lucky.
Whisky is said to be the horn o
plenty, because it will corr you co
piously.
Rumor says that the lost purser of the
lost Missouri was to have married Ida
Greeley.
Baswell Miner, of Canisteo, New
York, assumed his horses CHAMBERS and
died with them.
Preserved Allen died lately in West
Suflield, Massachusetts. His name
couldn't save him.
cold Beans" Pomeroy thinks, has a
sure thing on the Kansas SenatoTship
for the next term.
Peter Ink, an old citizen of Knox
day, aged seventy-five.
Mrs. Williams, of Hennepin, Mime
sofa, advertises for information of a
strayed or stolen husband.
DR.. Stuart Robinson thinks Mrs. Cady
Stanton isn't much better than Laura
Fair or Josie d. Mansfield.
DR.. Huntington, now M of the BOs-
ton milliOnaires, in about 1880 kept a
country school near Paris, Kentucky.
Miss Eliza Lyman, of Vermont, has
taken the contract to erect all the build
ings along the route of a new railway.
Colonel John w. Crockett, once a
kentucky member of the Confederate
Congress, died at jacksonville last
week.
The title under which the Crown
Prince of SaxOny walls his identity in
his Oriental tour is Professor MOrss-
man."
The Book of Travel, by the late eX-
Secretary Seward, is TO have the en-
Ormous first edition Of fifty thousand
copies.
George Francis Train threatens to live
to four score years and ten, which is I'M
scriptural as well as unkind to the hu-
man race.
Oxaiie acid sent a woman in Clay
county, Kansas, to see her spirit father,
whom she said had summoned her to
meet him.
Mrs. Lugner, of Bedford Station, New
York, is the only surviving relation Of
John Howard Payne, author of Home,
S,Oeet Home.
The Nilsson telegraphs to a Partisan
friend in high delight over her frst night
at st. Petersburg-an ovation triumph,
as she writes, to grow wild over.
Queen Victoria has visited the family
of John Brown, her Highland attend
ant, and John Smiths folks have been
consuming with envy " since.
NJ. Tissot is said to be preparing for
the press al elaborate work upon the
Roman relics in Morocco, where she has
made many interesting discoveries.
Count Sclopis, the Italian arbitrator,
has presented to the University Library
at Turin copies OF all the documents con
nected with the Geneva Arbitration.
Ben Butler wants to be either Speaker
of the House, Senator, Governor of
Massachusetts, or Minister to England.
Ben's modesty IS only exceeded by his
beauty.
The tomb of Heloise and Abelard, in
Pere Ia Chaise Cemetery, Paris, has been
renewed as a place of pilgrimage since
the performance Of the opera of that
name.
Dickens's American audience, during
his reading tour, averaged fifteen hun
bred in number, and three thousand
eight hundred dollars in cash. He gave
seventy-six readings.
st. Louis had him this time: Hotch-
kin, physician, one hundred and forty
years old; died of smallpox; I" oldest
remembered Washington
never had a days sickness.
President Grant has presented a hand
some gold watch to Captain Lachere, of
Antwerp, who rescued the crew of the
lightning-struck American ship Wy
man, in December, 1870.
Henrietta Robinson, the celebrated
'f yelled murderess,'A of Troy, New
York, who has been at Sing Sing prison
for years, has become insane, and will be
sent to the Utica Asylum.
w. B. c. Gillespie of the Macon
]. T. Pratt, formerly Of Mem
phis, o of the Springfield Leader, and
D. A. Sutton, of the st. Louis Times,
are announced as probable candidates for
the chief clerkship of the House at JEFF
Missouri.
A Miss Polk, of Tennessee, is now the
belle at one of Italy's favored
of fashionable resort-MOnza.
She is a great favOrite of the Princess
Marguerite, and is often a vel
coined and cherished guest at The Royal
Palace of MOnza.
Hon. John L. Motley, Ex-United
States Minister to the Court of st.
James, who, since his retirement from
service, has resided at the
of the Queen of Holland, is about
10 sail for this country to visit relatives
and friends in Boston.
Henry Ward Beecher says Darwin is
in thinking that men assembled
rom monads by gradual evolutions;
then it is very certain that some men
up by the way of the musquito,
he flea, and the biting-dy, and that
heir ancestral traits still linger in the
blood.
Carlyle, now nearly eighty years old,
has abandoned writing, but still appears
society occasionally, but talks as Wig
)rously as ever. He frequents the Ken
districto of London, walking with
William Allingham, the poet, who, /
with James Anthoy Froude, edits Fra
'er's Magazine.
Gail Hamilton recently made an ex-
down the St, Lawrence and up
he Saguenay. Sine did not enjoy it, but
ays, philosophiealiy: Nevertheless, I
I'M glad 1 went to the S%aguenay. Some
hing IS accomplished when you have
ound one place IN the world that you
never want TO go again"
Kentucky papers state that DR.. Hunt
ngton, one Of the millionaires of Bos-
on, about forty years ago kept country
chool neal Paris, in that State. He also
lad a class ofyoung men in Paris. He
anne to the Christian Church in Paris
me Sunday, and after services walked
ID and Joined, was immersed through
he broken ice, but never attended after
yard.
Rose Eytinge, the favorite New York
who married George Butler, and
vent with that worthy TO Egypt, is
bout to return to the stage. John G.
deenan's wife, who was also an actress,
md whose married experience has been
quite similar to Mrs. Buffers, is also
aid to mediate a return to her old pro-
Bret Harte was announced to lecture
t Boston Wednesday night upon the
sArgonauts Of 49," but failed to put in
u appearance. Mr.. James Redpsth
Ipologized TO the large audience, and
aic; This is the third time that the
Heather Chinee' has insulted a Boston
Indience, and l think It Is high time
his man is taught his place. Oliver
Wendell Holmes was accepted as a sub