Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-20
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Thomas, widow Of the late Ma
jUr-General, sailed for Europe a few days
ago.
0"Mark Twain'sv middle name has
| been a mystery. His full name is Sam
uel Longhorne Clemens.
The notorious Mrs. Yelverton is writ
ing Of Wanderings 10 Malaga for the
San Francisco Bulletin.
The portrait of Mark Twain in the
London Graphic looks like the repre-
sentative doOr-keeper ola minstrel show.
The Rev. Holland is decidedly of
opinion that d~Ove-colored pantalOons
aud shiny boots are emissaries of the
Evil One.
Joseph Thornton, Of Virginia, has
gained a lawsuit in England by which
he RECEIVERS property valued at six mill
lion dollars.
General Wade Hampton will deliver
a lecture in Alexandria, Virginia, with
in the next fortnight, on 1.-THE Life and
Character of General Lee"
Rev. DR.. Smith, of Kentucky, Senior
Bishop Of the Episcopal Church in
America, has removed to Hoboken,
New Jersey, where he viii hereafter re-
side.
The father Of the late General Meade
was United States Consul at Cadiz,
/ Spain, in 1915, at the time of the birth
of the hero Of Gettysburg. The late Gen.
eral was born in Madrid.
Here is a curious advertisement from
the agony column of the London
Times: 'eRho art thou? 1 IN Skull,
the son Of Skeleton, tribe Of the blood
less and native of Ghostlsnd, Bertram.
Further information Of" etc.
When Monroe was elected President
the second time his opponent, John
Quincy Adams, got but one electoral
vote. Let John Quincy Adams, jr.,
take courage. He came within n Of
getting as many votes as his grand
father.
They've got Froude down to a pretty
fine point in New York. A statistical
student says that in the first twenty-five
minutes Of his lecture Thursday night,
he put his hand in his pockets twenty
one times, and lifted his cOat-tail thirty
five times, by actual count.
The BuJletin is authority for the state
ment that "A mouse, which had spent the
night in making a nest in the amplest
part Of a Bolivar ~gentlelnan's panta-
looms, OccasiOned all the stamping the
other morning, and gave rise to the re-
port that the gentleman was reconstruct
ing his mother-in-law.
They have a second Nebuchadnezzar
in Brownsville, If the States can be re-
lied upon. 1t says: ''Peleg Clark, IT,,
furnished an averaged sixteen quarts Of
milk daily in May, twenty quarts daily
in June, July and August, eighteen
quarts daily in September, and sixteen
quarts daily in October"
The Scotsman mentions o report that
the Prince of Wales and Lord Straith-
nairn are to be raised to the rank of
Field-Marshals. The latter is the gen.
tleman who blew nebelliOus Sepoys from
the lannon's mouth during the Indian
mutiny. He was then called Sir Hugh
Rose, and has risen steadily ever since.
The former young man has no such
claims for promotion, that we know of,
yet.
Rev. Or. Miner, Of Belvidere, Illinois,
has been the recipient Of a gift from Mrs.
President Lincoln. Itisan elegant fam
lily Bible, and was the last present W
received by President Lincoln, having
been given to him but a short time pre-
viOus TO his death by the coiOred people
Of the South. Il Is presented by Mrs.
Lincoln to DR.. Miner in consideration Of
the strong friendship existing between
him and Mr.. Lincoln.
We have waited patiently for him,
and he arrived. We knew he would.
Aaron 6hute is his name, and Concord,
New Hampshire, is his nation, and he
is ninety-twO years old, and has voted
ftr all fha Presidents from Iohu Adoma
down, without s~pectacles. The other