Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-28
PERSONAL.

lstMr. Erastus Corning is said to possess
a modest competence of eight million
dollars.
n. Meissonnier has sold a picture Oh
which he is still engaged, entitled
Charge des CuirdssierS, for three thou
sand francs.
The Baroness Burdett-Co is to
give her first ball of the season on Thurs.
day, the fifteenth instant. -
The King of the Tuscaroras died re-
Gently in Canada. His majesty's Other
name was William Mountpleasant.
General Beauregard has engaged
rooms at the Montgomery White Sui
phur springs for the cOmiDg season.
Edmund Clarence Stedman, of New
York, will deliver the poem at the COM
ing commencement in Dartmouth col
lege.
Mr.. F. NJ. Cheering has retired from a
wealthy firm of London brewers and
become Jealous supporter of teetotal-
ism.
Married, at Cynthiana, Kentucky, on
the twenty-eighth ultimo, Mr.. William
Juett, aged eighty, to Miss Annie Persel,
aged seventy-two.
Governor Beveridge is coming to New
| York for a visit, aud State Senator Early
will be acting governor of Illinois dur
! ing his brief absence.
Hon. Joseph H. Sloss, Democratic
| representative from the sixth congress
siOnal district of Alabama, claims to be
the only southern member who declined
to profit by the back-pay grab.
More portraits of Alexander Hamilton
and s. p. Chase are scattered through
the country than of all other secretaries
| of the treasury combined. Hamilton
was immensely popular in New Eng
| land.
Lucy King, of Fond du Lac, became
| engaged to six young farmers, and-On a
certain day called them together and
| told them to fight for her hand. She
married the remnant of man, who
was left standing at the conclusion of
the contest.
Another Butler gun. George H. But
Ter, our consul-general at Cairo, Egypt,
and his former secretary, Major Wad-
leigh, are announced to have pledged
their fortunes and their sacred honor
to the support of the Carlist movement
in Spain.
Mr.. John Bullock, of Bristol, Rhode
Island, who will be one hundred and
four years old in June next, had an at
tack Of pneumonia recently, and when
cOnvalescent remarked to one of his
sons: "That was a severe attack; if I'd
been an old man l guess it would have
fetched me.n
Professor Anderson, the wizard, while
giving an exhibition at Newcastle-On-
Tyne, recently, was refused the use of a
silk hat by the only man in the audi
cnce who had one. A sovereign was
offered for it in vain, and the trick had
to be postponed, as the professor said,
for the first time in forty years.
Mrs. d. NJ. Jordan, of the editorial
corps Of the Richmond Indiana) Times,
writes an amusing letter relating her ex-
perieAces IN the editorial chair. The
conclusion that she reaches-a fact
which has long been known 10 the male
members of the editorial fraternity-is,
that it is an impOssibility to please every
body.
Perhaps no finer instance of retribu-
tive justice is anywhere recorded than
the act of widow Leslie, of Illinois, rel
let of a dead distiller, who publicly
whipped one Rev. Mr.. Frazell, of the
Methodist Episcopal church, for having
said, in a recent temperance lecture, |
that the expensive coffin in which her
late husband was buried was purchased
entirely by The grOans and tears of
drunkards' families.
There is one man in his party, says
the Cincinnati Enquirer, who, if Gene |
raj Grant should see fit to appoint as
chief-justice, wOHld be well received by |
the bar and the people. We allude to |
William NJ. Evarts, of New York. He
is eminently qualified for the position.
But we have not the slightest idea that
he will be selected. Some small, petit |
Jogging lawyer-politician, like Senator
Conkling, will be put in the place once
honOred by Jay, Marshall, Taney and
Chase. If Grant didn't do this, he
wouldn't be Grant.