Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-05
PERSONAL.

Manton Marble OF the World is only
forty, but he hes gray hair.
I. co-ts Lister WsllacE twenty -hVe
thousand dollars year for his yacht
Mr.. William Cullen Bryant Is at his
country residence at Cummingtop, Mas
sachusetts.
Lawrence Barrett, S0thern snd the
Vokes are among those Who hsve vol
unteeT,d 10 assist 1T the Custer moDL-
ment benefit.
Mr.. A. w. Bishop, the Republican
car didate for governor OF ArksnsS.I Was
formerly citizen OF Buffalo, ana the
Express speaks Of him IS ian unusually
sctive and energetic man."
Colonel Rober. G. Ingersol is goo
deal talked about as the next senator
from Illinois. Like Senator Logan, ne
has q magnificent voice, but uuIlRe MN,
he has something behind II.
Mr.. Bret Hsrte's drama, It0o Men q
Sandy Bar, will probably be hrst pre-
ducad in New York at the Park theater,
a house viii b has become identified
with specisltieg OF American origin.
Mr.. Randall was asked on Saturday
afternoon SO to when he thought con-
gress would adjourn, to which he re-
glied, 1.-THE Lord only knows; don't"
50, at least, the Providence Press says.
The Washington National Repu6ki-
can. speaking Of General Belknap's
household expenses and Gail HamiltOn's
comments thereon, says that the eX-Sec-
retsry reslly saved money from his sal
sry.
Julius Chambers's book, describing
his experience as volunteer lunatic in
an American insane asylum, is attract
ing much attention in England. IL is,
however, criticised for considerable de-
fects.
Mr.. Spurgeou has made arrangements
with his COZ. cation whsr by On ceT-
tin Sunday evenings they remain away
and allow he general public free access.
The Tabernacle is always thronged on
these occasions.
Disraeli is engaged on new novel,
the subject of which is connected with
the increase and future development of
the impeTislistic movement in England.
The fortunes OF "Lothairn will, it is
said, be resumed and carried cut in this
wOrE.
Count Won Wimpffen, distant rela-
Wimpffen who came all the way from
Algiers in 1870 just in time to sign the
capitulgtion of Sedan, has made his bow
10 Marshal MacMahOn ss the Austrian
ambassador at Paris.
Baron Albert Grant, the English Jim
Fisk, is q small man about fifty years Of
age, with a countenance not attractive.
MIR, Conway writes: There is nothing
-, ~ ~o1yat+ in, hfo the
contrary, his look is exactly that OF a
rather too impulsive gambler.
The frat thing San Francisco man
docs when he goes to New York is to
ret his boots BACKED; the first thing
Boston man does is to get something to
eat; the first thing Chicago man does
is to * policeman where is the near
est bar-room to buy postage stamps.
Mr.. Swinburne has concluded TRACE
dy, for the library, not the stage, and
calls i Elizabeth. 1t is about half the
length of BOthWeU, and is said by the
few who have heard pas ages from it TO
be full Of beauty and power. Mr.. Bu-
chanan is anXioUslY on tho LUX out Icf
It's pupllcauOn,
A Munich correspondent says the
king of Bavaria is no longer the slender
1867, with highly spiritual cOuntenance,
lovely locks aud Upturned eyes. He is
stilI mysterious and pOetical, no doubt,
but, alas! the truth must be told-he
has become shOckingly fat!
BayarU TaYlor's new volume of paTo-
dies contains CAPT al hit at Joaquin
Miller. Those who know the poet OF
the SleTras through personal intercourse
or his published writings will relish
THE Fate of the Fr0ntiersman." 1t
opens with the coUplet:
That whisky-jug! For, dry or wet,
My tale will need its help, you bet.
The arithmetic man OF the Kansas
Derrick has been busy with his slate and
pencil. He announces that if the na-
tiOnal debt were reduced to one dollar
greenbscks, pasted end TO end, the belt
would reach ninety-One thousand four
hundred and thirty-seven miles beyond
the moon. MOOnshine is the natural
terminus OF 8 gTeenbsck theory.
Mr.. Pitmeoll has received a fiatteriDg
testimonial from the wOIlingmen of
Sheffield, in the form of magnificent
silver cup richly chased. Its weight is
one hundred and thirty-six ounces, its
hight is thirty-nine inches, and it is
mounted on black marble. Its cost YVES
six hundred and fifty dollars, and it was
paid for entirely by the subscription Of
wOrkiugmen.
A French lady desires on the back Of
3 postal card that we should prepare the
way for the gOld-standaId as John did
for Christ. The wide difference between
those days and our own c0nstrsins US
respectfully II decline the invitation.
Johns me hods of pcehcF ing would not
accomplish much in the present day;
and, as 3 mere matter Of taste, We prefer
not 70 adopt either bis Tsiment or his
diet.
The Paris chronicles tell good story
of the Duke OF VellambrOss, wealthy
and witty nobleman well known in
Paris and at Nice. He was in want OF
g cOaChuan, and an eZ.cab driver ap.
peared and asked for the place. Duke"
he said, ''theTe isn't q screw in your sta
ole that 1 can't get nine miles an hour
out Of" "Ab, very good" replied the
duke, Gas soon as I get some screws into
my stable L viii send fCr you"
The imperial Russtgn connections Of
the Duke OF Edingburgh lo~e no OppoT-
tuniIy of showing their diT satisfaction
with the conduct OF Queen Victoria and
her family to the grand duchess, his
wife. The Queen OF Gree &c, q Russian
princess and a cousin Of the Duchess Of
Edinburgh, has just declined to accom-
pany her husband to England on visit
TO his sister, the Princes of Wales. She
waits for him on the continent, and will
so with him to st. Petersburg.
The leading Unitarian organ of Bos-
ton denies that Theodore Parker, IS |
teacher, ranks next to Charming among |
liberal christians. 1t says Jamc Marti- |
neau, CT even James freeman Clarke, !
exerts a more powerful influence in be- !
half of the cause throughout the world |
than Parker. The writings of the lat |
ter, with all their c3nceGed merits, are |
too incorporate, dogmatic, and illiGersl |
in their treatment Of opponents to dis. |