Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-11
Personal MENTION.

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Some Eastern papers suggest that tn
Grant retirement bill would be more salts
| factory if it retired Grant from politics a
we'll.
Mr.. james Gordon Bennett, while in Lon
don recently. subscribed $1,000 TO the fun,
| for the relief OF the Hebrews exiled iron
Russia.
Another British member Of parliament
Sir Sidney Waterlow, is about 10 take ar
American wife, a Miss Hamilton, of Cali
fornia.
Mr.. Venier Voldi is delivering in the
East sensational lecture on Oscar Wilde
adding some observations OF his own on true
estheticism and the truly beautiful.
"How doth the little Mormon man
Improve his daily life,
By going out a-walking with
His forty second wife
An Illinois man is puzzled because Carl
baIdi can not keep away from the sea.
why" says the Illinois man, Il have staid
away from water my whole life. Courier
Journal
The 22d OF this month is to be observed at
Weimar as the fftieth anniversary of the
death OF Goethe. The vault of the grand
dukes, in which the poet lies, will be opened,
and wreaths will be placed on his coffin.
Governor Colquitt, of Georgia, is a total
abstainer, and the old story about the gov
ernors of North and South Carolina is now
happily illustrated by the fact that the gov
ernor of North Carolina belongs to the
Temperance Union.
President Eliot, of Harvard College, and
others, are raising fund for the widow and
six small children of the late Chinese pro-
lessor. The college is to pay the cost of the
famiy's return to Shanghai, and continue
the fathers salary dntil they reach their
home, and it is believed that an assured in
come of $500 a year will secure their nam
tensnce in tolerable comfort there.
1t is said that this country is indebted to
Richard Storrs Willis more than TO any
other person for the introduction OF college
songs, he having taught the Yale students the
Latin song of " Gdudeamus," which he had
learned in German universities.
Lord Peterborough once said TO a barris-
ter, upon his asking, in the midst of boring
harangue, as it the pleasure of the court
that l should proceed with my statement"
"F leasure, Mr.. -, has been out of the
question for some time, but yon may pro-
ceed."
Ex-Governor Washburn, of Maine, affirms
that crime is lessening instead of increasing
and that, though the marvellous accumula-
tons of wealth will effect many changes in
society, yet the masses will constantly rise to
higher life. Aristocracy may grow as rank
weed here and there, but the good wheat, the
people, will choke it out.
at is impossible" writes Mr. Lionel Play
fair, 'not to foresee that the United States
will in the end be the great manufacturing
country of the world; but they cannot
assume this position under the ir pre- sent fiscal
policy" Protection in America, he holds,
leaves England the markets of the world.
Why should Englshmen, then, want the
United States to change it's policy? the skep-
teal American may ask.
The Dublin Ffeendn's Journal has this
thrust at young Mr.. Gladstone: at is
sweetly pleasant to read that the Rev. Stephen
Gladstone, rector of Hawarden, has been
good enough to return ten per cent. of his
tithes TO the farmers of that extensive par
ish. Looking to the fact that this compare
lively young gentleman is paid more than
$4,000 year for conducting two services per
week, lie can afford this little bit of extrava-
gance, especially since English farmers are
BEGINNING to ask themselves why they should
pay uthes at all"
Elder Jacob Hampton, the Oldest disciple
of Mormonism in Philadelphia, died last
week. The Mormon population OF Phila-
delphia consists of twenty-five persons, of
whom Mr.. Hampton was for many years the
leader. lie was converted 10 the Mormon
faith from Methodlsm IN lS4O, and when
Brigham Young visited that city in lS45 he
made the deceased an elder. The church is
fully organized in Philadelphia, but the dis
ciples, to keep out of the clutches of the law,
have but one wife each.
London World: "Mr. Patrick Egan, the
coming man from Meath, will be the miIdest-
looking member below the gaugway. He in
tends to devote himself to his parliamentary
duties, and am informed will be intrusted
with the special business OF worrying Mr.
Forster. In this he will be aided by Mr.
Healy, who will put 10 an appearance at
Westminster before the end of the week.
Mr.. Healy does not, as l prophesied, intend
10 touch his native soil. He will arrive Uid
Havre. Mr.. Egan will not resign the treas
lrership of the Land League, nsr will he
bring the fuhds to London. His checks will
still be drawn on Paris.