Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-09
Personal MENTION.

| Personal MENTION.
The king of the Greeks will visit England
in the course of the autumn.
Clemenceau, Gambetta's great opponent il
the Chamber of Deputies, was first TO offel
words of coincidence TO Gambetta on the an
| nouncement of his mothers death.
The Rev. Leonard Woolsey Bacon, Of
| Norwich, Conn, recently took part in a tub.
race. There we're four other contestants, and
| Mr.. Bacon held the fifth position at the
| finish
The Elmira Gazette says that Mark Twain
| descends from his eyrie in the East Hill
| about once a week, and spends an hour or
two at his favorite game of billiards as relief
| from his literary work.
A rumor is in circulation that Don Cam
eron intends to resign his seat In the Senate
| to accept the position of first vice-president
of the Pennsylvania railroad, in place of Mr..
! A. j. Cassatt, resigned.
London Truth says: "Should there be a
dissolution, believe that Mr.. Gladstone a.
present contemplates retirement from public
affairs. The strongest efforts would, how
ever, be made by his followers to induce
him 10 reconsider this decision"
II. L. White, who is the author of the Chi
cago Tribune novelettea which have captured
more than national notice, is a graduate OF
theological seminary, and was at one time
sporting reporter. He is grave and calm in
his speech, and is rather bashful.
1t is rumored that Bob and Charles Ford,
the slayers of Jesse james, will enter William
Jewell College at Liberty, Mo-, next year,
and take full collegiate course. They had
some notion of entering Yale or Harvard, bat
have given it up. They say Yale and Har-
ward boys are too rough.-Philadeiphi Neus
The king Of Siam wapts the walls of new
palace he is building decorated with ancient
family portraits, and has sent an order to
EegIand for their rapid production. The
portraits of three of his ancestors already ex-
list; but for hkenesses of the army 4ef-other
relatives the painter will have to draw upon
his Imagination.
A London engrsver has issued a cartoon
representing Mr.. Gladstone Disgusting him
self as Lord Beaconsfeld, in order 10 terrify
Arab Pasha ard the European powers. He
has already placed primrose in his button
hole and curl on his forehead, and is shown
in the act OF FASTING goatee TO his chin.
Under his arm he carries rifed cannon,
while in the background are placed areserve
soldier aud SePoy.
The eighty-second birthday of Mr.. Henry
Shaw, of st. Louis, was recently celebrated
by the prominent citizens of that city. Mr..
Shaw has been resident of st. Louis for
sixty three years, period that may be said
to embrace the city's growth. He has dis
played great hberality toward the city, and
has established there the Missouri Botanical
gardens, Tower Grove park, and has given
cites for charitable purposes.
Lord Augustus Fitzroy, brother to the late
duke and successor to the title, was poor,
plain colonel in the army, with the small
- 3 49, he al
son, now Earl of Euston and heir to the
title, while an officer in the rifle brigade
married woman OF the lowest character,
whom he met at drinking saloon. A thirty
ing family is the fruit. The shady WON ans
appearance among the nobility as a full
hedged countess is not nailed with the en-
thusiasm such an event would ordinarily
create.
Sir Charles Beresford, who won distinc-
ton at Alexandria, is thus spoken of by an
officer who knew him fifteen years ago:
"That young fellow was the widest, most
reckless boy over saw in my life. There
was nothing he wouldn't do. And with all
that he was splendid sailor. He could
show older officers than he was all over the
ship. Wild as he was, too, he was always
up straight to the mark when on deck; but |
between decks-well, there was nothing too
hot for him. If there was ever dangerous !
place to get into Beresford was there first" |
The present year has proven strangely and |
fatal TO United States min |
in foreign countries. General |
Judaon Fitzpatrick, in Chill; General 8. A. |
HurlbHt, in Peru; DR.. Garnet, in Liberia, |
and now Mr.. George P. Marsh, in Italy, have |
all fallen victims to death since the begin |
ming of the year, and 1t is but little more |
han half over. The coincidence becomes |
the greater, as they all died at their official |
posts in the land 10 which they had been ac-
credited. Four deaths are startling pro-
portion among the total number of our for
sign ministers.
Charles Chaille Long Bey, the American
consul at Alexandria, after serving in the |
var of the rebellion here, at its close went to
Egypt and took service with the kbedive.
Life in the Egyptian army being too quiet,
40 joined an exploring party into the re-
;esses of the desert. He was the first white |
nan who ever visited King M'Tesi, and
Naked Truths Of Naked People. On his return
lie became consul, and appears to have been
# great assistance not only to Americans,
tut 10 the people of other countries, previous
o and since the bonn bardmeut. His knowl-
dge of the Arab language enables him to
eal directly with the natives, without that
recourse 10 the interpreter which
Gems to have been the cause of much
isaster.
By the marriage of the duke of Westmin-
ter, which occurred at Holkham, England,
n Saturday, one OF the richest men in the
Forld became, in sense his own father, the
ride being the Hon. Catherine Cavendish, |
be sister of his own daughters husband. !
ir Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, duke and mar
uis OF sWestminster, Earl Grosvenor, Wis
cunt Belgraye, Baron Grosvenor of Eaton,
nd baronet, was born October Is, 1925,
eing the son of the second marquis OF West
1inster. Mr.. Gladstone made him duke
n 1874, and in the present ministry he is
laster of the horse. In April, 1852 be was
larried to Lady Constance Gertrude Leve-
on Cover, sister of the present duke of |
who died in December, 1880.
aving borne him seven sons and four
aughters. The new duchess of Westminster {
described as handsome and clever WON an
twenty-four. Her father, Lord Gresham, |
tho died few weeks ago, is one of the {
avendishes, the family to which the duke
Devonshire belongs. Her brother, the {
resent peer, married in 1877 the duke of e
daughter, Lady Beatrice 8
SO the duke becomes his son-in-
AVIS bro her-in-law The elder sister OF the [
ew duchess married in 1878 the earl of 1
leicester, man Of fifty-two thirty years her {
enier, and himself the offspring OF mar {
lage at seventy of bis father with a young I
ady, who bore to him five children during
married life of twenty years. 1t was at the {
arl of Leicester's seat of Holkham, near '
Wells, in Norfolk, that the marriage on Sat I
rday was solemnized.