Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-07
PERSONALS.

E1 Governor Gosper, of Prescott, Ariz., is
the largest owner OF horses on the Pacific
/ coast.
The New York Tribune records that Tx
! Senator Gordon, of Georgia, has left Paris
for visit TO the duke OF Sutherland at his
home, Dunrabin Castle, in the North OF Scot
land.
Count Frederick de Luke, the celebrated
Russian navigator, and one of the oldest, if
not the very oldest, Arctic explorers, has
just died at 81. Petersburg. He was born
almost eighty-fve years old.
Henry Riddle, who created a sensation
some years ago in New York by avowing his
belief in Spirituslism while superintendent
OF schools, delivered lecture last week at
the Spiritualist camp-meeting, Lake Pleas
ant, Msss., on the Emission OF Spritualism"
George Howard. Philadelphia comedian,
Is recovering from deafness that threa teued
to incapacitate him. For time he could
not hear his cue, and his wife, sitting in the
audience, had to signal him to proceed when
his interlocutor had ceased TO. speak. So
cleverly was this infirmity concealed that its
existence was never suspected by the public.
1t was said by one at the rehearsals at
Birmingham in mid-August that "those who
doubt the longevity of musicians would have
been startled bya glance at the platform,
where stood Costa, hale and hearty, despite
his seventy-two years; Benedict, aged seventy
eight, beside him; while the rubicuud face
of Neils Gade, a comparative youth of sixty
FIVE, looked approvingly on"
The Centennial History Of the American Epis-
eopdt Church, by the bishop of Iowa, will be
brought out this autumn. The Rev. Phillips
Brooks, the Rev. Morgan Dix, the Hon. r.
G. Winthrop and other clergymen and lay
men have assisted the author, whose work
will be sold by subscription only. The two
auarto volumes will Be illustrated by por-
traits, maps, fac SMILES and autographs.
The Rev. Spoford A. Brooke has become a
teetotaller. He said recently that although
he had never exceeded the allowance counte-
nanced BY moderate drinking" viz: three
glasses Of claret day, he begged to take the
opportunity of stating that in every single
respect did he seem to have undergone a
change for the better" He thinks there are
two many "tipplers" among the American
clergy.
Prof. Esmarch, the celebrated German
surgeon, has published the lecture delivered
by him at Kiel on The treatment of President
Gsrfeld's wound. He maintains that the
injury was not m orlal, but that death was
caused by carelessness in the application OF
antiseptics. He would have had the SUR
geons refrain entirely from searching for the
Gus anliseptiG Treatment, as did Laugenbeck
when the emperor of Germany was wounded.
Z Turgeneff writes to the editor of the Strand
from Bougival, under date of July 10Th: "The
malady from which / have been suffering for |
the last four months is called angina pectorahs |
feel a continued pain in my chest, which |
renders sleep in the night impossible. / am |
unable to stand or walk without assistance; |
driving cannot undertake at all. Ny ap- |
&c o<@1 ,.,l II
result is that am confined to the spot not |
knowing how all will end" This is melan-
choly news for all lovers of literature.
As late as November, 1882, Colonel David |
Humphrey, who had been military secretary
TO General Washington, was, by resolution of
Congress, m abe lieutenant-colonel. He gave |
his sanction, while in active service to the
of company Of colored in
fantry, the first of that kind of troops en-
ployed during the revolution. They were
attached to Meiggs's, afterwsrd Butters's,
regiment, in the Connecticut line. Colonel
continued to be the nominal cap
tain of the colored company until the estab-
ishment of peace. Whether they fought
nobly" history fails to inform US.
Robert Tones, D., son of the founder of
he famous importing house of Francis
Tones & Sons, died last week in his sixty
ixth year at his residence in Brooklyn. He
lad been carefully educated by his father in
his country and abroad, and be received his
medical decree from the Edinburgh Univer-
ity. For several years DR.. Tones was
popular surgeon in the Pacific Mail Steam
hip Line. He seemed, however, to prefer
literature TO his evn profession, and about
he year 1850 became a journalist and
uthor. Duyckinck's Literary World, Bry-
nt's Epening Post and the Harper publioa- I
iocs for many years printed his essays,
ketches and tales.
A beautiful Celtic cross has been erected
D the memory of the late Judge William 4,
.eogh, of Bonn-on-the-Rhine, where he died. 9
his latest example of Irish native art stands =
ighteen feet in hight, is of Kilkenny lime
rom the design of Mr.. Thomas Drew, =
lila. Judge Keogh was for ten years a :
lember of the British House of Commons,
Or twenty years a Judge of The Court of
ommon Pleas, and member of the Privy
ouncil in Ireland. He WAS distinguished
; an orator, statesman and judge. Among t
he subscribers were many who had been OPP
osed to him in political life. i
The memorial to the late Lord Beacons-
ED in Hughenden church has been at last =
,mpleted. 1t consists of a window in the I
estern side of the church, an organ and =
me decorations in the chancel. In addi- o
on numerous other tributes TO the dead
atesman's memory have been placed there,
rominent among which are the monument, | 4
resented by the queen; the east window, by b
ord Rowtou Sir Nath aniel de Rothscnild 3
I'd Sir Philip Rose; the south window and h
ass, by the undergraduates of Oxford; two :,
Ills, completing the peals, by Mr.. Robert +
Tarner. and a pair OF brass candelbra, by :;
70 members of Lord Bssconfeld's house !.
I'D.
The prince of Wales has written a circular
tier 10 all the clergymen in England, in
ting them to canvass in their parishes for
descriptions to his new college of music. 1t p
an utterly unprecedented thing for . per- n
n in the princes position to take such . nj
.p, and thus put what is in England ! de- n
led pressure on a whole body OF men. 1t Ell
limited that this royal energy is | Of
{ disinterested The Kensington Museum n,
nems was regarded as real estate specu- CT
ion to raise the value Of Prince Albert's Ii
operty, and q job to give some court favor
8 good places. The Royal College of
1sic is expected TO turn out to be some
ing of the same kind. te
General Loripg is still q bachelor. He is 4
a stout, short, compact build, with we'll II
aped head, covered with iron-gray hair, 20
IN Of goodlength, brushed behind his ears. "
8 eyes are brown, with a merry light in OF OF
IN. Nose squiliDe, almost Roman. His u
hc AZ cAScco1nSiy sOAt anu sNcet, anu tHC Il
ole expression of his face-indeed of the A.
cDsbke of the entire MANS full of unaf- IN
ted gentleness and manly benevolence. 70
ee from egotism, he only discourses of ne
nself when pointedly questioned, and then IN
that easy, Indifferent, modest fashion that pr
yes most happy impression of him as Sc &c.
n of sound sense, remarkable intelligence n
classic simplicity, and as q model SOL 20
r with an almost continuous military
eer of over foriy-ive years.
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