Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-29
PERSONALS.

Mr.. J. NJ. HILL has returned from Nash
vile.
J. w. HALL, one of the editors and pro
prietors of the Dallas (Tex) Herald, was il
the city yesterday, en- route to Nashville, witt
| his wife.
Mr.. 7. S. BARKsDAIE and bride (pfe Mis-
Jennie Franklin) arrived home yesterday
and are stopping at the residence of Mrs.
c. Barksdale, "a Monroe street.
Mr.. JEROME HILL, formerly of Memphis
now of st. Louis, accompanied by his daugh
| ter, Miss Mary, arrived in the city yesterday
They will be the guests of Mr. Napoleel
Hill, on Court street, during their stay.
Mr.. CLIFTON r. BRECKENRIDGE, of Pin,
| Bluff, Ark, son of the late John c. Breckin
ridge, is making an active canvass for con
| gressman-at-large of Arkansas. He was il
| the city yesterday, on his way 10 Lonoke
where he will speak next week.
VISITORS at the Cotton Exchange yester
| day: Sam Cowan, Nashville; F. NJ. Cargill
| Salisbury; Major A. Craft, Holly Springs
Major Sam Frank, Holly Springs; Major
Frank Dancy, Holly Springs; J. L. Grace
Cotton Plant; E. P. Clarke, New York; J
M. Nash, Cincinnati.
COLONEL D. H. WISDOM, late of jackson
Tenn, has settled at Fort Smith, Ark, and
thriving city, having purchased an interest
in that paper. Colonel Wisdom is an ex.
periepced journalist, witty, humorous
graceful writer, and an earnest thinker. He
is a sound Democrat, and a clever, whole
souled man. He cannot fail to do well in
Arkansas.
SENATOR BAYARD, of Delaware, Senator
German, of Maryland, aud Victor Baugh-
man, editor of the Frederick (Md.) Replabli,
can Citizen, are the guess of General Hard
ing, at his stock-farm, near Nashville. They
were accompanied by Senator Howell Z.
Jackson, of this State, and were cordially
vile. Senators Bayard and German made
speeches after being introduced to the crowd
at the Maxwell by Ex-Governor Neil S.
Brown.
DR.. j. o. STEADMAN, DID,, one of the old
est Presbyterian ministers in the State, died
at his residence, on Alabama street, last
evening at 1880 o'clock, aged seventy years.
DIR. Steadman had been connected with the
Presbyterian church in Memphis for forty
years, and was the pastor of the first church
of that faith ever established in this city.
DIR. Steadman was universally beloved as a
minister, and leaves a large circle of friends
to mourn his loss.
THE Chattanooga Times says: "Bill Moore,
have had themselves biographed, for con-
sideration, in the Washington Chronicle.
Now, if the Chronicle man would like come
thing in the nature of a symposium touching
these two eminent (?) persons, he should en-
ploy Mat Galloway, of the Memphis AP-
PEAL, to tell what he knows about Bill, and
ask Captain Bill Rule, of the Knoxville
Chronicle, TO furnish-at s. per column
sketch of the civic and military career of the
eminent Leonidas. Henry Reed, of the
Chronicle, used to be fond OF variety in sew
eral ways. He should try the variety of fol-
lowing the paid eulogies of congressman with
terse pen-portraits of such seekers after fame
furnished by constituents who know the gen.
tlemen best"
THE Vicksburg Herald, describing Mark
Twain, who was in that city on Wednesday
last e., route to New Orleans, says: "To us
he looked yesterday like man who had Just
escaped from a lunatic asylum, whose only
sense was in the perfect realization OF that
fact, and whose every energy was concen-
trated in an effort to dodge his keeper.
With his long, bushy hair, Indifferent col
ered mustache, shaggy eyebrows, restless,
nervous temperament, drawing gait and
Of a baggy fit, Mark Twain is calculated to
cause the average man to pause-and per-
haps look around for policeman il in close
quarters. But Mr.. Clemens has only the
which is the revenue stamp of
genius, as it were. Only great men are war
ranted in having it. In an ordinary mortal
it would be proof positive of serious men,
tai affection, and a reckless indulgence of it
might cost a man his sweet liberty and an
sacrifice of his share of the
pure and unadulterated air Of heaven"