Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-24

has history. The brewery is at Strasburg,
and its beer vas exhibited at the Exposition
Of rs as product OF France. The original
| Gruber was a medical student, who, not
being permitted by the college regulations
\ to enter the taverns in the town, succeeded
| in concocting in his laboratory pslAtable
| beverage, which was highly approved by his
friends. So famous did this amateur brewer
become, that he was persuaded to take an
other student, one Rieb, into partnershiP.
These two eventually obtained the lease OF
an old brewery in the neighborhood of
Strssbrrg, and gave up medicine for malt.
They we're successful beyond expectation,
and soon the CHEMISTS beer" as their brew
was first called, became famotis ali over
France.
An old and prominent editor of Virgins,
james A. CowaIdin, founder and senior
editor OF the Dispatch, died in Richmond
last Tuesday afternoon, in the seventy second
year of his age, after an illness of over three
years- He was born in Bath county, and
went into the printing business when thir-
teen years old, and from the age of twenty
.o,e -. --nminently identified with the
press of Virginia, n.--iisg at one time been
the private secretary Of Thomss hitchie'
who was known as tie father Of Democracy.
For sne term, the only time he ever consent
ed to enter personally into politics, he rep
resented the city OF Richmond in the Gen
sral Assembly. He was instrumental in the
establishment OF several papers, of which
the Dispatch, frat Issued by Cowardin &
Davis, October I9, 1850, survives, and the
editorial chair of which he occupied from
its tourdstson until October Is, 1873
twenty nine years.
The New York Tribune saws that an inter |
esting group in the rotunda at Castle Garden |
last week was a family of six persons, con-
sisting of Pietro Nelson Manhof, his wife |
and two pretty children snd his father and /
mother. They were under the care OF the |
of Emigration until means
sufficient to pay their passage across the
ocean could Be obtained. Manhof speaks
eight languages, including English, fuently. |
BE is about thirty-ive years of age, and of /
pleasant address. His wife is an Egyptian,
although he is a SHede BY birth, and his
children were born in Athens. Manho6,
while in Alexandria, was employed in the
Tribunal OF Justice, and reached this
country IN August last. Msnhof was
N Alexandria and witnessed the mag
acre of the Christians there in June
asst. He says: The scene beggared descrip-
ion-men, women and children flying in all
directions, only to be struck down and killed
oy the blood thirsty Mussulmans. The
ground was literally covered with human
yore. The fanatics did not cease their cruel
les even after the death of their victims, but
kicking and beating the bodies |
and severing their heads. Even sftet the |
wounded had been taken to the hospital |
hey took them from their couehes and cut |
off their legs, feet and arms. L was protect
I'd by the Tribunal, but was instrHcted TO |
make Tor the coast and escape, which did, |
.aking the steamship Columbia, sailing for |
Malta, where was joined by my wife and |
family, who had been in Athens since the |
beginning of the Egyptian troubles.