Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-18

mems by Offering up a. sacrifice all OF his
wife's relations still to be found alive in his
dominions. The poor fellow needs a little
excitement
The Hon. Levi p Morton, United States
minister to France, has been elected mem
Der of the French Jockey Club, which Is
probably the mott exclusive organization of
The kind in the world and its membership Is
a prize eagerly sought and highly valued.
Mr.. Butler tombstone, formerly in the
house OF commons, lent Turkey some 81 j &c,
600 to carry on the anti-Russian campaign,
and, strange to say, seems likely TO get his
cash. His father, son of Lord Dunhoyne, a
very poor Irish peer, married millionaire.
Major William B. Rochester, the new
paymaster- general, was a paymaster OF vol
unteers all through the war, and was APP
pointed in the regular army in 1867. He
will be the youngest man wearing briga-
dier-general's star in any OF the staff depart
ments of the army.
Ex- Governor Mccormick, of Arizona, has
purchased ten thousand acres OF land in the
State of Mexico, on the Pacific coast, and Is
going into the business OF coffee culture on q
large scale. He has forty thousand trees in
bearing condition, and expects to plant
twelve thousand a year for four years TO
come.
A very sad story comes from Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, where the Hon. II. c. Rogers
has been committed to Jail for twenty days
for Yagrancy. He is a lawyer, and has been
a master of several languages. He was a
member OF the State constitutional conven-
ton OF Pennsylvania of 1887, and minister
to Sardinia under Van Buren,, but is now in
his dotage.
Wagner, now living in retirement at Pal
ermo, would attract very little attention
If it were not Tor the variety OF dressing
gowns-twenty-thre is the number men,
,ioned-which he is so fond of displaying.
He first attempted to escape the gaze of
the vulgar by having i screen p aced around
him at the table dho.e, but now he takes his
meals in private. The end of March, it is
thought, will witness the final touch on his
Pdrsifai.
A Boston fashion plate, just issued, con-
tains counterfeit presentments of William
H. Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Russell Sage d.
o. Mills, Sidney Dillon, James r. Keeue,
Cyrus w. Field and George William Ballou.
They are so smoothed down, so FrenchiGed
in appearance" says the Boston World that
their intimates would hardly recognize them
Vanderbilt looks like ballet master Gould
like fashionable barber and Field like an
ancient gallant"
Chief-J us.ice Cartier, OF the Supreme Court
OF the District of Columbia, will be entitled
to retire from the bench in April, on full
pay, as he in that month viii be seventy
years of age. 1t is now understood, however,
that he will sit at the other term Of the court
bdnc, the April term, at which the case of
Guiteau will be heard on exceptions and
that this term will adjourn sine die in the
latter part OF May or early part Of June.
This will make unnece ssary any suspension
of the sentence of Guiteau.
Senstor Lapham, OF New York, was re-
ported by some joking correspondent TO have
appointed DIR. Mary Walker clerk OF his COM
mittee. During the last three days Mr.. Lap
hams mail has consisted OF hundreds OF let
tiers protesting against the alleged appoint
ment. The most bitter letters came from the
leaders OF the woman-suffrage movement.
Mr.. Lapham, who never thought of commit
tipg suicide in the way ascribed to him by
the practical joker, is much annoyed, but
there is no reason to suspect that he contem-
plates resignation.
NJ. Gambetta's intimates whisper that his
mental condition is anything but satisfac-
tory. He alternates between fits of anger
and fits of dependency, which bode no good
to his general health. He was indiscreet
enough to say to a stranger: 'The deputies
are my mssters, but universal suffrage is their
master, and ! am the master of universal
suffrage" He counterm anded a reception in
a pet, and, on the other hand, rendered him
self ridiculous by embracing the orchestra
leader Sellenick, who had dedicated march
to him, and played in his preseree.
The Rev. Father Scully, OF Cambridge
Massachusetts, is severe condemner OF
church fairs. "They demoralize our girls"
he says, "more than do our lowest theaters,
for girls, armed with their church fair book,
80 forth under religious and parental sant-
ton where they please and when they please,
entering even barrooms to solicit chances and
votes The children think of nothing but
the fair. Home, church and school are BAN
ished. When lager beer is sold in churches
where fairs are held, how can we train our
youth to look with horror on the evils OF
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