Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-24

be making them in New York at the rate of
thousand day. His object is to light the
interior OF buildings, including the smallest
rooms He Is experimenting at Menlo park
| with an electric railway three miles long, and
reports favorable progress.
The memory of Chic ustice N arsh all is to
be honored by the erection of monument in
Washington. Shortly after his death in 1858,
the lawyers Of the country contributed $1,000
for this purpose. 1t was invested and reinvest-
ed, and now amounts to 0,000-enough 10
secure respectable statue.
Louis n Frechette, the Canadian poet. was
born in 1910, though he looks scarcely thirty
years of age. He is tall, robust, weil-built,
with light hair and mustache, speaks English
readily and with slight accent. He is man
of polished, genial manners, and has the repu-
tation OF being a close student and careful
writer.
Beaumer was thirty, his wife forty-two,
and his wife's daughter sixteen. They lived
in ST. Louis. It was not long after his mar
riage that Beaumer became sorry that he
had not married the daughter instead of the
mother. No way of rectifying the mis- axe
occurred to him, and in his dependency he
committed suicide.
General Meigs was the greatest speuder of
the public money. During the war he directed
the expenditure of as much as 81 $50, Co.,
900, sum by the side OF which Vanderbilt
seems like pauper. He also audited a mass
OF war claims allowing thirty three thousand
that amounted to $40, 100000. But not
dollar stuck to the honest officers hands.
OF seven new cardinals to be created at the
next consistory, three only Italians,
although there are five Italian vacancies.
The pope is unwilling to have more cardi- |
mails resident in Rome than those actively
taking part in the government of the church
holders of offices. This is part of his
policy of gradually getting rid of all sine |
cures.
Henry Watterson paralyzed his e.thetic |
country men, but was warmly spplauded by |
the able agriculturists whom he was address |
ing, by declaring that the most distinguished |
Kentuckian to-day was known to fame as |
Iroquois. He had nothing to say against the |
thoroughbred, for he had done much for |
Kentucky, and more ito establish a rational !
conception of America in Europe than all |
other diplomatists we ever sent there"
The false statements of London Roman |
Catholic journal about Father Gavszzi, and |
copied into the Westsrn WdtcLnldn, alleging |
his confinement in Paris prison for immor-
ality, are exposed by a message from the /
Rev. DR.. II. NJ. Field, in Rome, who says |
that Gavs zzi has been there for many weeks, |
at his work preacher and teacher in the |
theological school of the Free Church,
hCNci AuOAC dhtifC Va AhOAS ACSPcStSN.
Henry Bergh, as recently described, is a
very tall, thin g, ntleman, with black hair, so
carefully arranged as to merit the descrip-
ton of being "plastered down to his head,
a black mustache, perhaps a little gray,
rather small eyes concealed by his eyeglasses,
over which arched heavy eyebrows. He was
carefully dressed in broadeloth, with a gay
necktie, heavy gold watchchain, seal ring
upon the fore6pger of one hand, and upon
his coat glistened and sparkled golden dec
oration OF no mean dimensions, incrusted
with diamonds.
81 once remarked to the general" says a
of the Cologne Gazette, who
was with General Skobeleff during the Russo
Turkish war, "that he acted very impru-
IDENTIFY in constantly exposing himself to the
enemy's fire without the slightest necessity
ior 30 doing. DO you supposs,' was the an
'wer, that it gives me any pleasure to let the
Turks shoot at me? If go into danger l
nave good reason for it. Ny superiors envy
ne on account of my success, and would
gladly take an opportunity of getting rid of
ne. The only way, therefore, of keeping my
place is to make my troops SO enthusiast
ally attached to me that they will follow me
anywhere and make me indispensable; and
n order to do this must behave with that
eckless bravery that always endesrs a COM
nander to his men,"