Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-06
PERSONALS.

Arthur is The favorite OF the Chicago NetcS
for president Two years hence.
An imitation TO visit the Milwaukee Ex-
positicn has been declined by President Ar
thur
Deshler Welcb, New York journalist,
has written a comedy called a Modern Gree,
the plot of which is excellent.
The Rev. Dr. Benjamin Brooke, we'll
known minister of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, died at Winchester, Va, last
week.
Lawrence s. Mott, of the Philadelphia
press, will assume the management OF new
independent paper at Trenton, n. j., next
week.
The Rev. G. B. Simons, of Greenbush, n.
Y. has resigned his pastorate, on account OF
the feeling against him for unministerial
conduct.
Mr.. Joseph Jefferson and Mrs. John Drew
will assist at William Warren's hftleth an
niyersary Of his comedy birth in Boston, on
the 18th of October.
Emmett G. Logan has resigned the man
aging editorship of the Louisville Courier
Journal, and will be succeeded, temporarily
at least, by Dan E. OSullivan.
Judge +. s. Whitaker, OF New Orleans,
has been appointed by the United States
Government assistant district attorney to
take testimony in the Alabama Claims Com
mission in Louisiana.
The veteran drummer, Maj. Daniel Simp-
son. of Boston, celebrated the ninety second
anniversary of his birthday last Friday, and
received congratulstorY calls and tokens.
from large number of friends.
Col. Berdan has declined to enter the SER
vice of the Porte, notwithstanding that the
Sultan had requested Gen. Wallace, United
States minister, TO use his influence to induce
him to accept the position offered him.
Thatcher, Primrose & West, the minstrel
firm, handed the Mobile Register $40 each
for the benefit of the Pensacola yelioW-feTer
sufferers, which, the Register sayp, is much
better than the clsp-trsp form OF giving a
benefit performance.
Mr.. Hubert III. Bsncroft's HistoTy Of the
Pacific States is so far advanced that the tlrst
volume will appear in few weeks. Mr..
Bancroft has made, preparatory to this WORK,
a collection of books, manuscripts, ETC., num-
bering 81, 900 volumes.
A Baltimore journal says that in that city
there are about 100000 people who spend
an average of twenty five cents each per day
| for intoxicating drinks. If these figures be
correct, the liquor consumers OF the city oil
monuments waste $4,000 per day.
Mr.. John G. Whittier, in recent letter,
suggests that anything like a military pa
rade at the Philadelphia bi-centennial is as
much out of keeping with the memory OF
| Penn and the work he did as anything well
could be. Mr.. Whittier does not suggest
what would be appropriate. That he leaves
TO Pennsylvanisns TO get at.
The late DR.. Pussy knew little OF any
| modern literature, which, as he used 10 say,
was after his time. With Tennyson and the
various late schools of poetry which -four
| ished during the last generation he was al
| most, if not wholly, unexplained. To Sir
| w alter Scott he remained faithful to the
last, and knew him as Lamb knew Shakes
peare.
| Leclanche, the famous French electrician
| who died tue other day, was only forty three
years old. He left an enormous fortune &c
his Young wife and TWO babes. In politics
| he was one of the most irreconcilable Radi
| Gals in Rochefcrt's clique. Ii is said that he
| bequeathed to the Louvre a superb art col.
| lection, on condition that It shall be placed
in hall bearing his name.
| David McCaIeb, late of the Galveston
| (Tex) NeUs editorial department, is dead
| The deceased was forty one years Of age
and leaves a wife formerly Miss Molli:
/ Hunt a Vicksburg poetes.), and several
| children He graduated at Oakland College
| Miss, in 1861, served through the war, anc
| afterward engaged IN journalism, editing al
different periods the Vicksburg Herald, Dial
la. Herald, 1szas Catholic and Galveston
| Ne,os.
Secretary Folger's name was originally
spelled Pfoulger. His first ancestor in thi
country came here in 1885 from Norwich
England, and settled in Martha's Vineyard
Peter Folger, the son OF the original settler
was the grandfather of Benjamin Franklin
He not only oficiated as miller, weaver, anc
interpreter OF the Indian language, on thu
Island, but be was a poet of well-inientione'
but doubtful ability.
Mr.. C. NJ Fairbanks, formerly of the Cleve
land Herald, but for some years past connect
ed with the New York press, has accepted
Hcsll" to the night editorsbip of the old re
liable Baltimore Sun, a position Of great re
sponsibility, and advantageous and desirabl
in every respect. Mr.. Fairbanks IL vigor
Gus and pleasing, and wiihai an origina
writer, capable OF prompt and sound Iudg
| ment and those who know him will see i
ri. elevation only well-deserved recognl
ton of this rare combination of qualities.
The late George Ripley turned his bscl
upon the beliefs of his early manhood an
seldom referred 10 them. He seems TO hay
died without single hope az to his future
In his commonplace book he wrote on d.
cember 5, 1925, as quotation: "a mornin
of ardor and hope; = day Of clouds an
| siorme; an evening oil gloom cioetd IN o
| premature darkness-such is the melaI
choly sum of Whist the biography OF men {
letters almost uniformly presents" and n
single comment is the question, "Is tn
trueN
The committee appointed to choose q d.
. sign for the window to be erected in EdeDsG
church by the Duke of Devonshire's tenant
in memory OF Lord Frederick Czysndish, b
made its decision. the chief figure OF T.
. accepted design is Christ as "Tne Man
|, Sorrows" The cross, emblem Of sorrow, E.
tends across the window, forming the maj
, | divisions Of the design. In the angles
i the cross are four groups OF scripture lilo
trations, asd in the lower part of the vi
dow are the kneeling 6gare OF Lord Ere
erick and the family arms.
Dion Boucicault has played prsciic
joke by producing his old drama OF q
Long Shiks at Brighton under the title
Mary Bortoa-lhe title, as We need not 50
OF Mrs. Gaskell's very clever novel, OF WIN.
the play is merely a dramatic version.
9 gave no intimation Of what he had done, Al
i several able critics declared that his ms
e production could not possibly hold l
= stage" Thereupon Mr.. Boucicault smiab
D. spanked them in the papers, saying that
''the hurry of business they bad mistaken
fuiI-groWn man for a newborn child" 1
:, Long SfIike Is one Of the most popular
= acting dramas.