Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-22
PERSONA. MENTION,

Mr.. John Ruskin is now using his most
| persuasive eloquence to induce Londoners to
revive the official masquerades and other
| public merry makIngs of the days of Chaucer.
| A young imitator of Buffalo Bill went
into photograph gallery at Brownsville,
! Ky. to have his picture taken in border
costume, with big revolver in his hands.
| The weapon accidentally went off Just as he
had been heroically posed, and made hole
! through his shoulder.
Lloyd, the notorious map man, is in
prison in Nashville. His wife arrived on
| Thursday and saw him. She tells a sad
story. She says that herself and husband
had been married for thirty-eight years !;
| that they were the parents of ten children
and that they had been rendered destitute
| by her husbands arrest and imprisonment
1t is rumored that President Arthur re-
ceives more dainty Souvenirs than any I'M
married clergyman in the land. His aesthetic
blue bedroom at the Executive Mansion
shows numberless handkerchief cases, glove
boxes, pincu -hions, scent boxes, clothes brush
holders, wall-pockets, and the like, mostly
abeled "Remembrance," Token of Friend
ship" and ''Forget-me-not,' or bearing sim
liar su ,gestive legends.
According to Lord Desart, Lord Harting-
ton wrote to Lord Spencer the other day to
consult him in the matter of a pair of
horses. The latter, without reading the post
cript, forwarded the note to a friend in
Carlton, whom he considered qualified to de-
eide the questions asked by the chief secre-
tary for India. The tory, however, happen
ing to turn over the page, found to his in
finite entertainment, the following p s.:
when will this id government be out?"
Col. John T. Crisp, recently an Indepen-
dent Democratic representative in Congress
from Missouri, Voluntarily went to Sulphur
Springs, Texas, early in the month to stand
trial on a preposterous indictment found
against him for alleged murder committed
there in 1868. The prosecution is said to
have have its origin with Crisp's political
enemies in Missouri. The trial lasted several
days, and on Tuesday last the case was sub
mitted to the jury by the judge without in
instructions, and the jury in four minutes
returned with verdict of not guilty.
Rumors in regard to cabinet changes are
again active. 1t is reported that strong
efforts are being made 10 get Secretary Hunt
out of the navy department. The President
1t is said, has tended him leading foreign
mission, and place on the bench of the
Court of Claims, both of which have been
declined in the expectation that the Supreme
bench appointment was likely to come to
him. The nomination of Judge Blatchford
will probably make Secretary Hunt less am
bilious, and a new secretary OF the navy may,
therefore, soon be nominated. \ change in
the interior department Is again talked OF.
Tennyson is a grand specimen of man,
with a magnificent head set on his shoulders
like the capital of a mighty pillar. His hair
is long and wavy, and covers massive
head. He wears a beard and mustaChe,
which one begrudges as hiding so much OF
that firm, powerful, but finely chiseled
mouth. His eyes are large and gray, and
wide open when a subject interests him; they
are we'll shaded by the noble brow, with its
strong lines of thought and suffering. | can
quite understand Samuel Laurence calling
it the best balanced head he had ever seen.
He is very brown after all the pedestrianiz-
ing along our south coast.-Erom Miss For's
Diary.
1t is a curious fact that while the features
OF many famous authors are as familiar TO
us through reproductions as are their printed
words, the faces of others remain almost en-
tirely unknown. The portrait of Mr.. Mat
thew Arnold, which will form the fronts
piece of the forthcoming number of the Cen
tttry. will be doubly interesting from the fact
that he is to be classed in this second cate
CORY of the celebrated writers, and will be
doubly valued by his readers for the reason
that those who admire Mr.. Arnold at all
must, and do regard him with quite pecu-
liar affection-an affection more personal in
its nature than that which is given TO
authors whose individuality is less dis
tiuctly and attractively portrayed between
the lines OF every paragraph.
The gossips have again married Mr.. J ames
Gordon Bennett. 1t isn't a Russian princess,
or Mr.. Langtry after her divorce Is granted,
or Ex- Empress Eugene, or even a poor
girl studying art in the galleries OF Rome,
this time. 1t is prominent society girl here,
whose name need not be lugged into the
papers, as her family have Indignantly de-
MED the report, coupled with the remark that
Mr.. 3 nnett is not on their visiting list.
The fatigued and weary-looking but good
naiured editor Of the Head has been mar
ried 70 oft,n by the gossips that he must
beg in 10 feel quite benedict from the force
Of constant relteration. He isn't married,
how, Yer, and does not intend 10 be. He sim
ply logs along with an air Of eHnui, and takes
things as they come without sensation OF nov
city.