Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-15

)enefactor Of Greeoew The trumpsts then
ounded and national airs we're played by
he military band.
Ex-President and Mrs. Hayes have given
4 handsome gold watch and chain to John NJ.
[ nglaub, engineer Of the train on which they
left Washington on March 5, 1881, and which
met with an accident near Baltimore. Cn-
glaHb remained bravely at his post and,
thong Oh severely injured, saved the train from
wreck.
; Black, the novelist, il thus satiriZed by
be London Wcrid: "Hecb mon, but Pm
zee Wullie Black, irae Aberdeen. inventor
Z the grand ART OF film three Dukes wi no
sery. only great hashin' together o scenic
perceptions and Gaelic name=. Ye ken
ho it's done? Eli, but it's Draw wark and
mss the siller"
llthOugh old Baron de Lesseps had fall
theother day IN Paris, being knocked down
by he sudden starting of a horse as he was
getting into 4 carriage, he is as lively as
usua. He presided at the second general
assembly of 1881 OF the Paris Geographical
SOcieS, and made long speech full of
hopefil remarks about "the canal"
Henry :. McComb's will was ad nitted to
probate in Wilmington on Wednesday last,
The millionaire has left his property to his
wife ana four children IN equal parts. Vic
tor DlIpnt, OF Wilmington, and General
Walthal.Of New Orleans, are advisory trus-
tees Tor the children. Mrs McComb is the
sole eIecurix.
b. B. Hdchkiss, the American armorer at
Paris, is getting both praise and pudding
from his revolving cannon. The Danish
government has given him a decoration, be-
sides paying him Tor some of the machines,
and France has Just ordered nine hundred
of his guns and asked him to double the ca
pscity OF his works.
An eminent English artist, following the
fashion of certain owners Of literary draw
| ing-rooms. who litter them with illuminated
| Chinese manuscripts, exhibited his latest ac-
QUESTION 10 a number OF nabobs. They
either laughed or scoyled, for the manuscript
was a collection of anecdotes, which were
very highly off color.
Many of the modest men on earth are
those who have had fall in their temporal
| fortunes and are sailing stormy seas like dis
mantled ships. still battling with the wind
| and waves. We feel like lifting our hats
when we meet one Of these noble men whose
| manhood survives the loss of money.-NdSi-
| riue Christian Adrocate.
Ninety men were legally hanged last year,
and about as many more went to heaven,
thanks TO the kind Offices of Judge Lynch
Arkansas was far in The lead, with fifteen
persons sent to eternity by means of the
hangmans rope, every one Of whom died in
| the OuOr OF sa0ClllYt IuilY convinced lndt ne
would be granted a choice place in heaven.
Mr.. Henry Labouchere: Personally 1
confess that, as much as / should regret the
| loss of a relative through death, ! should be
very Indifferent TO the loss OF n relatives
corpse, for, after all, what can it signify
| whether one relative is decomposed into gases
| in one place or another? The body is but a
suit of clothes, worn during life and thrown
away"
Thomas I. Henry is the first colored law
yer to pass the local examining board of
! Philadelphia. He was admitted TO the bar
| last week. He was born of slave parents in
| 1852, was letter-carrier in Richmond, then
| a school teacher, and later waiter at ST.
Elmo Hotel, Philadelphia, but. attracting
the notice OF a wealthy merchant, was put in
training for lawyer.
| Edison on the dioscope, the alleged new
| instrument for the Transmission OF pictures
| by wire: ain turning sound into electricity
| YOU are able to move matter, but &c turn
| light into electricity is very different thing,
| especially as il would be necessary TO trans
| nit all the hues OF picture a scene of an
opera. Still il is not an unreasonable plan
nor one impossible Of accomplishment"
NJ. Meissonier recently gave a pleasant
| surprise to NJ. Proust The new minister OF
| arts visited his studio and was shown by the
| artist two Of his most cele brated works the
| aGraveur a PEau Forte" and the Cavalier
| a sa Fenetre," for which he has repeatedly
| been offered fabulous sums. On the minister
expressing his admiration of them, Meissonier
quietly informed him of his intention TO pre-
| sent them to the Louvre.
OF the three leaders who have dropped out
of the ranks of the Episcopal clergy in New
York during the Inst two years, DIR. John
| Cotton Smith was the youngest and in some
| respects the ablest. DIR. Osgood had large
culture, and drew more closely together the
affiliated interests Of religion and society
than they had been drawn before his day
DR.. Washburn organized and developed the
broad hurch school of thought, and united
in a rare degree the man of letters with the
qualities which made preacher OF unusual
force and power.
more ill-assorted couple than Mr.. and
Mrs. Lindsey j. Hoagland, of Providence
could hardly be imagined. He is a white
boy, bis parents stating his age at sixteen
and he at nineteen, while she is a negress oil
twenty-five, and by no means prepossessiDi
specimen of her race. They eloped, anC
were married by a negro preacher. The hus-
bands parents have had him arrested on
charge of vagrancy, in the hope of separ
ating him permanently from his wife, but he
declares that he will return 10 her at the
! @~siiasi- --f-t.-'-aass-ia.,'- -
"Yorkey Pete" crowned king OF the ST.
Louis newsboys last summer, rice "Peg-Lee
jerry" deposed, has bseH in turn hurled
from his throne. The king refused TO give
an accounting of the money which he had
collected for a newsboys' home, and it wai
supposed that he had devoted part of it t.
his own personal advantage Since his
detbronsment, however, il has been made
clear that this was false charge. The
ex-king nov washes his hands of the project
is returning the money, and SAYS that IN hll
opinion the courthouse steps are good enough
for his late subjects.
A Scotch paper has the following: "a pool
man who had family broke his leg. and "A
he would be destitute of the means Of grace
il was proposed to hold prayer meeting a
his house. The meeting was led by Deacon
Brown A loud knock at the door interrupt
ed the services. When the door was opene'
tall, lsnk, bine-irocked ycungster stoO'
there, with an ox-goad in his hand, AM
asked 20 see Deacon Brown. Father coul'
not attend the meeting he said. but he zen
bis prayer, and they are ont in the cart
; They were brought in the shape Of potatoes
beef, pork and corn"
: jean Dupre, the sculptor, died at Rome re
Gently. He was born ia Tuscany, Of FTencl
parents in 1917. HE father was q poo
3 wooden figure maker, and young Dupre sper
his early years a csrpsnieTs sppreplics
His ability, however, soon attracted sitter
lion. lie was lerVent tatbOllc ana utFOte
himself chiefly to religious subjects, Cain,
"The Triumph of the Gross" aud "Abel
being the best Of his works. lie obtained
. num6er OF prizes at lie PaiIs exposIrIOH
I and in 1867 received the Legion Of Homo
and in 1868 the Order Of the Crown Of Italy
, 10 1867 he was elected member OF th
, French Academy Of Fine Ar.s in the roor
of Rossini.
Garfield rose always at o'clock, and o,
cnpied the half hour which he gave TO bstl
: ing and dressing with trsnslating daily te
lines of some classic in dead, and ten line
! Of sCme classic in a modern language II
alternated French and Latin with Germs
and Greek in this way. and got up over the
, thousand lines Of them each year. Bstwee
80 and 8 o'clock he always read ron
English book Of which he wanted the info
: nation. At 8 o'clock he breakfasted, al
then punctuated his meal with the nswsp
pers aud his mail. His aim was, after he 7
] tired from The presidency. 10 found WCstei
: college equal to Yale or Harvard at Clev
I land, End die a universal president, "goil
!, out at the same hole 1T which he went i'm
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