Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-29
Personal MENTION.

Theodore Tilton is lecturing in Maine.
Prince Bismarck has Just received present
of a tame wolf from Russian prince.
Ex.Speaker Randall is suffering from the
govt, and leans heavily upon cane.
Mr.. Vanderbilt's new house, including the
decorations and furniture, cost $s,O0O,O00- o.
Gambetta has given up the study of Ger
man on account of the pressure OF his time.
The violet is not SO modest as it seems.
1t hides because it's afraid Oscar Wilde will
bite it.
Sir Edward Thornton has sent 500 from
ST. Petersburg for the Garfield Memorial
Hospital fund.
Colonel Fred Grant has been made presi-
dent of the American Electric Light Com
pany of Massachusetts.
Senator Vest, of Missouri, owns an addi-
ton to Kansas City, which is expected in ten
years to be worth 81 100000.
Ex-Governor K. G.. Mccormick, of Arizona,
has become the owner of ten thousand acres
in Mexico, whereon he proposes to cultivate
coffee.
Northumberland Horace Maynard
delivered fatherly lecture a few days ago
to the young ladies of the Knoxville High
School.
A Washington correspondent says that
Gray cost $1,000. There were thirty persons
present.
Beecher has polite and supercilious way
of apologizing for any insults he may give
people. He simply says: Il revoke such
sentences"
The Rev VIM. Beecher, brother of the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, celebrated his
eightieth birthday by preaching in DIR. Good
wins church in Chicago.
Delegate Cannon says that a man may be
honest, even in hell. Mr.. Cannon seems to
have come information as 10 the future
whereabouts OF honest men.
The Rev. DIR. Paxton, of Washington, Dis
trict of Columbia, has been offered So, 900 a
year to become pastor OF the West Presbyte-
sian church, in West Forty-Second street,
New York.
Divers friends of ID. A Goddard, the late
editor of the Boston advertiser, are raising a
testimonial for his widow as a tribute OF re-
spect for his public services. The amount
already collected is $4,000.
The Rev. Dr. Manning, OF the famous Old
South church of Boston, has touched gen.
erous chord in his congregation. They have
voted to him for the rest OF his life an an
nual pension of $1,000, work or no work.
George Washington once disposed of an
Office seekers petition by writing thereon:
sAs George Washington / should be glad to
do this gentleman a favor, bat as president
of the United States i am unable TO comply
with his request
The church debt raiser" r. H Kimball,
succeeded In procuring subscriptions of nearly
$4,000 in the New EogIaad congregational
church, ON Sunday, for the purpose of paying
debt of $4,000. The church edihce is at
Fifth and South Ninth streets, New York,
and the Rev. T. p. Hubbard is the pastor.
The New York Tfmes on Mr.. Coukling: "a
little more foundation and rather less super
| imposed ornznentztion will be needed before
his claims 10 be either great lawyer or 3
statesman of moderate eminence wall be re-
coguized by critical Contemporaries or q dis
| ORIGINATING posterity.'
| John Dunn, the Englishman who sets W
| In opposition to the prisoner King Cetywayo
as a ruler of Zululand, is described as having
lost all the virtues Of his own race and a.
having acquired all the vices of the African
| He Is cruel and bloodthirsty, and exceed;
/ the Zulus in the number of his wives.
The Chicago papers say that Mayor Har
rison recently received letter from a LADY
in Eoston who said that she lived on Shaw
NUT avenue, was cultivated, had a taste fol
the aesthetic in literature and art, had a coo
| S100,0 in bank, was but thirty eight year
old, and anxious TO be made mayors bride
| A Washington correspondent. relates tn
story of Western senator, that entering tn
restaurant the other day he ordered halt
dozen raw oysters The waiter brought hin
six. The senator for moment looked grim
ly at the plate and then called out: "Boy
seven oysters are half dozen; bring me al
another oyster.
Ex-Governor Scott, formerly Of South Ca
DINA, but now OF Napoleon, Ohio, kille
Warren I. Drury On Christmas day N 1873
For come reason Scott was acquitted. Mf