Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-14
PERSONAL.

| Malone felt so Lonesome they had TO ge
Chalmers TO keep him company.
Mr.. Thurman will handle the Jacksoniar
| gavel at the Ohio Democratic Convention.
Chief Engineer Melville, of the DeLont
Arctic party, has been granted permission Il
| return home.
Joe C. Harris ('UncIe Remus'') is writing
Southern novel, 10 be called AdTon. IL i
| not colored name.
The Hon. Jeferson Davis will spend
portion of the summer at the Atlantic Hotel
Morehead City, Beauford Harbor, Nortl
Carolina.
II is stated that "Robeson laughs till tn,
tears come in bis eyes every time he is caIlec
knave snd thief" We should suppos,
he would lead a tremendously hilarious eI
istence.
YES" said the sheriff, 81 have my doubt.
about that mans being guilty of that muir.
der: Why, when he stood on the drop he
hadn't the least idea that he WAS going
straight TO heaven."-Boston Post.
Don Cameron: "My dear Hubbell, what is
the troubled" Jay A. Hubbell: "Reform'.
got the grain and lett us the stubble." Both
"Alasl for the fate of our bright Stalwarl
bubble. "-Pr prudence Press.
cabin erected on the elegant lawn of Castle
Byron, at Long Branch. This cabin is N ade
oHt OF the ties Used in the construction of the
Garheld temporary track at Elberon.
Mr.. Reynolds (the English actor career
as m acbeih" has been brought 10 a sudden
end by Mr.. Barnes as Macduff, who at a re-
cent performance in London accidentally
gave the thane OF Fife half an inch of cold
steel full in the chest.
Judge Tourgee is bringing out new polit-
ico-hlstoricsl novel, Hot Rloushares. From
the Title we infer that II deals with the car
petbag era and isintended to prove that there
really were some things in the South on
which the carpetbsggers would not lay their
hands.
Carl Schurz grew bitter in his Phi Beta
Kappa address at Harvard. "The great war
that education has TO carry on in society,"
he SAID, rs war against lhe brutal self
assertion OF vulgar wealth, with no quarter
Tor the pleasure hunting idler and merciless
contempt and ridicule for the snob."
The principal officials of all Great Brit
aims colonies are Irishmen. Among them
are two governors -Kennedy, of Queens
land, and Sir John Pope Hennessy, OF Hong
Kong. There is a long array of colonial
premiers, attorneys-general,j judges, secreta-
ries, post % asters-general, land commissions,
etc., all Irishmen.
When the news of General Skobeleff's
death was received at the London Stock Ex-
change "Ru-sian securities became consider
ably hrmer"-so the cable Informed u.s. 1t
Is therefore reasonable 10 presume that in
he demise OF the intrepid young general
Great Britain considers she has lost a stand
log menace to her peace and prosperity.
Bishop Fallows preached recently SER
mon on the Christian Idea of Temperance"
in which he said: "The true idea of chris
ain temperance is strict abstinence" 1t is a
pleasure 10 notice the head of strong church
laying down as his views of this question a
platform so broad that all christians can
stand upon it and work together, without
iostiing, for the good of the race.
The Rev. William Fl. Vibbert, rector of
81. Luke's. Episcopal church OF Germantown.
Pa, has been elected bishop by the clergy of
the present bishop, the Right Rev Marx
Anthony De Wolfe Howe. Mr.. Vibberl,
who is son of the Rev. William E. Vibbert,
of Fair Haven, Conn, was graduated from
Trinity College, Hartford, in 1858.
III. Victor Neweomb is now worth in the
neighborhOod Of Sl0,000,00O He has bought
a $375,O00 residence on Fifth avenue, New
YORK, and built $4,000 cottage at Long
Branch. He will spend his winters
In New York city and his summers
at EIoeron. He has a charming fami y, wife,
son and daughter, gooc health, and every
thing calculated 10 make man happy. He
sold mis- home in Louisville, which was the
handsomest residence between Chicago and
A dispatch TO the Courie,-J Journal says that
Wimberg, Of Mississippi, has been made au
agent OF the treasury department at the in
stance of Chalmers. He was appointed
against the wish of Mr.. Lynch, OF Missis-
sippl, and that colored gentleman is not 10
a good humor about it. The turn OF AFFAIR."
is somewhat curious. Chalmers was I'M
seated by the Republicans as Democrat
who took his seat by fraud, and now he is
having more TO say about Federal appoint
nents than Lynch, who got the seat; one has
he seat IN Congress and the other the pa
tronage.
Mr.. w. w. Corcoran, the philanthropist OF
Washington, is slowly improving in health
and is able to ride out with his physician
He expects, later in the week, to 90 TO White
sulphur Springs. Though nearly eighty
hree years old, his splendid constitution is
likely to overcome his severe attack OF that
dreaded disease that has carried off SO many
younger men-pneumonia. For many years
ne has been in the habit of sending an an
lual treat" of strawberries and ice cream
This years treat, recently sent, was tort
night later than usual, as the best straw
berries ripened late.
Major General Irwin Mcdowell, comm and
ng the military division OF the Pacific, will
be placed on the retired list in October next,
Inder the provisions of the compulsory re-
irement bill. 1t is generally understood
hat Major General John NJ. Schofeld, who
8 al present without a command, will sue
eed General Mcdowell in the command of
he division of the PACING. General w. 7.
sherman will be retired in February, 1884;
Sheridan in 1895; Ma
Or General Hancock in March, 1888; Major
General Schofeld in 1895; dierGeneral
Iohn Pope July, 1886; Brigsdier-G
} liver o. Howard, 1894; Brigadier General
! fired H Terry, 1891; Brigsdier-Generai
christopher G. Augur, August, 1885; Briga-
lier- General George Crook, 1892.