Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-05
PERSONALS.

Is larger than was claimed for him even b
sanguine friends.
John Gilbert has returned 10 the city. H
Is still suffering from weakness consequen
upon his severe sickness during the summer
but hopes soon to be sufficiently recovered L
resume acting at Wallack's Theater.
John c. New, assistant secretsry of tn
treasury, and w. w. Dudley, pension agent
have crawled into Indiana with their carpet
bags full of money. 1t is thought the money
has Just been printed in Washington for spe
cial use in Indiana.
An English brewer, observing one of hi
men wearing the total abstinence blue ribbon
| suggested that it seemed somewhat inconsist'
| emit with his line of business. swell, cir,
he said, dit makes folks like TO tempt me,
and then succumbs"
Explorer Stanley is in Brussels, the guest
OF King Leopold ii. under whose auspices he
has for the past two years been carrying on
his lzbors along the Congo. He looks worn
and aged, but his youth seems 10 return 10
him whenever he talks about Africa.
1t is currently reported that Gen. Logan
has cut loose from President ArthuI's inteI-
ests, and Joined Mr.. Blaine, with whom be
proposes to work until the race for 1884 is
| made up. The Illinois senator takes this
step, so it is stated, because he considers Mr..
Blaine stronger than his opponents.
1 NOunL Won nOltkc CcicDIalcu last 1uuIS-
day the eighty-third anniversary of his
birthday, and on Sunday the twenty fifth an
niverssry of his elevation 10 the Office of
chief Of the grand general staff of the Prus-
sian army. The hale old feld-marshal is
now living quietly on his Silesian estate.
Mr.. Barrett, the father of Lawrence Bar
reti, the actor, died in Baltimore on Sstur-
day. He had been in feeble health for some
years and was well cared for in private
retreat during bis 1lness = MI 14<ce
DzrreT was in Canada at the time OF his
fathers death, and as the funeral had to take
place on Sunday he could not be present.
tumor weighing eighty pounds was re-
moved from the walls OF the abdomen of a
negro woman in the Cincinnati hospital on
Monday last. The operation was performed
before large number of the leading physi-
clans Of Cincinnati, who had become greatly
interested in the case. 1t is thought the pa
tient, who was doing well after the opera
ton, will live.
Richard Blakemore, the author of Lorna
| Doone does not trust TO his Imagination for
the delightful landscapes which seem now to
glow and anon to darken under his pen. He
| spends months at a time in the places wherein
he lays the scenes of his stories and his
studies of moor, forest and garden are pur-
| sued with the keen eye Of a painter and q
naturalist, and the ardor OF lover.
| The Rev. s. J. Stone, vicar of ST. Paul's
church, Hsggerston, England, recently scaled
| the spire of that e1i6ce and placed in posi-
| ton the final Cross He was attired in his
| clerical and academic garb The congrega-
ton in the street below, including 700 chill
dren, sang "The Cnurch's One Foundation"
and the vicar, having from his exalted posi-
ton pronounced the benediction, descended.
The Hon. Charles Gayarre, of New Or
| leans, who wrote the wonderful book Fer
nando de Lentos, has in press another work
called hubert Dubdyet. Rev. DIR. B. NJ.
Palmer, who has read the advance sheets,
pronounces it a marvel of Imagination,
statesmanship, philosophy and historical
truth. And yet the chances are that it will
be neglected for trashy stuff that corrupts
and misleads.
An Irishman tried 10 shoot little chirp-
ing bird with an old Queen Anne musket.
He fired. The bird, with chirrup or two,
few away uneoncerned in the foreground,
and Pat was swiftly and noiselessly laid on
his spine in the background. Picking him.
self up, and shaking his fist at the bird, he
exclaimed: "Bs jabbers, ye wouldn't CHR
rupted if ye'd been al this ind of the gunp-
English Magazine.
Mr.. Browning has returned to England,
having been unable to go to Vienna through
the ruin of the Lombard country by the
foods. Neither from Turin nor Bologna
could he make progress, and the general
misery of the poor folk was sad, indeed, to
see. There were cases of people remaining
exposed to the rain on the bridge at Verona,
and deprived OF food for thirty-six hours, no
help being available from either side.
Late in life George Washington rcd. in
his own carrisge, but in his earlier years he
took hack al the cherry tree Worcester
Gozstte. The man who had the temerity TO
spring this relic of aatiquity upon the public
forgot to mention how Georges father took
a ch aise after the young nan and was about
ready TO sleigh him, when George attempted
to saddle the blame on some one else as the
cutter--AauTence American.
Mr.. Froude has written preface for Mary
Hickson's account of the Lrish Massacres Of
1641, which will shortly appear in London. !
The volume contains reflections from the I'M |
published sworn dispositions concerning the |
m assacres of Irish and English Professionals |
taken from the original MSS; also extracts
from the unpublished State papers concern
ing the projected plantations in Ireland for /
the twenty years preceding the rebellion.
In October, 1876, Mr.. Gladstone visited the |
Dowager Warehouses OF Waterford, at Ford |
Castle, Berwick, and after telling a tree as
of his visit, promised the forester,
John Ormston, an ak, IS a keepsake. His
duties soon drove the promise
from his memory until two weeks ago, on
he anniversary of his visit 10 Ford Castle,
when he sent to the old forester, now bed
ridden, a fine az of American manufacture,
by kindly letter.
The Cooperstown Republican says that Mr.
Alfred Corning Clark, who has inherited
most of the wealth of his father, the late
Edward Clark. of sewing machine fame, mas,
a a quiet and unostentatious manner, be-
towed some munihcent gifts upon several of
his faithful employees who have been con-
,ected for many years with the family OF his
ather, among them being James Bunyau,
so, 1000; Owen McCabe, $50, 1000; Mrs. Pat
lex Hogan, $1,000; Mrs. John Hoy, $1,000;
Robert Shamrock, $4,000; Martin Norton,
;4O00
The London Times, in a leading article,
peaks Of Henry George as the guide, phi
osopher and friend of new party, polili-
ally represented by Mr.. Davitt, who made
n eloquent speech in Ireland. On reading
he speech of Mr.. Davitl you will find moth
ng to warrant this reference to the American |
uthor until you read between the lines;
hen you may observe a certain change OF
)ne, calmness and clearness, which the
cen eye OF the Times is no doubt right in
scribing TO the new turn which Mr. George ,
as given to the theoretical part OF the land
uestioD.
Sir Garnet Wolseley Enthusiastically
lSSto " NC hnOWu as 1Ofu HOlseley OF
,gypt." OF the other twelve military COM
landers who have been made peers during
ictoria's reign, some have been content 10 !
:sociate their peerages with places where !;
ley have property, as Sir Colin Campbell, ,,
bo became Lord Clyde of Clydesdale :
theirs identified their titles with the actions
lat won them, as Sir Robert Napier, who is I
DIV Lord Napier of Magdala. But none of
lem, nor even Nelson, nor the "Iron Duke" !
spIred to be known by the name of an en- !
re great country, as the victor OF Tel-el- :
ebir has done,
An English writer and friend of Mr.. Alma +
adema has prepared for Our Continent a ,
eat biographical article on that distin- r
1ished artist. 1t will be illustrated with a \
riking portrait of Mr.. Alma-Tadema. =
sautifully engraved by T. johnson from | v
Photograph selected by the original himself. | n
pgraviugs from several OF his pictures will o
this portrait. "Tne Bath" which
one of his favorites, he particularly wished a
loufd be engraved for this article. Our h
ointment is taking special pains with its en- n
awnings OF portraits; there is a character 7
tic one OF Mr.. Alcott in this weeks number h
a most venerable head !,
A certain editor in South Carolina be- C
ewes that the public should cooperate with o
e newspaper in collecting news, He ap- r.
Gals to the reader thus: "Don't forget when G
lybody dies, gets married, runs away, steals U
iything, builds house, makes big sale, q
eaks leg, or gets the senses kicked ont of II
m By mule, or does anything that is In n
y way remarkable, and you have reason TO L
'lieve you know as much about the occur q