Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-09
PERSONALS.


A. S. Packard says he remembers Hawthorn
as he looked in the recitation-room, witt
"the same shy, gentle bearing, black, droop
ing, full, inquisitive eye, and low, musica
voice that he ever had," and Longfellow
sitting two seats behind Hawthorne, a fair
haired youth, blooming with health anG
early promise.
The steamship Abyssinia arrived Thurs
day at New York, bringing 423 Mormop
among her passengers. The party is com
posed of $50 English persons, lis Scandi
navians and twenty eight returning mission
| aries, the latter of whom have returned aftel
a years work of proselytipg among laborer.
and farm hands in The BrilIsh empire. o.
the entire number that arrived fully one
third ale single men and women, who jour.
ney 10 Utah for the purpose OF colonizatio
A statistical writer says: Rhode Island
has furnished more men of national reput a.
| ton for deviltry than any other Northern
| State. "Wild Bill" WAS born 10 Providence
BILLY, the Kid" of recent unsavory re.
nown, came originally from Watch Hill, and
| 'Calamity Jane" is a native of fashionable
Newport. "Texas jack" for whom, like
Homer, seven cities claim the honor of h g
birth, was born in Bristol, and yellowstone
Kelley the sc.ut OF Montana, is a native
| of Pawtucke'.
Ex-Gov. Abner Coburn, ''the richest man
in Maine" is row eighty years old, v.nera-
BILE in appearance, Tut remarkably hale and
vigorous. His hair and whiskers are snowy
white, but his eye is clear, his hand steady
and step elastic. He has no clerk to keep
his accounts, nor secretary to writ his let
ters, but does it all himself, although il is a
task OF no mean proportions. He spends an
hour every day at the bank Ct which he is
president, amt keeps close watch upon
every detail of its operations.
A fine mural tablet in memory of the late
DIR. Leonard Bacon has been placed this
week in the Center church, New Haven. 1t
is of polished brass and black marble, and
bears this inscriptions:
BY THE GRACE OF GOD,
LEONARD BACON,
servant of Jesus Christ and OF all men for His
Fearing God and having no fear beside, loving
righteousness and hating iniquity, friend of lib
erty and law he per of Christian missions teacher
Of teachers, promoter of every good work. He
blessed the city and the nation by ceaseless labors
and holy life, and departed peacefully into rest
December n. 1881, leaving the world batter for
having lived in II.
spectacle interesting to every English
men has Just been witnessed in Portsmouth
harbor. On the Dist OF October every year
Nelson's old ship, The Victory, now nearly
120 years old, is dressed in laurels, and her
mas(s once more display the tattered sails
which bear such evidence of the fierce fight
brass plate upon the quarterback, with the
inscription Here Nelson Tell" receives an
extra polish, and the tars on board solemnly
drink 10 the memories OF those who fell
in the greatest naval struggle England ever
had.
A collection of the original portraits of
the Winslow family, which has long been in
the custody of the Massachusetts Historical
Society, has been deposited in Pilgrim
Hall by the heirs of the family. The
collection consists of portrait of Gov.
Edward Winsiow, painted in London in
1850; the portraits of Gov. Josiah Winslow
and wife, painted st the same time; the por-
trait of Gen. John Winslow, comma nder of
the British troops at the expulsion of the
Acadians; and the portraits of DR.. Isaac
Winslow, Mrs Alice Winslow and her hus-
band. With the pictures came also the
sword and coat-of-arms of Gov. Edward
Winslow.
Mr.. Hubert Herkomer, ARA, who ar
rived in New York from England on Tues
day, will this month visit in Cleveland, o.,
his uncle, Mr.. John Herkomer, who IL, as is
also the sr,ist's father, q clever wood-csrver
Mr. John Herkomer's son Herman, 4 native
OF Cleveland, has been studying in Europe
for some time, and bids fair to become as
great an artist as his cousin Hubert, whom
he accompanies TO this country. Mr.. Hubert
Herkomer hiss taken a studio in New York,
where he will make his headquarters during
his stay in this country. In May next he |
will return to England, together with his |
uncle and cousin, and 1t Is rumored that he |
will then establish an art school, of the fac |
ulty of which the leading members will be |
himself and his father and cousin.