Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-21
Personal MENTION.

Bret Harte's son is fitting himself for tn
! stage, and will join the company Of Mr.
! John Mccullough.
David Dudley F Eli do Ssassksd Rs n ssySe lss
ticed at the New York bar since 1928.
1t is stated that Thomas Mast is about t.
retire from business with the Harpers, having
made enough money to support himself il
comfort.
The Duke of Edinburgh has nearly com
! pleted an operetta, the scene of which is laiC
IN Russian village. The plot was suggested
by the duchess.
Clarence Barton, the Washington editor
| who figured in the Ssteldo affair. is a nephew
many years ago.
Mr.. Evarts found it necessary to limit the
number of persons at his entertainments, and
Mr.. Frelinghuysen has been compelled to be
still more rigorous.
The Rev. Stephen Gladstone, rector of Ha-
warden and son of the premier, has been ad-
vised to take a sea trip to the Mediterranean
for the benefit of his health.
Oliver Ames, a son of Cakes Ames, expects
to have 100000 house erected in Boston
during the spring and summer. He will &C.
cupy the building as residence.
The President, on the evening when he
gives dinner, visits the parlors and dining
room before the guests arrive, in order to
ascertain whether the temperature is right.
Mr.. Prescott, the special minister TO the
South American governments, receives a
salary of $4,000, with travelling expenses,
and an allowance of $500 for clerical SER
vice.
The late William Cullen Bryant's memory
was honored by special service at the
Claiming Memorial church, in Newport, on
Sunday evening. All the hymns sung dur
ing the service we're written by Mr.. Bryant
Nobody will be greatly surprised to hear
that General Banks doesn't believe in civil
service reform. He is the only ex-governor
OF Massachusetts who refused to sign the
civil-service reform bill recently presented by
Senator Hoar.
The editor of the Virginia (Nev.) Enter
prise, being accused of being Briton, pleads
guilty. He declares in extenuatiou, how
ever, that he has "endeavored in his own
person to make ample atonement for that
terrible mistake of his early life"
The poet Whittier is feeble, and has of late
grown exceedingly deaf. He no longer lives
in the old family house at Amesbury, Massa-
chusetts, but at Danvers, in a large, square
This place is called Oak Knoll, and is hand
1 am told that Prince Leopold has been
appointed colonel in the army in order that
he may be married in becoming uniform,
as the peers robes or the Trinity House uni
form are hardly suitable for he occasion, and
for a prince to be married in plain clothes
would be an innovation which would hor-
lify the rigid purists of our court.-London
Truth.
William S. OBrien, who died in San Fran
cisco several years ago, left the properties Of
his immense estate in such a mixed condi-
ton that his executors have Just filed their
final account. The value OF the estate is
SO, 653, 1867, and the executors commissions
amount to S426, 254. OF the amount yet TO
be distributed among the heirs, Mrs. Maria
Coleman, OBrien's sister, will receive ST.
600, 900 and Mrs. Kate MacDonough, another
sister, S3.276,000.
4 meek-faced, plausible young man copied
ont of the directory the names and addresses
of all the pastors in Hannibal, Missouri, and
began a round of calls at their houses, with
Z stor, that he was theological student in
distress He was careisi 10 belong 10 the
SAME denomination Is the particular minis
ter ne was n the time visiting. and his talk
w2s exceedingly deceptive. lie vent 10 three
parsousgss on the trst day, getting a meal
and sone money 1T each. In the evening,
however, one of his helpers overheard him
telling his lie to a fourth clergyman and had
him arrested.