Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-10
Personal MENTION.
Bismarck has sciatica.


The late Mr.. Edwin w. Stoughton, of New
York, left $4,000 to his coachman.
Vertigo is the illness which now aflicts
Mr.. Longfellow and prevents him from work.
ing.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis, long since blind in
| one eye, has now nearly lost the sight of the
other.
DR.. Paul \. Chadbourne has been elected
| president OF Amherst College, and he has
accepted.
Mr.. Battell, who built the Battell chapel
at Yale College, is about to present ii with a
chime of bells.
General Lowry, the newly-elected governor
! of Mississippi, has seven daughters, i've of
whom are married. All were present at the
governors ball the other evening.
Mr.. Hendricks recently said to reporter ::
81 have done with politics forever ! am now
devoted TO my profession, and shall never
| more. under any circumstances, be candi-
date for Office"
Mr.. and Mrs. Spurgeon devoted the $780,
| 600 presented to them at the recent anniver-
sary of their wedding TO the endowment of
an orphanage for girls. They had already
established one for boys.
The latest craze among the young mascu-
line idiots in Massachusetts is for the collec-
ton of hairpins from young ladies. These
SlllCuSu 1uIO duu IudTkeu Win
the names of the former owners.
Charles Dickens, IT,, is an unromantic
young man, who devotes himself to the more
lucrative forms OF publishing, such as guide
books, etc. He has just issued the Cont
mental A B C Ruiticay Guide for the use OF
American and English travellers.
Clarkson n. Potter left $4,000 to his
wife, beside the residence in New York;
S125,000 to each of his two daughters, and
to his three sons 100000 apiece and his
house and grounds at New Rochelle. The
whole estate is valued at 81 100000.
A certain well-known minister being asked
what he thought of Mr.. Harrison, the "boy
preacher" said: 81 went to hear HIM once,
and the only text of Scripture 1 could think
of that seemed applicable to his case was
that The Lord hath chosen the foolish
things OF this world to confound the WISE"
Copies Of the London Times of last Monday
are selling at the rate of 81 each. in that
issue there was report Of speech by Sir |
William Harcourt, the home secretary, in !
which "hideously indecent expression" was |
interpolated. The Times has apologized and |
discharged twenty compositors and proof |
readers.
Mr.. John w. Garrett has presented por- |
trait of George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, |
to the State of Maryland, and the picture |
has been received at Annapolis. The can
vass is sixty-two by forty-two inches. The
portrait was copied by Mr.. J. A. VintoD, of |
London, from a painting of Mytens. The
gift cost $1,000.
Hon. Joseph E. Brown has written a let
ter in which he denies positively that he has
applied to President Arthur to control the
patronage of Georgia, or that he desires to
lead or join the new movement in Georgia,
Senator Brown declares that an overwhelming
majority of the Democratic party, at pres
ent organized, is on the progressive line.
The late Bernal Osborne was of Israelite
blood, and the Jewish Chronicle relates the
anecdote of him: "Once when he
was dining with Sir Anthony Rothschild, his
host asked him to try long-preserved vint-
age OF Clos Vougeot. Mr.. Osborne at once
accepted the invitation, adding that he and
his host ought to be good judges of old clo.' "
The advocates in England of the legitima-
ion OF marriages with deceased wife's sis
er have lost powerful ally by the death of
Mr.. Sykes Thornton, who, it is said, spent
little short of a million sterling during his
life for the cause, and married his wifes sis
er, too. He didn't want to change his {
The Chinese professor at Harvard College
las three students under his charge the
present term, one a member of the Junior |
lass of the college, the other two being out I
iders. One years hard study, the professor
avs, is enough to enable a beginner to under
tand the language and to speak it with
ONE facility, and in three years he can talk
readily. The study consists almost entirely
f memorizing, there being, instead of COM {
inations OF few letters, as in most lam I
uages, a separate character for each word.
Rev. DR.. Bellows was twice married, his
rst wife being a daughter of ElihH Town
end, of the old firm of Nevins & Townsend,
ankers, in New York. His children by the
rst marriage are Rev. Russell y. Bellows, a
Unitarian clergyman, who was lately in 7.
barge of Unity chapel, at Harlem, and /;
augbter. Miss Anna Bellows For his sec
nd wife DR.. Bellows married a daughter of
be late Ephraim Peabody, of Kings chapel,
Ioston, who survives him, with three young
Whitney, Robert Peabody s
nd Ellen Derby Bellows.