Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-19
Personal MENTION.

Ut. LEWIS, CulCoSO OppOlcAA VI fdSSAhH-
ton, has died Of smallpox.
Mark Twain is talking up copyright mat
tiers 10 congressman in Washington.
General JubaI \. Ea4Iy has, after nearly
half century's absence, visited the Virginia
schoolhouse of his boyhood.
Ex-President r. 3. Hayes has become one
of the incorporators of a savings bank, at
Fremont, o. He ought to be well up in the
business.
Triplet sons fiity-two years old, and a
father ll6 years old, are the boast OF Robert
A Wright, mill hand seventy one years
old, living in Santa Rosa county, Fla.
Prince Prisdsng, OF Siam, who is to visit
this country soon, is well versed in European
manners, speaks English and French fluent
", and is said to have decided taste for
literature and art.
Sydney Smith on intemperance: SAC
cordipg to my computation, have eaten
and drunk between my tenth and SEVENTEEN
year forty four-horse wagon loads more than
was good for me-
1t is proposed to erect in the central hall
OF the new Cotton Exchange in New Orleans
a statue of Eli Whitney, inventor OF the cot
ton-gin, mounted on a pedestal of granite
from Massachusetts, Whitney's native State.
The earl OF Dunraven has arrived in Eng
land after having been killed half dozen
times by telegraph dispatches. Lord Dun
raven is a frequent visitor to Colorado, where
he and other nobIemen have purchased ex-
tensive tracts Of land.
There is a good deal OF difference between
English and American politics. In England
the people choose Mr.. Bradlaugh and parlia-
ment rejects him. In America the people
repudiate Mr.. Conkling and the Senate con-
firms him.-AHdnta Constitution.
Governor Cameron, Of Virginia, thinks
that the gubernatorial chair is not very
great elevation Tor a man who has been editor
of au influential newspaper, and in the capt.
tol he retains the simple and affeble manners
which he formerly cultivated in the Journal
istic sanctum.
Major General Ramsey, OF the United States
army, retired, who recently celebrated in
Washington the eightieth anniversary of his
birthday, was, il is said, the first child vac
cinated in the United States north OF the
Potomac. The virus for his arm was sent
from London by DIR. Jenner himself.
Vereschagin, the Russian painter, is said
to have asked Skobeleff, of whom he is an
intimate friend, what he meant by making
such imprudent and incendary speeches.
"My dear fellow" was Skobelef's reply, "we
are in terrible condition at home, and there
is no way out of it except by foreign war"
fine marble bust of the late Rev. DR..
Jeter, the eminent Southern Baptist divine,
has Just been finished, and will be placed in
Jeter Memorial hall, Richmond College, Nir-
glnia. The sculptor, Mr.. Valentine, is now
at work on a statue OF John G. Breckenridge,
which is to be cast in bronze, eight feet in
hight, for the Breckenridge Association, Of
Lexington, Ky.
Dean StaHley's successor appears to sym
pathiZ5 with Won o1Utrke-s ttTrory tho s.rrer
is an element in the order of world ordained
by God, for in it the noblest virtues OF man
kind are developed" He said in a recent
sermon at Westminster that he was deeply
interested in war, because it has done SO
much to develop human character" Dean
Bradley, by the way, has himself gone
through regular course OF military drill
and discipline.
The Paris Figaro says of Skobeleff: This
general has not changed during the past four
years He is now thirty-seven, or there
abouts. He is very tall-so tall that in cam
paigning time he cannot stand upright in
his tent. His face is exceedingly intelligent,
his eyes blue and keen and quick, his fore
head dull, and his beard brightly blonde; at
the very first glance his person reveals the
energetic and loyal soldier, ready TO dare all
and sacrifice everything"
The conversion of General Abe Buford
during the recent religious revival in Louis
vile, KY, caused a great deal of surprise
throughout that region. Another notable
convert was Warren Wiley. Between Buford
and Wiley there had long been bitter feud,
and they never met without arousing ex-
pectations of bleodshed. They came to-
gether few days ago. The spectators felt
that severe test of their professions of a
change OF heart was to be made. The two
men shook hands cordially, and took drink
together.
Tie Troy Times, OF Thursday, relates the
following spook yarn: "a prominent Troy
physician had patient, up to a recent pc
riod, in an adjoining village. Ooe night,
not long since, the doctor was awakened by
the voice of this patient calling to him
loudly, apparently from his front door. The
doctor, recognizing the voice very plainly,
hastened to dress and hurried to his office
door. When he opened it no one was to be
seen. On The following day he received in
formation that his patient had died at, or
very nearly at, the hour that the docto
heard the voice calling him"
Pope Leo NH continues to observe, as
sovereign pontiff, the austere habits Tor
which he was distinguished while ii the
lower orders Of the church. He invariably
rises at o'clock in the morning, and at
once says mass in his private chapel. Soon
after he attends second mass, said by the
almoner on duty, and then eats a light
breakfast. The remainder Of the morning
he spends in reading the papers, comforting
with Cardinal Jacobini, secretary OF state,
and giving audience to official visitors. At
noon he takes exercise in the Vatican gar
dens, returning to dine al , o'clock. Alter
dinner he retires to his private rooms to
work and pray. An hour before evening
prayers he takes short nap, and then a
walk through the halls. Al o'clock he
sun, .pI | ratiras to he'll