Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-10
PERSONAL.

Lambert Hollis is the designer of the care
| on which the Longfellow oalendar for 1888 ii
mounted, and Miss Marie Bigelow of thai
which is used for the Emerson calendar.
The richest man in Mexico is an Irishmar
named Patricio Milmo, who owns 100000
acre farm, and is reputed 10 be worth $10,-
100000. When he went to Mexico he had
not dollar, but he got his start by for
tunate marriage.
Dion Boucicault, the English Irish-Amer-
lean actor and author, says of Egypt: Egypt
was fatal to Assyria; to the Hebrews; to ST.
George, who was hung for looting, and 10
Napoleon. It is the graveyard of the world,
and England has gone there to steal lot
for quiet family vault."
General Robert Toomts, of Georgia, ac-
cording to an Atlanta letter, has greatly
changed recently in his physical condition.
His eyesight has nearly failed him, and his
once full face has grown thin and wrinkled
II is predicted that his long and brilliant
career, with all its successes and failures,
will soon come 30 an end.
The late N. P. Willis, in his newspaper,
the Home Journal, during 1852, made known
to American readers q poem entitled ''The
Maid of Galloway" and praised it some
what e1travagantly. Its author, J lanes Muir
ray, has recently died, in his eightieth year.
was called 'the blind poet OF Galloway"
NJ. H. Rosenfeld, the composer of tssee
that My Grave is Kept Qreen,s VINO was re-
Gently sentenced to TWO years imprisonment
In the Northern penitentiary of Indiana, for
passing fraudulent post money order,
ls making an effort to secure pardon. Mr.
Rose1ield is understood to be com posing an
other song which he will call "See that the
zsbra's Turned Loose"
The late Captain Lemuel Gray, a victim
of the steamer Gold Dust disaster, was an old
and intim ate friend Of Mark Twain. When
Learning the river" and fitting himself for
the position of pilot, Captain Gray met the
humorist, at that time turning
the wheel, and the two became warm per-
sonal friends, the attachment continuing I'M
til Captain Gray's death.
The death is announced at Liverpool of
Jones, a veteran Radical, who was
as Chartist agitator with Fear
gus O'Connor, as afterwards an Industrial |
politician and lately as president of the |
National League, and whose |
notoriety long ago extended to this country
He was popular orator with notable natu- |
raj gifts, although without cultivation.
The car still intends, apparently, to be |
crowned in the ancient Moscovite capital |
next month. Active preparations for the |
svent continuei numerous dispatches in |
cipher are constantly passing between Count |
Iolstoi and the governor of Moscow; and. /
most significant of all, upon that city are |
detectives, police and regiments
II soldiers from all quarters OF the empire.
Exchange: "Pa, what is a pessimist. and
THAT is an optimist?" "a pessimist, my
on, is one who takes the surplus kittens,
ust after they are born, and chloroforms
hem. The optomist is one who lets |
he kittens grow up, TO live wretched, stsrv-
1g life; to be tortured continually Dy boys
nd other thoughtless animals, and be finally
lied with brickbats and left to ROT on the
reefs"
Joseph Henry Allen, lecturer on eeclesias-
cal history in Harvard University, has a
olume in preparation entitled Our Lib
al Movement IN Theology as Siogn in
eeoleetiens Of the History J Unitarianism
Neg England, and as this is the first
atement of the Causes and ways by which
greatly changed it is expected to be very
teresting. Chapters are given to Chan
ing, Parker, the Gospel of Liberalism"
In communication to current number !
the Critic John II. Treadwell urges that !
e remains of the author of "Home, Sweet /
ONE" be removed from Tunis. Accom- !
lnying the article OF Mr.. Treadwell is | 1
tier written by Payne while at Washing | 1
q, in March, 1851, 10 the Hon c. CLARK, a
which he says: "Surely there is some \
ing strange in the fact that it should have o
en- my lot to cause 80 many people in the
rid TO boast OF the delights of home, when
lever had home OF my own, and never
pect TO have one now, especially since
'se here at Washington, who possess the q
yer, seem so reluctant to ALLOW me the | SC
ana of earning oneH III