Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-20
WHEN HE DISAPPEARED
ABOUT HOME FOLKS.

II is estimated that in The last twelve
years upward of $4,000, 900 have been given
by private individuals in the United States
to the cause of education.
George Bancroft, the historian, is ex-
pected to preside at the centennial celebra-
tion of tine founding of the Exeter, n. a.,
Academy, next June. DR.. S'ebbins, of San
Francisco, will deliver the address.
Fonr hundred Scandinavians sailed from
New York, on Saturday week, in order to
spend the Christm as holidays amid old-time
surroundings. They comprise members of
a club who are pledged TO visit their various
homes annually at this time.
An American physician shows, by life in
sursnce company statistics, that Americans
are not killing themselves by oyerWork, as
Herbert Spencer says, but have on the aver
age rather longer outlook in life than peo-
pie have in Germany, France and England.
Blaine is unspeakably grieved that the
statue of Admiral Dupont is to be placed in
the square in front of his elegant new house.
He wanted the place reserved for the statue
of Garfield or his secretary of state. But
somehow Blaine has lost his grip OF the po-
litical situation.
Sergt. Ballantiue is very much pleased by
what he saw of the New York courts. They
are not SO very different from the Euglish
courts where the rules of procedure have
been made less formal of late years. He
thinks our practice of electing judges for
term of years instead of for life bad one.
Pope is now msjor-general in the regu-
lar army, and Porter, who suffered in ohio
guy, an alien TO his own country for twenty
years, solely by reason OF Pope's Incom-
potency. falsehood and malignity, is still
unheeded in his demand for the common
justice that should be the jewel of the re-
public.
Ex-Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, is improv-
ing in health, although very slowly, and is
now strong enough 10 leave his bed the
greater part of the day. The wound on his
foot has healed entirely, but one of the toes
continues effected. Mr.. Hendricks has almost
Withdrawn from participation in political
movements.
No material change has occurred during
the past week in the condition of the Hon.
Lot NJ. Morrill,, of Augusta, Me. He eats a
small amount OF food daily, apparently with
a relish, but he is so weak IS scarcely TO be
able to sit up, and his frame is much enact
ated. His friends entertain only the slightest
hopes of his recovery.
When Joshua Hill, of Georgia, was in the
United States Senate he bought for $1,000 an
old field lying on the suburbs of Washington,
holding it as an investment for his children.
The British minister built fine residence in
that neighborhood, making it fashionable
district, and Mr.. Hills purchase is now
worth about $250,000.
Robert Morris, ar, the well-known colored
lawyer, of Boston, died last week. He was
prominently identified with the early abo-
litionisis, and in 1851 was arrested Tor al
legged completely in the rescue of the slave
Shadrach. He was the first colored man ad-
United 10 the Massachusetts bar, and had
large and lucrative practice.
w. III. Glider, the Herald correspondent
who crossed Siberia in sledges to carry the
news of the burning Of the Rodgers, arrived
in New York on Wednesday. He doesn't
look as though he had undergone some of
The severesi hardships that ever befell man.
He says, however, that he is not very well
that the horse he ate on the journey had not
been well fed, and didn't agree with him.
Wilhelm Steineiz, the famous chess
player, in Philadelphia, last week played
iour games simultaneously, being blind
folded meanwhile. Next week he will go 10
Baltimore for a series of games and then to
New Orleans. He does not wish to leave
this country until he has played thirty
games simultaneously, but as yet no club has
been able TO muster that number of players
TO meet him.
P. T. Barnum was liberated from the Dan
bury Conn Jail fifty years ago, and the
other day the semi-centennial of the occur
renee WIS duly celebrated at Bridgeport.
His Imprisonment was for an alleged libel,
published in local newspaper. At the
celebration Mr.. Barnum delivered an adj
dress on "The Freedom of the Press" speak
ing in the same courthouse where he had re-
ceiyed his sentence.
Mr.. John 3. Cough has recovered his
health, and is now lecturing nearly every
in Ohio, and he lectured in the great Music
Hall, Cincinnati, Monday evening. Mr..
Cough is now in the sixty-fifth year of his
life and the forty-frst of his career as a
lecturer. 1t is estimated that he has travelled
445 600 miles and delivered $3.50 lectures 10
no less than S,5O0,00O persons.
In 1869 the late Senator Carpenter pre-
dicted that not many years would elapse be-
lore there would be ''practically but one tel
egrsph company in The United States" and
that railway consolidation il allowed 10 go
on unchecked, might sooner or later result
in such q combination that few magnates
could "sit in Wall street with closed doors,
and, by The light OF a candle, direct the
whole carrying trade OF this continent" He
was thoroughly ridiculed for this prophecy.
The complete poems of Paul 81. Hayne
The poet of the South, have Just been issued
from the press of d. Lothrop & Co., of Bos-
lon. 1t is published in several elegant styles
Of binding, richly embellished with many
choice engravings, making a volume Of rare
value. 1t is sold only by subscription.
Agents are desired in every city and town
in the Southern States. Any one desiring
10 be of service to the poet should send
their subscription or application for an
agency to the publishers.
Congressman Hewitt says he wants to show
that none of our vessels are capable oil sail
ing Sc ven or eight knots sn hour, and, more
hi an that, will prove that United States ships
Of war are confirm ally being run aground or
colliding with vessels Of every description IN
and out of port. That, while We have no
decent navy, our naval officers are practi-
cally incapable of managing their ships, and
hat we need sailors and navigators in the
navy Hquite as much as ships of war" This
is one Of the easies: jobs a Congressman ever
undertook.
THE day after my arrival at Victoria"
says Hannibal Hamlin, 81 went TO shoe
makers to get some repairs done to my
boots. There was nobody in the shop; the
master was on the opposite side OF the street
smoking his cigarette. His shoulders were
covered with a mantle full of holes, and he
looked like a beggar, bat a Spanish beggar,
appearing rather proud than ashamed OF his
He came over 20 see me and l ex-
plsined my business. wait a moment, said
he, aud Immediately called his wife. How
mneh monev Ia there iu the purse? Twelve