Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-26
PERSONALS.


1t is remarked that the late Lord Ions
dale, with Lords Winchilsea, Aylesford,
Courtenay, and in fact nearly all the disrep--
utable and bankrupt English pers, are OF
the tory party.
According TO the statistics of the census
bureau, OF the 5000O,00 population OF this
country there are about 100000 dependent
persons, Of whom 10000 are insane, 5000
idiotic, $4,000 blind, $4,000 deaf and dumb,
and 100000 paupers and prisoners.
According to "Gath" the Hon. VIM. f.
Niblack els looking up as the Democratic
candidate for governor of Indiana, and II the
other old chaps there don't look out he will
be elected and stand we'll among Presidential
candidates, for there is great deal OF him
in sober sense and experience"
The salaries of the New York preachers
are being raised all along the line. The Rev.
Mr.. Taylor il to get $4,000 year, and the
Rev DIR. Dix is 10 be increased from Sl2,OOO
to $4,000. DIR. Hall gets $4,000 which is
to be bettered. DR.. Paxton gets So, 900; Dr.
Macarthur 500 The Rev. Messrs. Bridg-
man and Armitage get $4,000.
The friendship of Keats has thrown such
a glamour over the name OF Joseph Severn,
the painter, whose memorial monument Mr..
T 4 Trollope unveiled at Rome recently,
that the fact of the painter having been one
of a clever band of brothers has been over
looked. Thomas Severn, the musical COM
poser was the author OF the air, we Met,
Twas in Crowd" and Go. Happy Rose"
Charles Severn was, and perhaps Is, one oil
the Royal Italian OPP ra band.
OF the bishops Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church three are on the list OF sick and dis
abled. Bishop Scott il in such failing con-
dition at his home in Odessa, Del, that his
death is expected. He is more than eighty
years of age. He is almost blind, and is
helpless, owing to paralysis. Bishop Peck
is recovering from a severe and prolonged
attack of illness, and is beginning to be able
to sit up in bed. Bishop Bowman was re-
Gently Frustrated by vertigo while preaching
at st. Louis. He is now suffering with chills
and fever.
Cardinal Newman attained his eghty-hrst
birthday on the Dist ult. On this day, which
is the feast-dsy of the relics in the Church
of the Oratory at Edgbaston, and is great
day with the members OF the orders, nigh
mass was sung by the venerable cardinal,
who appeared to be in remarkably good
health, and who, after his unwonted efforts,
was NOT much fatIgued. The service vas at
8 am, and the church was densely crowded.
1t was the first time that DIR. Newman had
sung high mass since he was elevated to the
office of cardinal.
Miss Cary's first lyric triumphs were
achieved before her delighted neighbors on
the verandah Of her fathers house in the
village Of Wayne, in Maine. She was the
Youngest Of DR.. Csry's six children, all OF
whom were gifted musicslly. The Doctor
used to say Of his young daughter: III
Annie could so far forget herself as 10 &C
duire the necessary ease and abandon when
facing an audience, / think fhe would sing
very we'll" When che began her profes-
=ional career Miss Cary was grievously nerv-
Gus and constrained.
A friend of General Butler makes the an
nouuc, ment in the Boston Herald that he
| will not be candidate Tor governor IN case
the Republicans nominate Pierce or Crapo,
| but that he is ready 10 enter the field with
Speaker Noyes az his opponent, and organ
| jze the Democratic party az 1t has never been
| organized in the Bay State before. The
reason why he has greater hopes of SUCCESS
| with Noyes az his Antagonist II based on ths
| opposition OF the anti-prohibitiOn. and anti
| woman-suffrage element in the Republican
! party 10 that gentleman.
| A New Haven man has taken ont patent
| for an invention OF his which he claims Sc
! cures the absolute storage OF electricity Tor
| electric lighting purposes. He says that by
! his continuance the electrical force becomes
/ az portable a. kerOst ne oil, and the perIls TO
/ life and property incident 70 a current pro
| duced by dynamo machine are entirely OF
! waited He also says that TO secure this
| electrical force primarily his invention con-
! templates the utilizing Of the rising and isll-
I ing Of the tides along the seacOast, the winds
| in the interior, and the moving Of trains and
steamboats, when il il desired to light them
| with electrical illuminators.
Wv. Story's statue Of Prof. Henry il
/ being cast in bronze, and is expected in
/ Washington early next summer, when it will
be placed in the Smitbsopisn grounds. The
| sculptor has been paid three irsialments Of
$3.50 each. He modelled the face after cast
Of Prot Henry's face, and bust executed
| by Clark Mill, and he Was furnished with
| an academic gown belonging to DIR. Mclean,
O.. Princeton similar TO the one which Prof
Henry used to wear when member OF the
| faculty OF Princeton College. The die ef the
polished .; Quincy, Msss., stsnding on a
pedestal Of Quincy granite. The cost Of this
pedestsI, boxed and delivered, will be S9S2
! bitter living satire on Repub' lean prac.
tees and professions has come TO light il
New York city. There was a vacancy in the
central committee. The executive committee
voted to call a caucus for the nOmiu ation OF
a candidate to be voted for al the primaries
When the primary assembled il elected-oI
/ all men in the city-"Josh" Hart, ex- Niger
| minstrel" and the publisher OF the Morey
Chinese letter which 20 nearly ruined Gar
field. Mr.. Hart Is q very rich man, but hi
election is p'rty Standardization. In thi
connection it may be stated also that StepheI
w. Dorsey, ex -carpetbsg senator and in
diced Star-route thief, J. stil secretary @
| the Republican National Committee.
. 1t il suspected, from the remarkable init
. macy Of the prince OF Wales with the indI
vidual members OF a great London fnancIa
family, that bis royal kighness has fount
, HE large income insufficient for the demand
Of his position, and has been grsciousl.
. pleased to accept some financial accommo
70 daiion on the strength Of his prospects.
E post-obit in such case would certainly be
4 violation Of all the proprieties Of royal ct
+ quetie, il not distinctly REASONABLE; and pel
r haps, after ali, there Is nothing bat pure
{ disinierested friendship in this thing Of n
0 prince standing as godfather for all tn
Y Young scions OF the EOthrchild family. Tn
? earl OF Rosebery's son and heir, who's
mother was Mis- Hannah Rothschild, W;
christsned with the assistance" OF the prime
and it ia now announced that the nel
time he acts a godfather will be in behalf {
the very lately born son Of Mr.. LeopOl
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