Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-09
Personal MENTION.

"Chester, the Procrastinator," is the name
| that Washington politicians give to the Pres
| ident.
Senator Hawley voted against Mr.. Conk-
ling, who on one occasion called him 'cot-
toner"
Mr.. Gladstone offered Mr.. W. Chambers,
! of Chambers's Journal, knigh hood, but he de-
| clined.
| Eleven English clergymen recently exhib-
| tied their pets at a dog show, and many
clergymen were among the spectators.
The Grand Duke Constantine is reported
| to have said that General .SkobelOtf7s recent
speech "proved that man might be hero on
the battlefield and lunatic in politics"
| Mr.. Conkling will say nothing, except to
remark, with gloomy grandeur, and in tones
OF distant thunder, pass the butter."-Cin-
/ cinRdti Commercial.
| been fined $40 for beating his wife, and one
cent for driving his mother-in-law out Of his
house "by force of guns"
Among the rejected candidates for the Of
fee of chief constable for Birmingham, in
the place of Major Bond, at a salary of 800
a year, was Lord St. Leonards, grandson OF
the famous Lawyer Suaden.
The Hon. David A. Wells has written a
letter to Senator Vance, of North Carolina,
CONCENTRATING
tariff. He thinks it the best and clearest
speech on the subject ever made in this
country.
Archdeacon Allen wants the convocation
of Canterbury to appoint a committee to
mark passages in the revised New Testament
which are clearer than they are found in the
authorized version, to the end that they may
be read in churches
Mr.. G.. A. Sala sometimes speaks Of him
self a man no longer young. But he is only
ffty-four and can hardly he called an old
man. The book by which he is hest known
is probably Breakfast in Bed, which created
quite sensation twenty years ago.
Mr.. ]. T. Sweat publishes frank card in
IA South Carolina paper, reading: Ladies
and gentlemen of Hampton county: Allow
me most respectfully to inform you that |
am a candidate for school commissioner of
his county for the next term. Help! help!
help!"
The HARNESSES, of Maine, claim that they
are descended from Deacon Samuel Haines,
who came from London, England, in 1855,
was shipwrecked off Pemaquid, Me-, aud
swan ashore, bearing with him copy of the
bible, which is still preserved by Andrew NJ.
Haines, of Galena, Ill.
Scoville says he will withdraw from the
case of Guitesu soon he completes the
record and files the bill of exceptions. He
believed that Mr.. Reed would also withdraw,
and that John w. Guiteau and the prisoner
were trying to secure the services of General
B. F. Butler to argue the bill.
Bishop Ryle, of England, says that much
of the christianity of today is ''ielly-fsh re-
ligion," of which the basis is, as far as it has
any, "no dogma, no distinctive tenet, 70
positive doctrine" He holds that, both in
the Church of England and out of it, there
hnn pIa nj iSta HUhn n
single bone in their "body of divinity"
Vennor, Tice, Devoe and the minor proph-
cts are ludicrously astray in their predictions
for the opening days of March. Snow or
sleet and very bleak weather at Washington,
was one of the representations Of the Cana
dian seer; sit will roar like a lion in the be-
ginning" quoth the New Jersey sooth-sayer;
comparatively cooler days about the 80"
was the divination from st. Louis.
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,, is man
with respectable white side-whiskers. His
style is lucid, smooth and classical. 1t is
entirely without color or warmth, and when
he becomes impulsive he is simply bitter,
incisive and intensely cold, and his declama-
ton ia like small hail-storm. Senator Hoar
has an idea that in being classical of style
he is without faults. He is as cool as iced
vinegar.
One of the most picturesque groups at the
recent Garfield memorial services in Wash
ington was that OF the Chinese minister and
three of his suite, who sat in decorous quiet
during all the proceedings, the chief man
DARN looking as wisely and intently through
his large bowed spectacles as if he under
stood every word uttered. Their skirts of
ultra marine satin were covered halfway
with loose and thickly wadded coats, or
blouses, of plum-colored satin with blue vel
vet collars, and on each red-topped turban
was the symbolical button denoting their
rank.