Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-01
Personal MENTION.

Governor Long, of Massachusetts, is a poet
A son OF Brigham Young, who graduated
in high standing at West Point, is tutor
| there.
Samuel Coleman, the artist, intends to live
hereafter at Newport He has Just paid
$4,000 for building site there.
| Edwin Booth, it is known, never does a
kind thing by halves. He has Just sent a
| check for $1,000 to the mother OF the late
Samuel Percy.
General Sherman says he will be sixty-two
years of age on the 9th of February, but that
there is no law for retiring the general or
| lieutenant general of the army, as their
respective ranks retire with themselves.
The census-office clerks at Washington
have forwarded to General Walker, their late
| superintendent, splendid gold watch, chain
and seal appreciation of their kind
| feeling toward him. The beautiful present
| cost nearly 500.
Mr.. Calvin Fletcher the commissioner of
fisheries for Indiana, says that ten years
hence there will be $4,000 carp ponds in that
State. The rage for carp ponds is great in
the Southern States, success in recent exper-
iments having come quickly.
An autograph letter OF George Washing
toms, taking strong ground against slavery in
this country, and expressing a fervent hope
that it would soon be blotted out, is said TO
have been found among the papers of the
late E. w. Stoughton. With it were other
original and unpublished letters of Wash
ington.
An ex-S.ate senator of Colorado, while
recently in New York, rode up to Central
park to see the obelisk. He Immediately
understood why the government brought it
here. He said it showed that the Egyptians
had recorded on it the fact that they used
the same kind OF cattle marks that are en-
ployed by the Mexicans.
Mr.. W. W. Story's new statue of Orestes
represents the beautiful youth clinging to
Apollo's altar with his right hand and with
his left lifted to repel the Furies. The 1.-THE
body is said to be magnificent, the face fine
but full of horror. Mr.. Story at sixty is as
vigorous, as handsome and energetic as most
men at thirty-6ve.
General Hancock is as regular as a clock
in his habits. Every afternoon at the same
hour he takes a nap of certain length
This is supplemented by walk around the
island, and the young officer on duty as
officer OF the day is sure to keep a sharp
lookout and see that the men are all sta
toned to their duties when "the General"
makes his rounds.
A Wisconsin farmer has been put under
bonds to keep the peace on account OF his
attempts to mutilate an old lady whom he
OCiiC'So " NC a WHICH, lie dNeIb IN QeleQse
that she has bewitched his cattle, and has
repeatedly entered his domicile through the
chimney, the keyhole, and other inconvenient
and inappropriate apertures, contrary to his
wish and 10 his great terror and distress.
Sir Edward Thornton is practicing in St.
Petersburg some of the pleasant arts he
learned in Washington. He gave a brilliant
reception short time ago, at which his distin-
guished guests were much delighted by the
peculiar iced drinks served TO them. Huge
blocks of Neva ice were placed on the buffet
extending along one side of the'dining-room,
and champagne and claret were ladled from
the center Of them.
The lace ruffles which Acknowledgement
Brewster wears at his writs set off a remark
ably handsome pair of hands-hands which
are IN strange contrast TO the painfully |
SCARED face. These are honorable scars he |
wears, since they were got when he was a |
child in saving the life of his little sister. |
Her apron caught fire on the nursery hearth, |
and the boy, hardly more than s. baby HIM
sell, rushed at her and pressed out the fire, |
saving her at a fearful cost to himself.