Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-28
PERSONAL.

The president of the United States of Co
lombis, Senior Zaldua, died at Baga last
Friday. The vice-prssident has assumed the
presidency.
THE Atieneum has sn appreciative notice
of the death of Henry James, describing him
as an able theologian, a finished writer, a
master of a style of rare simplicity and
beauty, and unique thinker.
A GREAT lawyer cannot afford to give up
a fine practice for the sake of sitting on the
bench, nor can preacher TO gain bishopriC
give up place that will yie'd him twice as
much salary. The Lord is not calling that
way.
CARDINAL SANGUIGNI, seventy-three years
old, died suddenly in Rsme on the 18th ulti-
mo, while going out for a drive. He WISE
born in Terracina. He was titular of St.
Pudeuziana. He had been for many years
nuncio in Brazil.
A PROBABLE descendant of the man who,
according to Sydney Smith, stroked the dome
OF St. PauPs to please the dean and the chap
ter, and an undoubted admirer OF Michael
Davitt, has placed handsome diamond ring
upon the finger of that Irish patriots effigy
at Nine. Tussaud's.
Mr.. LABoUCHERE says in Truth that Gan
thony Trollope never made anything APP
preaching to 100000" and that the "most
highly remunerated and successful" author
of the nineteenth &c ntUry, taking into ac-
count the amount of work accomplished,
was certainly George Eliot"
THE RI. Rev Edward w. Benson, bishop Of
Truro, and prim ate-elect of England, is a
man of medium hight, robust, fair, with a
strong lined face, large chin, thin lips, and
sn air of mingled frmness, endurance and
mildness. 10 preaching he is forcible and
earnest, but makes no attempt at SNOWY
eloquence. In conversation he is fluent and
most cordial.
RAPID promotion has been the lot of the
new primate of England, for he has only
been bishop FIVE years. And whatever
may be the strength of his political convic-
tions, he is in favor with both parties, for he
has been a select preacher at both UNIVERSE
ties, and Mr.. Gladstone now promotes him
from the See to which he was appointed by
Lord Beaconsield.
On the day of Mr.. Gladstone's political
jubilee seventeen surviving electors of New
ark who had voted for him fifty years before
lunched together there in his and their own
honor. Mr.. Gladstone's defeated competitor
then was Mr.. Wilde, who subse quenlIy be-
came Lord Chancellor Truro. 1t does not
appear that any of the surviving electors
who voted for him were invited 10 the jubi-
lee lunch.
NJ. DE LEssEPs and his French sdUdns
seem determined either to drive or drown
Stanley and the BelgiaBs out of Africa. 1t
is announced by cable that the interchangeable
cutter OF the continents seriously means to
pour the Mediterranean into the Desert of
Sahara, and all the machinery of the repub-
lie is being set in motion to ratify NJ. de
Brszza's annex alton of The upper bank of
the Congo.
A SAN FRANCISCO tramp was accustomed
10 add TO his plea for aims, "Just little as
sistance until l hear from home, where have
money due me-" He was at length arrested
for vagrsncy. AS he stood before the bar for
sentence, an excited attorney rushed into the
courtroom with a telegraph check from Lon
don for $500 10 pay the man's fare back to
Eugland, where a email fortune of SIS, 900
awaited him.
ALFRED EsCHER, Just dead In Geneva at
the age of sixty-four, was from 1916 10 1880
one of the most influential statesmen in
Switzerland, and during much of that time
was the acknowledged head of the Liberal
party. To him, more than to any other man,
travellers owe the St. Gothard railway. He
was the author OF the scheme in 1860, and il
was only his enthusiasm and perseverance
that carried it through.
THE Washington Post says that "for sew
eral days an obstructed sewer leading from
the Metropolitan Hotel has been causing
many bad odors and much bad language 10
pervade the air of that hostelry. Yesterday
Mr.. James Nolan, the plumber, assisted by
three colored men, removed the Obstruction,
after excavating several barrels of accumu.
lated matter. Among the latter were found
by the laborers two silver watches, one gold
watch, gold ring aHd Two 500 gold piecep,
and the search was said TO have been by no
me ans thorough"
The appointment of the bishop of Truro
as archbishop of Canterbury has been re-
ceived with general satisfaction by all par
ties in the Church. The riiualists approve
because DR.. Benson's personal sympathies
are with the high church. Their opponents
approve because his views of his admins
irative duties as primate insure his being
practically a broad cburchman. Mr.. Glad
stone receives some app ause for magma
nimity in appointing Tory, but Mr.. Glad
stone cares far more for ecclesiastical than
political orthodoxy.
The immigration of Californian million
aires 10 New York is g notable feature in the
social life OF this country during the past
few years. Mr.. Keene led of; thea came
Mr.. D. o. Mills, and now Messrs Stanford
aud Croker have followed suit, and Mob
Hill is deserted This is not to be wondered
-
for it's size has made a power of noise in the
world, but, like its similarly created aurif-
sreus sister, Melbourne, it is scarcely the
place TO spend an iacome of g, 500,000
The Australian mzgnates, with very
rare exceptions, still go home"
Elk Gov HoRATIo SEYMOUR has lately
given 10 the Clinton collection OF manuscripts
in the State Library manuscript: deed of
and from "Georgs Washington aod George
Clinton, of the Citv OF New York, Esquires,"
to Nathaniel Griffin, OF Whitestown, Mont
yomery county. Ii bears date of July %,
1870. The land consisted of 3l6 acres, and
was sold for s631. 1t is now worth probably
nearly $4,000, being situated near the CRY
Of Utica. Not only is the deed signed by
the first president of the United States and
the first governor of New York, but it bears
he signatures, az witnesses, of their private
Tobias Lear and DEWITT Clinton,
thus clustering together four autographs of
unusual Interest on single sheet.
"THE one of them," writes the Hon.
George Bancroft of his parents, in his let |
Ter to the mayor of Worcester, Mass, offer
ing TO establish a scholarship in the trust
and gift of that city, was the most constant
and most consistent supporter of freedom of |
the right and the duty of free in |
1uiry- The right and the duty of private
Judgment, the paramount duty OF devoting
IIfe to The pursuit and support of truth; in |
All this nobody could excel him; it formed
an elementary part of his being. The other,
10 superior intellectual endowments united |
and bene~olence of heart; a
lively play of fancy; heroism that bore up
against adversely or trial; a kIndliness,
vivacity aud good-humor that great old age
souId not diminish. They lived togsiher IN |
marriage for more than filIy-two years. In |
heir last winter he had been declining, but |
he died somewhat suddenly before hin.
he followed her remains to The grave. Al |
or his return he spoke TO me Of her cheeringl
md infinitely pleasing ways in nursing him |
jnriug the winter, and never left his house /
,eaio mill ne was borne to be placed by her |
ide. | wish TO establish
cbolsrsbip. 10 be called the Aaron and Lu-
.retia Chandler Bancroft Scholarship"
a word 10 Mothers.
VI, will End Mira WinsloE's Soothing
-, =, 5nxaIuable friend 1t cures dysentery and
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