Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-23
Personal MENTION.

The iIl-health of Colonel I. w. Higginson
still causes his friends some anxiety.
Attorney-General Brewster contemplates
trip to Rome, where his sister resides.
Mr.. George Parsons Lothrop has returned
to Concord, and will spend the summer there.
A submerged city has been discovered in
Florida. The Digger Indians should bring
these things TO light.
Mr.. W. D. Howells, with his family, will
visit his father in Canada before sailing to
Europe. on the 22d of July.
Edmund Clarence Stedman is in Venice,
and when he isn't floating down the lasoons
he is hard at work with his pen.
There are some 125 newspapers in the
country edited by colored men. All of them
are weeklies except one, the Globe
Tom Mast, the famous caricaturist, ac-
compauied Garibaldi during the campaign
that united the two Sicilies to the crown OF
Italy.
Julian Hawthorne is to live hereafter in
New York, beginning his residence there
with the coming OF cool weather this
autumn.
President Arthur is going to follow Grants
footsteps, and pretty soon the administration
of affairs will be moved from Washington
TO Long Branch.
Mr.. Joseph L. Jayne, of Mississippi,
brother of Prof. Jayne, of the Gomez, was one
of the graduates at the Naval Academy at
Annapolis, on the 9th.
The New Orleans States says Oscar Wilde's
lecture in the Crescent City was coldly re-
ceived and the applause at its conclusion
was mingled with Kisses.
The Rev. Phillip Brooks preached his last
sermon in America for fifteen months, on
Sunday, in Trinity church, Boston. He will
sail for Europe this week.
Rear-Admiral Worden, the hero of the
Monitor, has been seriously i'll, but is now
convalescent, and is coming to-day TO Dutch
ess county, N. Y, for season of rest.
O.car Wilde left New Orleans for Texas
Saturday. Alter lecturing in the principal
cities and towns in Texas, he will 60 to Mo-
bile. He is doing beautiful job all over
the South.
The Duke of Hamilton ia evidently not
bankrupt. He has just purchased the West
burn estate, in North Lanarkshire, for &c.,
600, in order that he may work the minerals
under the property, of which he is the pro-
prietor.
General William S. Harvey, The eighty
two-year-old veteran OF the Black Hawk,
Seminole, Mexican and Sioux wars, is now
looking remarkably well and vigorous, and
his stately form is not yet bowed by the
weight of advancing years.
Mr.. Durant Da Ponte, the longtime brill
liant journalist of New Orleans, and now a
successful operator upon Caronde1et street.
will be married on Monday next, the 18th
instant. TO Miss Rosa Solomon, daughter oil
Mrs. E. Solomon, of New Orleans.
Mr.. Anthony Trollope, who has been much
out of health, is about starting on a tour
through Ireland to write novel descriptive
of Irish country life al the present time. Mr..
Trollope is we'll acquainted with Ulster, as
he was stationed at Belfast for many years
when he was in the postofice.
spa. am little sinner" "Yes, my son !;
we are all sinners" "And, papa, the Bible
SAYS the devil is the father of all sinners,
doesn't it?" ''Yes, dear, 1 believe it does"
'Then, papa, are you the devil?" His Off
springs logic was too much for him, and he
slipped out OF the room without answering
Yonkers Gazette.
The jacksonville (Fla) Union says: "The
travel to the bar is increasing daily, and
several of the cottages are being fitted up
for occupancy" This travel to the bar can
not be of any permanent benefit to town.
1t cripples the consumer in the course OF
time.-Nenl Orleans Peayune.
DIR. Summers, of Nashville, Tenn, assisted
by DR.. Duncan Eve and several other we'll
known physicians of that city, recently per-
formed the delicate operation of trephiulng
upon young epieptic patient from Overton
county, Tenn. There were no unfavorabte
indications, and the patient is doing WE'LL
Baltimore American: "You know the trou-
bic in Egypt originated from remark
BY Arab Bey to Khedive Tewix to the
effect that he wanted Tewtixs to get up a
new cabinet. The khedive promptly pounded
Arab over the head with a Milwaukee
beer-bottle he happened to have in his hand,
and so it began"
Oliver Hazard Perry, grandson of the re-
nowned naval hero of Lake Erie, and a young
man of great intelligence and executive
ability, has been appointed agent OF the
Middlesex Mills, at Lowell, Mass. Mr.. Perry
has been superintendent of the manufactur-
ing department of the corporation for the
past eight years.
King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Islands,
has lately had his palace thoroughly cleaned
and kalsomined, and is about to put entirely
new furniture into the front parlor and the
second-story front bedroom-the one in which
his majesty usually sleeps. He has sent to
Boston for his furniture, and among the other
articles ordered by him are two thrones.
Commissioner Fink's refusal to become a
railroad president is thus rhymed in the
Modern Ar9o:
HE might have been a railroad president,
And have bOssed the L. and N;
But in spite of all temptations.
And the L and y. S persuasions.
He remains the Trnnk-line's man"
Field Marshal Sir William Comm, who
died three years ago, and whose journals
have lately been published, was gszetted an
ensign at ten, and at fourteen received his
''ba ptism of fire" with his regiment in Hol-
land in a bloody engagement, lasting thirteen
hours, when half OF Gomm's battalion was
lost The boy slept after it for thirty zone
hours. He lived to be over ninety.
Tho venerable Peter Cooper, of New York,
now ninety-one years of age, never wearies
of doing something for the benefit of his fell
| low-men. He has now opened permanent
exposition of inventions at the Cooper 1psti-
| tute, 10 that city, for developing an interest
| in mechanical inventions. The plan is 10
| bring together into one building a number
of patented articles for exhibition and sale.
| There are about 1000 square feet OF flooring
devoted to the exhibition, and ii Is already
self-sustaining.
| belonging to the lowest grade of French
society, has not the personal bearing OF q
| great ruler. He is short, dspper, undignihed,
and has little magnetism or enthusiasm In
his disposition. The secret OF his success
| lies in his GOODNESS and courage, his habit OF
working while his rivals are talking, and his
clean, honest record. His wife was, some
years before he married her, employed by
/ yet been Recognized by society'-that Is, by
the society OF nobility"-in Paris.
THE most reliable stimulsnt for the growth
of infants and children, and the one mos. gentle
J n its soothing effect, is Browns Iron Bitten.