Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-25
PERSONALS.

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A large number of negroes will sail from
New York for Liberia on the let of No
vember.
"Gath" will lecture on "Thomas, the
Doubter." Every sensible man who hears
the lecture will be doubter.
Dickens said of Tennyson's makeup: "a
delightful fellow; what pity he always
will insist on looking so-poetical."
1t is rumored that DIR. Oliver Wendell
Holmes is about to resign his professorship
of anatomy in the Harvard Medical School.
Whitney, New York merchant, and not
Senator Benton, supposed by some, first
suggested the idea of railroad across the
| continent.
J.E. Clark, managing editor of the Penn
sylvania ConserUator Of UniveTsal Edued-
ton, Is W lnted at Philadelphia for fraud and
| embezzlement.
J. II. Cory, proprietor of the Bellevue
| Hotel, Long Branch, N. j., who wanted
| $500 for the care OF two sick guests, has
been indicted for extortion.
| One of the most extensive tree planters in
the world is declared by the English journal
| Land to be the Duke of Athole. Every year,
| it says, he plants from 100000 to 1000, 900
| trees.
| Mr.. Vanderbilt has doae Just what we
| thought be would do-denied il. But the
fatal words are being repeated with danger
| GUS rapidity in New York and elsewhere
"The public be id"
Mr.. Henry Willard, the president of the
| Northern Pacific railroad, has offered to en-
dow Oregon University with $4,000 II the
State viii increase its annual legislative al
lowauce from $2500 to $4,000.
| 1t is related that when a young man in
| Gen. Robert 1oombs's presence objected 10
| Millions Paradise Lost that it was obscure,
Toombs said with pity: Milton was blind; ;
he couldn't see to write for FOOLS"
| Having surrendered his pistols to the gov
ernor, and not having obtained any new ones,
Frank James is doubly entitled to distinc-
ton. He is now, we believe, the only man
in Missouri who don't 90 armed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said: "The man
who has a thousand friends has not friend
10 spare" But Ralph was not newspaper
man, supposed to be absolutely staggering
under load of circus and theater tickets.
The universal verdict is that CockeriIl
was entirely right, sad az the event was, in
| killing Sayback in the editorial rooms of
the st. Louis Post Dispatch. The evidence
all shows that he acted entirely in self-de-
Tense.
Thirsty souls focked from all over Iowa
10 q wrecked train loaded with liquor near
Mount Auburn, and before the railroad
COulu Ic-Cuc the pTcClOu5 tnSy
had had a glorious spree in spite of the
amendment.
Snails have become fashionable object of
diet in Paris and in some of the restaurants
in New York. They are pleasant of flavor
but less digestibe than clans. We ought to
go slow on suails, as we are not ready to die
lest yet under such load.
By the death of Sir George GREY Mr..
Gladstone now sits at the Privy Council as
the senior commoner, having kissed hands"
on his appointment forty-one years ago last
September, when the Queen had been only
four years on the throne.
Chief-Justice Waite is looking a little bit
rouuder and jollier than when he presided
in Washington LAST in fact. every year be-
holds him looking more ard more like a
retired green-grocer, but there is nothing
disappointing about him except his looks.
The business of going upstairs TO shoot
editors at sight is becoming exceedingly dan
gerous, and life insurance companies can
hardly afford 10 countenance it. An editor
is not being to be shot with impunily. He
has his rights, and, knowing, he dares some
times maintain them.
The late John II. Swift, of New York, was
not wealthy man according to moderH
computations Of wealth, being worth only
about 100000, but be took a rich mans
satisfaction in distributing about 81 10000
through his will. The Supreme Court is now
cogitating the pro rata.
Colonel Sierling,of the Coldstream Guards,
had a narrow escape at the attack on Tel-el-
Kebir. He was looking through his glasses
when bullet struck his hand, taking off
one of his fingers; passing downward, the
bullet struck the colonel's revolver, which he
had brought round in front.
Wendell Phillips leads quiet, retired life
in his new Eouse on Common street, Boston,
where he has succeeded in making his imme
diate surroundings resemble very closely
thosa of the old Easez stzSst home He hes
declined all lecture engagements, and will
probably be seldom seen or heard in public
this winter.
Tennyson, charmed perhaps by the Shakes
pearisn associations of the name, is about to
try a bold dramatic venture at the new Globe
Theater in London. to be opened in Novem-
Der under the management of Mrs. Bernard
Beere. Her first venture will be an original
drama of English rural life in prose by the
poet laureate.
ST. Richard Temple, who has been making
a tour of America, and who is Fastening
home IN Consequences of the political situa-
ton in England, which, he thinks, may in
volve a change of ministry, says that he be-
lieves that majority of Englishmen, while
Themselves being free traders, prefer that
America should have a protective tariff.
Cornslius Vanderbilt, the eldest son of
w. III. Vanderbilt, il otter called the
"Flower OF VanderbiIts" He possesses the
most esiim able traits of character, is manly,
kind, charitable, and generous, and univer-
sally popular among the Itch and poor alike.
He is married and has an interesting family
of little ones, to whom he Is devoiedly at
tached.
Sembratowiez, Greek archbishop OF Lem
berg who was dismissed by the Austrian
govern ment for not combating more effectu-
ally the Russophil tendencies OF the clergy
under his charge, has been offered by Leo
XIII q prominent place in the Congregation
de Propsganda Eide. isreply to the Aus
trian charges OF disloyalty was: "Christ had
only twelve apostles, but one Of them was
Judas. i have under my orders more than
1000 priests"
Joseph Arch, the Eoglish sgrarian agi
tator, is a stout man, with round, red,
good natured face, and eyes that sparkle
with merriment. As a speaker he often
rises to vigorous eloquence, though some
times hesitating and becoming confused, and
almost always misplsciDg the aspirAte in q
most amusing manner. He was formerly q
common hedger and ditcher-the best In
Warwickshire, il is said. He will make an
effort to secure seat in Parliament at the
next general election.
George /. Seney may make his money by
what Rnfus Hatch calls Chrome methods"
but he dispenses it like a prince. He has
lust given 800 900 and sixteen lots OF ground
10 Methodist hospital, but the institution
is 10 be open to Jew and GENTLE, Protestant
and Catholic, heather and in6del, on the
same termsD Many other men, who resort
to s.chromop speculaiions, button up their
pocket-books, while Mr.. 6eney opens his
purse and his heart That ia The difference
k.,~r.-r one kind Of suecul afors and auofher