Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-10
PERSONAL.


Ex-Gov. HENDRICKS il now in very good
health. his lameness is hardly apparent.
PARIS ladies wear masses Of flowers from
their highest chronological bump to tue hens of
their skirts.
A NATIVE of India, writing TO su English
man, says: 1--WE are mild Hindoos. know, and
O00,o coo, after ALL
GEORGE HEARST, the unsuccessful Demo
cratic candidate Tor governor Of California is
mentioned as the coming Democratic candidate
for the United States Senate.
AS the governership of Ohio is regarded in
that State as a stepping stone TO the presidency
mated for the former position.
THE Hon. John F. Finerty, delegate to the
Irish convention held in Philadelphia, claims that
he is not in favor OF dynamite as means OF bring
ing the English government to terms.
Mr.. JOSEPH MEDILL, editor OF the Chicago
Tribune has been travelling in the South all win
ter. and has Just arrived At home: His experience
has not cured him of spelling IN the phonetic
style.
Mr.. EDWARD MANET the French painter,
WHOSE death at Pals, May 1st has been an
nounced, is well known 10 americans as the illus
one OF the leaders OF the 'impressionist' school
of art.
TIE young invalid, the Duke of Newcas-
tie, is in the Yosemite Valley. After few weeks
has bcea trayeiing for his health for nearly a
year, in AmeIioa. aa a ysry quiet way.
THE Rev. DIR. Hoyt preached his farewell
sermon TO his congregation at Nashville, lest Sun
day. One Of the best items ia the record of this
eminent divine is the fact that he was thoroughly
hated and roundly abused eythc organs Of agrari-
anism in Tennessee,
SOLVER OPrIc' Mr.. William I. Adsms)
is recovering from pneumonia Mr.. Adams has
long been good friend of American boys, for his
books are healthy and in direct contrast to some
Inv fhf,h 0f hOth nd y
THE Montgomery Advertiser and Mad states
that Within the past thirteen months six lynch
ings have cured In Alabama, resulting In the
death by violence OF seven or eight men, without
this sort of summary execution, aud denounces
its further continuance q disgrace TO the State
Gov. McENERY, of Louisiana, gives a
hopeful view of the prospect of affairs despite
the disastrous oveIfiows and the low prices OF
crops. Tue general fund warrants, which sold a
few years ago at twentyeight cents on the dollar,
confident that before many months will be nearly
at par. Gov. McEnery says that IL will be with
a State government rescued from chaos, relieved
of the imputation of dishonor and restored to
prosperity, peace and quiet"
The engineer who will superinteud the
construction Of the statue OF "Liberty Enlighten
ing the World" Gen. Charles H. stone. will begin
excayatiug for the foundation upon which it is to
stand on Wednesday He stated that Satisfactory
ground had been laid out upon which TO lay the
concrete. Two shafts had ben sunk last month
to ascertain what the under stratum consisted of
| The pedestal will be in place about midsummer
and the fall will see the statue in position the
| Hon, VIM NJ. Eyarts. chairman of the Statue Com.
mittee ssid about 500 20 had been raised bv aid
OF private subscriptions ana performances, and
the rest would l. contributed by tho people.
SIXTEEN New York artists contributed
| works to the San FranoiSco Art Exhibition this
sDring. Among these were Arthur Quartley and
homes Hovenden, who went from Baltimore q
lew years ago, and now stand in the front rank oil
American painters. Mr. Julian RiX, of San Fran.
cisco, who Is also pursuing his profession in New
YORK, and was lnstrumen'al In forwarding such a
handsome quota OF his fellow-artiss' work to the
scS eoass T SPEAKS Q. MT HGyenden I, as the
was sold on the buyers day, and of Arthur Quart
ley and Harry Chese as standing at The head Of
the marines"
WORK ia 10 be recommended on the Wash
ington monument at the national capit1l to-day.
1t is now $40 feet high. When completed it will
have hight OF sCl feet of stone snd iftyfive feet
OF glass, and will, 1t is thought exceed in hight
the highest structure ever reared by the hand OF
man. The Strasburg cathedral towers to the hight
OF 46S feet and st Peters al Rome AS; the spire
OF the cathedral of Cologne rises TO oil feet and
the highest of the pyramids was but 479 feet high
when it was first built Hence it appears that
when, as is expected. the Washington monument
is completed, in December 1875, its topmost point
wall be some fortyfour feeG higher thsn any other
artificial elevation.
Col. HENRY FLAD, of st. Louis-nearly
all the papers misspell his name, putting two "ds'
at the end of it's the most prominent of the can.
dldates to succeed Can't James B Eads as mem
Der of the Mi. siesippl River Commission. Col,
Slad is one of the finest practical engineers living
He carried out Eads's plans for the splendid st.
Louis railroad, wagon and foot-way bridge over
the Mifi1sippi, and built the tunnel at the city
end OF the bridge. Next to the Brooklyn bridge,
cerlnS skill OF modern time. Flsd is a strong
personAl and professional friend OF Eads and the
very man the former would have chosen as his
SUCCESSOR had he been told ID name him.
FROM Dresden comes the news by cable
that 'the Rev. Josiah Henson, MI Stoves Uncle
Tom, died May 5th a3- ninety-four years" The
claim has been long made that Josiah Henson was
the original of the character drawn by NJ s. Har-
riet Bcecher Stowe in her celebrated antislavery
novel of Uncle Ten. Some yesrs ago Mr. Henson
toIype Of ''UHcle Tom;'' but Mrs. Stowe is Known
to have declared that no sin-le indy dual fur
nished her with model for her hero, aud that
uncle Tom W. a crcltion-a character nodded
from long OBJ ervation and study of slavery In
deed, 1t would seem that one who exhibited the
pecuiiaritics of a teller of rabbit and tar-baby
stoIies might "a well be held upe the oIiTinal Of
Uacle Remus, F" aIanother, for equally distinctive
the original of Uncle Tom"
Tom OCHILTREE's chesk was not sufficient
to cary out his plans for once at any rate. Sun
day the regular passenger train on the Texas Cen
trail passed through Sherman and on to Denison
bearing among its pa engers the Hon. Thos. Oehil-
tree from the Island City. Following shortly and
leetly on the heels OF the regular passenger came
whirling by the special layout OF Jay Gould and
party. At Denison there was a stOppage of few
minutes for obSe- yation, and the interchangeable
Thomas at once set his wits and afable smii es at
snugly ensoonced among the railroad maynates on
that deliberately furnished special train, to con-
tinue his journey northward with the princely
tourists i'll regal 'sthQie." Just how true il is we
do not vouch for, but truthful parties who were
present say that Toms reception by the party in
charge of the caravan amounted to a square snub.
At any rate the special steamed along without
him, and the last seen of Ochiltree he was in
search OF "bite to eat"
WHAT is called the Language Club has
just been organized in New York City, and is
likely to become, in spite of objections that may
be brought against it, rather definite force OF Its
kind. The Language Club desires TO encourage
sensible spelling, rs the new or reformed manner
OF English spelling is de- ribbed by those who have
faith in 1t. Sensible spelling, IN which sound
tskes the place of convention, VIII be, they de-
clare the spelling of the future. 1t K.dey known
now that nearly ali the scholars and linguists OF
England and the United States are agreed up IN
one TACT, that our Engli-h words are bsrbarously
spelled, that 81 Cling repre- ents waste and
abuse OF Letters, and that the zane ombination OF
English letter. a1ds frequently for absurd COM
hinationS OF sound. These tchoIars End linguists
have expressed strongly and hopefully their SYM
pathv with the reform csuGe, and they are men
like President Barnard, Prof Barnes Frof Ander-
son, Pfof. Child, John E5ten Cooke, Prof. Hiram
Corson David Dudley Field, Prof. Draper, DR..
Howard Crosby, PIo.. Lounsbery, Irof. March,
DR.. shelton Mackenzie Donald G Mitchell, Presi-
dent Noah Porter, ProI. Sumner, Prof. Whitney,
oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier,
Alfred Tennyson, Max Muller, W. E Gladstone,
Prof Henry Morley, Sir John Lubbock and