Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-23
PERSONAL MENTION.

SENATOR EUGENE HALE recently received
a letter from ons Of bis constituents which
was addressed TO the "Honorbel Hugh Jane
Halle"
TIE late Montgomery Blair IS called the
father of the free.delivery ays en- in the
Postofice Department by an old Postotiice
official, Mr.. James c. Mari.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENs's Liberty Hall
10 now fr 5 lie for $4,000, and the sale in
cludes the library. There is talk 10 Georgia
of buying il for a high school.
Col. JOHN JOHNSON, Of Collin, Tex, the
noted granger legislator, threatens the d.
vision OF Texas into two or three States if
the proposed constitutional amendments are
adopted.
The late s. II. Thomsou, a wealthy mer-
chant of Chicago, had such an aversion for
the "p" in Thompson that he refused to sc
knowledge kinship with the Thompsons using
the letter.
MCKEE RANKIN weight 200 pounds) h2.
been required by the Union Square manage
ment to reduce himself twenty-five pounds,
in order to fit him for the par. of the lover in
Storm Beaten.
Mr.. FRoUDE says in the Ninsteenh Century
that Mr.. Jeafferson's work, The cal Lord
Byron, indeed resembles a description OF
ftbuNlus iiNNc ny WIN OiC mbO ~ bOt
know that Vesuvius was a volcano.
AN English vicar, who has already set a
good example by keeping open on Sundays
| The annual exhibition OF I.sssUces which is
| under his control, lately announced that a
flower show on his grounds would remain
| open over a Sunday.
] ~INFoRMER CAREY neither lived nor died
in vain. A wax figure OF his late lsmeu'ei
| physique and face is to be added to the Tue
ssud collection in London. This is bette
than having been President and being electtd
road overseer OF an obscure OHIO town.
A WRITER to a London paper says that,
after spending months among the poor of the
city, he has come 10 the confusion that large
plumbers of them have a haired and ~ferocity
toward wealth and a%ristocracy which could
not be Suppressed by any Russian Nihilist or
| French Communist.
Ton OCHILTREE, of Texas, will bring with
him on his return from Europe an invoice Of
canes for his friends, made Of wood from the
recently discovered ark. They will have
handles of ivory from the teeth of the whsle
which swallowed Jonah, and fzrules made
from the tools which fashioned the blocks OF
stone for Solomon's temple before they were
consigned 10 the floats at JoppI.
A PROMINENT colored preacher died in
Walter county, Ga, without apparent csuse,
which led many of his people 10 believe he
had been couiured. A gyp-y fortune teller
said he had been voodooed by putting lizards
under his pulpit. One Of the prominent
members of the church was pointed out as
the one who did it. He was jerked up be.
fore the council, and he and his wife dis.
missed as wicked %corjurors.
RALPH MoDJEsKA, only son of The popu-
lar emotional actress, took out mis- first
naturalization papers in New York the
other day. He is lust of age, and has re-
Gently completed his education in Paris. He
proposes 10 follow the profession CT civil
engineer. 1t was only about three months
ago that that the young mans srepfather,
Charles Bozents, took out his first papers in
San Francisco. He has a fondness for po-
litical life, and may yet be brought to the
surface by the funny and inexplicable eve
lutious of that political whirligjg which re.
wolves on the Pacific slope as we'll as else
where. Modj ska says she will retire in to
private lie three yesrs hence, and will then
make her home among the mountains OF
California. 81 WIS born among the hills
she replied, sand ii is among the hills that ]
want 10 end my DAYS"