Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-21
PERSONALITIES.

SENATOR BAxARD ia shortly to go 10
Florida 10 meet his wife, who has been there
Tor several weeks.
IT is said OF Mr.. Burnaud, the editor Of
ftaeh that "he jests necessarily, has been
twice married, and has fourteen children"
Gov. DAWES, of Nebraska, is likely to
! beat the record of Cornell, of New York, as
a vetoer. He sent five veto messages to the
/ Legislature the other day within two hours.
The King of the Sandwich Islsnds locks
! himself up when he gets drunk. When our
| sovereigns get drunk they have no occasion
TO lock themselves up. A policeman attends
| to that.
JUICE D. o. SHATTUCK, the Wing candi-
didate In 184l for Governor of Mississippi
| against I. NJ. Tucker, is now living in Cali
fornIs, and enjoying good health, in the
ninetieth year of his age.
MURAT HALsTEAD, who has been viewing
matters at Washington, says tina there is no
more pitiable object than an ex. cougressman
out of occupation, loa6ng about Washington
| and beseigIng the White House, hoping the
President will find a snug place for him.
The San Francisco Argonaut discovers
| thai ss bankers the Jews have a good record.
1t says that of the long lists of banks that
have robbed their depositors, not one has
| belonged TO Them; and of the long lat Of
emb zzlers, defaulters, etc, not one is of their
| number.
X IF reports be true, Wade Hampton, Of
South Carolina, is also firing of The hoaor of
| being a Uniled States senator, and will soon
resign. He prefers the quiet of plantation
| life to the turmoil OF politics, and to be in
the woods hhntiDg bear and deer rather han
amid the noisy and distastefui surroundings
| OF Washington life.
BARON DAvILLIER, whose death at the
age OF tity-nlne is announced in Paris, was
princely art patron and collector, and had
/ gathered rich treasures Of canvas, bronze,
ivory, china and glass, and tapestries. He
would never part with au obj ct he
| purf based, saying always that he in
| tended his collection for the Louvre.
| A CLERGYMAN, who recently preached
| IN an Austin church. ia a great sdmirer
Of The writings of Charles Dickens, and
| quotes from his novels almost a. often as he
does from the Bible. He surprised his con.
gregation by ending up gorgeous perora-
tioo with ut is this you see, my brethren,
as the Scripture says, 'Bsrkis is willing, but
the flesh is weak"
JUICE LAwRENseN, who outranks all the
officials and erbplotes OF the Postofice De-
psrttnent in Washington, first entered the
postal service in 1919, in Baltimore. 1t
was in 1884, when he was chief clerk of the
ottice in that city, that Maj. Barry, Presi-
dent JacksoD's postm sster- general, induced
him TO accept an appointm Mt in the WASH
ing on office, and he has ever since continued
in the Office.
Mr.. RUsRIN declares that be will not al
low the resumption OF his former duties at
Oxford to destroy or change his purposes
concerning the Walkley Museum at Shelf
field. All delays and dubitations in the
business, he says, have been the result of his
own illness or Ignorance, and he hopes now,
in restored health and clearer knowledge,
soon to fulfill whatever was right in the
original design.
HIS GRACE the Duke OF Norfolk, premier
duke of England, tried to enter Palace Yard,
London, during the Bradlsugh demonstra-
lion at the opening of Parliament, but was
prevented BY policeman, who didn't recog-
nize him. In vain the duke revealed his
august identity; you peerf" cried the
guardian of the Law, you're no Peerj you're
Bradlaughite." And the duke had to
give it up as bad job.
ENGLAND's wealthiest baronet ia said 10
be Sir John Rsmsden, of Byram, Yorkshire
HIS rent.roll is computed at S850,000 year.
He owns almost the whole of Huddersfeld
bit he doesn't own was a very Naboth's vine
yard to his father, who, according to popular
tradition, once offered 10 its Quaker owner
to cover it with sovereigns if he would sell
it. "Edgewise, friend Ramsden?" quoth the
Quaker; Sin that Gaze it is thine; otherwise
all Huddersfeld must still belong to thee
and me-" 'Edgewise" was rather more than
the baronet could swallow.
WHILE our Federal judges are retired at
the age Of seventy years, judges in Eoglsnd
and Ireland have presided in courts long
after that age. At present there are five in
England over seventy years of sge-Vice-
Chancellor Bacon, eighty four; Mr.. Justice
Manisty, seventy. four; Mr.. Justice Philli-
more, seventy-three; Mr.. Justice Grove,
seventy oue, and Lord Chancellor Shelborne,
little over seventy. The late Lord Chan
cellors ST. Leonards and Campbell presided
over he Courts of Chancery in admirable
mental vigor at the ages respectively OF
eighty and sixty-nine, and the Irish Lord
Chancellor Plunkeit at seventy-fou and
Lord Chief-Justice LEROY at ninety-one.
The two youngest judges in England now
are Judges Cave and Bowen, forty-eight and
forly-seven respectively.