Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-07-27

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olist. Hop Sing has purchased the water
works.
BISHOP RADlMACHER, the new Catholic
bishop of Tennessee, created q most fayors-
BILE impression ut Knoxville.
Nh. PAUL b. HAYNE, the Southern poet,
is hfty-ihree years of sge, and his son, Will.
liam 81. Hayne, twenty -sevep.
AN attempt to translate Walt Within ans
verse into Russian has been stopped on &C.
count of damage TO the language.
MUNKAcsY, the artist, was apprenticed 10
. irunk-maker at the age Of nine, and used
10 cover the trunks with pictures designed by
himself.
BISHOP WILLIAMS, of Connecticut, IS re-
ported as saying that the Pilgrim Fathers
first fell upon their knees and Then upon the
aborigines.
SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH, DID,, the author
Of our national hymn, "My Country, lis of
Thee" now resides, at the age of seventy
four, in Newton Center, Mass.
IT may be interesting TO DR.. Hammond to
learn that the brain of a circus employe
who died recently was found to weigh ffty.
SIX ounces-the same size as that Of the & rst
| Napoleon aud If Danigi Webster.
ARCHBISHOP BoUReEr, who is no complet-
/ ing his forty-sixth " ar in charge of the see of
! Montreal, is ninety years old ami still strong
and vigorous. He is the oldest wearer OF the
| milIe in America, and has only two seniors
. in the world.
| GEN. SHERIDAN's Washington house, lust
| presented TO him by a number Of his frienCs,
was built i've years sgo for Judge A. O.
/ Adds. 1t stands in a foe position on a cor
ner, and is OF brick, two stories high, sur
rounded by a mansard roof and attic. The
Interior woodwork is of ash.
IT is announced in foreign pap. r. that the
President OF the Uoited States is 10 receive
at the end of July the present of s true
forunor-diske lskiotd bucketa, a splendid steel
shield, IN old Northern style, with a Runic
inscription. II is the gift of the American
Consul in Ottenburg, Sydney W.. Cooper.
IT is related that Senator Edmunds. when
urged TO join a Congregational church, re.
quested to see The articles. After several DAYS
elaboration he returned them, AID agreed to
become a membsr if ten out of twenty seven
clauses were omitted, six modified and two
new ones added. He is now a psw-hoIder at
the Epi -copal Church OF the Epiphany, at
Warrington.
The Department of State has received in
formation that the report t~elegraphed to the
foreign press that Spain mas prohibited the
importation Of American pork is unfounied.
Spain r, quires that the introduction of pork
- fO&A SACooC hhoh OC CnCClCu OuiTt ufOQkA
hrs'-class customs, where a microscopic in
spection takes place by an officer appointed
BY the Governor of the province.
I GARNET WoLsELEY suppressed Gen.
Hsmley's dispatch on Tel-el-Kebir. The
bitterly s~atiricsl article on "Red- Hot Re. |
form" 10 the current number of Btdckuood,
while professedly an attack on The changes |
In the British army during The past two yesrs,
is In reality a covert stab between the Joints |
OF Lord Wolseley's armor. II is true that
there is no signature to the article, but the
author has made but a half.hearted attempt
to conceal his identity.
ONE who knows him we'll vouches for The |
truth of the story that The first time Poll
sheridan was ever on a horse was when Billy
Seymour, a boy in Perry county, o, put him
on a hery animal, ~unsaddled, unbriiled, and |
told him to hold on with his knees. And he
did until the horse had gslloped about two
miles across an open country, when the beast
came to a halt. Phil was still on his back
holding on with his knees, It became the
talk OF the country. Gossip was scarce in
those days. |
Col. JOHN H.. GEORGE, a New Hampshire |
barrister, tells a good story on himself. Meet
ing an old farmer recently whom he had
known In his youth, the o d fellow cougratu- |
lated the colonel OF his youthful appear
ance. How is it you've managed to keep 80
fresh and good-looking all these years?n
quoth he. SWELL" said George, "Ill tell
you. I've always drank new rum and voted
the Democratic ticket" "Oh yes" said the
old man, 81 see how it is; one pizen neutral
IL: s the other.n
WHAT are the people to think of the
Count de ~Coambord's condition, anyway7
Here is the Figaro correspondent teIe9rsnb-
loS frcm ma DE-Dsseehe tells me The
Count d. Chambord is in a dyspeptic state
which leaves no hope . . his exist
ence cannot bs prolonged . . = he will
die on The bed where he now lies" At The
hour comes a dispatch from a Clarion
CORE s pondeni: "Dr. Drasche is. greatly
pleased with the patients state. The amel-
iosstion is very marked, and the general
state Is persis,entIy better. To short, the
amelioratioD, is incontestable." Lie FIGARO
and LIE Clarion are both royalist papers, 100.
HE following story is told in the London
correspondence of one of the Euglish PROV
lnciai Journals: "An enterprising publisher
recently Issued a cheap edition Of Johuson's
ever-famous Abyssinian story, Rasselas. 1t
reviewed In a Scotch psper, and the re-
view came under the notice of The secretary
Oh an artistic and literary agency. Being OF
an e~HterprlsIng nature, he sat himself down
and addressed a letter 10 Samuel johnson.
LID calling his attention to q favor able
OF his work, stating that it was amooe
ne most popular of its authors many writ.
.ngs, and Offering tC giean for the hero of
and TO traDsmIi to him cuttings In
me original text from all London aud prov
lncial and as many American, French, Ital-
German, Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish.
Danish, and other Journal as noticed the pro-