Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-24
PERSONAL MENTION.

Personal MENTION.
PRoF. il SULLIVAN, Of Boston, has de-
clined to lecture on Tine Relation of Agnos-
ticiem 10 Pugiiism." He Gays his time is en-
tireIy occupied with his new saloon.
allow shall we stop the great evil OF
lying? ?" asks a religious weekly. 1t cant be
stopped. but the evil might be l'ssened ma
t~erially by abandoning the custom Of put
ting inscriptions on lombstonee.
Mr. GEORGE w. BOXER, of Philsdelphis,
ia among the visitors at Saratogs. Mr..
Boxers name will 60 laundering Gown the
ages as that of a gentleman who had 10 go
back 500 years for a plot filthy enough for a
successful classical play.
TWENTY TWO college students in Russia
have been sent into Siberian exile for con-
tributing articles 10 the Nihilis. press. In
this alleged civilized and enlightened coun-
try, the press has no adequate protection
against college students.
IRVING will bring seventy persons to Amer
lea with him, without counting his own
special critic. These seventy persons include
The actors and actresses, musical dir cior,
stage director, costumer, property man, and
captain Of the supers.
A YOUNG lawyer appeared before a Wash
ington judge with his umbrella under his
arm and his hat on, and, in his agitation, he
forgot 10 lay either aside when he began
speaking. Had not you better raise your
Umbrella ?" the Court kindly suggested.
The Rev. Mr.. Talmsge said: "When l
hear that four angels are doing all the sing
ing in heaven, IIl permit four people TO do
the singing for my congregation" This
concession on the part Of such a distinguished
l,-,,a ,.,-ht 30 ha nrottfutnv q n haauan
DANA, of the New York Sun, has taken a
peculiar way to amuse himself in his old
| age. He own a msjority OF the stock Of the
Sun, which brings him an income of over
5000 600 a year. Lstterly he has taken 10
| collecting china and chickens. He has al
ready $780, 900 invested in china aud $4,000
in fancy chickens.
A CORRESPONDENT at Bedford Springs says
OF Gen. Joe Johnston, who is now there:
Gen. Johnston has been quite retiring since
he came to the springs. His wife is deli
cate and they remain much in their room.
The general Is booming rather aged now,
and his hair and handsome beard are white
as the snow. Dignifed in a high degree,
maintaining a s~oldierly bearing, though
snort of stature and entirely devoid Of mil
itary trsppings, every body admires him."
Mr.. FRANK BIRD, of Massachusetts,, is
/ ICCONCIlbH q bCNCiC dtthOh u bGuLbd
tism, which has recently been troubling
him. Fifteen years ago this sturdy invalid
was told by his physician that be must
/ either die or give up the two daily luxuries
/ of his life-strong coffee and cigars. Mr..
Bird meditsted awhile and then replied:
swell, if Pve got to give up all the pleasures
! of life / might as well die at once" And he
has continued to smoke cigars and drink
| coffee ever since.
ORDERS having come from EUrope that
tight pants must go, the days of the full
A-dReA dnda appear to ba nnnSered. Il Is
hard to imagine a dude attired in any style
OF neither garment other than that which fits
him SO closely as to impel the Suspicion that
il must have grown on him. The dude Of
the future will be = dude only in spots, and
p~osterity will deplore a fashion which has
stolen from the dude Of their daddits his
most distinguishing feature and most conspic-
uous trademark.
IT ia said that English business men know
/ American railroad maps by heart, American
securities are discussed in the "City," Amer
lean novels aod magazines are spresd in the
bookstore windows, Whistler's and other
American pictures are among the fashions,
an American is the reiguing belle, oysters
are served in American style" and ices "as
in America" while an American actress il
at the theater, an american notion store"
makes one fancy ones self in Connecticut,
and London is, in fact, becoming American
lied.
WILLIAM HENRY HURLBURT is floating
around Europe, brushing up his French, Ger
man and Italian, and playing to perfection
the role of a society swell generally. The
most contradictory opinions are by different
persons entertained of this brilliant Journal
let. While he was running the New York
World, it was the popular impression that he
used to write his best editorials in bed after
a violent champagne drunk. He had gaudy
bachelor apartments, and for some reason or
other a widely luxurious reputation attached
itself to these quarters and their occupant.
CARL F~REDERICKs, a middle-sged man
living at Thirty. seventh street and Went
worth avenue, Chicago, was recently fined
$40 by Justice Foote for making life a burd, N
TO John Teaufer, a little shoemaker, of 1868
| Wentworth avenue. Fredericks ins;s's on
playing bear" on Teaufer's premises for the
amusement Of the children of the ~Heighbor.
hood. He also knocks down Teauier's fence,
and parades the street in front of Teaufer's
house, carrying a pair of shoes tied 10 the
| end of a pole. Some time ago he was fined
S25 by a town OF Lake justice for his sport
ivsnese.
A CHICAGO man is quoted as saying:
Hatch, l have q scheme. / sm worth S.
100000. Nv brother is worth the same.
That's SIS, 600, 900. We can command an equal
backing in Chicago. That's $1,000 900. L
can get S5,000,COO in 'Frisco. That's SIS
100000. With SIS, 000, 900 backing l can get
SIS, 000,0 600 in New York, and that's $50, 600,
600. 1 propose to take this and buy up the
wheat crop of the Pacific slope, load it en-
vessels at the Golden Gate, and ship it around
Cape Horn to Europe. 1 can control the
market in the United States and make tAe
market in Europe. What do you siy?"
JUSTICE Bowen, who will accompany the
Lord Chief Justice Of Eogland to Americs,
1 is the youngest judge on the English bench.
| He was educated at the Blsckheaih Proprie-
| tsry School, where he rose to the top Of the
sixth form. From Blsckhesth he went to
1 Rugby, where he took the frat prizs in maihe-
mates and in football. There we're two
brothers-"Big Bower" the Judge, and
Baby" Bowen, his brother, who sfterward
went into the Church. Their only sister died
early and was buried in Lee Churchy ard.
/ Both the Judge and his brother owe much Of
| their success 10 life to the careful training
| they received from their father, an Eyapgeli-
| cal clergyman of high character.
JOHN MCCULLOUGH, the tragediau, opened
| his season in Denver, COL, Monday night.
! The Republican of the 10Th instant says of
| him: John Mccullough looked strong and
hearty when he alighted from the Chicago
train early yesterday morning, and seemed
| to suffer no fatigue from his journey. There
| can be no question about the complete restor-
/ alton of his health. Accompanied by his
manager, Capt. Conner, and a personalfrierd
| who came with him from New York, the
| trsgedian drove 10 the Windsor, and after
| breakfast directed a long rehearsal at the
| operahouse. Mr.. Mccullough is delighted
With Denver, and anticipates a very pleasant
| ~soiourn here"
"MR. RUSSELL, a wealthy Mississippi
| planter, who is at the Rockbridge Alum
| Springs with his wife, has with him also"
says the Baltimore Sun, IAN adopted child,
twelve years old, who is the con of the late
| Gen. John B. Hood. OF the Hood children
| The two eldest daughters were taken by Mr..
| Maury, a relative OF Mrs. Hood, and are now
beipg educated in Germany with his daugh-
ters. John b. Hood, ir, The eldest boy, is
/ the one adopted into the fsmily CT Mr.. Rus
sell. A pair OF twin girls are the adopted
| children of a Mr.. Adams, Of New York;
another pair of twin girls are in the family
| of Mr.. Mckee, IF Mississippi; another boy,
/ Duncan, by name, is the adopted child of a
wealthy maiden lady Of New York; aud
another, Oswald, is 10 the family Of another
| New Yorker, residing near the Empire City.
/ Thus have the fatherless been cared for. A
| Singular coincidence is related in connection
| with three Of the gentlemen who have thus
| taken the place Of the father of these inter-
| esting children. Messrs. Russell, Adams and
i Mckee were classmates al Yale College.