Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-14
PERSONAL.

IT ia asserted that Ex-senator David
Davis will make his wife wedding gift of $500 0OO
FRANK NJ. HIeGINs has accepted the man.
aging editorship OF the Pittsburg Commercial Ga
UNITED STATES SENATOR JOHN A. LOGAN
and wife going to New Mexico in a few days.
They will afterward visit alifornia.
CADET JOHN w. WooTEN, of Mississippi,
astudent OF the University OF Tennessee, Knox;
is serious and may result fatally.
The Scotch are an enterprisiDg people. A
Highlander recently said at an entertainment: Il
come here in my many capacities Of clergyman,
quack doctor and dancing master"
THE Rev John asper declines TO argue
sny more on the scientific grounds that the sun
moves round the earth. He says that anybody
who disDelieves plain and unequivocal assertion
OF the inspl red Scriptures is an fntdel on VIII ON
he will not waste words.
Col. E. A. LEVER, Of the editorial staff
of the New Orleans Times DtLsocrGt, has sailed for
the republic of Honduras i'll the interest of his
American republics bordering on the Caribbean,
aud study the resources, facilities and commerce.
of these countries.
Mr.. THOMAS HUGHES expects TO visit
Rugby, Tenn. early next fall. At mention of his
name one cannot help invoking blessing on the
fingers about the very name of the man, as around
that OF the late DR.. John Brown, of Edinburgh,
author of RG6 and His Friends
AN impostor giving the name Of james
L. kOF j OONGS Is SNllAluR the people oil the
South by representing himself as travelling agent
for the Cincinnati Weekly NelDs. He has been tax
viii probably extend his operations to other States
unless the peoP,e protect themselves by having
him arrested. The NeloS has no travelling agents
IN the south, and any one SO representing himself
is swindler.
BETTER late than neverI Twenty years
.sgo au old man named Kerce and his son were
lynched in Worth county,, Ga, for catte-stealing
There has never been q trial of the murderers be-
cause as each term of the court rolled around for
an investigation of the else the courthouse of that
this term OF the Superior Court of that county
seventeen men OF good standing are TO be tried for
the lynchlDg.
AN ANONYMOUS novel will be begun in
The Century Magazine sometime during the next
volume. Il is entitled "The Bread Winners" and
Is described as story unusual in science and SUBJ
tect, and powerful In Treatment The locality is
one OF the American lake cities, and the plot ian
old-fashoned one, iull of action and INTEREST," In
current, in which ere described the doipgs of a
secret society of BREAD Winners
A NEW portrait of The poet Lonsfellow.
said to be an excellent one has just appeared 1t
is engraved by Charles Burt, the principal en-
graver of vgnettes and portraits for the Treasury
Department st Washington, and represents Mr.
willie haired, full bearded. his face aiready
showing little of the emRciation and great deal
of the serenity of age, sitting in reflective atti
tude, and resting the jaw lightly upon the right
hand, but looking full at you.
TIE Rev. DIR. Dix's lecture on Sunday last
was on the saFory subject of divorce. WHAT'S the
tunste womans door. His views on the divorce
subject are pretty decided. The Roman Catholics
are the only Christians who seem to secure his
benign approval. Professionalism comes 10 for a
full share OF his wrath ut is an upgrowth from
the system known as Professionalism" says he, al
luding to the peculiarities of the Mormons and
gentlemen who divorce their wives whenever they
see fit.
JUDGE BLACK is said to have quaint
and peculiar status with the United States Su-
Ia asOnna ly iiaava q
dent, "those passing the Supreme Court room
door heard the old lion roaring, and presently
up your l0ins, Mr.. Attorney General, and answer
me like mani The attorney, general, not hav.
ing the wherewith to answer him, quaked in his
shoes. and the judges sat bolt upright. electr fed
by the leonine voice, while the audience looked
reverentially at Saul among the prophets"
Dr.. OSCAR DICKSON, the Swedish ex-
ploIer, who with King Oscar and Mr.. Sibiriskoff,
fitted out the NordenskjOld expedition around
North SiOeria has gone to Chrstiana to lay before
the King. of Norway and Sweden the plan of
new Swedish Arctic expedition under Prof Nor
denskjol This gentleman has adopted the idea
abandoned long ago by Others that the East colony
in the Middle Ages, must be searched for on the
eastern coast, east OF Cape Farewell the south
point of Greenland. The East Colony is said to
have embraced 100 villages, thirteen parishes two
cloisters and one diocese.
THERE was company of gentlemen en-
gagged in little game of poker in prominent
gentle mans parlor one nigh. lately. Itgfeg late
and fears ere expressed by the party that they
tIespsssing upon the klndnes, OF the mistress
of the house. who, by the way, was not present
Not at all, gentlemen-not at all Play as long
as you please. am Gar here" said the master
of the mansion Yes gentlemen play as long as
The mistress of the house stood before them
play as long as Jou please, gentlemen! But, as
He went.-S1n francisco ATgondlu
The French papers are iulI of letters re-
spectiug Stanley and his projects on the Congo
river. His return to Africa Yves caused by alarm
ing rumors that certain stations were menaced by
attacks from the natives. such change of dis
position naturally required his presence, but the
International Committee has received no news
since his arrival there There is no doubt that two
yessels-the HaIkaway. from London, and the
Chettagona, from Zanzibar-wilI join him. The
latter, vessel of 1900 tons, conveys a number of
negroes recruited on the East Coast for the expe-
dition There is, OF course, a rivalry between
of any political complications
FREUND's DAILY, treating OF the restaurants
of New York, says there is not a finer pc tau fen
offered in the city than is offered at Charemagnes
You can get Italian cooking at D9RnaIumma's;
places; French at Jacquin's and elsewhere Ger
man at Helm 8; and down town there is a Chinese
Vienna baking and cooking has its distinctive
representative. Indeed the mendge OF res
taurants offers the variety of the globe in cooking
and dishes. Cuban cooking of Cuban dishes at
the Hotel del Recreo and International, while
Now. in London, man would find it quite i'm
possible, until within a year or two, to get
American dinner. In Paris the table dhote OF the
country prevails. The cooking of these places is
ia Its style hrst-class.
"How a stray sentence, popular saying,
the maxim of some wise man, line accidentally
fallen upon a d remembered, win sometimes help
one when he is all ready to be vexed and indig
naut." says DR.. Holmes a his preface to the new
edition of The Professor at The BREAKFAST Table
Zone day, in the time when 1 young or
youngish, happened to open a small copy OF Tom
Jones and glanced al the tite-page. There was one
of those little engravings opposite which bore the
10 raT ia oFnn ~ as m M
and under it the words, Mr.. Partridge bore all his
pdtieHHy' How many times when. after rough
usage from i'll hammered critics, my own vocabu-
larry of viluperstion was simmering in such live
Iy way that it threatened to coil and lift its lid,
small internal efervescencel There is very little
in them and very little of them. and so there is
not much in q Inch pin considered by itself, but
it often keeps a wheel from coming of and pre-
vents what might be catastrophe"
STORY that reads like rom lrce comes
from the Childrens Aid Society. James Anderson
a New York merchant, failed in 1856 His three
children, William, Michael George and Margaret
ages eight, ten and fourteen years respectively,
were placed IN good homes in Michigan in the fol-
lowing year by the Children's Aid Society through
its agent. the Rev. J. P. Root. frequent reports
were received from them from time TO time. The
girl died, but the boys grew to manhood and en-
tered the army. Receiving honorable disehaTg S
at the close of the they returned to their
homes in Michigan, where one married and built
IN a good legal practice. The other is farmer
Their interest in the Children's Aid Society wac
kept up by correspondence, and in 1876 one of the
going back TO Michigan. 1t now appears that by
the death of Michael Roof, in 1881, in Edinburgh.
Scotland, these children fell heirs to estate
worth several million dollars. The former agent
of the society the Rev. Mr.. Root, called at the
Office OF the society last week to gather facts pre-
paratory 10 claiming The estate in behalf OF the
heirs.
=s@''NEGLEcT old friends for the sake OF
new and lose BOTH" But remember that
kidney Wort ia friend Won cannot afford TO