Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-30
PERSONAL.

HENRY NJ. STANLEY, the explorer, receives |
$50, 900 per annum from the Belgian government |
He is at present on the Congo river, but it is re-
ported that all the ports which have been estab-
hshed by him are deserted.
LORD GRANVILLE recently apologizs5 TO |
Mr.. Lowell for a short dinner notice to the most
engaged man sss dinef-oup IN Engand NJ
be too short which came to the most engaged from
the most engaging man"
IL Mr.. Parnell really said that he knew
been hanged in Ireland, it was most unfortunate
speech The Irish leader has heretofore stead
the doings of the assassination circle.
REAR ADMIRAL THOMAS TURNER, of the
United States Navy, who died at Glen Mills. Pa,
last Saturday, aged seventy-four years, has been
he the Nem fr tSn dSrny the
memorable attack upon Forrs sumter, Ae.i,sls
1888 1888. ''a'''s'i0 IN oh'iis''0h h''00r' Aprii
AMONG the recent appointments in the
Patent Office at Washington Is that OF Frederick
Belts Wright, in place Of Mrs. Carrie Cornwel
has allied a desk In the Patent once for twelve
years, rssigned on account of impaired health in
favor of her son, who was a little child at the
time she entered the department
The whims OF royalty may be 5 cause OF
Inconvenience During the silver wedding cere-
monies at Berlin, to please the Emperor the Prince
man. both at the family dinner in the afternoon
and at the ball, but 1t was hot and heavy that
nearly fainting with fatigue and had to retire at
once TO bed.
TEE Deutsche Zeitung, of New Orleans, says
that ex-Pfesident Diaz, OF Mexico is OF German
S.ssnee, ans sore lhe nsms Of bets He emf 81
grated and first settled in New orleans where he
cty Of of MsIieo and acauired large fortune
through the importation OF canary birds. He
married, and his grandson became president.
A FANATIC in Alabama named Stephens,
who for some months had been preaching q reli-
gion in many respects very like Aormonism. and
which he called Stephenson. and causing much
trouble in many families was shot few days ago
turbed. The preaching of.wholessle marriage may
be permitted in some parts Of the United States,
but those who attempt to practice 1t outside OF
Utah do SO at their peril.
BISHOP LoGUE writes from Donegal, Ire
land, to the Land League authorities in this coun
| try: Were 1t not for the substantial aid from
Yet Patrick Egan sx-tressurer of the Land League
Fund, says there is now on handhbout $4,000.
held in reserve 70 carry forward the Dynamite
| policy which the League leaders now gathered 10
this country are advocatingf
FoR the statue Of Luther, which is to be
erected in Washington on November 10th next, the
400th anniversary of his birth the committee have
recommended the duplicating Of the central figure
appears in colossal bronze, clad in a ministerial
robe holding the Bible in his left arm upon which
his closed right hand rests. The figure will cost
$500 in Europe. and the expense of transportation
| and pedestal will be $500 more
CINCINNATI Saturday Ni9kf: emerson, ss
| poet and ess'yist, rated sixth in his class at
| who were above him? One would naturally sap.
pose that they, too. had become world famed. AID
| yet we hear nothing of them. As like not No.
| Is writing patent medicine poetry; No. may be-
and probably is, doing odd Jobs In addressing cir
culars, and the other three engaged in like union
orsd and unsung employments."
The M,lag',sy ENJOYS lsst week msde
their first formal effort TO rouse public sympathy
| against the foreign invasion Of Madagascar. 1t
| was at the meeting of the Congregational Club.
| and they issued feeling address, reviewing the
| wrongs which the French republic seems deter
mined to infiet upon them. The ENJOYS say: IT,
the truths Of Christianity and the blessings of com
merce are the forerunners OF European aggression,
then will our growing love be changed TO hate"
| WHEN Sergl. Mason was sentenced 10 be
| imprisoned for shooting at Guiteau, q fund was
| made up by subscription for his wife, OF which
| she now has $1,000 lawyer is sning her for half
this amount for his services in unsucces fully try
1 ing to get her husband out OF jail. The lawyer
must have argued that It may occasionally be Jus
| uhaole TO remove an Questionable person with
Mrs. Mason's may possibly better his instruction.
GEN. SHERMAN will leave Washington
about June 10Th, on his farewell tour as genera
Of the army 80. Ascempapied b. Chief Justice
and thence TO Fort Ellis, Mont. There he will be
| an overland journey among the military posts Of
the far Northwest Then he will go down the
coast 10 San Francisco and return East by the At
| lAntic and Pacific route.
DE-. OLIVER WEHDELL HoLMEs, Mr.. Whit
tier and Mr. T. B. Aldrich deserve TO be soundly
| rdiculed as the London papers are disposed, be
| ton of twenty-five per cent duty on "printed
matter wholly er parity in the English language .
| on the ground that 1.-THE minds OF Americans, and
| especially Of American children, should not be
| perverted by foreign ideas" 1t would be much
less distinguished in the realm of intellect to be-
neve that they never read this protest 70 which
| their names are appended.
BEFORE Gen. Mcclellan left Fortress Mon
week. the veterans Of the Hampton Nome pre-
| sented him with q large banner Of royal purple
side the rational arms and tie inscription: The
National Home for Disabled Volunteer 60 diem.
march 3, 1865. The Nation 70 Her Deienders
| George B. Mcclellan. Local Manager. by Veterans
of Southern Branch" The Inscriptions were
| wrought in silk and gold thread embroidery, the
| work of the fnmateEo of the Home.
In the death OF DR.. William II. Van b.
rem, says the World. New York has lost one OF its
really great men TINS phrase IS hsctneyed, and
| must be felt to be true by every man Of inielll-
/ gence who knew DR.. Van Buren, intimately. He
| and was as professional adviser and friend most
| wise in counsel and quick in sympathy. But such
was the weight Of his faculties that he would have
been quite as successful and useful in any other
| calling. He would have made q great lawyer L
eet S San Yd great 1 nA 5n Of SS
forget ''the good example" of such a mani
TIE resigustions among the highest Of.
Il hcers Of the German army and navy continue and
the North German Ga-efte Is rather pnofuse IN its
protestatiens 70 the effect that Prince Bismarck
does not dive all these men into pnVacy-just as If
/ excusing and accusing were no. homonymE
| Now 1t IL Vice-Admirsl Batsch who has followed
Admiral sto,ch- Bzt.ch WAS generally thought
the most capable of all officers in the German
navy, although ne commanded the feet which
| lost the Grand Eleetor in 1875 When a young
man, Batscn served In our navy. The main point
70 bear IN mind is that the Germ array and navy
win soon have wholly new commander and that
the glorious era Of Moltke, Room, Kkmeke, 5tosch
and 1s70-7l belongs 70 the past.
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