Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-17
NEWTON AND HIS HEREsY.

The Rev. K. Heber Newton, the Episcopal
divine who is to be tried on a charge OF
heresy, asserted that come of the reports of
The sermons which got him Into trouble were
very unjust, but when his own revision Of
them apps AIRED in book form, the corrections
were too trifiiDg 10 make any fuss about.
The reporters are now angling at him. Ga
delivering An address btfore the MedIco-
Legal Society, the other night, he was care.
full 10 furnish them with printed slips; but If
they had used these in blind confidence, they
would have published him as saying: "There
is need Of no sensational touches TO draw in
deep enough chair screws the darkness Of
deviitry that insanity may inspire" They
took the audacious liberty, however, of % ak
ing ''chair screws" read 'ehiro obscure"
AN Ex JOURNALIST AS SUCCESSFUL BROKER.
zee that after Prof Young, of Prince on,
and Prcfs. Serviss and Psrkhurst, OF New
York, had given full rein to their opinions
upon Gun spots and meteors, at the last meet
ing Of the American Astronomical Society,
President White summed up what they had
said, and redelivered it BACK at their heads
with all the eparkle of spoltsneity and
originality and with the positIveness Of
Pope's bull. He showed in that brief sd-
dress that he has the digestive mind of a re-
porter and the reasoning skill Of a lawyer
two professions that he followed before he
deserted the beaten tracks to become a mil
liousire He boiled doEn The science OF the
professors, and made it possible for the gen
eral public to comprehend exactly what they
had been driving at. How many people
know that this representative astronomer Is
the same s. V. White who hAs for many
years been one OF the most conspicuous and
pyciuresuue characters in Wall street, 2 Gun.
ming sp,cul.tor, q shIesd manipulation and
m ans ger OF railroads, deyout Christian, aud
a pillar in Beechei's church? He began as a
reporter in st. Louis, and remained In jour
nalism long enough to convince himself that
the prizes that are 10 be won IN that neld lay
beyond his reach, and to develop and carry
away with him an interest in and an attach
ment for the brotherhood OF newspaper men,
from among whom he haz always since
chosen come of his intimate friends and COM
panions. He next ftted himself for practice at
the bar in ST. Louis, and the reeol-
lection of his struggles only serves 10 smnse
him now that he has become one OF the
princes of Wall street. To zee him, il only
for second, is to receive an impression not
easily erased from the mind. He is not
more than five feet four in height, and does
not weigh more than 120 pounds. His iron
gray hair il kept short, and he wears a elose-
cut pepper-and-salt beard and mustache, 90
that his tiny, swapping eyes, his thin, small
nose, his firm forehead are ali of his face
that one seee. If an srtist wanted pic
tured epitome of energy and activity, Whites
portrait would furnish il. He never yet has
had time to put his hat OF fairly, 90 that 1t
il always to be seen far back On his head,
and in danger OF falling OF between HE
rapid heeIs. AS it il always black beaver
or q white high hat, the effect ia Tidiculouz
~ II
toned, streams out behind az he darts, pencil
and paper in hand, across Wall street 10 the
Stock Exchange, or back again, or at breath
less speed down the street and up the tall
stoops to Offices Of brother broker. He
talks faster than Jay Gould's new
yacht can steam, and, being always
too hurried to bring his lips and jaws
into the operation Of talking, be speaks
entir ely through bus nose. Well, sfter 5. V.