Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-12
Personal MENTION.

JOHN KELLY, The Tammany boss, is said
10 be worth s2,000,0 900.
BISHOP BECKwITH, of Georgia, has been
shooting and tshing in the Northwest. He
is now in Chicago.
HOWARD CARROLL, who left journalism to
enter politics, and who subsequently, wrote 4
book, has resumed his newspaper work.
Ex-PREsIDENT HAYES is attending TO
temperance work in Ohio. He is still re-
garded as a strong candidate for the United
States Senate, and he is by no means 30 I'M
popular in Ohio as he is else where.
JUDGE WILLIAM s. HOLMAN, Congressman
from one OF the Indiana districts, has served
nearly twenty years in the House. He is
prominently named as a Democratic candi-
date for the Presidency. He is now visiting
California.
ALLEN P. MORRIS was the first Confeder-
ate soldier TO draw a pension under the Ten
nessee law allowing $40 per month to Con-
federates in the army. Mr.. Morris had both
eyes shot out in the battle of Stone river,
December 81, 1852.
TIE Rev. William Cole, a Baptist clergy
man of Lowell, started from Lowell fourteen
months ago with his horse and buggy, and
has lust returned from a point some distance
beyond Minneapolis, MIMI, having covered
the whole distance in his carriage.
The Anamite Tuduc, just deceased, was
4 curiosity among emperors. The two chief
institutions Of his palace were his harem and
his kitchen. His principal meal consisted OF
never fewer than twenty courses, among
which was his ~feyorite delicacy Of roast
monkey.
BARON ALBERT SALVADOR, Of Paris, one
Of the guests of Rufus Hatch, said to q re-
porter the other day that Americans need not
tear the stability OF the French republic.
He has no doubt CT its permanency. In his
opinion NJ. Brissou is likely TO succeed Pres
ident Grevy in 1856.
LAST Sunday afternoon Louis Garravents,
an organ grinder, was found dead in q 6eld
near Baltimore. His organ was near at hand.
When the crank was turned 1t sent forth the
unfinished portion of "The Sweet By and
By" The poor man left his tack undone;
but let US hope be has gone to that place
where there are no baud organs.
Nh. GEORGE H. CoKER, of Philadelphis,
is the leading spirit of a sport which amuses
the summer visitors at Richfeld Springs. II is
the old Southern tourney, where valiant
riders, ~galloping a, full speed, lance at
suspended rings, toe rider securing the great
est number OF points winning the privilege to
crown the queen Of beauty at the german in
the evening.
ME-. c. ST. A. DE BILE, the Danish Mimic
ter to the United Stats. has been visiting
Denver after a trip TO New Mexico. He
thinks that Americans NOW little of their
own country. He never saw anything of its
size to equal the Denver O~perahouse. Scan
dinavians, he sayP, readily and u~ncomplain-
ingly adapt themselves to this country. Poll
ticians and money in this country, he re-
marks, destroy the individuality of the people.
MGR. CAPEL admitted to a New York re-
porter that he was nervous when he began
TO preach on Sunday. go tell you the
truth" he said, 81 was unprepared for the
introduction by the Rev. Father Fulton,
who spoke OF me as the distinguished Mgr.
Capel,' such a thing as the introduction OF a
Catholic preacher TO the congregation being
unheard OF in Eoglsnd, and the announce
ment took me of my feet, as the saying is,
for The moment"
COUNT DE C~HAMBoRD's castle Frohsdof,
one hours distance from Vienns, 'shints out
of a dense forest like a s~now-while Easter
EGG in a green nest" 1t is a plain square
building, with, az you enter, a life like STATUE
Of the Maid OF Orleans, and on the opposite
wall an old coat-of-srms with the lilies OF
1889. On the stairs and in the halls there
are no ornaments except l~ife-size portraits OF
dead-snd-gone kings of France. Thirty
young French mobiles alternately do service
as chamberlains, receiving as their only re-
ward a "smile of the King" The window in
the room Of which he lies sick offers q view
Of rare beauty, hundred-year-old trees in the
foreground, and the Semmering and Leiths
Mountains in the distance.