Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-12
PERSONALS.

GEN. J, c. CALDWELL, lately the represen-
tative of the United States in Paraguay and Uru-
quay, has returned to his old home at Ellsworth,
The Rev. james freeman Clarke, of Bos-
ton, last week completed his seventh-f fourth year.
Physically snd mentally he yet seems as vigorous
as he was thirty years ago.
Mr.. JULIAN HAWTHORNE expects 10 finish
his biography of his father in July, and the book
will probably be published in the autumn. 1t
will contain much interesting correspondence.
Mr.. WLKIE COLLINS, who is suffering
from an attack of govt. has finished his latest
novel, and it will be published next month. 1t is
chiefly remarkable for a strong study of vIvisec-
zionist of the most cold-blooded type.
DoN CARLOS BUELL., the brilliant general
OF the late darkness, is booked for the Missis-
His generalship may prove successful. but he can
not labor more faithfully than did the retiring
chieftain.
The New York Commercial Advertiser saws:
, The New Orleans Picayane has discovered that
the dude has two watch chains, but no watch. >
The dude is not such u TOOL as he looks, for he
knows that the weight OF a watch would make him
bow-legged."
DAVID BIDwELL, of New Orleans, bought
two seats for the Cincinnati Dramatic Festival at
the auction sale OF Wednesday last. Lawrence
Barrett bought two, John Mccullough two, Mary
Anderson two, Nat Goodwin, two, Clara Morris
TOUR and James E. Murdoch six.
JUDGE SHIELDS, of Natchsz, is engaged in
the work of writing life OF S :. Preutiss. 1t will
probably soon be ready for The press The Natchez
Democrat says this with Judge Shields has been a
labor of love- and he has prepared one OF the most
lilelike word pictures of this favorte son of Mis-
sissippi that has ever appeared"
The lie of William Cullen Bry ant, in the
American Men Of Letters SERIES will be written by
an eminenlly competent biographer, Mr.. John
caarming qualities of Mr. J. r. G. Hsssard's liter
airy worE will be glad to know that he has prom
ised to prepare the volume on Bayard Taylor.
The Hon C. E. Hooker delivered the address
.nFrY 1bar.
Johnston monument in New Orleans, recently.
The addrss, is characterized by the good taste md
the distinguished orator and is spoken of in COM
plimentary terms by all the New Orleans papers.
MAJ. A. J. ADAMS, of Manatee, Fla, has
growing an East India msngosteene, sent him by
the Commissioner OF Agriculture three years ago.
1t is twelve feet high, and will bear the coming
summer, it is supposed. The mangOsteene is
termed the finest fruit IN the world, and its pro-
duction is limited to sma section in the East.
Attempts to produce 1t in the West Indies have
failed.
GEN. DABNEY II. MAURY was in receipt
of letter Sunday from an old army friend, which
contained the statement that Mr.. W W. Corcoran
of Washington, paid $1,000 recently for important
records OF the late war, with view OF presenting
them TO the Southern Historical Society. in this
connection, il may be pertinent 10 state, the
Texas Legislature lately donated $1,000 to aid the
society IN carrying out the purposes of its organi
cation.
TIE manager OF variety the alter at Al
buquerqus, N. NJ was sensitive as to the mora ity
of his entertainment on Sunday nights Harry
Montague had played on week DAYS in a coarse
sketch, and, on being told that he would have TO
modify 1t for sunday use. not only declined to
mar its artistic proportions, but gave he manager
a tbrashing for suggesting such thing. The lght
occurred on the stage, III fun view the audience,
and seemed to be accepted as the best feature of
the show.
THE most astonishing claim yet made in
behalf of electricity is that has been proven pos
sbe to convey by it vibrations of light, so that it
Is practicable not only 10 speak with distant
friend but to see him: According TO the Otago
Times, Dr. Guidrah, of Victoria. has inven ted an
apparatus called by him the electroscope, which
accomplishes this. The PAPER in question SAYS
that public test of this Instrument was made in
Melbourne in the presence of some forty scientific
and public men. Sitting in dark room, they
saw projected on large disk of white Furnished
metal the racecourse at Pennington, with its my
Rad hosts OF active beings Each minute detail
stool out with perfect fidelity to the original, and
as they locked at the wonderful picture through
binOcular glasses il was difficult TO imagine that
they were not actually on the course itself. and
moving among those whose actions they could SO
completely scan.'
JEFFERSON DAVIS was the principal orator
at the unwilling of the monument to Albert Sid
ney Johnston on Friday last, ana certainly the
lected eulOgist who would have given to the re-
cital of mis- military career warmer glow Of per-
sonal affection. MI. Davis has been accused OF
overlooking the merits OF some of the more dis
t,nguished commanders in the Southern army, but
Albert sidney Johnston was one of the men in
whom he implicitly trusted and for whose mill
Twenty-one years after Gen. Johnston fell NOR
tally wounded on the battlefield of Shiloh the
president OF the Confederacy, with his Judgment
instructed by q careful study Of the events IN
which he bore 80 conspicuous part pronOuDces
MIN one of the strongest pillars of the Southern
cause, and names Lee, Jackson and Johnston as
the three great men who, above all others, illus
traed the devotion the iorlitude and the military
proves of the South.