Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-20
PERSONAL.

ALERT PULITZER, editor of the New York
Morning Journal, denies that it will be CONSOLE
dated with the World, edited by MS protheii
Joseph Pulitzer.
NE JOHN G. WHITTIER has promised 10
attend the Friends yearly meeting, which W u
begin its session in Portland Me-, on June sth, II
his health permits.
GyIsTIIcH RATH DAIsENBERGER, priest
and dramatic author, has Just died at Ober Am
mergau In the eighty-fifth year of his age He
revised the Passion Play as performed every ten
years in that town.
THE Hon. C. r. Breckenridge will deliver
the annual address before the Alumni Association
Of Washington and Lee uaiSe5sity. on rae ssS
June soth. bishOP WILSON,. OF Da.tnl1as VIII us
2ith.
JEFFERSON DAVIS only had a slight attack
of bronchitis, and is now in fair way to recovery.
He will probably survive to read the obituaries Of
old Chambord, Bismarck, Grevy and the other
distinguished men who are sitting on deaths
doorstep.
BISHOP MARTY, of Omshs, has left that
place for Fort Yates, D. T., TO complete the ar
his followers into the Catholic Church. The GER
emony will take place this month, ana will be at
tended by number of bishops and priests.
THE Rev. Chss. Z. Heck, q minister of the
Evangelical Lutheran church at Indiana, Pa,
has abandoned his pulpit and taken to the stage.
BE made his debit in the town hall Of that place
the local critics to have distinguished himself
Mr.. GLADSTONE has received notice of the
intention OF the workingmen of Derby to present
him with a desert service OF Derby china, which
has hand painted representation of some famous
scene in Derbyshire The premier, as everyone
knows, is a connoisseur in china.
SALM1 MORSE is to have liceuse for his
playhouse which he disnifes with the name OF
Temple He biads and obligates himself not 10
produce the Passion Play. He might get even
with the moral sentiment of the community by
producing an opera bouffe n Black Crook tray
esty or an occasional kid glove boxing match.
The venerable Bishop Peck, OF the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, not long ago gave all his
dispose of it thus during his own fife II have
ambition" he said TO die without anything liG ior
a Find that will suit me better than any of these
material things"
In recent order the Secretary of War
detailed two West Point instructors to visit and
examine the methods OF instruction al DARTMOUTH
sirable," he says, that West Point should avail
itself OF everything which is commended and in
dorsed by the ripe experience OF our leading lnstl-
tutions of learning"
Carr. PRATT, of the training school for
Indian youths at Carlisle. Pa, tells OF an Indian
lad, eighteen years OF age. who appeared at the
Continent mostly on foot, to reach the school.
When he left home he had only S2 20 IN money.
By selling his Indian ornaments ne 9Dialheo ~ 20
he reached the school, when ne WIS aken Ia snu
cared for.
MAX MULLER, of Oxford, is we'll known as
favoring a radical spelling reform; and among
reform in England are those of Prof. A. II seyce.
formerly president OF the English Spelling Eeform
HisoTieaI Eao.s DiciioaarU the Rev, Prof Rch
ard Morris the Rev. Pref John Earle, w. Z. Glad
stone. Alfred Tennyson, Alexander J. Ellis Sir
JOhn Lubbock aud the late Charles Darwin.
PROF. J. w. MAfLET, now occupying the
chair Of general and applied chemistry and phar-
macy in the University of Virginia, has decided 10
accept the presidency of the University Of Texas.
to which he was elected some time ago DR..
Humphreys, OF the Vanderbilt University, and
DIR. Brown, formerly OF the same institution have
sGeptef II n sne
200 600 acres OF land and an additional cash in
come of $4,000 year.
Mr.. HENRY GRosJEAN, the agent OF The
French government, who has been taking lock
at the agricultural resources OF our country, ls
quite well pleased with our California wines. He
has expressed surprise that americans do not
drink these wines Al rst hands. instead of haviGg
them sent over tn France, diluted and returned
with a handsome foreign label. The trouble with
The Ca ifornia wines is That they are sicohole and
of ''cntting" them aud adapting them 70 the hu-
man palate
Mr. JAY GOULD is said 10 be engaged in
planning q mausolRum TO be erected in Green
wood Cemetery as q burial place for himself and
family. 1t is to be In appearance an Ionic temple,
with columns in front about thirty feet long and
wide in proportion with light OF steps in front.
The interior is divided into two long blocks OF
ceptacles for collins the openings OF which are TO
be sealed up they are filled. At the end of the
passage there is to be fine stained glass window,
and the interior roof viii be formed Of bronze
rafters, with panels OF glass mosaic between.
The London Telegraph relates the follow
lug auecdote OF the Rev. John RUSSELL the hunt
ing parkon: 1T was but the other day that
'Parson Jack was staying as guest at Castle
He'll the beautiful country seat OF Lord Fortescue,
in Devonshire, and question was pronounced to
him by Lord Burlington, now master OF the Devon
and Somerset staghounds, as TO the occasion when
he had seen bis fist stag killed. With your
grandfather Was the gay veterans ready reply.
We found him in Pad wells and killed him
the Barle, the 30lh OF September, 1Sl4-snd there
b. isl As he spoke mis- uplifted hand pointed TO
the head and antlers OF q noble stag, and beneath
q tablet was fixed, indicating that memory still
held its seat mistaken in that aged brain"
FRANK BELLEw writes to the New York
Tribune follows, 10 closing paper Of recollec-
tions of Edward jump who committed suicide
last week, who, the writer thinks, excepting
Sol Eytinge, YVES the best maker Of CART
cature likenesses of individuals that we have had
in this country: men who make a business Of
humor are apt TO be lschrymoss individuals per
honally. Perhaps, like the hired boy in the candy
store, they get sieK of sweets or. like the flower
girl ia HISS Rtllmdnse0g, they hate the smell OF
roses sure IL is that many OF the prominent
caricaturists have come to doleful ends Gilray
Leech died of breasi-PaDg in his prime; William
Newman, teetotaler one OF the first caricaInTists
on Punch was found dead ia his bed In Brook
Ign; John AcLennan gave up drinking, and died
Ia Fix months; Ned Mullen stuck TO whisky and
died in his early prime, pauper, on Wards
Island; and here comes poor. kind hearted Jump,
10 cad the list with his brains blown out 10 Chi