Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-27
PERSONAL.

Bob INGERsoLL's funeral Grafton 10 always
on tap. 1t has been used q number Of times, but
1t is always appropriate, aud liks Mistakes OF
Moses" il fits anybody who may happen to die.
SAMUEL A. COLE, of st. Louis, is erecting
large building for an art gallery, Seveniy-sx by
200 teet, iuio watch he intends to put his private
lie exhibition.
WE ~re sorry to learn that Bishop Green,
OF Mississippi, is in very feeble health At YaIoo
City he was unable to attend church, but admins
tered confirmation TO several applicants at phi
vate residence.
JOAQUIN MILLER, the eccentric literary
genius, lives next door to the Little Church
Around the Corner" in New York City, has a wife
and one child and asts as correspondent for ten
daily newspapers.
GEN WoLsELEY, who has faced death be-
fore, will be called TO face It again on the highly
The lives OF none OF the British royal family will
be risked on that occasion.
PRoF BAIRD, Of the National Museum,
hsSi offered 10 transfer the Washington and
other historical relics. now in the model-rosm OF
the Patent Office, to the National Museum, the
proposition has been accepted.
Frederick n CROUCH, the composer of
Kathleen Aavourneen has obtained an IN upc-
tographs of himself. He thinks that if any money
is to be made that way he ought to make 1t.
The Rev. c. G. Andrews, DID,, ex presi-
dent of Centenary College, will preach the co N
mencement sermon at East Mississippi Female
College, May 9Th, and Gen. Robert Lowry, gov
ernor of Mississippi, viii deliver the annual Id
dress, May S0th.
BEN PERLEY PooRE, VINO for forty years
has been the Washington correspondent OF the
Boston Journal, has severed mis- connection with
that paper and become one of the editors OF the
Boston sunday Budget Maj. Poore Will remain IN
Washington, however.
An EsIisa gentleman aud friend from
Boston, who spent several winters in Florida for
/ THROAT touble, are now in Sicily. They wrote
pack to the editor of the Jacksonville Flal Times
UaiOn that the climate there does not approach
that of Florida for persons suffering as they are.
A sELF.sTYLED sorceress at st. Denis,
England, who undertook to discover buried treas
ure in the cathedral by means OF magic wand,
has brought suit against The State for f20000 dam
| ages for preventing her from continuing her re-
| Searches. She produces a contract signed by q
government otacisl
I Col JoHN P. Fokl, OF Albany, q =, hos
| solved the problem of how to get rid of the ponds
| and swamps OF Sou hwestern Georgia He pro-
poses to bore artesian wels in their bottoms and
| let their contents out into the suotetrdnean
streams that under lie that portion OF the country
Mr., GEORGE w. CABLE read the fol-
| lowing selections from his own works. at the
Madison square Theater, New York, Tuesday after
/ noon: "possen Jone'' (the entire story; Cap
rty BRINGING his Picture to Prevented" "Honore
| Grandisssme Proposing TO Aurora"
| Mr.. JOHN RICHARD GREEN, the lsmerted
author OF Short History Of Che EHglish People
| has left second volp me of the Making Of Eng
land almost complete. Up to the last day of mis- lie
| at Mentone he was busy giving the most minute
1
/ secretary and zmanuenss, is left in position 70
edit and see it through the press 1t will probably
| be published before the close OF the year.
| GEN GRANT said recently thai the place
to build Mexican railroads was through the cnun.
try to the south OF the City of Mexico, aud added
| that railroads built through this section would
| the richest in the world. the attention OF Amer
can capitalists and railroad builders is diIec ed
almost entirely 10 Northern Mexico: and 10 the es,
| Enlistment OF rail connections with the United
states.
Nor content with reviewing his fellow
| artists work in a daily psDer. NJ. Gounod has now
| published a long and datIering account of N: 81
| saens's Henry VII in the NouUeiIe Revue. The
composer of Faust anticipates the keen Interest
with which friends and enemies cannot isii 10 re-
gard the Judgment passed by one great musician
| on another and, in enlsrgiug on the supposed
| "fiquancy' OF such criticisms says that the pup
lie IL not disposed to believe In their sincerity
FROM the Ripley Neus we learn that 81
at the request of the Tennessee Historical So
| ciety," Col. P. T. Glass, of Ripley, is to write
history of Lauderdale county. 4 he Hetg, has ms
doubt it will be production that will not only
be of interest TO the society but the people OF thS
county generally. He is in every way capable o
no rains to procurs every item connected with il.
early settlement 6 owth, etc, and VIII make II
paper worthy OF place among the archives oil ths
society"
BISHOP Riley, Protestant Episcops
| Bishop of Mexico has been very severely criti
cised by me bers of different sects as to HI:
methods OF Mexican evsngelization. The bishop
relates that he put $50 of his own money int
the work and has spent it nearly all in trying tc
eyangelize the Mexicans As he 1ur9ished tst
means he thinks he was justified in working as ht
thought best. He submits that he knows bette
| about what he is doing and what is 10 do thar
any who have never seen Mexico or live Mexican
The death ia announced of the French
Able Marteau, vicar of YauI Yilaine, in thu
Marne department, whose courage during the wa
excited the admiration of the whole nation, A
Prussian officer had been murdered in the parish
| and, according to the usage OF war, two 1nhabi
tants were selected by law TO suffer death, as the
assassin could not be discovered, The Able Mar
teau without moments hesitation, offered hi
life in exchange for the release of the two hos
tages and about to be shot in their stead wher
the execution was eountermanded by the superie
authorities
Mr. RUFUS HATCH, "Uucle Rufus" as b.
is familiarity kno IN in New York, arrived homG
from Eurobe on Friday last after = three month";
trip in E; glsn1 and France. England" said Mr.
Hatch, lis krupt in soil, politics and religion
| Between titles ana rents, which are spent in Lon
don and on the Continent. the farmers are unable
to get along, and are giving up their farms. Blu /
ness and professional men are waking up 10 th'
fact that the country is overpopulated, snt
within the next twelve months 500 wealthy emf
grants will come to this country, bringing at leas
$50, COO, 900 with them. Next year not less thai
sIG0, 600 900 of foreign capital will arrive here.