Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-03-05
Personal.


ing Gen. Gordon: "A people which, amid gem
eral skepticism and selfshness, produces such
army could confer. 1t would, indeed. be TO de-
spair OF humanity not to beOcrtain OF Enslands
defeating the Mahdi.
Mr.. GEORGE W. CABLE, the novelist,
while in Philadelphia last week, met n sister of
Gottschalk, from whom he received some very in
teresting accessions to his repertoire of Creole
African songs, one of them being the original
''Bamboua" upon which Gottschalk founded his
famous composition of that name.
A RATHER novel scene took place in Bos-
ton last Tuesday, when Col. B. j Fox, of New
come, was married to a buxom young woman in
lager beer saloon, winding up the performance
with a general treat, the invitation to drink being
exten ded to everyone on the streets the neigh
borhood of the saloon.
IL making a transfer of real estate in
Washington the other day it was found necessary
hand by one of Howgate's friends, and within
twenty-four hours il returned bearing the
captain 5 signature. But the government officers
cannot find the criminal.
FREDERICK HARRISON, the Positivist, in
an article in The Nineteenh Century, entitled 'The
tieism is not and cannot be religion, and the at
tempt to introduce Positivist services with hymns
religion or the shadow thereof, and that it would
be better to bury religion at once than let its ghost
walk about to disturb our dreams.
MIssANNA SToMPs, "a young society woman
for her beautiful head of thick. brown hair, was
robbed OF her charm Saturday night. She in
braided treasure '1 was caught from % Behind and
slashed of with sharp knife. An alarm was
raised, but the vandal escaped with his prize.
The motive for the deed is n mystery.
An English journal, in alluding to the
treatment of Miss Fortescue by the young hope
full who calls Lord Cairnes father, says that the
latter Latte evidently did not take the proper way
cockey; that he should have done with him
Lord Tenderden did with his boy when he ex-
hibited similar tendencies. He took him away
down to London East, and, pointing to q small
store, said: do you see that shop? Well, your
fathers fat ther shaved boards there at a penny
apiece!" The lesson took the young man down
a peg or two
JUsT now the literary interests OF Roman
Catholics are dominant in England. The publi-
was the >! warm a. T friend Of Pussy, diadstone, New.
man and Keble in his early life, brings back
they al
Identified: At the moment. also, the two En-;
fterature Of the day cardinal Man ming az sends a
raper on "Consistenoy to the aierrp EaPfaad,
spirntion Of Scripture in Tie Niseseenih Century.
DUNCAN MCINTYRE, together with Rob-
ert 4. Angus, furnishes the brains of tho Canada
Pacific railroad. Both of these men came to
found. Mcintyre from an errand boy rose TO be
head Of the great dry goods firm of Mcintyre,
French ilaa A. Co., in vietoria Square. Angus en-;
and became its president. He resigned this posi-
tiOn and went to Manitoba. where he became in
thering of the Canada Pacific, Lhe most northern
Of Of al All the the transcontinental routes Each owns
tion.
CHARLES MACKAY adds a letter to the
current of discussion concerning the deprivation
Of Jerry as used in the familiar expression
slang words in common use among English
people are of Celtic ancient British origin, he
until search has been made for the missing root
of the word in the language of the people of Eng
In that ancient speech is to found deire, pro-
nounced jeire, which signifies loss, detrinent in
jury, fraud and this he believes, is the source of
the modern expression used 10 signify dishonest
and sighting builders.
Ey.-Goy. CUsHMAN X. DAVIS, of st.
Paul, Mimi, published last week q legal con-
awyer s No pIGss
itor Of the Pioneer PPcss, Hts a we'll known Shake
spearean, says in that paper: The volume is
Gi meat as new matter. II Is Gov. Davis. Of eoan-
sci for Wm1i, Shakespeare, moving 10 open the
takably shown the lawyer in the play before. lie
has for the first time drawn from the history of
Francis Bacon, If not from, that of VIM. Shake
speere, an almost insuperable and insurmount-
able reason why Francis Bacon at least could not
destined to make stir in the literary world
GEN. GRAHAM, commanding the English
troops operating in the Soudan, is about ii fly
four years old. He entered the service in 1880 as
lieutenant of engineers, and in 1851 was pro
NOTED to colonel in his corps and major general
in the army, and removed temporarily from the
engineers, though still borne on the rolls of the
active list. On the 4th of August, 1882 he was
given command Of the Second Brigade of the
First Division of the forces in Egypt, and parti
cipated in the aetion at Telekader, in September
of that year. Since then he has been in Egypt as
second in command. under Lieut.; Gen. T. c. A.
Stephenson. Gen. Graham is q handsome, SOL
diorly- looking man, above the medium size.
with sharp black eyes and hair, prematurely
culties, and the men under him adore him. He
gained the Victoria Cross for act of courage in
which he risked his own life to save Of his
men.
Mr.. MATTHEW ARNOLD, in taking leave
ofthe Club of Authors, of New York, said: 'If
the literary class had not supported NE, the pub
support were withdrawn, the public would leave
me to follow such charIners as the Rev. joseph
Cook. To what do / owe this support of the liter
pleased Gil Bias when he heard the stroller sing.
ing on the roadside, which made him cry out,
:BraYo, you have your heart in your wnrk'-Le
eepr n,etier. We all know what IL said of tho
envy and Jealousy of the literary class, but l
think they recognize when a man pursues his way
science-and feel favorable to him in eonse-
quence. II they do not. who will? In this l
make no distin nction between the literary class of
Eugland and America. Here and in England
pursue his work with conscience. Society-the
crowd-tries to impose its preferences him
journalism, which is not quite the same liter
ature, tries to impose its preferences and judy
| am soon to sail for home, suffer me to leave
these words with you as watchword, lie orar az
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