Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-06-27
PERSONAL.

AUGUsTIN DAILY is arranging to take his
comedy company to London next spring.
STEPHEN B. ELKIEs says he wouldn't do
it again if he could, abiding to his woi k
for Blaine last year.
DR.. HENRY ScHLIEMANN, the distin-
guished aTch@ologist, has been awarded
the gold medal of the Royal Institute of
British Architects.
Mr.. GEORGE I. DOWNING, the celebrated
colored caterer, now millionaire, of New
port, has written another letter to indicate
that he is not so much Republican as he
used to be.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND is credited
with having a bushel OF fairly mouldy
chestnuts, the most venerable of which
he brings out when a bore calls on him,
generally driving him away, to the great
Joy of the Attorney General.
Col. A. F. ROCKWELL, nov on duty at st.
Paul, is Shakespeare scholar in a small
way and has spent some time in reckoning
that Shakegpeare's characters in thirty
seven plays have made 81 ,007 speeches
but not enough TO have elected either But
Ter or Blaine.
ED HARsIGAN has been playing q
very successful engagement in the Bos-
ton Museum, winding up this week with
The Major, in which local critic says that
the company plays with great spirit, :"
which certainly is not strange considering
that they have Hart in it.
CONGRESSMAN DoUaHERrY, of Florids,
Thursday took an affidavit in the Post
office Department at Washington to
charges he had preferred against the post
master at Jacksonville. This action is ex-
pected to secure the removal Of the
offensive partisan in Question
THE President few evenings since, ac-
companied by Miss Cleveland, attended a
concert at Ford's Theater given by the pu-
pills of the Maryland Institution for the
Blind. At the close of the entertainment
the pupils presented the President with a
broom, which they had made for the oc-
casion.
PRoF. RILEY, the entomologist of the Ag-
ricultural Department, is quite super
tiuouslY described as "a tall, thin, dreamy
eyed person with long black hair, which
drops in curls from under his broad
brimmed white hat, touching his collar"
His remarks on locust-eating reveal some
such parsonage.
A RECENT arrival at the Berks County
Insane Asylum, Pa, is a Swiss, aged
thirty-tive, who has developed combina-
uon OF the mind cure and silver craze
ne mas IN MS possession NUMBER OF nall
dollars, which he keeps in his mouth
night and day. He says this is the only
way he keeps comfortable. Without the
silver in his mouth he is in pain.
GEORGE E. ARNOLD, manager of the
Philadelphia clearinghouse, died on
Monday evening at his home on Clinton
street. He was born in Fayette county
sixty-fve years ago, and came to Philsdel-
phia from Pittsburg i'll 1858, to take the
position whose duties he has discharged
so long and so faithfully. Mr.. Arnold
married a daughter of the late Thomas
Robins, and his widow and nine children
survive him.
EDWIN ARNoLD's forthcoming volume,
The Song Celestial, is an episode OF the Ma
hspoarata, and it has great popularity and
authority in India, where it is considered
one of the "five jewels" OF Devanagiri lit
erature. Spiritual in conception and treat
ment, it is stated that its parallelisms -
often actually veTbal-have more than
once been made the subject of controversy
between the Pandits and missionaries as
to whether the author borrowed from
Christian sources or the evangelists and
apostles from him.