The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-31
PERSONAL.

Nimrod's medal, having but recently
killed his l0O0th stag.
THE WORLD at large will heartily
approve Mr.. Giadstone's intention to
husband his energies for service in
the home rule cause.
Ex-SPEAKER GALUsHA A. GRow, oil
Pennsylvania begins to show his adj
vsncing years in the slight stoop OF his
form and the gray of his hair.
SIR RIcHABD BURTON, the famous
traveller, will resign his Consulship at
Trieste and at the age of sixty-three,
retire to private life and meditation
Mr.. PoULTNKY BIeKLow, the editor
of Outing, has interested himself in the
proposed monument to Izask Walton,
to be put in the Winchester Cathe-
dTal.
Ex-GoVEREoR RICHARD O. McCoR.
MICK, the Republican candidate for
Congress, in the F rst New York Dis
trict, is son-in-law OF Allen q.
Thurman.
CHESTER M. DAWES, a son Of the
Massachusetts, Senator, has been APP
pointed junior counsel of the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad Com
pany.
PROF. WHITNEY, of Yale, hss been
forced to abandon all his classes on
account of growing i'll health, but
hopes that winter OF rest will bring
him around all right.
PROF. ]. A. HARRISON, of Virginia,
has been made LID. by Randolph
Macon College. His recent historical
work, The Story Of Greece, is being
translated into Russian.
GALLANT PHIL SHERIDAN is getting
so fat that he, toe, has been forced to
go into the hands OF the massage ply
stefan who is treating the President
and Secretary Manning.
AUGUST P. WAGNER has been NOM
mated by the Republicans Of the
Ninth New York District to run
against Fam Cox for fun. He will
probably get all he wants.
WHEN asked in New York on Tues
day whether the Democrats could
carry Pennsylvania, Samuel j. Ran
dali patted his equity leg and said {:
swell, we have carried it before"
The CONFESSIONS OF CLAUD is the
title Of Mr.. Fawcett's serial in the
Tribune. 1t is most approprite. Mr..
Fawcett has been clawed by the critics
more than any literary man we know
of.-Life.
TIE Hon. w. W. Thomas, jr., is still
in Stockholm preparing his history of
Sweden, which he will by permission
dedicate to the King of Sweden. The
work will be published simultaneous
ly in America and Sweden.
HENRY GEORGE is getting annoyed
at autograph hunters. This shows
what kind OF man George ia. He
talks about people dividing up their
possessions, but when his property is
asked for it annoys him.-Lfe.
WILLIAM D. HowKLLs will 20 abroad,
it is said, to pass several years in
places Of literary and historic interest
and to place his eldest SOB, who IL now
at the Institute OF Technology, Boston,
at the Polytechnic school at Paris.
SENATOR MORRILL,, OF Vermont, who
was obliged to leave his official seat
before the close of the session on &C.
count of ill-health, is much improved
and will join the throng about
Liberty's Statue on Bed oe's island to-
day.
Elk CONGRESSMAN RooT, OF Arkansas,
believes that "there is going to be q
great Southwestern boom and Arksn-
sas will lead that march OF progress,
embracing manufactures, diversified
agriculture, lumber shipments and
mineral development"
In q recent speech in Boston, Gen.
Hawley said: II think that the man
who looks into the great broad face
and dark brown eyes of New Eng
land OK has better company than he
has with some men-some men OF
considerable intellect also."
NOVEMBER 9th will probably occur
the first public tree planting in Cali
fornia, the ceremony 10 be performed
on a tract OF land in the Preside res
ervation donated for the purpose by
Gen. Howard. Adolph Sutro, of tun-
mel fame, will provide 10000 trees,
and the same number OF San Fran
cisco school children will do the plant
ing.
The following college presidents
have accepted invitations to be pres
ent at the Hazard anniversary: Bar
nard, Columbia; Robinson, Brown
Adams, Cornell; Gilman, John Hop
kins; McOosh, Princeton; Dwight,
Yale; Sselye, Amherst; Carter, Will
Jams; Capen, Tufts; Pepper, Colby
University, nd Stuart, University OF
Virginia
TIE printed report that Lord Ar
thur, Viscount Grosvenor, of Eaton
Hall, Chester, England, eldest son and
heir of the Duke of Westminster"
has been confined in the Blackwell's
Island Workhouse on the charge Of
carrying pistol without permit, is
pronounced by the British Consul as
ridiculous on the face Of it. Earl
Grosvenor, the grandson and heir Of
the Duke Of Westminster, is only
seven years Of age, and no one Of the
family is in this country.
JAMES B. KELLY, Plttsburg
draughtsmsn, has been left German
estate and title OF nobility by his
uncle, the late Duke of GAsconne, Of
the former French province of Lor-
raine. The estate VAS given by Ma
poleon Bonaparte to his grand-uncle,
Albert Mcmahon, one Of his soldierr.
When the province Of Lorraine passed
afterward into the German power, the
estate was not con6scated. Old Nc
Mahon died in 1870, leaving the estate
and title to his SON Albert, and the
latter died in July last. Search for
his heir has just been successful.