Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-09-04

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Edy- The u. S. steamer Colorado
which reached New York on Thursday
last, had been absent over two years in
English waters.
B0~ The report that ex.President
Davis had taken his daughter from the
Canadian convent, at which she was
being educated, is contradicted.
neA. A national convention Of base
ball players is to be held in Cincinnati
on the 25th inst, to which delegation
will probably be sent from Memphis.
6eE" Milton Hodson, living near Plain
field, Hendricks county, Ind, died of hy'
drophobia, Sunday last the result of a
bite of mad dog, received iifty'two days
ago.
B<Dr A great FIRE has occurred in
Venice in the church of ST. John and
St. Paul. Titian's painting of Peter
Martyr and many other masterpieces Of
art were burned.
B6- A man in Massachusetts, last
week, got drunk and threw A kerosene
lamp at his wife, the oil of which set fire
to his little daughter and burned her so
severely that she died in few hours.
S3~ The remoteness of Russian
America makes it fur country" says
the Boston Post. "Surely its northern
latitude makes it also an ice olated
country" says the London Court
Journal
B3~ A Mr.. Barrett, of Waterbury, Ct.
came to his death last week by stroke
of lightning while fishing in thunder
storm. He was holding an umbrella, the
steel of which is supposed to have
attracted the lightning.
I4r The Louisville Journal says: I" II
we we're in President Johnson's place a
little while, we would make so many
facts for the telegraph to circulate that
the machine would have no excuse or
pretext for circulating falsehoods."
s6S" The London Spectator has an
Australian correspondent who adopts the
nom de plume of "Wild Ass" and the
Round Table thinks he has several close
connections among the watering place
correspondents of New York journals.
p9~ An exchange says the car of Jug
gernaut was never more remorselessly
driven over the crushed, mangled and
bleeding forms of its victims thau the
ear of Black Republicanism is now
rushed across the wasted form Of Ameri-
can liberty.
B1" The Conservative press of Ken
lucky is unanimous in paying the high
est tributes of respect to retiring Gov.
Bramlette. He met with warm and
extremely complimentary reception at
Louisville upon his visit to that city yes
terday, in which the mayor and other
municipal officers participated
RA. The Louisville Democrat says
that, on Sunday, as divine services were
being held in church on Benson creek,
below Frankfort, the congregation were
made to forget the text, and the minister
to cut short his sermon, by a snake six
feet long taking possession of the pulpit.
1t was finally killed, and the services
were continued without any further mo-
lestation.
Beg ST. Louis by no means intends to
be outrivaled by Chicago or Milwaukee
in the sensational lake monster or no
lake monster. The former now claims
a wonderful boy who permits himself to
be seen in several places at the same
time, whose ubiquity is gravely vouched
for by the usual number of respectable
names, and over which the usual mum.
Der of fools are highly excited.
F,SRa Tho oldest locomotive in Ameri
ca was broken up in the machine shop at
Bangor, Maine, last week. 1t was APP
named the Pioneer" and
was one of the early machines built in
by Stephenson, the inventor Of
1t was built at Newcastle
upon Tyne in 1885, and ran its first trip
November 9th, 1885? Its last work was
done August 10Th, 1867.
nG~ The St. Louis Republican says
j. An Eastern paper alludes to the story
which has travelled that way about Major
Powelrs skirmish with the Sioux, in
which he is said to have fought 5000 In
lians three hours with only twenty.nine
men. The Indian loss is set down at
'po thousand; Major Powell losing
ard FIVE soldiers The New
York writer thinks this feat Of twenty
nine killing two thousand beats Samson's
slaughter Of q thousand with the jaw Of