Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-09
Personal Items.

Rev. Thos. King, of Wales, was for
merly known as Tom King, the prize
fighter, Of London.
The Indianapolis Mirror styles George
Francis Train the champion blather.
skite of four hemispberes." ;"
A niece of Mr.. Jefferson Davis, the
regning belle of the Crescent City, is
said to be engaged to very wealthy gen
tieman of New 7 ork.
Elijah Pearce, of Newport, R. l., eighty
years of age, assaulted and battered his
son-in-law not long ago, and had to pay
$ll50 damages.
The Emir of Bokhara has sent the Gear
of Rassia three elephants. If the Gar
ever intends to start q grand consoli'
dated circus and menagerie," now's his
time. n
Two or three years ago Carlotta Patti
found q sparrow with one of its legs
broken. She carried it home with her
and baudaged the leg, which soon got
well, and they have been "like brothers
ever since. They are never thoroughly
happy unless they are together.
A woman in Cincinnati was arrested
and fined the other day for putting on
pantaloons and attempting to pass for a
man. There are so many men who go
signally fail to sustain the character, it is
a pity that woman should be punished
for attempting It.
The Secretary of the Treasury, the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue. a
Senator from Nebraska, an ex-Minister
to Sweden, and quite number of others
are making speeches in Pennsylvania,
for Gov. Geary. The upshot of the busi-
ness will most probably be the election
of Judge Packer.
Surgeon Green, of the United States
steamer Nipsic, was recently tried by
court martial aud suspended from rank
for the term of two years for treating
with contempt his superior officer. We
can't see how the surgeon of ship with
such q name as "Nipsic" could help
treating his superior officer with con-
tempt.
An exchange says: "At Appleton,
Wisconsin, last week, Settin Mills, aged
eighty years. committed suicide at the
residence of his son. He tied rope
around his neck aud fastened it to q sap
ling, clasped the latter with one arm, and
then getting on his knees, face down
ward, bent down, thus choking himself to
death. A razor was found in his pocket" !"
The razor was probably very dull one,
aud be was driven 70 SUICIDE BY the
thought of having to shave with 1t.
During the recent gold panic frugal
Office clerk in a New York bank drew all
his savings, amounting to $3.50, and
speculated in the street Fortune smiled
on him. and by Friday morning he had
made $4,000 profit. His employers,
surprised at bis luck, advised him to in
vest that amount With them, and they
would "maks q el00,0 900 for him." He
very naiveIy replied; Charley has made
fifteen thousand cool; Charley will stopP
Charley that night was worth $4,000
Charley's employers not fifteen csnts
There are more curious people in Mas
sachusetts than in any other State Of the
Union. A New York paper ssys OF one
Of them: MARY Hunt, an aged woman,
in Fall River, Massachusetts, who has
been an object Of charity for several
wears past. died few weeks ago, leaving
$S5 IN paper money. and silver and gold
Amounting to five or six hundred dollars,
thirty yards English flannel, sixteen
sheets. three shavls, two silk dresses and
eight pairs blankets. She occupied q
in Shove's block, where she
lived alone, paying at the rate Of five dol
lars per month in eggs, keeping coop
Of hens