Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-07-17
Miscellaneous Items.

An American school has been estab.
lished at Sitka.
New York has 10000 thieves, exclu-
sive of city officials.
The second crop Of figs is being gath
cred in Louisiana.
Joe Jefferson has young Rip Van
Winkle. He came Wednesday.
! White leather harness, with gold buck
les, is nobby watering place style.
The New York Hanson Cab Company
has all its stock subscribed.
There we're never before so many per-
sons unemployed in Chicago as now.
Brooklyn, N. Y, is to build twenty
handsome churches this year.
Four hundred American families are
sojourning at Dresden.
T. D. Paul, well-known New Orleans
pilot, died on Saturday.
A German farmer in Minnesota is sue
cessfully raising prunes.
A fearful drought has been prevailing
in Hungary.
The Pope is training stenographers to
| report the great council.
An American ex. Brigader General is
keeping q saloon at Frankfort-on-the
Main.
New York State laid the first founda-
ton stone of her new capital building at
Albany last week.
In Cuba there are 100000 blacks, free
and slaves, nearly all of whom favor in
dependence.
The foliage of most of the shade trees
of Boston has been entirely destroyed by
the worms.
Hon. s. s. Cox writes from Malaga
that much of the wine is made from the
potato.
Turkey is rapidly Improving n indus
trial enterprise, and especially in mining
operations.
A young man had his leg broken in
Jersey City, on Saturday, while playing
base ball.
Five thousand choristers sang together
at an open-air festival in London last
week.
There are but twelve submarine divers
in New York. Their average wages are
$3.50 per month.
The canebrakes of the South are now
extensively used for making wrapping
paper in New England.
A meteorologist of England wishes to
explain some recent cold weather by the
numerous spots on the disk of the sun.
French Canadians abound in Farm
ington, Me-, just now, having come into |
the State to assist in haying.
The New York Sun nominates Bur
lingame for President in 1876, on the |
strength of the Chinese immigration.
Archbishop McCloakey will soon leave
to attend the Council at Rome, taking |
So, 900 as present to the Pope.
The New York Tribune declares there
are no clans in the world that approach |
in suculence the clans of Rhode Island.
The Boston sparrows are so tame that
they will eat from the hands of visitors |
to the common.
An Illinois gentleman, who has farm
of 10000 acres, has 5000 acres in corn
and 5000 acres in wheat, all in very fine
condition.
Deaths are reported in all parts of the |
country Of children poisoned by eating |
the ends of lucifer matches. Parents |
should be careful.
The strike among the coal miners Of
has had the effect of rais-
ing the price of coal in Boston some
three dollars.
The largest crop of cotton marketed in
this country was in lS59-60, and was
4. CTS, no bales, averaging 45O pounds
each.
Marie Tsglioni, the celebrated dan
seuse, who was married to an Austrian
Count two years ago, has applied for
divorce.
The citizens of St. Louis have made up
a premium of $500 for the best milch
COW, to be exhibited at the st. Louis fair
IN October next.
Mrs. Julia L. Fillmore, relict Of the
late G. d. Fillmore, brother of the ex-
died in WashiEgton on Satur.
day evening.
Bishop MeIivaise, of Ohio, who sp-
poiDted the early part of tho month to
sisit Europe with his granddaughter, is
now i'll in New York.
Canada has a new patent law. 1t ex-
,lndes from its benefits all aliens aud
A person may secure
patent only By residence of a year in
he dominion,
The abundance of the wheat crop 10
Virginia has already brought down the
,rice Of -four in that State, and it is
hought that the best quality of the staff
,f life will soon be sold at So and Sc per
,arreL
A. N. Heiutg, whose face was recently
while riding in an omnibus in 5
london, by the careless driving of one
t Messrs. Pickford's trucks, has &C
epted $4,000 in gold as a eOmpensa-
ion,
The ex-Confederats General Kirby
'mith seems to be popular as an instrue-
or Of youth. 10 one State alone. says the
be Louisville Courier Journal sixteen
undred ladies have promised him their
ons as pupils for bis academy,