Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-08-13
Miscellaneous Items.

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There was q snow storm near Mon
treal, Canada, on Friday.
The great floating dock from Liverpool
has arrived safely at Bermuda.
The pay rolls of the police and fire
departments of Chicago last month
amounted to forty thousand dollars.
A Trojan girl has Photographic
album, containing male friends, labelled
Book Of Hims."
A common sense view of things is
taken in Sweden, where railroad brake
men are taught the rudiments of surgery.
Mrs. Stow intends publishing, it is
said, what Lady Byron committed to her
of the separation between the poet aud
his wife.
An eight and half foot Chinese giant
and his wife, of corresponding longitude
nal proportions, have arrived in this
country.
The English papers announce that
Charles Dickens will return to his public
readings next season. He is in good
health.
Able Liszts new oratorio of "Christ
is said to be the most extraordinary piece
of so-called descriptive music ever COM
posed.
General John G. Breckinridge has de.
termined to settle permantly in Licking.
top, Kentucky, and resume the practice
of law.
Baron Won Beust thinks that unless
war breaks out in Europe in the next four
years the peace of that continent will re-
main undisturbed for long period there.
after.
A colony of Maine fishermen are pre-
pairing to settle at Puget's Sound, proba-
bly, at Fort Angeles, with the design of
pursuing their calling in the waters of the
northwestern coast.
Generals Lee and Beauregard, and ex.
Senator Chestnut, Of South Carolina, are
at the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs,
West Virginia.
Five men in New Jersey, who knew
Just enough of chemistry to poison them
selves, mixed cooling draught of arsen-
icsl acid, alcohol and water, drank it with
gusto, and died.
The British Parliament is going to es-
tablish uniform marriage law fer the
United Kingdom. 1t will be good thing,
provided it does not exact too much of
the parties.
A Saratoga correspondent writes:
"The man with his fourth wife, and she
an invalid, has arrived at Saratoga, and
10 diligently aiming his opera glass DIT the
Cuban bellies"
Peaches of good quality retailed in
Baltimore, yesterday and the day before,
at twenty-five cents per peck. So many
fruit vessels are arriving that there is not
wharf room tor them.
A. citizen OF Cincinnati, while on q
visit to Maine recently wrote home that
it was no credit to the people that they
we're temperate as q class, since their
water was 30 good and their whisky so
poor,
One hundred Chinese have been en-
gagged at San Francisco to work in a
laundry at Chicago. Arrangements are
also being made for the employment of
another lot for one of the large hotels in
Chicago. They are to supercedo the fe-
male employees.
Michael Smith, a plasterer, of Terre
Haute, Ind, shot himself in that city on
Tuesday, at the bedside of his brother,
who had died Of congestion of the brain.
He left letter saying, T" Bury us to-
gether,"
Hon. A. o. Allen, Of Boston, whose
sudden attsck of insanity, at Duxbury,
Mass, during the cable celebration, has
heen mentioned. died Saturday ia the
Mclean Insane Asylum, in Somerville,
one Of the suburbs OF Boston.