Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-06-22
Miscellaneous Items.

a new 0rk newspaper proposes an
asylum for decayed journalists at Wee
hawken, every journalist to be sent there
just as soon as he becomes dull.
Regarding Anna Dickinson's deter
mination to be an NJ. c. within ten years,
the Buffalo Express innoeently inquiries
whether M. c. means Mother of Children.
Surely, such innocence is inexcusable.
In bakery in Newburyport, Mass, q
thirty horse power engine drives the ma.
chnery. and the bakery uses three hun.
dred dozen eggs day Think of that,
ye hens" says an exchange, "and, like
Macduf, lay on"
The people of Belgium are congratu.
lsting themselves on the birth of prince
of the blood royal. But a few months
have elapsed since stroke fell upon the
royal house of Leopold III. There is now
successor to the crown and prince for
the people.
Next month Queen Victoria will leave
England, pass through Paris incognito,
remain few days in the environs OF Zu.
rich, cross the Alps to go to Genoa, and
sail on board the yacht Victoria and AL
bert, by way Of Corsica and Sardinia to
Palmermo, thence to Greece and home.
A National Insurance Association, with
a capital of 500. 1000, ,000 is talked of at
st. Louis. 1t is proposed to make a
Western company, formed of Western
capitalists, and to keep the money of the
association in the West, instead of send
ing East, as is the case with our New
England and New York companies.
O'Doncvan Rosa, the Irish patriot,
whose wife is in this country giving pub
lic readings, has suffered greatly ID his
imprisonment, and was lately kept five
weeks with his hands manacled behind
his back, night and day. Rossa and five
companions were in Chatham Jail at last
accounts.
Over three hundred colored persons
have recently left Southwestern Virginia
for the more Southern States. From al
most every other section of Virginia it is
stated that they are taking up the line of
march southwark. An exchange, in view
Of these facts, asks how long will il be
before the colored people cease to be q
political power in Virginia.
A New Orleans paper says that lit
tie girl in that city, named Emily Weul.
hauer, had been complaining. for about
a week, of pain and trouble in the region |
of the stomach, having nausea at times,
and at others uncomfortable appetite, |
until finally, last Friday, she vomited
live mouse, which is now on exhibition |
at drug store in New Orleans.
Bubuy, a new species of the cotton
plant, it is reported, is now extensively |
cultivated in the Philippine Islands by
the missionaries. The plant is of q
very large size, and begins to yield in its
fourth year. The cotton pods measure
Ihree to four inches in length, and one
hundred of them, it is asserted, will yield
.hree pounds of the fiber, which, when
cleaned, sells for SO hundred weight.
The cap-makers of New York have
1een engaged in q strike for two weeks
past, they having demanded an advance
,f twenty-five per cent on the old scale
If prices Both men and women are
engaged, and at recent meeting Of the
after the following resolution was
passed Resolred, That the women are
wiling to stay out with the men until
he bosses are willing to pay the advance.
A Connecticut editor fell on an icy
sidewalk last winter. He did not use
supplementary language" as some
would have done, but bit his lips, rubbed
lown the bruises, and while benevolent
Imile rsdiated his countenance, re-
marked: ave don't cherish any i'll will
,ut for light aud entertaining reading
natter, recommend US to the obituary Of
he man who ewns this sidewalk"
The New Orleans Picayune relates
hat, in street car in that city, recently,
! gentleman who had been wearing eye
classes but for short time was being
idiculed by young lady friend. "Mr.
l., she kept repeating every minute,
do take those specs off your nose" a.,
whose temper had been considerably
asked, seeing fly slight on the lady's
lose, suddenly retorted after one Of her
allies: Miss -, if you do not drive
bat fly of your nose, you'll be very apt
o have specs on it, too.
William Ray and his wife, an old
ouple, aged "a and II, respectively, who
we in Marion county, Illinois, were tied
D bed last Wednesday, at midnight. by
ONE masked robbers, and all their mo-
ey-fo1r hundred dollars in coin and
hree hundred in greenbacks-oarefully
aved, was carried of. The old peopie
-ere so securely tied that the cords cut
lmost to the bone, and they were only
sleased after eight hours BY the acci.
entail visit Of a neighbor. One of the 9
obbers, named Erwin, was recognized by
is voice BY the old lady and was arrested.
On Sunday morning, as the little
,hooner Trial was within seven or eight
iles Of Cleveland, a sailor fell overheard.
be captain lowered a boat aud sue
,eded in picking him up; bat the wind
owing from the south, and he having
At one oar, be was unable to make his
ssel again. There were only two small
,ys, neitherof them thirteen years ola.
non. hoAfd. .spd the schooner drified =
lwn The lake. On S1nday afternoon a I
-opeller came acrpH The drl(i,z vessel
ID brought her inio pofk ~ = - sc-
'asts The captain ADD "a lot n bo.t
d not beeu heard from, !,