Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-21
Personal Gossip.


The Hon. Horatio Seymour is going to
Europe on visit.
They have q newly made baronet in
England who is known as Sir Titus Salt.
Bierstadt, the artist, was in Boston the
other day, with his eyesight entirely re.
stored.
John E. Owens is playing "Solon
Shiugle" and "De Boots" at the Acad.
emy of Music in Indianapolis.
Colonel G. W. Pierce, of Chicago, is
the Radical candidate for Congress in the
Fifth District of Mississippi.
Camille Urso (Mrs. Taylor), the vio-
linist, formerly of Nashville, who re-
Gently returned from Europe, has gone
TO California to FIJI an engagement.
Father Hyaciuthe, it is said, was as
poor as church mouse FIVE years ago,
and in consequence of bis poverty came
very near abandoning France and going
to South America. ~
Miss Agatha States, the prima donna,
ia a successful secessionist. She has been
divorced from her husband, and is there
fore no longer one of the united States.
The Chicago Post says when Mark
Twain wrote his first article, q California
publisher told him that he hadn't brains
enough to keep mule going straight
ahead in ten acre lot.
Alhoui. who wouldn't 90 to st. Peters.
burg unless paid as much as Patti was, is
to siup a few more times in Rossini's
Mass and then retire to private life.
At one of CarIotta PATHS concerts in
New York the other night, Mareizek
played the piano sceompaniment-his
first appearance upon any stage in that
line within the last ten years
A New York paper says Adelina
PATHS engagement with Strskosch for
an American tour extends from Septem-
ber 1, 1871, TO September !, 1877, the
| iourueying to and from France included.
Sbe n to sing one hundred times here,
and receive $4,000 each night. HALF the
total sum is now deposited with the
Rothschilds. 8iEFIIGA legIg
Mrs. Stowe, in ber "Sunny Memories
Of Foreign Lands" says: Suddenly, so
suddenly that il was quite mysterious,
conscience smote me. A profound,
deep seated remorse developed itself
exactly in the deepest center OF the pit
of my stomach" Coming across this,
the Augusta Constitufionalis exclaims
"There, then, what can the church do
with hag who mistakes cholera morous
for conscience p 1t is hardly necessary
| to say thst the Csnshtutionalist ought
TO be ashamed of itself. Dre rrAvrfr I
A European letter tells us that !" Mile
Won Humboldt, near relative of the IL
lustrious Alexander Vor Humboldt, and
now sixty-eight years old, lives in Berlin
10 such poor circumstances that she is
Obliged 10 make living BY seving and
knitting stockings Upon an urgent re-
commendstion on the part of the munich
pal authorities The common council OF
Berlin resolved the other day to grsntthe
old lady, 10 honor Of the HGuboldt ces-
eunial celebration. very hbersl an
mail pension" aITFkR 1irafCF
A wsshingtoH dispatch to the New
York 7fibuns Of Tuesday says; Some
OF the old residents Of Washington have
heee TO Baltimore to meet Jefferson
n, vis ssop his return from Europe. he
= r.nressnted IS being in much better
hsaIth shsn fosmerly, and manifested
.,ncL sorr,,w at the news of the death OF
sT.President Pierce, whoa Secretary Of
W. he vas for several years, Mr., ps
~. family viii remain in Europe. He
ss registered a. Jefferson Davis, OF
Mississippi, and viii proceed 70 that sta'e
in q few days.