Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-07-10
Miscellaneous Items.

Carlotta Patti is coming over to Ameri-
ca in October.
Cardinal Bonaparte is said to look like
Edwin Booth.
Lauut Thompson, the sculptor, has re-
turned from Europe.
The family of the late Henry j. Ray
mond will soon sail for Europe.
Seward will not give Alaska the go.by
before returning eastward.
A profitable investment-taking stock
in Grants house Exchange
The Daniel Webster farm and home
stead, in franklin, New Hampshire, was
sold on Friday last for $4,000. 8
The grasshoppers are again beginning
to stop trains in Utah, and we would for
ever bless them if they would only stop
George Francis. e"
Mrs. Livermore, the Chicago woman,
says that if any man proposed marriage
to Anna Dickinson, he would get con-
foundedly snubbed. Let no man propose,
therefore.
|" Man" says the austouist, " changes
entirely every seven years" There
fore" says Jones, my tailor should not
ask me for the bill / contracted in 1862.
! am not.the same person; hence l owe
him nothing"
Mrs. Sarah Kuowlton, Of Concord, New
Hampshire, died in that city OF Thurs
day, her age being nearly one hundred
years. She is one OF a family of eleven,
II ~ al. h Ia
and all but two are living.
The remains of the celebrated Polish
poet, Adam Mickiewicz, have been placed
in the Cracow cathedral, beside the
ashes of Kosciusko and Prince Ponia-
towski. They had been temporarily in
TERED in the Paris Montmorenci ceme-
terry.
Old Ben Wade's mode of inspection cf
the Pacific railroad was, it is said, to sit
at the back door of the rear car, and be-
hold it in fond retrospection. By night
be would have his official car switched
of, and only 60 it blind by daylight.
Miss Ida Lewis, of Rhode Island, who
has been called the "Great American
Life Preserver, is to be married soon, it
is said. Last Friday she received the
gift of beautiful miniature anchor Of
galvanized iron, with cable; q set Of
cushions, full set of colors, boat-hook |
and velvet carpet from the officers OF
the steamer Newport.
have said that Jenckes is not popu- !
lar. A characteristic aneodote is told OF
him. A Rhode Islander lately said to |
one of his friends that "Jenckes was |
after something, for be had suddenly |
grown too id social to be disinterested."
"Why 2" asked the friend. Because"
was the answer, she asked after the |
health of my wife and children I'll
Rhode Island Cor. ~ y. Sun.
Senator Sprague recently purchased |
the Columbia (South Carolins) Canal,
aud it is stated in Columbia paper that |
his agent has commenced making sur
vey and estimate for widening aud open
ing it. The Charleston Ksps says:
F." We hope that tkis may be true but |
sftes ali that has been said of Senator |
Sprague's enterprising intentions con-
corning the development of the manu-
featuring resources of South Carolina, we |
would rather hear more Of active opera
tions and less Of magnificent promises"
NJ. Monetti, the well,known chef Tor
chestrs in Paris, 10 dead. A couple Of |
years since he composed for the Associs.
ton of Artists musical map, which is
very much esteemed by connoisseurs, NJ.
Perrin has engaged for the opera couple ]
Of new singers, Of whom great things nre |
said. One Of than, quite youps girl,
Mile Rsvoux, has voice like that Of
Nine. Sass, and will probably make her
debut in the Africaine. The other is a
star tenor, who has been discovered by
NJ. Renal,