Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-29
Miscellaneous Items.

| Ii is said that Mrs. Jennings is the best
actress in high comedy now on the New
York stage.
Sir Henry Bulwer is writing the life o.
Lord Palmerston, and has gone to Paril
in search of materials.
An Illinois insurance company had itt
sale broken open last week at Janesville
and $1,000 in securities and money
stolen.
The "Co-operative Laundry" in Massa,
chusetts is to have $4,000 capital, and
to do the washing of fifty families to be-
gia with.
The Ottawa Times complains that i'm.
morality is increasing in the Dominion,
but doesn't charge it to the advent Of
Arthur.
The Viceroy of Egypt has invited
twenty-five North German savans and
artists to be present at the opening OF
the Susz canal.
Excursion trains are called pleasure
trains" in France. The railway COM
panies are advertising pleasure trains to
visit the scene of the late horrible muf-
ders at Pantin. A gentleman at Cher
bourg lately received dispatch by tele-
graph to the following effect: Your
wife is dead. Funeral Sunday. Take the
pleasure train"
Byron's heart was begged by the Greeks
at the time of his death, and was kept at
Missoloughi enclosed in silver case.
Four years after his death, when that
town was besieged, sallyiug party, car
rying the relic with them, cut their way,
with great sacrifice of life, through the
Turks, but the heart was lost in crossing
the marshes.
Here is the last paragraph about the
new member of the Cabinet: War
Secretary Belknap's present wife was
Miss Tomlinson, of Kentucky, whose
brother, an officer in the rebel army,
General Belknap captured during the
war He has several children by pre-
vious wife," On the heels Of this comes
the following from the Keokuk Gate
City, published in Belknsp's town ::
Though not an extreme partisan, he
has been identified with the Republican
party since the battle of Shiloh, having
voted for Mr.. Lincoln's reelection and
giving all the support in his power to-
ward securing the election OF Grant. He
has been twice married. His first wife
was the sister of Mrs. Hugh T. Reid the
second the accomplished Miss Tomlnson,
of this city. The General is in the very
prime of his life, and healthy; is over
six feet in hight; weighs two hundred
pounds; has fair hair and blue eyes, and
is q perfect type of Saxon American
manhood. His father, General William
G. Belkusp, was for many years dis
tiuguished and useful officer of the reg
ular army. He entered the army in
1913, as Third Lieutenant of tho Twenty
third regiment of infantry. and died in
1851 as Lieutenant Colonel Of the Fifth
infantry" If we keep on at this rate,
we shall find out who Belknap is after
awhile.
The Long Island bellies have boon Civ
ing "croquet parties" Iuvita,iops say,
"coms in short Dress" At a recent one
lady wore a dress Of light pearl color.
ed cashmere, aailor jacket and jockey
hat; another white muslin trimmed with
black velvet, and sack of light blue plush /;
third Ia young wife) wore white mar
sailles embroidered, wide Roman scarf
neck-tie to match. sack of scarlet cloth
embroidered in black, gold and blue. white
straw hat with scarlet plume. At 6 pm.
the party set down to tea, and afterward
danced the German till 10 o'clock.
The Ecumenieal Council about to sit
next December will consider the doe
tPines set forth in the Syllabus attached
tn the pastoral letter written by Pope
Plus TX 10 1864 The Syllabus, divided
under appropriate general heads, con-
tains eighty specifications of religious
errors prevailing at the present day, and
has been the subject of severe comments
1t is, therefore, matter of interest to
learn what views in reference TO these
points of religion are entertained by
prominent members OF the Catholic
Church, and as the latest foreign mails
bring accounts of discourse on the Syl-
labus, delivered ia London on October
Sd, BY Archbishop Manning, one of the
most learned aud most distinguished
Catholic pr0lstes, we give brief abb
straot OF the sermon. Archbishop Man
ming ssys that if the Pope had confined
himself in the Syllabus simply to
nculcAting the necessity of faith
and morality in the ordinary per-
sonal sense Of the word, very
little would have been heard in opposi-
ton, but because be had pointed out aud
condemned ell those errors in political
philosophy, which were based upon an
erroneous system CT morals, the world
had been in uproar. The modern
civilization condemned by the Pope
meant, said DR.. Manning, a state of politi-
cal society founded upon divorce, secular
education, nfnite divisions and contra
dictions in matters Of religion, and the
absolute reuunciation Of the supreme
authority Of the Christian Church. The
intention Of the Syllabus, he said further,
was to have those who have wandered
from Christian civilization to modern
civilization TO return to Christian mar
riage, Christian education, Christian
unity of :ai,a and worship, and Christian
to Him who is Pastor Of
pastors.