Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-19
Personal Items.

Among those who are to attend the
Ecumenicsl Council is q grandson OF
Madame de Stsel.
Louis Napoleon, who had his tobacco
taken from him some time ago, has gone
to smoking again.
Tom Thumb and wife, Commodore
Mutt, and Minnie Warren are going from
California to China, aud are coming back
by way Of Europe.
Margaret Logan, who has followed beg
ging for q living for number OF years,
died in Boston on Sunday last, leaving
$4,000 to her credit in bank.
A. T. Stewart basn't bought the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, in New York, the news
paper staten ents to the contrary notwith-
standing. he is able to buy 1t. but didn't
Within the present year twenty-five
hundred people, mostly from foreign
countries, have passed thrc0gh Pittsburg,
on their way to join the Msrmohs at Salt
Lake. -
One. of the pleasant things we have
heard lately is the announcement that
Weston, the pedestrian who never reached
but one place 10 winch he etatteu w "0'Hi
is going to Europe.
The public will regret to hear that
reporter of the Providence, R. l., press
is writing biography Of Miss Ida Lewis.
There is some little hope that he will not
be able to find publisher.
The Rochester Democrat says Milton
Alden, the inventor of the horse shoe and
other agricultural Implements, was re-
Gently caught in the machinery Of his
shop at Utica and literally cut to pieces
Colonel Boyd BOYD, military sheriff of
Farquier county, Virginia, called Col
] John s. Mosbv q highway robber, and the
Philsdelphis Inquirer writes an endorse
ment of the charge q quarter Of q column
long.
Mrs. Henry Keep. whose husband died
not long ago leaving her large fortune,
and who is said TO have lost 5000, 900 by
the failure Of Lockwood d Co., 10 going
To Europe with her daughter. r
The Rev. DR.. Finton, pastor of Trinity
Church, New York, operates heavily and
successfully in Wall street. As preach
ing and stock gambling do not mix very
we'll, DR.. Vinton ought to quit either the
pulpit or Wall street. IN d
We are told that The cashier Of San
Francisco bank lives twenty miles from
town, whittier he drives every nothing
with four-in- hand, changing horses once
on the way. He has barn on bis estate
which cost SIS. 900 in gold. Rare woods
and silver we're freely used in its con-
struction.P
Rev g. @. Dunbar prescbed on Mrs.
Stove two weeks ago Sunday, in All
ssints Church. London, and in the fever
Of his exhortation said, For what did
she do this thingf For the sake Of q no.
toriety a. great as that Of Judas Iscariot,
or for the eihirty pieces Of silver offered
BY magazine editor"
A couple Of young hearts in Nes York
which had been beating as one for some
time. and had determined to have grand
wedding on the strength Of II. are said to
have had their high-hown matrimonial ar
raueements knocked into the middle Of
next week By the bursting Of q gold bub-
bic in Wall street the other day. ~ Z 90
The Titusville tPa) Herald relates
little coiuoidsnees; "It is somevhst re-
markablc, frat. that four weddings took
,sisce during the week. second. thst tne
four gentlemen we're ell merchants OF
Titusyille; third, that they did business
on the same street. fourth, that they oc-
cunied The sams block; ffth, that they
we're all vidowers; sixth, that 10 the ag-
gregate they have had thirteen viveH"