Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-29
Mrs. Peter Cooper is dead.

Agassiz has 10 press another book on
Brazil.
Among the roaress lions of New York
city just now is the French Marquis de
Carrisy.
The Empress of Russia is afflicted with
paralysis.
It is asserted that Rosa Bonheur has
received for her paintings upward OF
three q quarters Of q million of francs.
Mr.. Thornton, the British Minister at
Washington, will go to Portland to attend
the funeral of the late Mr.. Peabody.
Edwin Forrest has libel suit against
the New York Sunday Dispatch which
has been pending two years.
Bold beggars in New York throw oil
on the silk dresses of the ladies who re-
fuse them aims.
Erripgs representing butterflies, ,toads,
snails and different kinds of birds, are
again fashionable.
The second volume of Hon. Alexsn-
der a. Stephens work on the war will be
out in January.
Sir Michael Costa has just received
from the King of Prussia the Cross OF an
officer of the Order of the Red Eagle.
1t is said that four toss Of mail matter
we're ranked by each member OF Con-
gress last session.
DR.. Carl BreDzinger, of Germany, and
bis brother in New York have just con-
cluded an epistolary game of chess which
lasted ten years.
They saw Elihu Burrtt's emigration
bureau in England is q great success. de
has advertised it pretty well by writing
letters for the American newspapers.
John G. Whittier is regarded by the
Germans as the greatest of American
poetp 10 this the Germans are not far
wrong-even if they are wrong at all.
The funeral services of the late Geo.
Peabody, at Peabody, Massachusetts,
will be very brief. Hon. A. A. Abbott
will deliver the eulogy at some future
time.
A man in Philadelphia pays an an
nual premium of seven thousand dollars
on life insurance policy of one hundred
thousand dollars. II h. should happen
to live fifteen or twenty years he will have
earned his money. iaF
A son Of Mr.. Joseph Totman, in Rich
mond, Maine, is eight years, OF age,
stands twenty-one inches high in his
shoes, aud weighs but twenty.tour
poundp. he is well-made little fellow,
and is unusually bright and smart
Matilda Heron and Laura Keene are
writing a plav to be called Champagne /;
or. Step by Step. This, 6y the way, is
the first season fer many years in which
Matilda has not retired permanently from
the stage.
In the Willamette Valley, Oregon, on
the I'd inst, the flowers we're out and the
bees gathering honey; clover and straw
berry vines were in bloom This occurs
In ace north latitude. Some Of the Ore
eon country papers say that pears and
6gs of the second crop have fully
ripened 10 many places. A few ripe
strawberries were in market at Los Au-
gelos. in the southern part of California,
on the 25ih Of November. 90 - ~
Crisis death, at Berlin, occurred on
bsr vay 10 ST. Petersburg. She was sc-
comnanied BY her children, and was
ionrneviug 10 the Russian capital 10 join
aer husband, Signor Mario, who was tel
egraphea to hasten 10 her bedside, but
arrived too late 10 see her alive. Sne
had partiaiiy recovered, and was pre-
pairing to continue ber journey when
fatal relapse took place Her renains
we're taken 70 Paris, and buried in Pere
Ia Cheise by the side Of her two daugh-