Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-11
Mosby is in Philadelphia.

Mosby is in Philadelphia.
Queen Victoria is in London.
SAKE is teaching Boston Saxon.
Pere Hyacinthe is at West Point.
Chang stoops to conquer in Chicago.
It's rumored that the King Of Italy ID
i'll.
The negroes are becoming exodors in
Virginia.
Eugene travelling expenses are only
$4,000, 900.
The cultivation of opium is becoming
poppylsr in California.
Gladstone has invested some of hi:
rhino in villa on the Rhine.
Bazains will reside near the Tuileries,
where he can make daily obazaince.
They say that Boucicault has made
100000 from Fornsosa in London.
How to meet man of doubtful credit
take no note of him.
Abscondiug is described by a Ken
lucky paper as "a time-honored way Of
getting out of debt"
Talking of mist, what ia the difference
between q falling star and a fog2 One
is mist in heaven, and the other mist on
earth. s45a ssoat
Chinese girls are too numerous to
name They are therefore numbered.
No. 257 $50 1853, 967, ,s45, ,999 is the belle
of Whang -Hyang.:
The loss by the late fire at Greenville,
Alabama, the, other day, is estimated at
$3.50, 900. The Advocate newspaper
Office was entirely destroyed. d
Mrs. Catherine Muller, of Dubuque,
has sued Matthew Hayes, wealthy bach.
elor of that ilk, for breach of promise.
She values her blasted affections at $4,000.
At one of Carlotta PATHS concerts in
Washington, the other night, General
Sherman and negro, who had come in
under the social equality regulations of
the city, sat very near each other, occu.
pying two Of the most conspicuous seats
in the hail. ~ % aaHlgN
The smallest preacher in the world is
supposed to be the Rev. Thomas Noble,
of England He is but one inch taller
than Tom Thumb. He is at least three
feet more pious, though. a,i
Goldschmidt, the husband Of Jenny
Lind, is complete failure. He has
squandered his wife's fortune, and she is
now poor. II was said OF the time that
Jenny was not as careful in marrying as
she ought to have been.
Eugenie took her little glass of cura-
Goa in Venice at the Cafe Florian with
only one female friend. A waiter recog.
nizsd her, turned pale and was about to
faint, when she tipped him Napoleon,
and he revived.
The Democrats have made a clean
sweep in Marylasd, having carried every
county in the State, and even the city
of Frederick, which gave majority for
Grant last year. The Legislature will be
purely Democratic, not a single Radical
being elected to either house.
Among the articles sent for exhibition
to the late Virginia fair, held in Rich
mond, was the cradle in which Henry
Clay was rocked Mrs. N. B. Griffin is
the lady who owns it. The cradle was
bought at Mr.. Clay's sale by Captain
Nat. Bowen. f. Bowe, Esq.'s, father
-and has been preserved by the family
with great care, rra
The Lincoln county News says that an
old gentleman, 83 years of age, named
John Crowder, living in the western por-
ton of that county, near Boon's Hill,
while on tie top of bis crib opening the
roof Tor the purpose OF throwing in corn,
fell through upon the floor Of the crib,
striking upon bis head and breaking his
neck, killing him instantly. He was q
good, upright, pions citizen. a. slsn
The travelling correspondent of the
are strange crowds of pilgrims constantly
crossing the Simplon in order TO be pres
ent at the Ecumenical Council in Rome.
Aud such pilgrims None of those il
coarse flsxen garments, With string OF
shells round their pilgrims hat no pious
souls halting in front of every shrine by
the wsyside, and singing psalms. Not
they These pilgrims, on the contrary,
wear heavy silk dress es, diamonds, fear
fully large waterfalls, and thick layers Of
lily-white and rouge on their cheeks. In
q word, there are whole caravans Of Pc
risian cocodettes with their male sppen-
dages modern zed, and bldsees Phrynes,
bon rirdnfs, chspaliers
d industrie, and other tribes that have
started on their Roemerfahrt and engage
rooms in time, SO that the pious priests and
prelates, may be, will have to bivouac in
the Campsgus. Rome bss become in |
vogue with the Partisan DENT monde. The !
Council resembles season
1T Homburg; only pn.a much larger |
scale. A nice set of people, indeed |
What an audience there will be when the |
Pope pronounces his solemn benedic,ion
But also whs, splendid opportunity fer |
the wholesale fabrication of penitent |
lie diable s'y mels 2 re-
marked a Partisan colleague OF mine,
who, like myself, is making his ohsesvs-
ions here. The devil, indeed, NEEDLES
With the affair. Aud his contingent is
not so bad for inexperienced souls which |
ate has destined for plucking eudgeons.
The internal hosts do not value money
It all; they are able to turn the whole
Eternal City upside down, aud partici-
pate in everything except fasting. 10
'sgard TO that point they are hard 20
,onvince," !