Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-07-22
misceIIaneous Items.

The Washington National Intelligen-
Ger is to be revived.
Amanda Craig denies being engaged.
Who bids for the $40,0002
Why is newspaper like q wife? Be-
cause every man ought to have one of his
own.
Eytinge is painting pirate scene for
Hon. John Morrissey-to remind him of
scenes in Congress.
Petreli, now with the Brignoli troupe,
is said to be the handsomest baritone ever
in this country.
The Cashier of the Derry Bank, Ire
land, it is said, has absoonded. The
deficit is covered by the securities.
Professor Maury, of the Virginia Mill
tsry Institute, has accepted the position
of President of the University of Ala
bama.
Admiral Hoff, now commanding the
feet in Cuban waters, has asked to be re-
lieved, on account of i'll health, and his
request will be granted.
According to the Cincinnati Times,
the railroad to Louisville will bind the
two cities together like a pair of cats tied
by the tails"
DR.. Chspin's church, in New York, has
been closed for the summer. No need of
prayer and praise in hot weather.
The New York State temperance advo-
Gates have mixed politics with their
principles, and are making strong effort
to elect cold-water men to all the offices.
The recent decree closing Cuban ports
greatly retards the receipts of molasses.
There are in port at Havana forty-four
ships and barks, twenty.four briggs and
ten schooners.
The New York Sun considers it re-
markable that recent number of
Boston newspaper did not contain sim
gle allusion to the Peace Jubilee or Pat
rick s. Gilmore"
There is said to be man in Lancaster,
Pa, named Joseph Herr, who has not
had half an hours continuous sleep for
nearly four years. An excellent man
for night editor.
All the officers attached to the French
squsdrons of Brest and Cherbourg have
been provided with very precise charts
of the Baltic, the North Sea and the Gulf
of Finland.
Belle Boyd, now Mrs. Hammond, is in
San Francisco, very i'll. Her ex.husband,
WJlde Hsrdiuge, is also a resident of the
same city. He is not inclined to quarrel
with the present husband.
The artesisn we'll at the Insane Asy.
lum, at st. Louis, has reached depth |
of four thousand feet, and is now to be |
abandoned until more meney can be |
raised. The last thousand feet cost two |
hundred dollars per foot.
The French Government has trans |
mitted peremptory orders to the artillery |
staff at Lyons to furnish a complete |
statement Of the stock of materials of |
war now on hand in the shortest possible |
time.
The Detriot Post thinks that our naval |
vessels, if we would have them inspire |
terror, should receive such names as
Cholera and Yellow Fever, Nitro-Glyce-
rine, Susan B. Anthony, Anna Dickin-
son, etc.
Prurient curiosity led lot of fellows
in Massillon, Ohio, to make it a business |
to 60 about at night and peer through |
windows at retiring females. A load of
buckshot in the carcass of one of the |
scoundrels put an end to the disgraceful |
conduct of the others.
A man in Hamburg, Psnnsylvania,
bought a wsgon-load of boards about
thirty years ago, and failing to get the
price be asked, determined not to lose
money on them. Accordingly they are
still for sale in his yard, having never
been removed from the wagon, but team
and boards are mostly rotten wood.
The inquest on the bodies of Duggsn,
his wife and their six children was held |
in London on the 30th uit. According to
the medical evidence the children were
dead some time before the parents, and
the jury, after short deliberation, found
a verdict to the effect that Duggsn and
his wife wilfully murdered their offspring,
and sfterwsrd destroyed their own lives
while in an unsound state of mind.