Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-07-31
miscellaneous Items.


has been i'll, but is better.
Prince Metternicb recently paid a
dressm aker's bill of $240, 1000 fer one sea
son in Paris.
A nine-year-older in Rome, New York,
has hung himself because he couldn't pick
/ strawberries.
A party of wealthy Pennsylvanians
have arrived at Raleigh, North Carolina,
in pursuit of lands.
A dozen bottles of Grants Cham
payne Cider" has been sent TO the Presi-
dent. What office is vacant2
A stroke Of lightning cured case of
| chronic rheumatism in Nashville the
other day.
Seventeen hundred and fifty young
women at Long Branch have prior en-
gagements to dance with Grant
There was man so intensely polite
that as he passed hen on her nest, he
said, Don't rise, ma'am."
Captain G. Calhoun reports the boil
worm as having appeared in small mum.
bers, in the vicinity of Box Springs, Ga.
A Washington picnicer tried to drown
himself the other day becausebis sweet
heart danced with some one else--he not
knowing how.
Rats, mice and frizzes, to be worn
under the hair, to fill it out, are almost
superseded by light combs and wire rib
bon.
Excited Frenchmau'at Niagara Falls
"Ah dis is de grand spektakle Su-
paarbl Mani6que By gar, he is come
down frustrated"
Hon. Henry ]. Raymond died worth
about $3.50, 000-s little over $250,O0O
was in real estate, the balance being in
personal property.
The horse Elmira died at Long Branch
on Monday. He was a son of Hamble-
tonian. he made his mile in 2:37, and
was valued at $1,000.
The Natire Virgtniax says that the
whites in Madison county intend to pre-
sent home to each of the blacks who
voted the Conservative ticket.
1t is said that under the new system of
extracting alcohol from garbage, palat-
able article of beer may be obtained from
old boots.
A little girl, named Katie Pitt, has re
ceived premium in Platte county, Mo,
for committing to memory 1857 verses
of the Bible. At last accounts she was
still alive.
The word debt is composed of the
initials of "dun everybody twice"
Credit is formed of the initial letters
of "a call regularly every dsy-Tll trust"
Light frizzled curls are worn about the
chignon, with velvet bandeau cut bias,
for plain dress, and the gayest of aigret-
tes for more elaborate toilet. /.
A New York bride Of Tuesday had
among her presents picture OF pearls
and diamonds set by the court jewsller of
St. Petersburg, valued at $4,000.
Miss Bessie Bisbee, one of Miss An
thongs disciples, but beauty and saucy
withal, is quoted as having perceived the
error of her ways, and that she will not
do 80 any more.
Mrs. DR.. Mary Walker thinks that the
death of the Presidents mare was
judgment on him for not giving her an
office.
II Ben Butler gets into the Senate in
1871, he is likely there to meet Mr.
Andrew johnson; and there is lively
prospect of Interesting proceedings about
that time.
A betrayed young woman in Detroit
dressed herself nicely, purchased her
shroud, read her Bible, wrote note re-
questing that her hair should not be cut
off, and then poisoned herself.
The efforts to plseate l. Donnelly by
the Marshall-W sshburne Ramsey An
drews-Hubbard wing of the Minnesota
Radicals have failed, and they have re-
solved to run him out Of the State.
q. Hunter, of Hinsdale, Mass, has
sued the Agriculturist newspaper for
libel, in comparing him to Gumbridge Il
Co., the gift enterprise swindlers. Dam
ages are laid at $4,000
The Grand Jury at Washington are
looking into the negro riots that occurred
at the charter election six weeks ago.
They nave already found indictments
against eight or ten persons, and will
probably find several more.
Prentice asks this question: Since the
Government turned out an office-holder
for marrying John Surratt's sister, why
does it not TURN out men for going to see
John Wilkes BOOTHS brother upon the
stsge2
A Young married man named Eugene
Starret committed suicide at 81. Louis,
Thursday, by hanging himself. Domestic
trouble and depression of mind, induced
by losing $4,000 by the failure of John F.
Darby & Co., bankers, led to the act.
A negro preacher in Louisiana recently
got off the following for the benefit of his
bearers; "You thinks the Lord amt
bout heah all de time II you dug, you
is mistaken. One time be met de debble
wslkin' roun' like rorin lion, an de
Lord say, / gwine to put you into de pit
for thousand years, an | got a great
mind to put you in dsr for two thousand
years; arter dat, If coteh you roua' agin,
I'll put you in dsr forebber. If rs got to
do it at de pint oh de bdyneti"
An strocious murder was committed at
Fort Hill, near Vicksburg, last week. A
negro named George Wesimoreland was
accused Of having stolen from another
negro a lot of clothing valued at $l25.
Upon affidavit to this effect, l.. NJ. Lowen-
burg, Justice of the Peace, issued war
rant for the arrest Of the negro West
moreland. This warrant was placed 10
the hands Of Thomas H. Cox, special
deputy. Who proceeded to make the ar
rest He found the negro at the house
then occupied by him at the place above
stated, and began to read to him the war
rant for his arrest. The negro, without
/ a unrd drew a shnfrun from lie Mace in