Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-01
Ofenbach is sick again.


German critics don't like Lothian"
Theresa is going to sing at Vienna.
The Nawab of Bengal reads Shake
speare.
Olive Logan is going to San Francisco
! for the summer.
Church, the New York artist, is dan
gerously i'll in that city.
Red Cloud says the white squaws have
on too much war paint.
General Custer is tired of the West,
and threatens to resign.
An Indiana Gipsy Queen sports a
two hundred dollar silver tea-kettle on
her tripod.
Miss Dickinson has raised the price
of her lectures to two hundred and fifty
dollars per night.
Bayard Taylor's lectures, at one dollar
head, are not very successful in Cali
fornia.
A landlady in New York refuses to
kill bed-bugs, because it is cruelty to
animals.
DIR. Hammond is going to examine the
Princess Editha's brain. It's all up with
Editha. She'll come out as crazy as
Mcfarland.
The Duchess de Montebello, maid of
honor to Eugene, and one of the beau
ties of Winterhalter's painted group, died
recently.
The great composer of waltzes, Strauss,
receives a salary of $4,000 in gold for
his participation in twelve concerts in
Baden Baden.
DIR. Mary Walker has made up her
mind to settle in Mobile, and the latter
wants to Illustrate her designs by making
it too hot for her.
Some slanderer saye Greeleys new
hovel, What | Know About Farming"
IS being dramatized by Mrs. Stowe for
the Lydia Thompson Blondes.
Wilson Macdonald has closed a con-
tract with the st. Louis Association for
making an equestrian statue of General
Lyon 1t will be the finest work of the
kind in the Mississippi Valley.
A correspondent of the Edinburg
Scotsman states that Queen Victoria
has expressed to the Duchess OF Suther-
land, in private note, the deep interest
with which she regards the approaching
Protestant Conference in New York.
Texas is ahead, and Washington's
body servant is nowhere. Texas reports
that negro woman died in that State
on the 7th inst who was one hundred
and thirty-three years old (born in l737),
who was (only) lone of the oldest in
habitants of Texas" and who was for
merly servant of General Washington
mother"
The New York Express says the unfor-
tunate woman who claims to be daugh-
ter of the late Lola Montez now lies in
the Tombs, awaiting an examination as
to the condition of her mind This will
be mere matter of form, the unsettled
state of the unfortunate woman's reason
being apparent enough even to the non
professional observer.
Mr.. J. Fl. Schroeder, of Hamburg,
seems to be ambitious of rivaling George
Peabody in the munificence of his dona-
tions to the poor. He has just founded
an asylum for widows and their children
in Hamburg, which costs him two mil
lions of mares, about nine hundred and
fifty thousand dollars of our currency.
His donations to the poor amount be-
sides to several hundred thousand dol
lars annually.
Edward Darnell, colored, was executed
Friday last, at Dover, Del, for the muir
der of peddler named John Hagan,
March 18th last Darnell protested his
innocence to the last, and said Loper
had committed the murder, and he had |
merely helped drag the body to the pond |
in which it was concealed. Darnell made |
a desperate effort to escape the night be-
fore fhe execution, by burning the bolts |
free from the floor of his cell, and digging
a hole through the wall nearly large
enough for his body to pass through. He
was discovered before he had completed
his preparations, and was placed in a
more secure cell, with heavy irons upon
him