Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-06
4 FALsEHOOD NAILED.
Holm Johnson I'm the Field
aud victorious.


some wards they circulate the report that
John johnson, the regular Democratic
nominee, hau withdrawn. Mr.. Johnson
rsfntes this over his own name as fol-
lows: e
Eprrons LEDGER: The assertion put
out this morning that John Johnson mas
Withdrawn is false
Respectfully, JOHN JOHNSON
January 6, 1870.
There now. thtt' plaiH enough. Vote
for johnson. BE is The winning man'
and it will be seen by night who gets the
boosted 1900 majority.
Queen Vicsoria's SOD, Prince Leopold,
seriously i'll.
The Toreuces propose to go to Aus
:ralia in the spring, via Paris and Egypt
Morgan Smith, colored tragedisn, Is
playing to tremendous houses 10 Scot
land.
A Young LADY of st. Louis has just
been awarded $1,000 contract for lay
inE street pavement
A Jealous wife 10 New Orleans poured
boiling water over her unfsithiui hus-
.snd, as he lay asleep In bed.
j. E. Schmidt, of Vienna, has COM
ple,ed his atlas of tie moon. He has
been at it thirty years. de will soon
star, one for the sun.
"The Women of the Revolution" is
suggested as the title for Mrs. Ssantons
forthcoming book.
Twenty-Five English peers and eleven
members of the House of Commons
have died the last year.
An innocent prelsts presented eou-
pie Of the London deni mondeto Anton
ELI as English ladies of fashion.
A Toledo paper brings Us the p,elan-
choly intelligence that Mexican Buch-
auan has been ill--and is recovering.
Mr.. Sumner is quite generally credited
at Washington win writing the long dis
patch 10 Minister Motley, lately pub
iished with Mr.. Fish'a signature ap
pended.
Kate Fields has been delivering her
lecture on the Adirondscks at Cleveland.
From the rep ,rts it neems to be an inge-
nisus advertisement fcrtb hotels IN that
region.
The only Republicans who voted
against the confirmation of Mr.. Stanton
for Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court were Ross, of Kansas, and Fowler,
OF Tennessee.
The Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Vic
toria's second son, ia said 10 be great
stock SPECTATOR, and recently made
800, 600 by lucky lurn 10 an Austria
lisn mining speculation.
Miss Edith O'Gorman, or " Sister Te-
ress," who has obtained considerable no.
toriety BY her lectures against Roman
Catholicism, he's Joined the North Bap-
tist Church, Jersey City
A London gentleman has leased
| thsaler for six weeks, and engaged
company aRd orchestra, all for the pur-
pcse of giving himself the opportunity OF
playing the Shakespearisn characters.
A nephew Of Lieutenant Governor
Damn, Of Louisiana, who ia Sergeant on
the New Orleans police force, is accused
of ontrsging little white girl, but at last
accouats nobody dared 70 arrest him.
lie Jockey is authority for the state
ment that Count de Lagrange has won ia
stakes alone, the past season. on the
] Continent, the handsome sum Of $l29, 600
| Tie Count, from the FIRST, has been for
luuate on TIA tprf.
A Cincinuatian who recently bad a
stone foundation laid for house, re-
fused to psy his men A few nights
since they assembled and silently took
down the walls, leaving not one stone
upoa another.
The Boston Post says it is conceded
nv the leading professional skaters that
frank Swift, of New York, is the best
skater ia the Unitsd States. Swift has
challenged the ent.rc vorld 10 match him
iu contest for this honor.
The Marquis of Butte has kept his
promise 70 The Hastings family and re
stored the Ayrshire sststes, which be
bought when they were saeri6 ,ed for
racing debts, TO the sister OF the late
| Marquis, a. the same price which he
| paid tof then.
A correspondent writing from Rome,
ssys "Of Miss eastman | en- sorry
to bear from Lord Houghton that hsr re-
tnrn to Boston just at present is more
than doubtful-siEce the cause thereof
seems 10 be a persistent and aggravated
attack of maledy under which she has
| long been suffering"
DIR, John Davy, brother to Sir Hum
rhrey Davy, bss bsGuealhed to the Royal
S1cieiy, In fulillment Of 90 expressed
Tu:sh Of bis brothers., a serviee Of plate,
presented to Sir Humphrey for the inveb-
ton OF the ssfeiy lamp. !, is to be en-
ployed 10 founding medal to be given
annually for the mcst important discov-
cry in chemistry.
A Washington le,ter-wriler speaks oil
Ashley IS man whose life has always
been an abuse of existence. A pioneer
in folly, never restrained BY those con-
Il leraiions which keep some thoughtful
ard make Others nfreid, be pAraded upon
the rampsris of State in the guiss Of Q
hero when be should have been in the
bonb-proof ieieclory, fa,tening upon BIZ
: master stores. Neither friend nor fos
ever picked him out as man upor
whom any serious purpose could rest
> but even 10 ihis regard be deceived sus
. picion, for be was always sincerely sci
3 fsh and coveious under bis folds Of fs
n aEd laughter. Regarded as & serioui
being be was pseposterous, and as al
innocent creature be Vas . rrare."
The Nsz York Star Of the 9Th says
Every one who has seen the Rnssial
4 Opera Tcoups that opersied at the Freuc
4 TbeAier some time ego, must have notice
tie charming pnsss donna, Nadia &c
vitsksjt, shose beauty sne artistic &C