Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-27
Prince Pierre Napoleon hates Eugenie

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join her husband.
| Meuotti Garibaldi is organizing an
"Anti Ecumenicsl Council"
They saw in Paris that Rochefort dares
not 6ght Villemessant.
Ten thousand people 90 TO bed drunk
every night in New York city.
A Connecticut inventor has taken out
a patent for paper eoffiss.
The Ohio courts granted 1893 divorces
last year.
They have magazine in London
called the Chatterbor,
Pay down when you buy, and you
won't have to pay by and by.
The Marquis of Westminster personal
property has been sworn under s4,OOO,-
900.
A Russian princess hes fallen in love
with an Italian actor at ST. Petersburg,
and the Gear has packed him off to
warmer climes.
MRS Shakespeare, the True Story of
her Life, Done Up in the Stowe Style" :"
is the last English satire.
Frederick Douglass IS proposed for
Governor of the new territority of San
Domingo.
Cslcraft having done his last job so
badly, the Tomahawk asks for him q
place on the Hanging Committee of the
Royal Academy.
Queen Isabella pays $4,000 in gold
year for her palace at Rome.
4" He told me-" says Artemus Ward,
ITO get out Of the Office. I pitied him,
and went"
Captain A. e. Warner, veteran of
1912, former Grand Master of the Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows of Maryland, and
Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of
the United States, died in Baltimore on
Sunday at the age of eighty.four.
The New York Times says: 1.-THE
best coats in Broadway are on the backs
Of penniless fops. broken-down mer-
chants, clerks with pitiful salaries, and
men that do not pay up. The heaviest
gold chains dangle from the fobs of
gamblers and gentlemen of very limited
means. Costly ornaments on ladies in
dictate to the eyes that are well opened
the fact of a silly lover or husband
crsmped for funds"
We find the following dispatch 10 the
San Francisco Bulletin Los Angeles,
January PA notary appointment came
here for Henry Martin Smith, and the
commission was received by another of
the same name, who refused to give it up.
Governor Haight was forced to settle, by
telegraph, the question of which Smith
was meant. The possessor still refuses
to give up the commission"
Mr.. Sherlock s. Gregory, of Berea,
Ohio, writes as follows TO the Cleveland
Herald: Judging from what light we
can gather from the scriptures respecting
the exercise of Gods power in the uni
verse, and also judging from snalogieal
evidence derived from observations re-
specting the exercise of such power, as
evinced in the movements of the earth,
the moon, aud the primary planets, it is
concluded that the tides are formed by
the power of God acting, not through or
by means Of the moon or sun, but imme-
diately upon the waters"
There is every reason to believe that
Edwin Booth, Couldock, Proctor, For
rest, Chaufrau, aud other eminent Amer
ican actors, have, in view of the alarm
ing and increasing influx OF foreign play
era to these shores, drafted petition to
the Congress Of the United Ststes, pray
ing for good aud sufficient legislation in
the premises. The petition will be pre-
sented by Hon. W. d. Kelley, of Penn
sylvania, who will mako Mr.. Fechter's
appearances in NeS York the text of an
entirely new and original discourse
upon the necessitv for special tariff to
meet the csse. He proposes to impose |
duty Of $50 per pound svoirdupois upon |
every male tragedisn, SIS per pound
upon every low comedian, and 500 per
pound upon every lady actress. Having
q special interest in maintaining the |
fool producing interests of his own State,
be will, Of his own volition, urge utterly
prohibtive legislation in the matter Of
clowns, buaoons and mountebanks. - Chi
cage Ersning Post
f. 7. Wallace, the Cleveland forger,
who fed on Tuesday and was arrested
at Meadville, attributes his crimes to pc
cuuiary embarrsssmenls. Though os-
tensibly the owner of two business
blocks, be has for some time been bank.
rupi, and has for years only succeeded
in keeping ahoat at the expense of others.
One source Of his troubles was in two
insurance policies-one on bis own life
for S40. 600, aud one on that Of his father
(eichty-two years old) for S24, 500. These
policies we're taken out four years ago,
and the premiums upon them aggregate
about seven thousand dollars year. To
carry this burden has taxed bis resources
10 the utmost, and it was this that in-
lucei him TO resort TO unlawful means to
obtsia relief BE places his aggregate
liabilities At $34 900. intending the forged
paper (ibe forgery being The Endorsement
1f q. B. Payne), which wss discounted
1y the following persons, and for the
lmonuis named: II q Little, $500;
Ohio National Bank, $500; J. n.
Wade, $4,000; GeorEe Williams, $1,000;
3. Hussenmueller, $4,000; total, SIS, 500