Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Ex-senator Wigfall represents an Eng
lish mining company in Colorado.
Logan has dubbed pig-iron Kelly the
Iron Duke"
The congress of chess-players meets
at Baden July 10th.
Butler has abandoned the contest for
the United States Senatorship with
Henry Wilson.
Chase wasn't popular with the legisla-
tor excursionists to Washington: He
didn't drink with them. Grant did.
Ex-Collector Bailey, who recently dis
appeared from New York, is said to have
been found in Ohio, on farm.
The Sorosis have resolved against re-
viving long skirts They are right-the
shorter the dresses the more we see to
admire.
Judge Abraham Russell, who died sud-
denly in New York Tuesday, once SEN
fenced a garroter to forty years impris-
onment.
Schenck dislikes the newspapers He
never will forgive their reports of his ex-
plot at Vienna during the war, when he
reconnotered the enemy in a railroad
train.
Speaker Blaine disgusts every one by
his partial rulings In his mind Demo
Gratis are always out of order" and
Radicals in order" His partisanship
is contemplate.
Mrs. Clemmer Ames says Charles Sum
ner could never have been Charles Sum
ner without his six feet altitude and
laundering ayes. How, then, about his
laundering nose?
Rev. J. j. Bullock, formerly of Ken
lucky, was installed pastor of the Second
Presbyterian Church, Alexandria, Va,
on Sunday. He is brother-in-law of
General Breckinridge
Miss Madigan a young girl with a
fresh mezzosoprano voice and good
stage presence, has made her debut in
the London opera as Macellna in FL
delio, to the Leonora of Titiens.
!. One patient in Maine has really and
undoubtedly been made nervous by
smoking. He put his lighted pipe in the
same pocket with eighty-five dollars
worth of paper currency.
A fellow who made a return of large
income, with view to an advantageous
matrimonial alliance, is anxious TO cor
rect his figures now that income returns
are not to be published
At Fort Scott, Kansas, a man buying
a lot can dig stone enough on it to build I
a house, cement for his cellar and els /
tern, ochre to paint the house, and coal I
enough at the bottom to last the family a |
lifetime.
A negro alderman at Wilmington, n. /
c., was called Anthony" by the coun-
sci in law case in which he was wit
ness; but he refused to reply till he was
addressed as Mr. Howe, and the eonr,
sustained him.
Hattie johnson, the lady who was
brought into distressing notoriety through
her elopement with the Rev. Horace
Cook, in New York, some months ago,
was joined in wedlock to a young man of
that city last week
A mother in Cleveland, Ohio, has been
before the courts on a charge Of assault
and battery on her own son, but was ac-
Quilted She was whipping .he boy for
stealRg money and playing truant, when
an ofiicious neighbor interfered and had
herarrested
San Francisco has at last nit upon a
new, original and very happy plap Of
robbing a man. An operator lassoes !
him, ead afsr his breathing eeases % be
regular. a cl0iederate performs the cere-
mony OF emptying his pockets 4
The excitemenl throughout Greece on u
account OF the recent outrag~- -
A, - -4on is not abaied
hass ~ 4" el hour Monday morning the
-,':.ies Of Floyd and Herbert, Of the Bri.
nsh Legation, arrived at Piraeus, near
Athens in q Grecinn frirafe and Later