Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-04-11

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Colfax is about to purchase baby
carriage.
0ffenbach has new opera in hand
Fantasia.
Paris is to have only ten nights of
Adelina Patti.
The comedian Toole is coming to this
country.
Victor Hugo gets $4,000 out of his old
copyrights
Mrs. Morgan's fancy balls have been
the delight of Paris.
A Boston policeman is under Arrest for
pocket-picking
A portrait of Cromwell was lately sold
in London for $1,000
A New York paper suggests that Colo
mel Bailey was murdered.
Three Cinnamon are preparing to eli
ter upon a course of study at Harvard
OF all the school-teachers in the Uni
ted States two-thirds are women.
A lady in Maine was left by the war
with thirty-one orphan grandchildren.
A terrible fzzle" is what Mexican
Buchanan amounted to in Bloomington,
Illinois.
Madame Parepa-Rosa will spend a
good portion Of the coming summer in
Europe.
Napoleon calls the $4,000 schoolmas-
ters in his Empire the pacific army of
France" b"
The Military Governor of Poland was
knocked down and cowhided, at Warsaw,
last month
Rachels brother is to take Hortense
Schneider on Grand Duchess tour
through Great Britain.
The students of the University of Glas-
gov have contributed s., 900 towards the
erection Of gymnasium.
Miss Charlotte Leclerq, ten years ago
was ballet dancer in London Music
Hall, at salary of el per week
The number o. working-women in
Paris is computed at 100000. Thirty
cents day is the average pay that they
receive .
The Empress Eugene is anxious that
Madame George Sand should Gil one of
the five seats now vacant in the French
Academy.
By the death of Miss Walker, of
Coates, an estate valued at upward of
f200,000 has passed into the possession
of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.
Empress Eugene is about to recon
struct the Chapel of the Tuileries on
magnificent plan, and at the expense of
the Civil List.
The Sandwich Islanders, after having
killed Captain Cook and eaten his body,
are about erecting monument to the
memory of the great navigator.
1t is the fashion now for married ladies
to dine their male friends during the
husbands absence at the club, Ia
Lady Mordaunt Whose turn next?
Sam Reeves is about to leave England
for Italy. His throat is in such a deli
cate condition that he has been obliged
to give up all his professional engage
ments.
A Paris correspondent has noticed an
event of unusual and unprecedented !
significance: The Empress Eugene has
on two public occasions in the !
same toilet.
Spurgeon keeps his flock of 1900 mem
bers in order by giving each coupon
ticket, which he or she is obliged to de- |
posit in the collection plate to show at
tendance at church.
A Florida negro, removed from a town
some months ago, carried off
the marriage certificate blanks and sells
them to his brethren, dating them back
to his official period.
The death of famous brigand chief,
Pasquale Torreggnani who for seven
years has been the terror of an Italian
province, is announced. He was shot
by the troops sent to arrest him.
A New York critic thinks that the Sir
Giles 0verreach'' of Mr.. Edwin Booth
shows eminent and uncontested genius"
to a greater degree thsn any other inn
of our famous tragedian.
Worrell, the clown, and father of the
once famous, but now defuRct, Worrell
Sisters, is a man of wonderful mind, and
a graduate Of Harvard College. The
girls take after him.
Rose Ettylnge, the actress, was mar
red to George H. Butler nephew Of
Cen. b. f. Butler) and proceeds to
Egypt with her husband, who has Just
Deen appointed United States Consul.
A Norwich dog is in the habit of visit
ne a family in New London on certain
Laws. He walks TO the depot, waits for
he train, springs into the door Of the
ON Its arrival, and takes a
leat one side with as much nonchalance
IS commuter. Az night he resurRs.
The people on the train know him and
How hih TO pass.
The I.awrenoebarg (fndianal Press
avs; IA ks= ss last come our turn, a. a
TO be exercised over spiritu-
lhsm. A medium is here. One Of the
itaid citizens Of our city went TO see her, h
vas persuaded BY her that he could fy.
tree, iit out-and was picked
ip from the ground, soiled and battered
erriblyl He don't want any more spir-