Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-28
PeraonaI Items.

Trollope has written $3.50, 900 worth.
Count Won Beust receives salary of
ll0, 900 forms annually.
T. Tilton spreads himself out very thin
when be calls himself universal
| American" a
An American youth in Dresden ha0
eloped with chsmbermaid and $4,000 of
his mothers money.
/ Henry Ward Beecher has reached the
summit Of fsme-had his portrait in the
Police Gazette.
Old Lawrence P. Hair, chief Of the
Ossges, died on Christmas He had
been chief about twenty years.
Judge Richardson, late Assistant Sec.
retary of the Treasury, has been elected
President of the Hartford and Erie rail.
road.
McFarlsuds trial will not come off
until March. His counsel have decided
to enter plea of insanity.
A South Carolina negro claims $4,000
damages for being elected from a ladies'
car on the Richmond and Dsnville rail.
road.
Brigham Young is preparing to put in
operation cannon foundery, with
powder mill.
Governor McCook (Ned McCook), of
Colorado, goes for female suffrage. The
Governor is handsome man.
They are doiag the female suffrage busi-
ness effectuslly in Wyoming Territory.
The women can vote at 49, men have to
wait till 81.
George Peabody's landed property in
England has been seized by the crown on
the ground that be was an alien.
The Hon. John Morrissey has not yet
taken his seat in Congress, owing to the
dangerous illness of bis wife.
The Governer of Ohio has pardoned a
young man, who was sent to the State
prison for manslaughter, on condition
that he drinks no liquor during the time
for which he was sentenced.
The Gear, who is very superstitious,
has been badly frightened by fortune
teller. When the royal hand had been
examined, the old woman shook her head
and said: Beware of 1873. / see blood
without saying word.
The Viceroy of Egypt should certainly
be considered the patron saint of smokers.
The Sultan does not smoke, and allows
no smoking ip his harem; but his Lieu
tenant has whole treasures of pipes, rich |
with "bsrbaric pearl and gold" and |
some of them costing no less than $40.-
900.
Prof Agsmemnon Thomsnn, who was
recently discharged from professorship
in Illinois College, for alleged inebriety,
has instituted suit in the Morgan County
Court against the Trustees of that insti-
tuition for $500, amount of salary claimed
to be due, and damages sustained by rea-
son of said dismissal.
John Powell, of Westport, Carbon
county, Pa, a hard-working man, who
had ell bis life been doing odd jobs"
has just ascertsined that he and his
30 uncle who died sometime ago in Berks
county, having property valued at ST.
zoe, 900.
George W. Crawford, of Seioto county,
Ohio, fifteen years old, stands six feet
,ne inch high, measures around the
houlders three feet eleven inches, forty
me inches around the chest, forty.two
inches around the hips, weight one hun
lred and eighty-eight pounds, wears a
lumber ten boot, and is willing to test
lis strength with any body Of the same
Ige in America.
A Valparaiso merchant recently receiv
ug a challenge from an officer with whom
e had qusrreled, sent back this answer:
| have no desire whatever to kill you,
till less do | desire to be killed myself.
I.re is what propose. Go to the nearest
rood. Choose a tree about as stout as
1yself, place yourself fifty. thirty, or
ven fifteen steps from it-just as you
ke-and then fire bravely on the tree.
{ you bit it. | will admit that l was iu
be wrong, and will offer you an apology.
q the contrary case, shall be ready to
eceive yours"
The Coward estate 10 England, claimed
y American heirs, is said to amount to
$50 600, 900, aad the prospects are be-
eyed to be good for the recovery of the
ntire sum. All the foreign line have
ecome extinct 10 the death Of Wm. Cow
I'd, in England, in 1915 No heirs hsv-
lg appeared, the property was put in the
ands of three trustees to manage for the
sne6t OF future claimants. Some of the
eirs of this estate are residents of Tren-
~, New Jersey.
An "'Orria Country"