Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-03
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


| Brignoli don't think it will pay to pro
duce opera at Newport.
| The Crow Indians have had all the
crow taken out Of them by the Sioux,
| The Catholics Of Boston have given
Bishop Williams $4,000 testimonial
VIM. Ruppel, a German citizen Of New
York, from Frankfort-on-the-Main, lost
three sons in the battle of Weissenburg'
Mis- Lillian Edgerton has already &C.
cepted forty-four engagements to lecture
during the coming season.
The Earl of Shaftesbury says that i
His Holiness the Pope had wife she
would not allow him for an hour to re.
main in the belief thathe was iniallible. 7
A new historical paper on the battle OF
Waterloo has recently been published by
the Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, late
French Minister at the Court of st.
James.
Judge Barnard has decided, in case
where husband was sued for the sup
port of his mother-in-law, that it is bad
enough to have such an affection with
out being compelled TO support her.
The weekly edition Of the Knoxville
Wing and Register is printed in a
twelve page form, and contains sixty
columns. filled with choice matter for
the politician, the business man, the
farmer and the man of leisure.
A number of Irish field hands, en-
ployed in Lancashire, England, have
suddenly left there for Ireland, just at
the beginning Of the harvest, which cir
cumstance excites fears that mischief is
again brewingin Ireland.
Ii was saying on the Mississippi at
one iuncture of the war that the fleet be-
low Vicksburg - Farragut's - was
wooden feet with an iron commander;
while that above Vicksburg-Porter S.
was an iron feet with wooden COM
mander.
Even the war has not prevented new
style of summer costume for ladies In
Paris. the feather-dress. 1t is short
dress, trimmed with countless rows of
feathers. The head-dress is a crown OF
ostrich plumes and raven feathers, and
the parasol is studded with little hum
ming-birds.
SISTER Louise" one Of the victims of
the late massacre of Christians in lien
tsin. China, was formerly Miss Alice ..
Sullivan, of Syracuse, n Y, only sister
of Capt. Timothy Sullivan of that city.
She had been seven years In missionary
service in China, and narrowly escaped
the late massacre at Pekin, only to meet
a horrible death at Tien-tsin.
Herr Joseph Strauss was buried at
Wilma on the 25th. He was accom-
panied to his last home by thousands,
including all his relations and friends,
the only one among the former who was
not present being his brother Johann
Strauss, who was himself lying on bed
Of sickness. The violin of the deceased
was laid with broken strings, in the eoffin
with him.
There is man living in Calhoun
Miss, who is supposed to be the
strongest man in the State. if not in the
entire State. He is thirty-five years of
age, and weighs two hundred and twenty
i've pounds. He has been known to
carry three bars of railroad iron, when
I takes from three to FIVE ordinary men
o carry one. He can take cask con-
aiming forty gallons of whisky or water
the former is preferred, we presume
md raise it from the ground and drink
,ut of the bunghole with as much ease
IS others could out Of common pitcher;
md he has frequently taken barrel Of
Hour under each arm, and, balancing a
sack Of salt on his head, carried them
for several hundred yards with APP
parently but little effort. He offers to
bet that he can lift thirteen hundred
pounds.