Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-17
Ifyou want good old Megfbben whis-
NY, go 10 Megibben a Bro, 2sr Mails.
Fsoh,sr a nronounced FYsFter.

Fechter is pronounced Ffskter.
Wagner 10 to be tried on again in
Munich.
Grsziani, the great baritone, is danger
ously i'll. #s fn yl
John Chinsman has arrived in Texas,
chops,icks and all.
Henry c. B ,rgb, philanthropist, is after
the swil miIkmen in New York
Six-fngered People" is the odd title
Of a ssmi-scientfic article 10 "Old aud
New"
Mr.. DAILY, Of the Fifth Avenue Theater,
it adopting Frou Frou for bis establish
ment.
Verdi lie working on Patria, his new
opera, founded on Sardou's play of that
name.
Fauve, the baritone. has made hit in
don Giovanni " in Paris.
0ffenbsch has written a new act TO
bis " Robinson Crusoe."
Maurice Strakosch has started o mu.
steal paper in Paris called la Tele-
graphe "
Nilsson is said to be as good bust
ness woman as she is a singer.
Fechter has made dram attic ten
strike in New York.
Lopez's son, of Paraguay, has inter
viewed "tae man at the other end Of the
avenue"
NJ. Suaviu, French Consul at Rich.
mond, Virginia, is dead.
Wm. Bradford, the Arctic artist, is ex-
hibiting 10 Boston the photographs OF
the Arctic Regions, taken last summer.
Grant has turned Dominican frisr,
and is cooking up the Domingo business
with barefooted simplicity.
Mr. Delmar, the great statistican, has
At last succeeded in calculating that the
National Intelligencer +" died poor"
Anthony Trollope's new novel, "R .lph
the Heir" is commenced in appleton s
Journal
VIM. Cullen Bryant presided "a usual
over the Century Club Of New Yc-s q,
its last meeting.
The Due de MOntenello, son of Marshal
Lsnnes, has chateau and vineyard near
Strasburg. He is in the Wholesale cham.
payne line.
The REV" Cook, the champion
Eloper, is described as "suave ami nstu
rally social" A cook like this is enough
to poison whole congregation.
Miss Lucille Western has shocked Bos
ton as Nancy" in Ohrer Tsoist. The
Advertiser calls the performance "inex'
pressbly sickening, disgusting and ap
palling." Webster unabridged.
A member of the Wyoming Legisla
iure, seeking to sustain point of order
ierked bis coat of, with" Mr.. Speaker
lf some reliable man will hold these duds
I'll teach him that he is out of order.
The point was sustained.
Washburp has made his maiden etforI
in Fresch. He was ssmpling champagne
when it occurred he is doing as well al
could be expected, but those who heard
it are despaired of.
The New York papers say young
csnnibal, on being demonstrated with BY
his father for coming home drunk, fel
upon end beat his parent shockiDgly
and finished the outrage by biting off biz
fathers lower lip.
johnson IN. c. }, of California, has in
troduced bill to provide for legislatinl
out OF the country John Chinaman if hi
vices are odious. Charity begins at hoLae
Let the law apply to the land of isms
| first.
Prince Pierre Bonsparte, who shot one
of the editors of Rocheforts paper, 10
Marseillaise, is the fashionable muir
derer. Moral insanity, justifable hom
icide, h-at Of passion, thought his life in
danger" Will be cleared. Hemp moi
made to hang gentlemen.
At the thester of Augouleme, France
q real tragedy lately took place behind
the scenes. The stage manager shot al
actress named Desbsrolle, and stag
carpenter who attempted to interfere
killing them both. OF course the play
was stopped, the theater closed, and The
murderer arrested. -
The Baltimore papers have sharl
card from Mr.. E. A Pollard, in answer
to "a certain party who, having no lon
ger any right to my name, and using al
unhappy notoriety to profit her presen
trade as hotel-keeper, is very brsy ad
vertising herself" etc. Pistols and coffee
or tea-for two
The London Ne,cs of the 18th Of De
| cember, remarks: "Mr. Gladstone suC
Mr. Disraeli we're born in the presen
week-tbe former at Liverpool on the
| 29.h of December, 1909; the latter il
Lendon on the 3lst December, 1905. II
connection with this, we have to poin
out that there is no certainty as 10 tn,
place of Mr.. Disraeli's birth.
lord Butte" is the successor of "Lord
Ainsley," and has been "careering il
the wild vortex of dissipation and
"simp ering in the gilded saloons" of th'
Boston aristocracy. The scientific girl
in spectacles think him love. 1t il
needless to say he is an impositor, 81
there is no such title. The Marquis o
Butte is charging around" in Rome.
Madame Cstscasy, wife of the Russian
Enbasssdor at Washington, has received
the following FIRST rate notice from cor
respondent: "The profusion and colo
Of her hair would lead one to look upor
it as though it had been spun BY the pin
BILE fingers of the easy hours as they glidet
through bright June days, whose sunny
rays of light had been caught in the
meshes, and we're content to 90 no Eur
Their" Nice hair, isn't IT'D 0nly tina
figure of spinning" suggests mohsir.