Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-11-05

Parsons, in Laurens county, Georgia.
Juliette Austin, daughter Of promi.
nent Milwaukee lawyer, has returned
from her musical studies in Germany.
and promises to take front rank as a
prima donna.
The dead body of negro man was
found hanging to a limb in the neighbor-
hood of Hazelgreen, Alabama, last week.
His crime was attempted violence upon
the person Of a white woman.
Within period of three years, three
men and three horses have been killed
on the same day Of the month, at the
same hour and on the same section OF
the Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad.
The daughter of ex-Colleotor Smith,
who writes It Smythe, had $4,000 worth
of presents on her wedding day, last
week, at New York AT that rate girl
could afford to get married every day,
Horace walpole reports that during
the earthquake mania in England, dur
ing the last century, an enterprising
quack doctor brought out IAN earthquake
pill, !" which had quite an extensive sale.
William B. March, the soldier who
killed his mistress and suicided in New
York, was heir to 100000 in England,
left by recently deceased relative, in
formation Of which came just after his
death.
The following officers are relieved from
duty as Indian Agents, aud ordered home
to await orders: Captains Frank I. Ben
nett and George T. 0lmstead, and Lieu
tenants Argalus G. Hennisee and George
w. GRAHAM.
Letters from Laon say that Prussian
council of war had condemned the mayor
of the town, NJ. Ferrand, to death, for the
explosion of the citadel, but the punish
ment had been commuted at the prayer
of the Archbishop of Rheims.
The new Vanderbilt depot at New
York, which is now building, will cover
l66, 800 feet of ground, and will be the
largest depot in the United States. 1t
is to be used by the Hudson river, New
York Central, Harlem and New Haven
railroads.
A man claiming to be John Jarvis,
the only survivor of the ship Levant, lost
in the Pacific in 1861, has appeared at
his old home in Norfolk, Virginia. He
says he was cast upon an uninhabited
island, and was taken off but a short
time since.
Many autumnal costumes are OF
black, brown or gray cashmere, orna-
mented with newly introduced black
and white braid. The Russian robe and
tunic seem likely to regain partial favor,
though bouffants still maintain the SUI
premacy; but they are now very small.
They have an "anti-gong and bell
ringing and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
society" in Springfield, Mass. The
members are pledged never to eat hash
in hotel addicted to gongs. will not at
tend church furnished with bell, and
make all their journeys on velocipedes
rather than patronize whistling locomo-
tives.
A new walking costume has a Spanish
hat of velvet, adorned with rosettes and
bands Of satin; at the back is placed a
dropping ostrich feather. Robe of silk;
Jacket body, without joining at the waist,
cut square at the front, and trimmed
with a pale blue satin houncing. The
skirt is adorned with alternate founces
of blue and black satin pinked at the
edge.
An accessory of dinner, of which the
Russians are fond, is music. Every res.
taurant of any pretensions has barrel
organ to play during meals-a large,
handsome instrument, generally occupy
ing the whole Of one end of the room,
and from which is heard the rolling Of
the drum, the laundering of the kettle
drum, the clashing of the cymbal. Every
new popular air is at once added to its
repertoire.
An appropriate carriage costume is
composed of velvet bows with long float
ing bows, intermingled with branch OF
bronzed foliage. Robe of taffeta; the
first skirt is deeply trained and adorned
with bows and bias bands. Tunic skirt
pulled at the back and trimmed at the
waist with bows and long ends; the edge
is finished with a bordering of white
lace, headed by running Of the same.
Double sleeves, trimmed en- suite.
A German bookworm has brought to
light an opinion expressed by the Paris
Moniteur in 1890 with respect to the re-
union of Alsace with Germany. In the
beginning of that year the Bishop Of
StrasBurg, rendered uneasy by the pro
gress of the revolution in France, APP
piled to the German Empire for help,
whereupon the Moniteur, which had al
ready an official character, remarked:
This help will not be denied him, and
it may be, as Is generally and openly
said, that his request may result in the
reunion of that country to the German
Empire, from which it was detached by
ambition, and to which it ought again to
belong, according to the principles of in
farnationa1 Law