Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-12

Miss Kate Field rows up and down
Narragansett bay, but Gail Hamilton
rows up her publishers.
The Boston Advertiser thinks that a
branch Of our Improved Order of Red
Men" is much needed on the Western
plains. HafsH EH0
An Iowa young lady is on the plains
shooting buffalo for the fun of it, and
she is described as by no means plain
person. 0r rh
Miss Maekie, the American who has
been studying in Paris, will soon make
her appearance as prima donna as
Mile Gaetono.
VIM. Rowe was arrested in Western
town the other day for beating his wife
with a hoe--as if man hadn't a right to
hoe his own Rowe.
The Turkish government has ordered
two hundred mitrailleurs, on the Calling
American principle, to be made and de-
livered with all speed.
Coffee leaves are now extensively sold
in London for tea leaves, and afford a
not unpleasant and innocuous beverage,
very grateful to the palates of the poor.
Nebraska calls itself the middle
west, which is presumed to be refine
ment upon the nautical nor west by
west, which is about the position Ne
braska occupies on the map.
The portrait of Charles Dickens,
painted by AIRY Scheffer in 1855, exhib-
tied at the Royal Academy in 1856 has
been purchased by the Trustees of the
National Portrait Gallery.
A census taker in the District of
Quincy, Mich, has succeeded in finding
man who, although married for several
years, had never been curious enough to
ask the maiden name Of his wife.
The mysterious woman in black
was recently arrested at New Orleans
and fined ten dollars. When her fea-
lures were revealed to tie Magistrate he
discovered her to be an old acquaintance.
A Washington manager offers Edwin
Booth $4,000 night to play a short sea-
son in that city but the actor will prob
ably decline TO perform in a city SO full
of painful recollections to him. =
The first shot fired upon Saarbruck
was fred by the Prince Imperial. The
Prussian soldiers have therefore christ
ened the hill where the contest ragged,
" Lulu-berg," Lulu being the sobriquet
he is known by.
1t is said that General Frossard was
at dinner during all the affair at Weisen-
burg, and although messengers came AID
told him the state of affairs, he remained
at dinner, and smoked his cigar till four
o'clock pm.
The Princess Salm-Salm, who was
made widow by the death of the Prince
at the battle of Rezonville, was, in 1858,
tight-rope dancer, and accompanied
circus as such through the Western
States, under the name Of Agnes Lee
clercq.
Joseph f. Taylor, an outlaw, who COM
mitted suicide some time since in Cali
fornia to escape arrest and punishment,
said that he had taken to the road in
consequence of the refusal of young
lady-to marry him while he was a
wealthy resident of london, England.
Logan was presented, at the close of
his recent Cairo speech, with huge bou-
quet, by long female, fair as driven
suit, who remarked: Take these flow
ers, honey, and remember whar they
cum from" The General was profoundly |
moved
Emanuel Felix de Wimpffen, the Gem
eral who has become famous by surren-
dering the French army at Sedan, has
gone through the Algerian and provin-
cial career of experience usual in the |
FreRch army He belonged TO the I'm
perial Guard in the Crimea, and was
made General for distinguished services
in the Italian campaign. There is a
Field Marshal of the same name in the
service of Austria