Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-30
GENERAL NEWS.


never 80 expensive as now
The wife of Sir Walter Scott did nc
appreciate his literary attachments, Sh
called his novels nonsense books.
Miss Kate Field has cancelled her en-
gagements for the approaching leetnr
season ON account of the death OF he
mother.
There is to be three-cornered mum
cipal contest in San Francisco, the lie
publicans, Democrats and Labor Reform
ers all having full tickets in the held
Poor harvests are anticipated in Ire
LAND this season on account OF tne con
tinuous wet weather. In some locali
ties the potatoe disease has made Its ap
pearance. ef3f hA
A man and his wife who had not me-
, before for eight years found each Other
in the same dock at the Chicago police
court the other day, on charge o.
drunkenness.
Four of the FIVE members of the Ala
hama Claims Arbitration Commission
AZ Geneva, have now been appointed,
The fifth one is to be named by the En-.
peror of Brazil.
A New Haven thief left an old coat
and appropriated new one. Detec,,
tive Cowles turned up the sleeve. and
smelling it, said that's niger and
with this scent he Gagged the moke.
The San Francisco Labor Exchange
saws five thousand girls are wanted to
do general homework in California.
In San Francisco Cinnamon are super
seding women in the kitchen altogether,
white girls fearing they won't get hus-
bands if they do homework.
John A. Brown is the Philadelphia
who has given 100000 to the Presbyte-
rian hospital, STIMULATING that it shall be
used exclusively for the support of the
hospital, and not for the erection of
buildings. Professor Saunders gave the
land and buildings.
Jackson Harvey, young man sent to
the penitentiary at the May term OF the
Maury county (Tenn.) Court for mali
cious shooting, has been pardoned by
the Governor, at the intercession of his
mother.
The Iuka Miss. Gazette says; Our
town needs hotel as much as every
Radical in this State needs halter
We should gladly see the former want
supplied; every honest man ID Missls-
sippi would rejoice at the latter"
A correspondent of the Aberdeen
miss. Examiner, writing from Corinth,
Miss, says that Radicalism is almost
extinct in the counties of Tishomingo,
Alcorn and Prentiss, and the carpet
baggers have almost all gone home.
The city authorities of Columbus,
Miss, hold out large inducements to
Young men to become fremen. Fire
men are exempt under the city charter
from Jury, street, and military duty, and
the corporation furnishes each member
with his fire uniform.
The San Antonio (Texas) Herald
learns that the people of Fayette county,
in that State, have come to the determi-
nation to refuse payment OF the school
tax, as majority of the citizens are
unable to pay the enormous taxes en-
forced upon them.
The timbers for the new bridge over
Harpeth river, on the Nashville and
Northwestern railroad, north of Belle
view, Tenn, are being prepared at Chat
tanooga. The lumber, which is entirely
of heart pine, viii be furnished from
mills near Macon, Ga.
Mr.. Hiram Powers writes, from Lon
don, TO the New Orleans Times to say
that the statue of Franklin, ordered
from him more than thirty years ago,
has at last been completed, and is ready
TO be sent to New Orleans. The sum
which Mr.. Powers receives for this work
is two thousand dollars in gold.
The Knoxville Tenn Chronicle of
Saturday says: "A damage suit against
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor-
cia railroad has been instituted by the
relatives of the gentleman who, some
months ago. lost his life on that road by
attempting to pass from one car to an
other, laying their claims at $4,000.
Senator Henry Wilson, of Massachu-
sets. says the Paris American Register,
has run away from England to escape
the dinners and receptions with which
he has been overwhelmed since his ar
rival in that country, and is now quietly
enjoying life in Paris.
OF probabilities, London correspond
ent writes: You viii see England as
well as Ireland without an Established
Church; you may see England without
a House of Lords and without mon
archy. 1t is not unlikely that you will
see an Irish Parliament assembled in
Dublin"
The Petersburg (Va) Index has the
following in regard TO the richest man
in the South" The Index says: John
Hopkins, Maryland Quaker, who be-
gan life in Baltimore as a small grocer,
BY industry has brought himself to be
the richest man south of Masone and
Dixon's line. He is now the largest
stakeholder in the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, worth Ss,O0O,0O0, much OF
which ne has given to endow John Hop
kins' University, on the outskirts OF
Baltimore city. Mr. Hopkins is plain,
aged gentleman, still diligent and fully
in business, and was one of the pro-
iectors and endowers Of the line Of iron
steamships between Baltimore and Bre-
men."
Canada is again suffering from de-
struetiye fires in the woods. Last year
many thriving sections Of the country
were swept over by bush fires, and this
season the destruction is likely to be
more extensive. The Toronto Telegraph
condemns the farmers for carelessness,
which causes many Of the fires, and il
says that at the present moment several
/ of the finest sections Of the province
are in danger of being swept Of every
trace Of civilization. The districts
around Orangeville, Barrie, Mitchell
Stafford and Orilla, we're envelOped in
flames on Monday. and these localities