Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-25
FACTS AND rANCIEs.


creasing, and a revival of the New Eng
land ship-building tradeis predicted,
The late wife of the Rev. Robert Col
lier is TO have chapel erected to her
memory in Chicago. l
A correspondent Of the London Athe-
n@um complains Of tourists carving
their names on the druidical stones at
Stonehenge. alf51
I The manufacturers Of plows and cult
vators of the Northwest held conven'
ton last week, in Rock Island, and
among other things agreed upon an adj
vance of five per cent. upon the price Of
their product for next year.
Mrs. Henry d. Gilpin has presented q
large portrait Of her late husband, for
merly Attorney General of the United
States, to the Historical Society of Penn
sylvania, of which Mr.. Gilpin was for q
long time vice president.
Another new line of TRANSATLANTIC
steamers is announced to run between
Portland, Me-, and Liverpool, England,
1t is to be called the Dominion line. A
line of steamers is also to be established
between England and Liberis. ,
A Massachusetts paper says that Gen
eral Francis A. Walker, Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, has accepted the pro-
fessorship of History and Physical Geo
graphy in the scientific school of Yale
College, as the successor of Professor
Gilman, and that he will assume his new
duties in few months.
There is regularly constituted Par
liamentary government in the Sandwich
Islands, modelled after the pattern OF
the English constitution. In the just
published list of the new Ministry very
little Hawaiian nomenclature occurs,
but instead such names as Hutchinson,
Sterling, Phillips and Harris, from
whence it may be inferred that the ad-
visers of Queen Emma are largely Of
English birth.
The yacht race for the.Cape May chal-
lenge cup came off last week, and was
won by the Dreadnaught in twenty-five
hours and six minutes. The only other
yacht to start was the Palmer, which
was not even in sight when the Dread
naught came in. The course was from
Sandy Hook point around the five-fathom
light ship, of Cape May, and back to
Sandy Hook light ship. The actual sail
ing course was about 240 miles.
There are at this time four chemical
laboratories in japan where the science
is taught, three Of them being presided
over by Germans, and the fourth by an
American. The chief one is at Osaka,
where there are nearly one hundred stu
dents. The rest are at Kaga, Shidzoka
and Fukuwi. A fifth will soon be opened
at Jeddo. The students are said to be
fairly intelligent, but their minds are at
present encountered with astrology and
other kinds of spurious philosophy.
Women's work will be gwen unusual
at the Vienna industrial exl
position, and a pamphlet on the impor-
lance of their labor, in connection with
the exhibition, has already been issued
BY an eminent Austrian economist. A
school has recently been opened in Vi
emma for the instruction Of women in
certain departments Of work for which
hey are peculiarly fitted, such as making
patterns for jewelry, dresses, etc, and
he products of the students will be
hown. 4fv rll
A sort of insurance company was
tarted in Austria, year or two ago, TO /
Jay policy holders certain sum Of
money when they got married. The
premiums were arranged on regularly
.raduated scale, according to age and
be temptations likely to beset the in
ured. The company did Aourishing
usiness for some time, when q matrimo-
ial epidemic broke out among the
irectors, each of whom was heavily in
lred, and these all getting married at
nee absorbed the assets and sEamped
le concern.
The English anti-slaYery society gives
lamenteble account Of the present 3
,ndition Of the slsye trade on the
.stern coast Of Africa. According TO
is statement, at least $50, 900 natives
e yearly dragged away from their ,
,mes, eighty out Of every hundred Of (
hom perish on the way from exhaus-
IN or violence. The squadron which
reat Britain is maintaining at yearly
st of GOO, 600 has proved aremedy
,rse than the disease, the officers and
en- Of the eruiseFB themselves being in {
e habit of perpetrating the very hor- .
rs they are sent to discover and pre- .
mt.
A serious fire took place recently IN
e extensive forest in the valley OF
nyrna, which extends along the Ash
ic coast opposite the islands OF Cos
nd Rhodes. The recent heats had
fused great dryness, and an ignited
AXE from some burning wood used in
noking beehives kindled the fire, which
,read with great rapidly, and was not
ot under for upward Of twenty-four
ours. The district is famous for its
oney, and the disaster resulted in the
estruction Of a considerable amount Of
roperty, including large numbers OF
eehives, several stores Of hay and
raw. and many hundred fruit and for
1t trees.
A singular legal contest has been in
migrated in one Of the New York courts
t, recover possession Of certain real es-
ate decided by a man who alleges that
-..d ,vh;la drink. and con-