Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-11-14
FACTS AND FASCIEs.

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Aimee has 500. 600 worth Of earrings
Maggie Mitchell is going to make
comic attempt at tragedy.
Barry Sullivan will make tour of the
United States in tragedy.
The Baroness Burdett Coutts took
Stanley right up in hei arms.
Schenck has been giving Victor EN-.
manuel lessons in draw-poker.
Cross-eyed scissors clip from one pa
per and credit to another.
The Denver Tribune talks about the
emboweled wealth" of Colorado.
Prince Arthur denies that he writes
for magazines. 1t was unnecessary.
A stream of English immigration is
now setting in the direction of North
Carolina. 1
General Grant will be fifty.fre years
OF age when he retires from the Presi
dency in 1877.
Henri Rochefort has been permitted
to go to Versailles to marry the mother
of his children.
Miss Nellie Grant, it is said, will re-
txrn to Europe with friends soon after
the Christmas holidays.
Frank Moore, just returned from Paris,
viii lecture this winter, on the Comic
Side of Diplomacy in Europe"
A Stonnington woman speaks of her
husband as her $1,000 darling. that be-
ing the amount of his policy.
An eating house on the west end Of
the Santa Fe railroad uses one hundred
and Fifty pounds of beef at one meal.
Mr.. Morrow, formerly proprietor Of
the Ashley House at Bloomington, Ii
nois, has purchased Forepaugh's circus.
A prairie fire in Page county, Iowa,
cornered flock of sheep, 1000 in num-
Der, and 500 of them were burned to
death.
The Universe has become elegantly
and originally sarcastic; it calls Prince
Bismarck one of the horns of the
devil" 4'a ~
Peter Mansdama Swedish resident
of Galesburg, Illinois, has fallen heir to
large fortune by the decease of rela-
tive in California.
Three stars Of the operate stage, the
tenor Lott, Mrs. Clara Brinkerhof, and
Madame Adelina Cell, are teaching |
music in New York.
Chan La Sun, Chinese imperial COM
missioner of education, and wife, joined
the South Congregational church in
Springfield. Mass, recently.
Superannuation killed Mrs. Sarah
Dodge of Quincy, at the age of eighty,
according to the Inter-0cean, while
many younger persons survive it.
A Fort Dodge man who. accidentally
started a prairie fire by which his neigh
Dor lost his hay and grain, called in
three other neighbors to assess the dam-
ages, and he paid it. rs2 sna7i %
Two acres Of oyster ground rightly To-
Gated in Fair Haven waters are worth
more as source of income, it is said,
than the best farm in Connecticut, pro-
vided the season is favorable.
A memorial cross has been erected in
the grounds of Sir Percy Shelley, son
of the poet, at Boscombe Place, Sussex
county, England, to mark the intended
burial ground of the family.
General Logans son, who is paymAs
ter of the Yellowstone expedition, was
robbed Of three thousand FIVE hundred
dollars by highwaymen while travel
ing in the Helena and Ogden stage
coach last month.
The Rev. Robert Collyer made ten
der alluson to gin-mills the other
day, saying he wished that all whisky 1
shops were down IN hell, chained to the
bottomless pit for thousand years, and
new chain ready for them at the ex-
piration of that time"
The Kinds County Miss Gazette /
says: 1--WE have heard it stated that in
the hills in the southern part Of the
county, below Utica, shcse are standing |
trees in perfectly petrifed state, and /
that they are of kind not now found I
in the forests Of this country"
Rev. Uncle Joel NJ. Pennick, mission
airy of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Synod of Kentucky during the year end
ing October last, preached 1922 sermons, /
had 322 souls converted under bis preach
ing, and received, clear of his expenses,
during the year, 1923, or a triae over
Que dollar per soul
There is a German girl begging in 1
Boston who has no hands, bat carries q
little tin box strapped about her neck
for the reception of coin. She is said |
to be :" the possessor of fine house in
New York, and to be now building row
of tenement houses in Brooklyn from
the funds gathered in her peculiar call
ing" I
Mr. Stanley has been taken up blythe .
whole Livingstone family. Not only
did DR.. Livingstone give him invaluable /
material for his book, but Miss Agnes,
who was writing life Of kes father, has
given the work into Stanley's hands, to |
use, and has abandoned all literary as
pirations in that direction, rather than
compete with him.
In leaving Robinson circus, at Colds
boro, n. c., the other night eolored
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