Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-05

tural editor is dead. We shall never
know what time of the year to dig for
apples any more. ~
NJ. Gounod has been so i'll in Londen
that serious alarm was felt by his friends.
The great composer however is much
improved in health.
Mr.. Parton observes that if aniAmerl-
can woman we're about to be hanged, her
first question would be. Have ahang-
ing dress?"
Achard, the new French tenor, made a
fizzle in Mignon at Venice, and the man
ager doesn't consider him so much OF
A-chard as he did.
During the trial of Mrs. Wharton,
sixty-six witnesses were called and fifty
six sworn. The cost of the trial is about
sixteen thousand dollars.
Louis Zimmerman, love-stricken
youth of sixteen. committed suicide at
Cleveland on the 29tb, because his ma
objected to his sweetheart.
The Rome correspondent of an East
ern newspaper goes into raptures over
the surprising beauty of the Countess
del Grille, the daughter of Nine. Ristori.
1t is delicately intimated that Alexis
does a great deal of standing up since
his buffalo hunting experience. When
he does sit down, he sits down gradually.
Donald Padmanoff, of the Courier
Journal, will welcome Alexis to Louis
vile in a carefully prepared speech, in
the Tartar emetic dialect. Terre Haute
Journal,
A wealthy Bostonian, q. D. Jordan
Hight, has guaranteed the cost of Gil
more s coming musical jubilee, when the
sound Of the cymbal shall be heard over |
Jordan.
Van Vert county, Ohio, has a marshal
whose name is Clement L. Vallandig-
ham. He is a Republican, but the
Democrats support him on account of
his name. f
Mrs. Hough has been telling the peo-
pie of Washington what she knows about |
popping the question:" and Mrs.
Jocelyn Gage about Women in An
cient Egvpt."
The Jesuits expelled from Guatemala
have taken refnge in Nicarauga. At
last accounts there was considerable agi- |
tation over the question of allowing them
10 remain in the latter Republic.
Miss Alta NJ. Hewlett is martyr to
the law of Illinois. She studied law aud
passed an examination, but was denied
the right to practice, and will probably
be let loose as lecturer on the brutality
Of men.
The Greencastle qndiana) Banner
says: Miss Fannie J. Kellogg called
On Miss Nilsson while at Indianapolis
On Tuesday, and will probably go to
Europe with her in the spring, for the
purpose of travelling and pursuing her
musical studies.
Cincinnati reporters, whose overcoats |
have gone where the woodbine twineth,
kindly advertise that the garments be- |
loug to men just recovering from attacks
Of most malignant small-peN. Vain
sxpostnlation.
A pious but unedueated judge closed
sentence with the following touching re-
proach: Prisoner at the bar, nature
has endowed you with good educatio n
and respectable family connections, in
stead of which you go prowling around
the country stealing ducks"
A lot Of crazy Tom-PAinists in St.
Louis have sent to Congress a protest
against any amendment of the COnstitu-
ton recognizing the divinity Of Christ
They seem to think that if the present
imsculate Congress were to affirm the
divinity Of the Saviour there could pos
sibly be no further controversy.
Mack" of the St. Louis Democrat
thus cheerfully alludes to Mr.. soovilfs
speech at the Jefferson City Convention:
" He alternated between an ass and a
liar all the way through. As a liar he
said he had recently declined aa Office
rendered him by Useless S. Grant, and
as an ass he said something very funny"
1t will help our people to appreciate
Ibe grand dueal cut they have received,
in consequence Of the boOrisbness Of our
when they learn that in the
Of cities TO be visited, pre-
pared by the Gar, Cincinnati was speci-
ally included. As the steamer which is
10 convey Alexis to New Orleans is
stuck fast in an ice gorge, the excuse Of
lack OF time is toe thin Cincinnati
Enquirer.
A Scottish lady student, Miss Jessie
has carried of the highest
honors at the British Royal academy this
year. The gold medal aud books for the
best historical painting, An Act Of
Mercy, has been accorded 10 Miss Mac
gregor, who is the second female recipi-
ent Of the honor. Another lady, Miss J
c. Smith, got the silver medal for the
best drawing from the antique.