Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-31
FACTS AND FASCIEs.


probation in Savannah
A young London woman has had he'
husband arrested for assaulhng her while
walking home from their marriage cere
mony.
The name Of Kosciusko, il seems was
not Kosciusko, after all, but Kosciuszlio'
How could Freedom shrek auch name
as that2
Gambetta says he is in the fourth act
and the ffth will see him President Of
the French Republic, II the curtain
doesnt go down.
Orloff, the Russian Ambassador al
Paris. is said to be on very intimate
terms with Mcmahon, and the fact is a
subject of gossip in diplomatic circles
One paper having said that "unre-
united love was the toothache of the
soul" another editor suggests that the
only way to stop it is to use some gold
filling.
The latest thing in the way of compe-
tition is that which took place the other
day in Harrisburg, when two men
showed their skill in dressing a bullock,
the winning butcher performing his part
in eight minutes and 6fty-eight seconds.
Charles Dickens seems to have trans
mitted a portion of his elocutionary
talents to one of his younger sons, a
bright fellow, who has recently been
reading, for charitable institutions, some
of his fathers works, and has acquitted
himself with credit.
Two or three Cuban ladies have Gre
ated breeze at Saratoga by smoking
cigarettes on the balcony Of one of the
leading hotels. They were quite irdif-
ferent to the gaze and audible COM
ments of promenaders.
When a New Hampshire juror finds
himself unable to decide rs to the guilt
or innocence of the prisoner, he reflects
that every convict in the State prison
Yields revenue to the State Of two or
three hundred dollars per year; aud then
he hesitates no longer
The Southern Historical Society has
issued call for a convention Of those
interested in preserving the records OF
the lost cause, at the Montgomery White
Sulphur Springs, Virginia, on the 18th
of August. Gen. Jubal A. Early will de-
liver the opening address.
A sea-horse has been secured for the
Manchester Aquarium. The Manches-
ter Examiner says With the head
neck and body of horse, it has tail
like a lizard, which it entwines round
seaweed or bit of natural rock work.
In this position it waits with remarkable
patience for its food
The Hon. Henry Villiers Stuart, the
new M. P. from Waterford, Ireland, was
formerly an Episcopalian minister. He
is the FIRST reverend not dissenter who
has been in Parliament since Horne
Toeke. His predecessor, Mr.. de la
Poer, renounced politics for the Catho-
lie Church. He has forsaken the cleri-
cal for political career.
Robert Kerr, young man of Irish
extraction, of Killingly, who, after
learning the masons trade, educated
himself and graduated at Dartmouth
recently, has been offered position on
the editorial staff of the New York Tri-
bune by the editor, who credits him with
having made the best Undergraduate ad-
dress made at that institution for five
years.
Although usually very moderate at
table, the Shah helps himself abund-
antly to any dish that pleases him very
much, and during his stay in England
has acquired taste for good wine, espe-
cially claret. At Woolwicb Arsenal be
was SO frightened by red-hot iron that
he took to his heels, and could with
difficulty, be persuaded to inspect the
operations from a distance.
If man must be robbed by highway
men, Wisconsin is the place to have it
done. A pair of these gentry who were
robbing farmer, the other day, held an
umbrella over his head to keep the sun
of, while they went through him, and
offered him sip of good brandy when
they had finished the job. 1t is believed
there are men now living in local op-
ton counties who would willingly sub
nit to being robbed for the sake Of a sip
Of good brandy. NorIistOpn Herald
The Present Cotton Crop.
Exuavagant estimates as TO the grow
ing cotton crop have been founded on
the largely increased acreage known to
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