Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-06
FACTS AND PANCIEs.

Motley - WINES "'"N~sS -
Senator Carl SEIZURE sailed Saturday
for Bremen.
Barnum's big tent is soon to DO spread
over Rhode Island.
Mrs. Buffalo Bill has been introduced
10 Philadelphia audiences.
Frederick Douglass is going TO start
for his race In a lecture course in Eng
land.
The once famous Italian tenor DON
aeli died in Bologna recently at the age
Of eighty.three, .
A baby prodigy, ten months old. who
can walk aud speak English iuently' Is
reported at Ithaca, Tennessee. Ha.
The Texas red men rather like the
way BelknAp parts his hair. lie might
be persuaded to part with It,
The Countess DiesbAch, present arbl'
trix elegantiarum in the Prus'ian cApi-
tai is Philadelphia by birth.
Ex.Representatives Peters, OF Maine.
and Cox, of New York, have sent to the
Treasury the amount Of their extra pay.
Lord Byron secret says the London
Illustrated Review, was that he had a
wife when he was married TO Miss Mil
bank.
A lamb with n supsrauous mouth fully
supplied with teeth, ETC., located under
the right ear, is astonishing the people
of Lancaster, Pa.
With its accustomed lavish generosity
Philadelphia has collected fifteen dollars
as a testimonial fund to be forwarded to
the Rev. Mr.. Ancient.
The Savannah Advertiser states that
Rev. W. H. Milburn, the blind preacher
has obtained divorce from his WIFE,
who was once belle Of Baltimore.
Thomas Jefferson's family carriage,
imported from Europe by him, has been
sent to shop in Staunton, Va, from
Charlottesville, where it is owned, to be
repaired.
The northern part Of Maine is still
covered with three feet Of snow, and the
hills around Bangor are white. The ice
went out Of the Penobseot river on the
23d ult
E. c. 2. Judson (' Ned Buntline y
can easy see his way TO foot his own
bills, and Buffalo Bills, too, having
made 100000 by his aboriginal cO-Ope-
rative drama.
Calcraft, the English hangman, after
forty years of public service, has an
nounced his intention to resign. His
assistant, Evans, Welshman, will be
his successor.
Lady Francis ConynghHm of England
has travelled overland from Mogador to
Tanjier, and it is said she is the first
woman who ever undertook such jour-
ney in Morocco.
Mr.. James Smith, an Australian jour
nalist, has received a spiritual commu-
nication that the world is to be " burned
as black as forgotten toast by wave
of fire" within a year.
Don Ignacio Castor, lately deceased at
San Antonio Texas, aged ninety-hve,
was soldier under Gen. Jaekson's COM
mand, and participated in the battle OF
New Orleans, in 1915.
The king of Denmark has formally
thanked Professor Watson of the Mich
igan University fer having named a
newly discovered asteroid after his
daughter, the Princess Thyra.
General James Shields is the only
man who ever represented two States in
the United States Senate. AT one time
he was Senator from Illinois, and subse-
quently Senator from Minnesota.
Col. E. L. Drake, said to be the first
borer for petroleum oil in VeRango
county, Penn, is, we read, a resident Of
Bethlehem, Penn, poor and in feeble
health. A pension is asked for him from
the State.
Tom Murphy according to the Tribune,
has just slipped up again-this time in
an attempt to sell Uncle Sam a ware
house for double what it was worth, and
pat half million or so into his own
pocket by way of commission.
A gentleman in Worcester, Mass, who
locked his combination safe on the word
bean, was surprised when he gave his
clerk the word, that he was unable to un-
lock it. But finally it was discovered
that the clerk habitually spelled the
word bsne."
A London undertaken who had con-
tracted to bury all who might die in a
certain charitable institution, was re-
Gently detected in trying to bury four
bodies in one coffin. The authorities
failed to appreciate such economy, and
cancelled the contract.
At the hearing Of breach Of promise
suit in London, recently, the Jury were
obliged to hear read seven hundred and
forty-four letters which had passed be-
tween the lovers. After hearing them