Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-26
FACTS AND FAKCIEs.

O'clock in the morning TO 80 naming
Pere Hyacinthe is said TO intend pay
Ing long visit to America next year
Mrs. Minnie Myrtle Miller is go'nl
back to Oregon for her children an'
will return TO New York to engage "
literary work.
When the Cleveland bellies are ennu'ed
,hev make up a hand'satchel party
among themselves aud 20 TO Niagara t6
see the brides.
An aged Brooklyn lady about 10 re
move from that city, prints card thank
Ina ,hs conductors on one Of the horse
car lines for their attentive courtesy
The Chicago Times says that one Of
Senator Carpenters "websterian quail
lies is to be calmly aud seriously in debt
10 every one who will trust him.
Hoods Texas brigade proposes to
spend $4,000 in purchasing the picture
Of Lee in the Wilderness" that 1t may
be placed in the State Capitol at Austin
At the latest letter dates from Berlin
II is stated that the King, the President
If the Chamber. Herr Won Room and
Bisnarck we're all " i'll, hot and quarrel
some. aHa
The Beaver Falls PENNSYLVANIA Chr
uese strikers say that Alb POy, their late
oyerseer, mo work--too much g'rl'
which is construed TO mean that the fes'
tvs All was something Of a Lotharlo'
Bailey, the author Of "Festus' is
said 10 be writing a new poem. MT.
Bailey should not be COMPOUNDED with
the Danbury News man, who is writing
a different kind Of poetry.
One act of Mr.. Gladstones, says a
London letter must not be forgotten.
He has granted life pension OF $500
per annum to DR.. Livingstone, and this
meets the approval Of all classes oil
society.
The late Judge John Robertson was
1.-The last representative Of type pc
culiar to the Old Dominion-the dark,
intense, intrepid, scholarly Virginia
gentleman" AT least so asserts the
Petersburg Index.
After Mr.. Casey had finished reading
the " Declaration, on the Fourth al
Mound City. Illinois, man arose ana
moved that the speech be published as
it was one OF the best speeches he had
ever heern' in his life.
The locomotive Of Western express
train colhded with a hand car, and
smashed the headlight The conductor
was equal to the occasion. de just
stuck bis diamond breast-pin in the COW
catcher aud the train moved right along
Spicer is not much Of hand at iune-
rails, but says he would 90 fifty miles any
day to attend the obsequies of the gen.
tlemaA who drives BY the front OF his
house at s am, and back at $50, an
nouncing Mackerell Fresh mackerel
Three for a quarter.
"Why do they call the people who
live in some Of the South Sea Islands
cannibals2" asked an old man OF q
sailor. Because they live on other
people" answered the sailor. Then,
said the old man, pensively, my sons
in-law must be cannibals, for they live
on me.
1t is a superstitious belief Of some
people that he who obtains a piece Of
the rope with which a man is hanged
will not have his sleep disturbed by I'M
pleasant dreams. Others firmly believe
that a piece of the rope carried in the
pocket will protect its possessor from
rheumatism.
An old lady residing in the interior Of
Long Island has reached her ninetieth
year, and bids fair to be centenarlan
She attributes her longevity and won
derful health to regular exercise in
swing, which she has taken every day
for over eighty years, except Sundays
when she will not allow her swinger t.
work.
A gentlemen who spent four hours in
a bed at 6 uthrie informs us that he man
aged, by having an acquaintance witt
the clerk, to be placed in the bed where
the Russian Duke Alexis slept during
the American tour, and he now has Q
few imported bedbugs, which he wishes
TO dispose of TO those who are fond o.
foreign blooded stock.-Aurfreesboro
Neiss.
Lancelotte is the name Of the newest
prodigy on the piano. 1t is little ltal'
ian boy who plays the piano like mas
ter, not only known compositions, but
improyisatious on any motive given
him. He is only six years old, and has
so revolutionized his own country thai
he has already been demanded in Paris
where be arrived lately. but without haV
ing as yet had an opportunity Of play
ing in public.
Mrs. Swisshelms opinion On the Wal
worth case is that the woman who
could permit any sense Of persona
wrong 10 induce her TO teach her chill