Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-13
FACTS AND PASCIEs.

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Of Ireland.
Tom Thumbs wife Mrs. stralton) has
recovered from her tumble down stairs.
General Banks is going to lecture
this fall and winter, but not on Stone
wall jackson.
Mckee Rankin and wife have become
members Of the stock company Of New
Orleans theater. f
Bradlaugh will not introduce his rell-
gious views into his lectures. They will
be purely political.
Mrs. Edwin N, Stanton, widow OF the
late Secretary, is seriously i'll at her
home in Germantown.
A son and daughter OF the famous
Davy Crockett are living near Acton
Hood county, Texas.
And now Sothern denies that he had
any trouble with any person on the train
while on his way to San Francisco.
The President viii 20 to Washington
shortly to stay a few days. He don't
like the place well enough TO live there.
Piccolomini, although she finally re-
tired from the stage many years ago,
often sings at charitable entertainments.
Perhaps" says the Cincinnati Com
mercial, 1.-THE next President Of the
United States will be Governor Booth,
Of California.
A citizen of Rock county, Wisconsin,
is recorded to have said, / can always
tell water when / see tit looks so
much like gin"
The amount paid to the heirs of VIM.
H. Seward for copyright of the first
six months Of his Travels Round the
World was SAL AGA.
Louis S. Jennings, managing editor
of the New York Times, is one of the
few metropolitan journalists whose an
nual salary is $4,000,
The Webb Sisters few years ago
we're great favorites with the dramatic
world. One of them, Ida, is married,
and the other, Emma, is lecturing.
The miners in Westmoreland county,
Pennsylvania, who struck for an ad-
vance OF fourteen cents per ton, have
compromised with the operators at ten
cents.
The Hartford Conn. Water Commits
sioners have just discovered a trihing
leak in their mains through which TO-
900 gallons have been escaping every
day for year past.
A French physician has discovered
that the peculiar odor of Russia leather
has very beneficial effect upon weak
lungs, and he advises consumptivo pa
tients to repose upon pillows covered
with that material.
Mrs. Lemon, of Centralia, Illinois, is
running for the Office of school superin-
tendent. She is much annoyed when
making her campaign speeches by va
grant boys, who spoil her most elo-
quent passages by crying out, go in,
Lemonsl"
Santa Barbara, California, is healthy
locality, and is visited by many con-
suptives and invalids, but the first signs
that meet their sight on reaching it from
the wharf are those of two undertakers,
which read, Metallic burial cases for
sale"
Should Queen Victoria attend the
marriage of her son, the Duke of Edin-
burgh, in St. Petersburg, in January
next, it will be the first instance in which
a royal parsonage has visited foreign
country to witness and honor such a
ceremonial.
The Register, of Wheeling, w. Va,
has started gift enterprise, and offers
chances in the distribution at 81 each,
with copy Of the Register thrown in
the distribution to be made when ten
thousand persons have bought chances.
Perhaps it might take better without the
Register.
A Georgia paper recently contained
the following item in its society gossip;
" The amiable and delicious Miss Pix
ington, whose charms of mind aud per-
son have turned the heads Of our gal
lants, now does her hair in braids, and
patronizes this paper exclusively in her
personal makeup"
At party at Marlborough House not
long ago two OF the Prince CT Wales's
boys were present, with the son of the
Czarowitz between them. The young
Russian made himself very disagreeable,
and presently, like Tartar, savagely
dug bis elbows into the ribs of his COM
panions. The elder English Prince, an
amiable boy like his mother, moved
away, but the younger resented the indig-
nifty, and fetched the royal Tartar one
on the nose" The Princess OF Wales
kindly iBterfered, and made peace.