Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-10-01
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Admiral IelFerion is in command OF
the British fleet al Alicante.
Wheat is worth ninety cents bushel
in Iowa, and rye fifteen cents a glass.
Sixteen cars of tea aud three cars of
silk passed Omaha eastward recently.
President Grant boasts that he will
take the horse premiums at the St. Louis
Fair.
Since ls4s the Pope has received no.
600, 900 francs in the way Of Peters
pence,
mil for the fluent utilization Of cylin-
drical glass goods is the synonym Tor
disiillery.
A committee has been appointed in
France to suggest some remedy for
earthquakes.
Nine Nilssou-Rouzand has had a
splendid reception by the New York Ar
cadian Club.
GambettA takes the stump through
the western and southern departments
of France this fall.
Grace Greenwood's home al Manitou
is nearly completed. 1t is said to be a
charming snuggery.
The price of the marriage license has
been reduced twenty-five cents in Iowa,
and now stands at 81 %.
The San Francisco Chronicle is writing
up the California bed-bug 1t managed
one side of him last week
John Bright has, by his new Office,
the right of presentation to no less than
forty-one church liV;ngs.
Ex-senator Saulsbury's constitution
is very much shsttered-the result Of
overdoses of constitution bitters.
Abraham Lincoln must have had more
character than he got credit for, if it
will stand so much writing about.
The Western editor, with bitter sar-
casm, qualities the fop as :" a man who
wears the shirts that open behind"
1t is announced that Murat Halstead
lately tried to purchase the whole or a
part interest in the New York World.
Thurlow Weed is spending his last
strength upon his "reminiscences"
and his daughter acts as bis amanuensis
Miss Emily Faithful is about to open
in London an industrial bureau for
women, modelled after that of New
York.
The King Of ArsRcania proposes
shortly to visit England. His right to
lionization is as good as that Of the
Shah.
A drunken man in Hartford fell from
four-story window upon picket fence,
and the doctor pronounced him unhurt.
Insured.
Dream on. young hearts" is what an
exchange says to the Wisconsin chaps
who have discovered the secret Of per-
petual motion.
The Misses Pigeon, of London, are
pluming themselves on having reached
the top Of the Jung Frau without the
use Of ladders
General Won Manteuifel, who was
commander in chief Of the German
army Of occupation in France, has been
appointed field marshal.
A woman with seven children and
drunken husband to support does the
whole thing handsomely by selling cigars
and sodawater at Piitsburg.
Notwithstanding the Abyssinian war
and the Geneva award, the public debt
Of England has been reduced by $685.
522,575 within the last fifteen years.
The daily average, including Sundays,
Of crude bullion. received over the
Union Pacific road for shipment East.
from the LIST Of January, 1873, has been
ninety thousand pounds.
The editor Of the Cbeltenham Eng
land) Chronicle has been 6ued one bun.
dred and sixty dollars for criticising the
conduct Of the Tichborne trial. He
is threatened With Imprisonment if the
oHense be repeated.
Ausv sect styled lions Travellers 4"
has appeared 10 South Carolina. They
profess 10 be Immediately guided By the
Lord, aud 10 have frequent revelations
from above. They recently supposed
that the Lord ordered them to remove
70 North CarolinA, and they are nov on
] their uav thifher.