Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-25
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Emperor William has finally got rid
Of that catarrh.
Three brothers OF ex-President Bae z
have been imprisoned in Hayti.
Josh Billings is going to California to
lecture. Most anybody can lecture in
California.
Mrs. Smith says her husband is like a
tallow candle, because he always will
smoke when be is going out.
Colonel B. II. Bruce, the new colored
Senator from Mississippi, is spoken of as
a man Of rare ability.
Judge Stevens has ordered the arrest
of every man who is heard swearing on
tho streets of Lawrence, Mass.
Jessie D. Bright, the Democratic fos.
sill from Indiana, is reviying past recol-
lections by looking around Washington.
The funeral expenses Of men killed in
the Hoosac Tunnel, and paid by the con-
tractors, have amounted to $4,000 in
five years.
Chief Justice Seymour, Of Connecti-
cut, has retired from the bench, having
attained the constitutional limit of age,
seventy years.
A red granite company in New Bruins.
wick is receiving extensive orders from
New York and Boston for polished col
umns and monuments.
Justice Haines, of Chicago, has de-
cided that editors are professional men,
and that their scissors, paste-pot, etc,
cannot he seized for debit
A young man from Providence went
to work in Westport, where he was an
entire stranger, and in one month he was
sued for breach Of promise.
Since it has been discovered that good
whisky can be manufactured from saw
dust, woodsawing has become fashion
able amusement Boston Post.
Professor Simon Newcomb, of Wash
ington, has been elected corresponding
member of the Section of Astronomy in
the French Academy of Science.
Samuel Leanens, who eloped from
Webster, Massachusetts, with widow,
tempered his meanness He left deed
conveying all his property to his wife.
The newes. local option is that of the
Virginia farmers, who want every county
TO vote whether levy of so much shall
be laid upon canine capita or not
Maxey, the new Texas Senator, is said
TO be Southern Democrat Of the Long.
street type, and for some time past on
intimate terms with the White House.
A contract has been made with Hora-
ito Stone for statue, in marble, of
heroic size, of General Z. d. Baker, who
was killed early in the war at Balls
Bug.
A subscribe sa5s that it is some
what singular fact thet every member of
Congress from Minnesota was either
born or spent the early part of his life
in Maine.
A culprit in o Chicago police court
recently hogan an address to the Justice
with, Now, just look'ee here, old
Blinky," and he got ten days for con-
tempt
The State Grange of Wisconsin has
recommended the Legislature to in
crease the tax on gross receipts of rail
ways from three to five per cent, and to
regulate the tariff.
A Chicago man wrote to Agassiz that
be had an apple which he had preserved
for ffty-three years, and when Agassiz
wrote for it the joker said it was the APP
pie of his eye,
A French editor was waylaid one
evening and stabbed in the back by
lady whose poems he had criticised
severely. All reviewers should take
warning
The man who negotiated the treaty
which closed the Mexican war, Nicholas
P. Trist, is dangerously i'll at Alexan-
dria, Virginia where he has been post
master for several years.
Edwin Booths moneyed friends pro-
pose to pay of the Indebtedness of his
theater in New York, and organize CO.
partnership in conjunction with Mr..
Booth to run the concern.
A gentleman having deaf servant
was advised by a friend to discharge
her. NO." replied that gentleman,
with much good feeling, that poor
creature would never hear of another
situation"
Barnum has contracted with Messrs.
Sawyer, of London, to reproduce in
New York the celebrated spectacle,
1.-THE Congress of the MoDarchs." The
price Tor the contract, which includes