Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-18
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


had executed sixty criminals.
The Roman Catholics of New Bruins
wick are moving strongly for separate
schools, and have prepared an address to
the Queen ON the subject.
A Western editor Apologies for the
deficiency of the first edition OF his pa
per by saying he was desained at home
by second edition in his family.
A clergyman in Georgia finished his
sermon, made the concluding prayer,
gave the blessing. announced temper
ance meeting and in, conclusion in
formed his congregation he had new
variety OF cotton seed, which he would
sell at only one dollar a bag.
Put an Englishmsn into she garden of
Eden, and he would find fault with the
whole blasted concern-put a Yankee
in, and he will see where he could alter
it to Advantageous an Irishman in,
end he would want to boss the thing
put DutchmaA in, and he would pro-
ceed at once to plant cabbage.
In volume just issued of MOhamme-
dan laws, it is stated that a girl may
marry herself bya smile. If there was
such a law in this country, the young
ladies would smile as often as the
young men do now. And if they could
divorce themselves by cry, there would
be great deal Of weeping after mar
riage.
Sergeant Bates has again come to the
4b,r ., NhinaOo Ha w r1f
some one to bet that he can't 90 to Eng
land and bring over British soldier
who will carry the Union Jack from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, while the in
dominable sergeant trots beside him with
"battle flag of freedom" The st. Paul
Press cruelty suggests that Bates should
shoulder the American emblem of hber-
ty and take a walk into Africa, beginning
where DR.. Livingtone left off.
The Russian Minister of War has
offered three prizes of 5000 5000 and
1000 roubles respectively for the best
ESSAYS ON the duties of cavalry in war
fare at the present day. They need not
be written in Russian. The one obtain
ing the first prize will be printed and
published by the government, and any
profit accruing from its sale will be
handed over to the author in addition to
the prize, aspirants for which are invited
to apply for particulars to the general
staff.
The notorious bandit, Donate the ter
ror of Calabria, in Italy, was destroyed
on March 27 by the soldiers under com
mand of the ub.prefect Of Maestro. At
daybreak, the brigands, nine in number,
were discovered concealed near Zanga-
rome. The soldiers attacked them, and,
after fight of two hours, killed Donate
and mortally wounded another. The
Others then surrendered. The sub-pre-
feet was received with great enthusiasm
on his return to Nicasfro after the vic
tory.
There is a revival among the colored
Methodists of Danville, Va. AT all hours
of the day and night they can be heard
shouting, either at their private houses
or on the streets A female enthusiast,
stripped herself of all but Zone ar
ticles of clothing, walked the house-top
and sat on the chimney. One negro wo-
man said she had been to hell and saw
Spy Ross there; another had been to
heaven and saw the Saviour smoking a
golden pipe. There is a similar frenzy
in Petersburg, where the white citizens
in some neighborhoods cannot sleep on
account of the continual shouting.
The dreary winter blockade on top
of Pixies Peak is over, and one of the
men who has been doing duty on that
elevated weather post has come down to
tell his experience. At times the ther-
mometer was over thirty degrees below
zero, the wind blowing so strongly that
exposure to it was dangerous, and the
snow driving in binding clouds. The
signal service men, in their substantial
stone house, with plenty of wood and
provisions, were secure from hunger and
! frost, and came out Of their seclusion in
good health. The new trail is so easy OF
ascent that man can ride mule to the
top Of the peak.
There has been a curious story going
! the rounds of the London clubs to the
effect that the Prince Imperial, weary of
maternal control and Woolwich discip-
! line. and so impressed by the display of
/ frenCn leeiuR AT Tue TcCeut NtAcpIdtlou
at Chiselhurst had suddenly determined
TO start for France, and to initiate his
father by suddenly landing at Boulogne
and appealing to the sympathies of the
fishwomen of that port The story says
that the Prince actually got as far as
Dover, but that be was there stopped by
a faithful adherent. whose age and ex.
perience we're sufficient excuse for his
skepticism of French enthusiasm for
f" lie Petit Theodore.
A bulldog, who already bore about his
muzzle some not inglorious scars, ac-
oompanied his master, who carried on
his breast the Victoria Cross, to the
/ Ashantee campaign. Having, from his
breed natural turn for fighting, he dis
tinguished himself throughout the cam
paign. In one instance he rushed into
the enemy's ranks, and, singing out one
of his naked foes, so bit and worried him
that he actually brought in his prisoner
in triumph. He was such favorite
with the men that, in heavy engage
ment, their fire was suspended for a
minute to allow of his uninjured retreat
from one of his desperate forays He
l lives IN enjoy his return and his hOnors