Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-22

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Mr.. Charles Bradlauh will start on &
Western lecturing trip in December.
Cardinal Graisellini, who died a
Rome, left a manuscript history of the
Pope.
Ex-Governor Warmoth, finding things
dull in New Orleans, is going to spend
the winter in Mexico.
The only President who ever went out
Of Office with a Cabinet as originally ap-
pointed was Franklin Pierce.
The Rev. Robert Laird Collier has de.
clined a call 10 a Boston church with
Sc 600 salary, and has accepted the pas
torate Of a church at Leicester, England.
Seven hundred trunks of persons re.
turning from the country and seaside
we're dumped off at Brooklyn last Satur-
day, leaving the baggage-smashers toe
weak to burst so much as a cheap
satchel.
Milmore's statue Of the revolutionary
hero, Gen. John Glover, has been erected
in Commonwealth.avenu Park, Boston.
1t is colossal in size, and represents the
General in a martial attitude on the bat
tlefeld. The figure is bareheaded, with
a sword in one hand and the scabbard in
the other, aud with one foot advanced
and resting on a d%ismounted cannon.
The rumor that Harvard and Yale are
about to withdraw from the Rowing Asso-
citation Of American colleges seems to be
settled, as far as Harvard is concerned,
by an editorial in the Crimson, which
says, Harvard being once in the College
Rowing Association cannot honorably
leave it until she has won a race"
A tightrope performer while exhibit
ing in tie streets of Indianapolis some
time ago, let his balance-pole fall from a
considerable height. 1t passed through
the roof Of a horse car, causing a good
deal of fright among the spectators, and
a brief suspension Of the entertainment.
Fortunately the car was empty, and no
one was hurt.
A regular trader between Hamburg
and London was searched three times in
the Thames by different officers, and
nothing irregular wal discovered; yet on
a fourth search no less than 1872 pounds
Of manufactured tobacco, IL pounds Of
cigars and a few gallons Of spirits were
discovered a~rtfully concealed in the
bearings OF the engine.
A woman at Niles, Mich, recently ex.
hibited at a local fair held in that city a
linen table-clolh nearly one hundred
years old, which was spun and woven by
her great Grandmother in 1880; a bed
spread one hundred years old and a
handkerchief made sixty years ago.
These articles will be exhibited at our
Centennial Exhibition next year.
Advance sheets of the State census Of
Louisiana in 1875 show a total Of S57,O39
souls, 43O, 1882 males and 426. 657 females.
There are 45O,6ll colored people, and
494, GIG whites, with 1912 Indians and
Chinese. Only 272, 1856 of the population
can read and write, 229,652 of these
being white. The voting strength is
1886. 1859.
The Cincinnati Commercial is resp1n.
sible for the following: "Shs brought him
a vest and pair Of pantaloons in answer
to an appeal for old clothes, for he was
very ragged. She thought they would
ct comfortably. He examined both gar
ments attentivelg and, throwing them
down, exclaimed: There amt no
watch pocket nor a hind pocket for a
pistol.
A shoemaker was fined some time ago
by a skipton England magistrate for
refusing to have his child vaccinated,
aud rather than pay the fine he vent to
prison for % days. Ga bia release from
jail he was met by several hundfed anti.
vaccinatiopists, who greeted him enthusi'
asticaIly, formed a procession Of oar.
riages with banners and a brass band,
marched to a place where a meeting Yves
held, and finally burned the committing
magistrate in efigy.
A well-known eurge,n Of Hartford
Conn, he, just treated a remarkable
case. A petient was suffering from the