Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-22
FACTS ASDFANCIEs.

The Empress of Germany %patronizss
female dentists.
Mr.. ]. Brisbin Walker has started a
~tWO-eent daily IN Washington called
The Nation"
Mile de Belocca will shortly give a
concert in New York for The benefit Of
the serviau aud Bulgarian sufferers.
Senator Conkliug is suffering from
malarial chills and fever and overwork
during the protraeted sessions Of Con-
gress.
Letters from Mexico say that Lerdo de
Tejada will certainly be reelected Presi-
dent, and that the revolution amounts to
little.
We infer from the Brooklyn Eagles
story, that Tilden has only Sc, 600. 900 left
after sacrificing a vast amount tor his
relatives.
Titiens has been quite i'll since her re-
turn to England from America, and is
trying to improve her health to fill her
autumnal engagements.
The song Of the 1.-THE Star Spangled
Banner" was first set in type BY Mr..
S. S. Sands, editor of the American
Farmer, who lie still living in Baltimore
Miss Martha Butler, of Bristol, Vir-
GINA, had to drink half a gallon of wine
aud a pint of whisky because a pider
bit her. She recovered, and now spiders
are worth thirty cents apiece in that
town.
Mayor Stokely, IF Philadelpbia headed
a body of police on Wednesday night,
and raided a disgaceiul show known as
the can can, lea the main Centennial
building. T~wenty-six persons were ar
rested.
The Chicago Times prints this item,
possibly by mistake: "a Boston manu-
f%acturer receives orders for pistols from
Charleston, South carolina, averaging
from ore hundred to one hundred and
Fifty per day"
Mr.. Dorsheimer in bis Boston speech
said: "Mr. Hayes, or Colonel Hayes,
or Major Hayes, or Captain Hayes, or
Corporal Hayes-he held some rank, #
which the country is not fully informed,
during the late war
Mrs. Tillotson, the dress reformer, said
in her address at Boston: IF | was a
betting man, l would be willing to bet
$40, 900 that these dry goods merchants
hate us because we are likely to spoil
their business by shortening our skirts"
Among the audience at the Italian
operain Philadelphia, the other evening,
we're several foreigners, notably a very
f, swell Chinaman in a box, a mild looking
Turk in the parquet aud . large Span
ish, Italian, German and French repre-
ssntation.
An eminent English Bishop writes to
a friend in this country: II expect ia
sail for America on the 7th Of October.
' AS extraditiou is ended expect to feel
comparatively honest on board ship
since my companions no doubt will be al
the principal scoundrels in the dominion
of the Empress Of India."-New York
y World
Canada presents IN opening for m in
dependent press. The Archbishop o
u Quebec has written a brace Of letters T.
n the publisher Of the Quebec Canadian, it
which he condemns certain articles pub
10 lished in that paper, aud calls the attsh
ton of the editor to the fact tba
criticism, in newspapers, Of the act of
pastor is forbidden"
o. AT FosayilIe, California, lives old Foss
the crack stage driver Of the Pacific
He has now retired from business, hay
ing grown rich, aud keeps the refresh
meat station on the stage road, having
resigned the reins to his son. He has
collection of whips given him by differ
ent associations and friends which han.
on racks in his hall as trophies. One o
. them, given him by The great Ralston, i
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