Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-03-03

ELSGMltERE,
The PinaG6ro hurlcSQuo epidemic
has struck New Orleans
Rose Eytingc, now in California, is
going to India and Australia,
Arthur Sullivan, the author Of IL,
NJ, : PiUafOre, is not yet forty.
John Mccullough has fallen heir to
5000 left by a late California admirer.
Edwin Booth commences a four
weeks eugagoment at Chicago April
It'll.
The leader Of Mapleson's opCratic
orchestra wears black kids when on
duty,
Katie PUtnam has been playing at
New York and Brooklyn in Old Curl
Osity Shop and the like.
/ Sothern is now in Central Europe,
but will arrive in this country some
time next month it is thought.
Lolita wishes she had been born an
orphan. Her mother recently sank
$4,000 of Lotta's money in stocks.
BrignOli acted badly toward his
wife, but the Toledo Blade thinks it
could not have been worse than his
acting on the stage.
j. Z. Perring has recently composed
the music for ballad called 1.-THE
Hope that Breathes of Spring -
words by Caroline L. Howe.
Lawrence Barrett performed last
week in Philadelphia, appearing in
Richelieu, Hamlet, Marble Heart,
Othello, Richard III and King Lear.
A ten thousand dollar opera glass,
set with five hundred diamonds, once
the property of james Fisk, is the first
prize in a lottery at a Hebrew fair,
Boston.
The smallest pianist in the world,
SignOr Luigi Gustayo Fazio di Pinto
da Campo Basso, is in Rome. He is
only two feet ~high-about as long as
his name.
Bright little Lolita has been known
to tickle a mar on his way to a Gene
terry, but Janauscheck Deborah is
calculated to make a man under in
dictment feel a little heavy.
Kate Claxton closed in the Two Or
phans at the New Orleans Varieties
last night. NJ. w. Lefingwell and
VIM. Dayidge are in her company.
Louise Pomeroy has been playing at
the st. Charles.
ii. NJ. S. Pinafore was witnessed
with great delight in Philadelphia a
few weeks ago by the renowned prima
donna kellogg, Hauck, Roze and
Elelka Gerster. The latter was so
tickled that she went twice.
A monument of polished granite
with a niche containing a model bust
of the actor, has been erected over the
remains of the late Barney Williams,
whose real name was Bernard Fla
herty, in Greenwood Cemetesv
Brooklyn.
Edwin Booth has been invited to
play Hamlet at the formal opening of
the new theater at Strs tford, England,
on the 23d Of April, the anniversary
OF Shakspeare's birth. He was com
PEELED to decline. Barry Sullivan and
Henry Irving are to be there.
Alice Oates is growing plump and
fat, but she is described as being the
same b%right-cyed, Timber iointed,
piquant little partridge she was the
first time people sat in the front row
Of the parquette and basked in the
sunshine other warblings and dimples
Levy, the cornet player, had his in.
strument levied on recently to satisfy
a judgment Of two hundred and forty.
eight dollars due to George Ryan, q
theatrical agent. His diamonds were
also seized, but he claimed that he
had previously given them to his wife
DeMurska lives with her husband
John Hill, at 20 North Washington
Square, New York. While abscn.
about ten days since, a trunI
containing gifts and hcirlooms wortl
$1,000 was purloincd Part Of tn,
jewels were given the prima donna b!
the residents Of Melbourne, Australia
four years ago.
Lolita closed last Saturday at tn,
Grand Opera House, Cincinnati, anC
was succeeded by the Alice Gate.
opera bouffe troupe. John r. Ford
English comic opera company open a
Robinson's Opera House, Cincinnati
this evening, in II. NJ. S. Pinaforc, o
the Lass that Loved a Sailor. Camp
bells opera bouiFe company performe,
the same piece in Cincinnati all of las
week, and the Pauline MARKHAM
troupe did the same.
The company that supported Fam,
Davenport when she was here vii
shortly join Lawrence Barrett and will
visit us again after a while. Durin
their recent engagement here the cor