Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-18
Facts and Personals.

Facts and Personals.
1t cost the London beauties $500 to
prosecute their libeler.
Lord Beacons6eld was once con.
yicted Of libel in the Court of Queens
Bench.
A young Japanese attends the door
at the plain residence of Gen. Grant,
in Galens.
1t is proposed to erect in memory Of
General Joe Hooker a statue "on a
white charger on the top of Lookout
Mountain"
The sultan is said to be even more
rapaciOus and extravagant than his
predecessors. He trusts nobody and
fears his own shadow.
1t is estimated that there is at least
twenty million dollars invested in pri-
yate yachts, giving employment to FIVE
thousand sailors.
A last effort is making in Indiana
to raise money for a bronze statue of
Senator Morton, a project begun two
years ago.
The Crown Prince Of Germany is
living very quietly and simply with
his family in Italy-like a Berlin
bourgeois, it is said.
Senator Mcdonald, of Indiana,
says hat at the session of congress
this winter less sectional and more
national legislation will be attended
to.
No will was left by Senator Chand-
Ter, and his estate will pass into the
hands of Mrs. Chandler and the only
child, the wife of Eugene Hale Of
Maine.
George Augusta Sala is coming to
the United States. He is commits
stoned to make q tour through the
Southern States as a correspondent of
the London Telegraph.
Two money lenders at Madrid, one
of them a Cuban slave dealer, have
advanced the king $1,000, 600 for the
Archduchess Christine's dowry.
The Paducah News tells of a negro
farm labOrer near that city who
plOwed up a day or two since a stone
jar containing $l300in gold coin.
In a deed to a large tract of land
now on record in Santa Rosa, Califor-
MIA, a mistake in the number of the
township locates the land twelve
miles out in the ocean.
Moody continues to weep for Colo
mel Ingersoll. After all, the differ
ence between the two is this Mr.
Moody feels sure that he will 20 to-
heaven, and Colonel Ingersoll feels
sure that he will not go to the other
place.
A Constantinople letter of October
Is, says /: Captain j. B, Eads, of
South Pass fame, and Colonel James
Andrews. with his family, are here
among many other Americans"
Meetings exclusively for women are
a prominent feature of the revival
services of Moody and Sankey at
Cleveland, Ohio, and it is said that in
the absence of men in the audience
the women yield much more readily to
religious e%xhortation.
Two of the bridesmaid who attend
ed Mrs. Grant on her wedding day are
still living in st. Louis. Theyar like
herself, daughters OF army officers.
and in gay garrison life were with their
sisters the girl companions Of her
sisters and herself.
The Princess Louise went on deck
only three times during her late voy-
age to Liverpool. She dined with the
ordinary vOyagers' only three times.
Her father-in-law, the Duke of Ar
gyle, went out in a tender to meet her
at the bar Of the river Mersey.
On the 18th of December next Mr..
Gladstone will be seventy years old.
Il is intended TO give the statesman a
dinner in some public building in
London, and to fix the price of tickets
30 low that workingmen, Who are spe-
clally invited to attend, can pay it.
Eighteen Of the United States have
civil damage liquor laws. Their pro-
visions are substantially the same and
make dealers responsible pecuniarily
for all harm resulting from the sale of
alcoholic beverages. New York.
Maine, Massachusetts, and Illinois
have statutes precisely alike.
"Catalpa, one Of the Oldest of the
historic mansionsi in Virginia. and the
residence Of DR.. j. j. Mosby. a Gull.
pepper physician, was burned to the
ground a few days ago. The house
was built by Roger Dixon in 1748, and
IN 'front.' Of u we're mustered the
"Culpegper Minute Men," mustered
out by Patrick Henry.