Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-17
PERSONAL.

The attempt of young physician of
Lyons to fast fifteen days was aban-
doned after one week.
DR.. T. Dewitt Talmage tells the
Salt Lake Tribune that "God alone
can uproot the vile weed Mormon
ism"
Senator Thurman is trying to make
summer life tolerable by staying at
that pleasant summer resort, Putin
Bay.
The Ithaca Journal mentions among
the possibilities, the early resignation
of Minister Andrew D. White as pres
ident Of Cornell university.
Ex-senator Foster, of Connecticut.
will deliver the address on the occa-
sion Of the ninety ninth anniversary
Of the battle of Fort GriswOld.
A Bonapartistof high rank, and VINO
is chevalier of the legion of honor, has
disappeared from Paris, taking with
him 100000 francs belonging to a
banking house.
Lord Salisbury likes novelties, and
has introduced into Hatfield house
numerous appliances not commonly
included under the head of modern
improvements. He is now expert
menting with electric lamps, and ex-
poets, before next winter, to be indie
pendent Of gas and tapers,
Baron Harden Hickey, the editor
of the Paris newspaper LIE Triboulet,
who has been expelled from France,
is native of the United States. His
ancestors enigrated from Ireland in
the beginning Of the present century.
The reactionary papers protest against
mis- expulsion on the ground that he
has long resided in France and made
very generous use of his large for
tune.
1t is reported in London as a curl
Gus circumstance nothing more
that the Russian, English and Italian
ambassadors, as well as Prince Bis
marck, are to remain in Berlin all
summer. 1t cannot be that they are
staying there for the pleasure Of it,
for the German capital is most un-
desirable summer residence. The heat
is oppressive, and the odors from sur
face draining are nauseating,
The Canadian government having
specially commissioned Professor
Sheldon, of the Wiltshire and Hamp-
shire agricultural college, to write a
report on the advantages or disadvau-
tages OF Canada as a place of settle
ment for English farmers, that gentle
man sailed in the Peruvian on Wed
nesday to make tour Of Manitoba
and the new northwest. Afterwards
he will visit Quebec, Ontario New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
A massive walking-stick more than
$50 years old, once the property of
Thomas Hancock, uncle of John Han
cock, is now in the possession of Alex
ander Williams, of Boston. This
venerable cane, which is in perfect
preservation, bears its first owners
name on its finely carved head. Thos.
Hancock was one of the eminent mer-
chants of New England. He built
the famous old Hancock house on
Beacon street in 1877.
Secretary Schurz will remain at
Fort Hall. Idaho, for several days, in
consultation with the chiefs of the
Lemhi tribe of Indians, with a view
of effecting the removal of the Lemhis
from their present reservation, which
is located about 100 miles west from
Fort Hall, to the Fort Hall reserva-
ton. From Fort Hall Secretary Schurz
will make tour Of inspection through
the Yellowstone Park, visiting the
Crow reservation, on its northern Dor
der.
King George, of Greece, was very
deeply moved when he received news
OF the death of his adjutant aud per-
sonal friend, Baron Guldencrone,
whom the king had left very i'll in
Paris. The king and the late Baron
Guldencrone were cadets together in
the royal Danish navy, and couple Of
years aftes the king had assembled the
Greek throne he sent for his old COM
rade, who had not left him since
Baron Guldencrone, who belonged to
the old Danish nobility, and who mar
ried Greek heiress, died of consump
ton, which is hereditary in his fami-
ly, and has carried off many of its
members in the prime Of life.