Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-03-12
PERSONAL AND


Peter Cooper has expended 81, Co.,
600 on the Cooper institute.
The largest amount of life insurance
ever effected on the life Of any one
man was on the late Marquis Of An
glesey, who was insured in various
companies to the amount Of So
1906 GOO.
A newspaper report in connection
with the World is that Mr.. Hubert,
its editor, having realized a handsome
fortune in recent business operations,
is content to retire from the response
bilities of that position, and enjoy q
life Of lettered ease abroad.
Elk Governor Chapman Of Alabama
has purchased the United States bar
racks at Huntsville, which cost the
government 100000, and offers 10
give them. with twenty-five acres OF
land attached, to the colored people
OF Alabama for an industrial school.
Manager Bertrand of Paris some.
times allows an aspiring young drama.
fist to read him a new play, anddurinE
the ordeal asks if the reader is cold.
The young dramatist asserting, Man.
ager Bertrand rings Cor the servant.
Madeline" he says, ''putthree manu-
scripts on the fire" and the reading il
usually discontinued.
The speaker Of the house Of repre-.
sentatives at Washington is paid .
salary Of $4,000 a year with no per.
quisiies. The speaker of the British
commons is better paid. His salary i,
S2O,O00 a year, a house rent free, 81, 00(
equipment money, 200 ounces of silver
plate on his election, $500 a year fol
stationery, and fees amounting t.
$500 a year-about 10000 a year, al
told.
The Austrian diet has Just done
what could not be done, probably, by
any other legislative body in Europe
viz, voted $4,000 to pay the expense,
OF the visit Of the empress to Ireland
whittier she went chiefly to enjoy the
exciting pleasure Of fox-hunting
The empress is known to be one o.
the most fearless horsewomen in
Europe. The national debt of Austria
is $2,005, 10000.
Canon Farrar has written a letter &c
Mr.. Joseph Cook, in which he saws
1T seems to me that drunkenness,
stands almost alone among human
sins in being absolutely durable ant
D~reyentable. The work achieved by
Mohammed alone is sufficient to prov,
that this source Of crime and miser,
might be simply eliminated from thu
list OF the evils which scourge man.
kind"
The following is the income per day
OF tn principal sovereigns of Europe
Queen Victoria, So, 300; the emperor
of Russia, $4,000; the emperor Of
Austria, $4,000; the emperor of Ger
many, $780, the sultan, 81, 800: the
king Of Italy, $6,4O0; and king O.
the king Ofthe b lgians, 81, $40. Th,
president Of the French republic en-.
joys a salary Of $500 per day.
In New York the police superin.
tendent, who has a thousand things I,
do. is paid $1,000, and a police cour
judge, who sits a few hours a day. re
receives $SOC0. The salary Of tn,
comptroller, who has the handling o
S3O,OOO,0OO a year, is $4,000, and tina
OF a corporate council is $4,000.
The Mississippi legislature decide,
to pay the governor of that state $IOCI
a year supreme judges, 1880; circui
judges, c~hancellors, secretary Of state
auditor. treasurer, and attorney gen
eral, $3.50 each; district attorneys
$500 each, and commissioner Of emf
grafton, $1,000.
Mrs. Nettie McAfee notifies tn.
Kentucky legislature that unless /
provides a monument for her father
Humphrey Marshall, she will bull,
one herself, and epitaph it with allu
sions to the base ingratitude Of hi
state.
The Atlanta Constitution prints = 4
ports Of the presidential preferenc .
Of 65S prominent democrats in sixtee'
towns and cities Of Georgia. The 81.
leading candidates are Tilden wit.
236 votes, Thurman with 124 votes
Hendricks with 70 votes, Seymou
with 67 votes, aud Bayard and Hand
cock with AZ votes each.
Catholic citizens will regret to lear.
that a private letter has been receive
at st. Louis from Paris announcin
the death, on February 18th, in Ne'
Zealand, Of Madame Bandreoux, vica
Of the Ladies Of the Sacred Hear
She left ST. Louis last December viii
six Sacred Heart nuns, and went +
do missionary work in New HealanC
Madame Bandreaux was we'll know
throughout the Catholic world.
In Missouri, during the six year
the republicans were in power, ther
was appropriated only 1881 .g5l to tn
common schools. From 1874 to 1877
the democrats appropriated S2,926,66
for that laudable purpose. The re
publicaDs, during their briof power
stole several hundred thousand dollar
from the sacred school fund.