Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-09
PERSONAL AND POLrTIcAL.
Diogenes never searched the Indian

Diosenes never searched the Indian
department for an honest man.
Dennis Kearney wants to go to
congress. Dennis is past reforma-
tion.
Before Mr.. Blaine ia nominated he
must be pledged not to hire a substi-
tute.
The ex-khedive tried in vain to get
a Neapolitan bank to advance $4,000
on some jewels.
Judge Hilton's agent in Paris has
just paid $4,000 for a new picture by
a celebrated artist.
A tax list of polls shows that there
are Ill lac white and 55,O23 colored
voters in North Carolina.
Four thousand bills are pending in
congress. 1t is the best disposition
that can be made Of them. Let them
pend.
Mary Anderson refuses an average
OF three excellent plays u week, and
twice that number Of excellent matri-
monial offers.
Donna Francesca, Garibaldi's new
wife, was the nurse of his grandchil-
dren by her he has had tw, children,
named Manlius and Celia.
Young Mr.. Browning, son of the
poet, is busy painting a large and
elaborate pictureof an Antwerp scene
for the Royal academy exhibition.
The King Of Denmark has commu-
nicated to the Emperor of Germany
the decision Of the Duke of Cumber-
land not TO renounce his claims on
Hanover.
Admiral Paulding's widow, who is
petItiOning congress for a pension,
says that her husband was the last
survivor Of the battle Of Lake Cham
plain.
The art of talking pays in Turkey;
the sultan has five agreeable gentle
men about him whose sole business it
is to entertain him with polite and
gTaceIul conversation.
TIE Prince of Wales is about to
give a ball at which only
legally united" couples will be in
vited, and at which husbands will be
permitted to dance only with their
wives.
1t is said hat Mrs. S S. Cox rem
ders her husband valuable assistance
in the preparation of his speeches.
She clips out all the new witticisms
which appears in the daily news
papers.
Mrs. Harris was i'll, at Mitchell,
Ind, and deliriously insisted ON get
ting out of bed. The husband tried
by persuasion to keep her quiet, and
then losing his patience, killed her
with an ak.
The ex-E Empress Eugene will leave
England in the mail steamer Ger
mania, for Natal, on March 26, her
desire being TO- pass the anniversary of
her sons death, June /, near the
place where he fell.
Mr.. Roswell Smith told a newspa-
per correspondent the other day that
the editors of Scribner's Magazine
have on hand manuscripts for which
$15,l72.55 have been paid, and the
editors of st. Nicholas manuscripts
for which S8,545 have been paid.
The Rev. Mr.. Taylor, of Richmond,
Ind, undertook to escort a young
lady from church to her home in order
to protect her from the attention of a
sutton, who was disliked by her par
ents; but the sutton waylaid the clergy
man, whipped him ~savagely, and
esoped with the young lady.
The editor of the Mount Sterling
(Ky.) ScOrcher had a call from 200
masked men who requested him to
publish their warning against the
horse thieves of the country. He said
it was against the rule to print anony-
nous communications, but he thought
he could make an exception in this
instance.
Mr.. William Cooper, only brother
of Mr.. Peter Cooper, and uncle Of.
Mayor Cooper, died on Monday at his
home in Gramercy Park, New York.
He was born in 1899, on a farm stu
ated where the corner Of Broadway
and Duane street is now. This farm
was owned by his uncle, and previ-
ously by his maternal grandfather,
Major John Campbell.
Of'Tara Halls ofwhich Moore sang,
nothing but the outline of the walls
remains. Tara, the traditional palace
of Irish kings, is in Meath, eighteen
miles from Dublin, and belongs now
to Mr.. Preston, whose uncle, a Union
Peer, was created Lord Tara. Tara is
on a very high ground two miles from
Helinter, the splendid seat of the
P%restons.
Printers are reasonable men usual
", but the lucky fellows Of the trade
now IN the government employ have
become decidedly unreasonable in their
demSnds, Though their wages are %
per cent. better than those paid else
where, these government workmen
are dissatisfied because the public
printer will not give them pay on
holidays. To do this would cost $780,
600 per annum to be given as a gratu-
ity: The payroll o. the Office is near
ly $4,000 per day.