Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-28
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

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For whom was Eve made? For
Adams Express Company.
Rev. DR.. Shoup says that the
southern people see no way to pros
perity but through a wise administra-
ton OF the government of the union.
Blaine is to have a telegraph line
into his house at Washington to keep
him informed of the doings ofthe Chi
cago convention.
Thyra, Duchess Of Cumberland, and
sister of the Princess Of Wales, has
lost her health, suffering from nerv-
BUSINESS and an incessant cough.
Owing to the unusual severity of
last winter, Europe is well stocked
with ice, and if necessary could ex-
port the article in large quantities
this summer.
A novel called Celia is announced
as about to appear from the pen of
Imperial Prince Rudolph of Austria.
1t is written in English, and the au-
thorship is not likely to be avowed.
Mrs. Tyler, the widow of the ex-
president, lives at Sherwood Forest,
the Tyler estate on the James river.
Her daughter, her granddaughter, and
herself have all been received into
the Catholicichurch.
Garibaldi, who is in excellent
health, is at present repairing and
enlarging his house on the island of
Uaprera. The enlargement is made
in view Of his recent marriage with
the nurse of his children.
Cardinal Newman, when he was
stronger than he is now, was a fine
yiolinist. He now loves to sit dream.
lily listening to the playing of Beeth-
ovens compositions, Of which he is a
passionate admirer.
A man was struck down with
paralysis in a Michigan sawmill. He
fell across a log which was being
sawed, and was carried slowly but
surely to the saw. He was conscious
but utterly helpless. The saw had
cut half way through his arm when
his awful predicament was discovered.
A gentleman who had been off for a
fishing excursion, and SEM a para
graph to the local paper saying that
MIR. Jones had sent home q fine mes,
Of speckled beauties" could NOT
account for the warm reception from
his wife, until he read that "Mr. Jone,
had been fined and sent home for {
mess with some freckled beauties"
Solomon Welles, of Weathersfeld
Connecticut, graduated at Yale col.
lege in the class Of 1879. His sor
Roger Welles, graduated at the sam,
college in the class of 1775 bis grand
son Martin Welles, in the class OF
1905; his great-grandson, Roger
Welles, in the class Of 1854 his great.
great grandson, Martin Wel'es is now
u member Of the class of 1852.
Soon after the Cook county primary
meetings we're held the Chicago Trib.
une accused Potter Palmer, who is a
Democrat, but is related to Grant.
OF attempting to make the colored
servants Of his hotel vote for the
Grant delegates, although a number
OF the servants are non-residents OF
the ward in which these votes were
offered. Mr.. Palmer has answered
with a suit for $4,000.
The law Of the ancients forbiddinp
a statue to be raised to a live man, OF
TO a dead one, except after the lapse
Of a certain number of years. has be-.
come quite obsolete. 1t is the fash.
ion now in Europe to erect monu
ments to the living rather than Ia
the dead and it has been estimated
that two hundred busts and statues
are now being chiseled out in honor
OF living men Of all sorts and condi.
! tions.
James Kingsbury went into a Prov
dence gambling room with $4,000 in
his pocket, and an overdose of whisky
in his stomach. His drunkenness en-.
abled the sharpers to get his money
quickly. After taking 81, 200 by a pre-.
tence Of winning it, they resorted to
the more simple method Of grabbinG
it by the handful. A characteristic
feature ofthe case was that one of the
gamblers, who secured s 1900, had
when arrested, lost all but $500 playing
against a Boston faro bank.
The duchess Of Bedford, who is an
nounced the new mistress of the
robes, is sister Of Earl of Delaware
and Lord Derby. The mistress of tn,
robes TO a queen regnant correspond
with the office ofgroom ofthe stole I,
a king, and the post is the blue rib.
bon Of feminine appointments in the
royal household. II is the only couri
Office held by a woman which now
changes with the ministry, and the