Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-27
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Secretary of War Ramsey can make
a fluent speechin Pennsylvania Dutch.
In Southern Louisiana the orange,
peach and plum trees are budding,
and the strawberries are in bloom.
The commissioners to erect a court
house for Grant county, Ind, report
that seven out OF fifteen bidders for
the contract offered brides.
Turkeys territorial loss is estimated
by a German authority as a territory
almost as large as Prussia proper.
with population Of eleven million.
Public meetings are held at Ober-
lin, Ohio, for the purpose of driving
the tobacco dealers out of town.
Liquor sellers and billiard saloon
keepers have already been expelled.
The usefulness of Major White.
the reyiyalist, was impaired at Roch-
ester, MINI, by the discovery chat his
musical aid was the man who had
sung songs in that place from a patent
medicine wagon.
A Kansas paper, in answer to a
circular addressed to the Republican
papers of that State, asking their
preferences for President, has received
III responses-60 being in favor of
Blaine, 40 for Grant and II scatter
ing.
Governor Wilt Of Louisiana in his
message says hat mo abridgsmeHt Of
the sacred right of suffrage ought to
be tolerated under any pretence what.
ever" and that 1.-THE schoolhouse
ranks In importance with the court
house, and education is in no small
degree an antldote for vice and a pre-
vention Of crime"
A neat little Federal Office is Shat
Of the United States shipping com
missioner at New York. In the seven
years Of the existence of the Office
the government has received six hun
dred dollars out Of between Sl50.OOO
and S200,0 900 received in fees BY the
commissioners. That is a useful
Office for--.the Office holder
The crop report of the board Of az
riculture Of Illinois shows that the
wheat acreage Of that State is 1885,
8l6 acres, or % per cent. more than
last year, and considerably larger than
the average Of any previous year.
The Burlington Hawkeye solemnly
remarks: "Mr. De Luc has been a
little remiss in distributing his snow
ball seeds this winter. There hasn't
been more than half a crop, and the
younger members Of the community
are just suffering
Rev. II. S. McMurdie, for many
years director Of the seminary and
professor Of philosophy and theology in
Mount 81. Marys college, at Emmits.
burg, Nd, died on Tuesday after
noon, in tho seth year ofbis age. lie
was born in London, England.
Marie Louisa, thesecond wife Of the
great Napoleon, was in the habit Of
amusing the ladies Of her court at
their private soirees by turning her
ears almost completely round, and in
a manner closing them up. She did
this by a peculiar motion OF the law.
and she is said to have prided herself
% The exploit not a little.
The New YoTk Herald admits that
Grant parted with Beiknap With re
gret;' thought Delano a white. souled
man appointed Williams 10 The chief
justiceship, and made Boss Shepherd
governor Of the District Of Columbia.
All Of which, it thinks, might prove
enbesessing to a party which should
nominate him fos z third term
When President Porter recently sat
down to dinner with the other mem
bs,s of. the Yale faculty and their
guests, he vas astonished 10 learn that