Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-10-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The favorite day for marriages in
Paris is Saturday.
An estate neal Hampton, Va for
which $4,000 was refused before the
war was recently sold iorS8,500.
Robert Toombs. of Georgia, intends
TO build a cotton factory worth $780,
0OO at Washington, in hat state.
"No, sir" said The Cincinnati man,
Cincinnati is not the Paris of Amer
lea, Paris is the Cincinnati of Eu-
rope
The American Bible Society have
procured a new stop cylinder press,
upon which alone a whole Bible can
be printed every minute,
1t is reported upon good authority
in Georgia that Representative Alex
ander II. Stephens will be a candidate
for the Unitel States senate.
Mr.. Samuel II. Gladstone, a cousin
of the premier, is now in this country
for the purpose Of buying land in
Colorado or some other western state.
He will visit Rugby before his depart
ure for England.
The observatory founded in Cali
fornia by James LEX, is in good work
ing order. II is 900 feet above the
fog range, and altogether 1900 feet
high, on Mount Hamilton; sixty miles
south of San Francisco.
Nine. Theirs, for the purpose of
erecting an imposing monument TO
the memory of the first president OF
the third republic, has paid S33 1000 for
a plot of ground adjoining the grave
Of her husband in the Pere-la -Cnaise
cemetery.
The death Of the venerable Peleg
Sprague leaves Hannibal Hamlin as
the senior living representative Of
Maine in the United States senate.
All who had preceded him are now
dead, as well as Nourso and Fessenden.
who came after.
Felix Pyatt has not a very exalted
opinion OF the chamber of deputies. Il
is, he says, "a room full Of $50 deaf
mutes, voting like The sheep of Pan
urge "a dungeon full Of idiots anC
fools, Of dupes and traitors, whom the
sovereign people earningthree francs a
day at the rate OF twenty FIVE"
The sarcOphagus of Roger of Tus.
cany, bishop OF Lausanne, who wa.
buried in Lausanne cathedral in l22O
was opened a few days ago. The bod!
was almost intact, the features were
perfectly recognizable, and the six anC
a half centuries bad not suficed t
destroy the lecture OF his episc pa
robes.
Elk. Governor Seymour told a CORE
spondent OF the Boston Herald, VIII
sought the sage at home in Utica, tha
the Ohio and Indianl elections vii
have no bad effect upon the presiden
tial detection in New York. He believe
indeed, that the democrats will fgh
hIrder when they get their sleeve
rolled up.
1t is said that Anna Dickinson vii
try by litigation to prevent Fam.
Davenport from acting her play, "A
American Girl in any other forr
than that in which it was written
BARLEY Campbell threatens simila
proceedings against Frank Mayo wit
reference to IVAN the Yirginian." i
London the same point has just be c
actually brought befoFe a court,
Ex-senator Simon Cameron recent
ly bought a dwelling house built on
lot of ground in Marytown, Lancaste
county, on which stood the house il
which he was born in 1899. He ha
presented the house to the Lutheran
Of Marytown, the house to be used a
a Lutheran parsonage and to stand a
a memorial to his wife, Margaret Bru
Cameron, who wasa deyout Lutheran
The material for a copy Of til
constitution of the United States,
avs the st. James Gazette, are no
t, be found in Great Britain. A Brit
ish constitution reformed in the spiri
of democracy would have little simiI
arity to American institutions. |
would rather resemble the bastlrt
growths Of the European continent
and would possibly encounter tn
shameful fate which befalls all O
them endowed with sufficient ~vitalit
to let them live twenty years.