Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-05
PERSONAL AND PoLTTIOAL.

William H. Vanderbilt gave about
$4,000 in Christmas presents.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has just
lost by death her only child, a daugh-
ter.
Ex-senator Pomery, of Kansas, has
a gold mine in North Carolina which
pays him a thousand dollars a week.
Senator Whyte, of Maryland, has
given official announcement that he is
a candidate for reelection to the
United States senate.
Bancroft, the historian, has given
up his horseback rides, but works as
hard as ever on his history. He talks
very cheerfully Of his old age and
death.
Among those named for the Repub-
lican nomination for governor of Ill
inois are Gov. Cullom, L. B. Wash
burne, Richard j. 0glesby, and John
H. Hawley.
Mr.. Oliver Ames gave a one-thou-
sand dollar railroad bond to each of
the employees in the Boston Office of
Union Pacific railroad company on
Christmas.
A Dakota paper asserts that 1000
pitchforks were sent to the Santee
Indians and that there are not over
600 Santees at the agency, counting
both sexes and all ages.
The introduction of American an
thracite into Switzerland has directed
the attention of the Swiss to their own
coal fields, which they believe may be
made to supply their wants.
Congressman Buckner, Of Missouri,
is reported as saying that Senator
David Davis, of Illinois, could carry
the West and defeat Grant, and that
he is the only man who can do it.
In the third quarter of 1878 174,893
people passed to France via Dover aud
Calais. In the corresponding quar-
tiers of 1879, 70,6S9-showiGg what ex-
positions do for railroad companies.
In the list of Georgia lawyers who
have received big fees the Atlanta
I(Ga.) Constitution puts Senator Ben
Hill first. He received in one case a
fee of $4,000 Ofwhich SEQ, 900 was
paid in cash.
The seats in Professor Swings new
church, in Chicago, were sold at auc-
ton last Monday evening. The premi-
ums amounted to $1,000. The highest
premium was paid by "Long john
Wentworth, who bid $50.
Gustave Dore is now absorbed in a
still growing love for Shakespeare. He
can think and talk Of nothing else,
and is putting forth his whole artistic
power in the endeavor to interpret
him in a worthy manner.
Baron Stifel, a Russian of distin-
guished appearance, who caused a
furry among the fashionable people of
Denver a few weeks ago, has just been
sent to jail for stealing $500 from the
room of the landlord at his hotel.
Of all the poets who do not look
like poets, Robert Browning may be
said to look least like a master OF
verse. He is stout, comfortable, pro-
sale, fine looking in figure and face.
lie looks, in short, exactly like a
country squire of moderate fortune.
The newsboys and bootblacks Of
Boston now rejoice in an elegant
reading-room, which was dedicated on
Christmas day. 1t has baths, books,
newspapers, a Chickering piano, check
ers, dOminoes, bagatelle boards, and
entertainments Of a pleasing and in
structive character will occasionally
be given.
The appraisers Of the estate of the
late William S. O'Brien, of San Fran
cisco, have made an inventory, show.
ing its value to be S9,655,459.77. One
item is 23,750 shares Of Nevada Bank
stock, valued at $40 per share. He
also owned 81, 600 in United States
four-and-a-half per cent. bonds.
A Democrrtic statesman in Iowa
has a proposition for the settlement Of
the affair in Maine. He wants the
Republican to "call on Hayes to give
up Mr.. Tilden's Office and then let the
members from Podunk, Showunk.
Nadawosky, Memphremagog and
Mooshead take their seats"
The Grant family shows. in theii
matrimonial alliances, that they fully
understand that money is a GOOD
t thing to get. 1t is said that Ulysses
! ). Grant, Jr., will marry, in February
the daughter of the San francisco
| millionaire, j. G. Flood. This kline
Of Flood, when taken, will leaC
t Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., on to fortune.
! King Alfonso is fond of sitting il
1 his study, where he receives visitor,
and reads the papers. This a bit o.
sentiment about him, for close to hi,
I writing desk hangs a water colo
d drawing representing the small. simpl,
furnished apartments in which hi
earliest lessons were learned when
e child.
Inc applause given Colonel SANFORD
the other evening at Harrisburg in re
spouse to the sentiment. This nobl
y Republic is too wide and great an,
strong ever to depend for safety on III,
u power Of one man. exceeded anv
thing that occurred during Genera
Grants visit to that ity.-[Baltimor
American, Rep.
It A dispatch from London announce
the death, from a%poplexy, of William
HanWorth Diyon a. tbo % p