Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-06-02
Oddannd Ends.

cago among the southern delegations.
remarks the Washington Star (Rep.'
Alexander Dumas fortune is esti
mated at 500, 600, outside of his col
lection worth nearly as much. Ever
penny oft he has derived from hi.
literary labors.
There has been a great increase o
late years in wheat cultivation il
British India, and it is now estimated
that India now ranks fourth among
wheat producing countries.
Carlyle is said to be rapidly failing
He cannot now hold a cup without
spilling its contents. He is resigned
at the prospect of death, fearing t.
survive his intellectual faculties.
1t is intimated by the Atlanta Con.
stitution that General Longstreet will
take special pains while at CONSTANT.
nople to induce the sultan to buy a
farm in Georgia, and move over.
Colonel Bee, the Chinese consul al
San Francisco, says that the Chinese
immigration at that part has substan-
tally ceased, and that steamships are
taking many Cinnamon home.
Secretary Sherman's new dwelling
IN K street, in Washington, has a front
Of twenty-seven feet and a depth Of
seventy-five feet. 1t is built Of brick
with rich and elaborate stone finish
ing, and will cost about $1,000.
Mr.. Moncure D. Conway will sail
tor America in July, accompanied by
his wife and children, and will remain
here tor four months. He will put his
eldest soma young man Just attaining
his majority-in a law Office at Cincin-
natl.
The Vandalia Ind.) railroad COM
pany is sued for 800 damages by a
woman who, though she had bought a
s%leeping-car ticket, could not get a
berth. She claimed that a night Of
travel in an ordinary passenger car
ruined her health.
Robinson Warren, of st. Glars
vile, Ohio, had always been SO sub
missive under the domination of his
wife that when he finally neryed
himself to protest against her club
bling their child, she furiously caught
up a handy revolver and killed him.
A demure, diminutive girl, aged IS,
is under arrest in Philadelphia for
bigamy. She has three living hus.
bands, all of whom she has married
within two years. When asked why
she had done this, she said: "They
were all good fellows, and they coaxed
me So"
General Miles, the famous Indian
fighter, is quoted as saying 1.-The
average Colorado squatter sells his
gun and ammunition to Indians fol-
about four times its value, and ex-
poets to have another furnished him
by the government when the Indians
begin to kill"
Miss Wilson is a Delaware heiress
and beauty. She fell in love with !
farm hand, because she deemed him
heroic but when they eloped, and he
ran away across the fields at the ap.
proach of her pursuing father, she
concluded that she had overrated
him, and went back home con.
tentedly.
Jacob Bennett heard angry voices in
his house at Sedalia, Mo-, and on
peeping in saw that the wife whom he
was living with was confronted by the
wife whom he had deserted. He eau
tiously stole away and sent a police
man to separate the women, who we're
found fighting furiously with knives.
The Prince of Wales. on the 9th of
May, gave a dinner to Mr.. Gladstone
and the members of the new cabinet,
Amid this royal and ~aristocratic com.
pany, says the London Times, ap-
peared such severe representatives of
radical and almost democratic princi-
Piles as MIR. Joseph Chamberlain and
Sir Charles Dixie.
The father of the house of commons
has again been returned to it in the
person Of Mr.. Mansel- Talbot, who has
sat for Glamorganshire since 1890.
The fact that a man pf77 should have
refused a peerage and sought re-
election is significant of the fascina-
ton which the house, yeputed THE
~pleasantest club in London exer-
uses over its members.
Samuel S, Scattergood was a con-
seryatiye importeP of Mediterranean
fruits in Philadelphia, and had
amassed about $3.50, 900. 4 year ago
he invested nearly all his money in
Leadyille mining projects, and they
have all failed. Not only was his
own fortune engulfed but friends
were led by him into similar loss. He
could not bear his adversely, and
hanged himself,