Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-13
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Bismarck has bought 10000 seed
ling American naples to plant IN hi
forests.
The two hundredth anniversary o
the discovery ofthe Falls Of st. An.
thony will be celebrated on the Uni.
versity campus at Minneapolis, MINI.
or July 3.
Readiuster Malone, Of Virginia
has figured out the Indebtedness anC
resources of that State, and now pro
poses to pay $4,000, 900 of debt a
three per cent.
Dickinson College will complete il
hundredth year in 1888, and the
Methodist calls upon its alumni anC
friends to increase its endowment
$500,000 at that time.
1t is rumored in Wisconsin that
Chief-Justice Ryan, of that State, viii
probably soon resign, because of ad-
vaneing age and ill-health, and may
be succeeded by ex-senator Howe.
At the Ole Bull birthday celebra-
ton in Boston, on Thursday evening,
Mr., Longfellow poured out two bot
ties of TOkay wine of the vintage Of
1910, speaking appropriately as he did
so.
General Toombs has selected as the
subject Of the address be is to deliver
before the students of the University
Of Mississippi next juno, 1.-THE Duties
Of the Hour and the Prospects Before
U.s."
Two American plays are to be pro
duced this year at a London theater
the Gaiety. One is THE Mighty
Dollar, with Mr.. and Mrs. w. j, Flor.
ence; the other, THE Gilded Age,
with Mr.. j. I. Raymond as Colonel
Sellers.
The Kentucky house of representa-
tives has passed a bill making it a
misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not
less than $40 nor more than $50, for
any person to use abusive or insulting
language to another with intent to
cause a breach Of the peace.
A son and two nephews of Tom
Hughes, the English statesman and
author, have been for several years
engaged in cattle raising in Texas.
His son has just made the yearly sale
from his herd, clearing 30 per cent on
the capital he has in the business.
The last year showed a great in
crease in the number Of emigrants
sailing from Liverpool. The returns
for the year show that III ,9l4 persons
left England, OF these 81 1851 were
English and 1904 Irish, the rest
being chiefly foreigners. There was a
total increase of 1862 as compared
with the previous year.
The late General John BrisbiD. who
was buried at Newark, N. j., on Sat
urday, is understood to have left about
$4,000 in legacies to relatives and
friends. The remainder Of his estate.
which is estimated at over $250,000.
is to be equally divided among eight
of the principle notable institutions.
including the society for the proven
ton of cruelty to animals.
A remarkable emigration in some
respects will be next spring, when be-
tween two hundred and three hun
bred well-to-do Quaker families will
leave Philadelphia for the purpose of
forming a colony in Cottonwood coun-
ty, Minnesota, This fertile location
has been selected after a thorough
personal examination of locations in
Texas, Kansas aud Nebraska BY
trusted agents of the proposed colony.
The London World tells a story
which is a good example Of Ven Blu
lows wit. He presented one of his
friends with a copy Of Wagner's book
on Beethoven, and wrote on the fly
leaf, ITO -, with the respectful
compliments of the widower Of the
authors wife" Madame Cosima
Wagner, as is well known, is a daugh-
ter Of List, and was married to Won
balow before she ran away and mar
ried Wagner,
They are talking of disestablishing
the drum in the French army, but the
proposition is violently contested. Its
supporters quote Napoleon's saying
that the drum is the best instru-
ment; it initiates the sound of the
cannon, and is never out of tune
Its opponents on the other hand con
tend that the trumpet can be heard
further, and that the trumpeter can
fight, not being embarrassed with an
unweildy instrument which also makes
it impossible for him to step a full
pace, so that the marching Of the col
umn. at the head Of which he walks.
is always disordered.