Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-24
PERSONAL AND POLTTICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Cetawayo, who, d~ethroned, is hap
pier than the Gar enthroned, has be-
gun to study English. He is trying to
learn to read and write.
State Senator Robertson, of New
York, has held his present Office since
1854, having been elected and re-
elected ten times consecutively.
Ex -President Tyler's widow has
asked congress for a pension. Il find
l have scarcely anything whatever left
to live upon, she writes.
"Ave Caesarl" is the headline over
an article in La France predicting the
election of Grant to a third term. The
French know how it is themselves.
Edgar Allan Poe's watch is now
owned by a family in Chicago, to one
member Of which the poet many years
ago gave it as security for a debt. 1t
is a gold repeater, and bears Poe's
name.
Judge Robert L. Barnett, who was
recognized as An able member of the
California Judiciary, shot himself
through the brain at San Jose, a few
days ago. He had been i'll aud was
afflicted with a mortal dread of blind
ness.
Queen Victoria, given fresh alarm
by the attempts upon the lives of Al
fOnso and Alexander, has ordered that
Inspector Fraser, the guardian of
public order in Hyde Park, shall be
attached to her suite, accompanying
her in her journeys.
As Joseph Hess and W. K. Reeves,
full of chuckles at a good story just
told, were chopping wood together
near Jacksonville, Oregon, one day
recently, Hess slipped and fell. At
the instant of the fall Reeves axe de-
scended cutting the PROSTATE mans
head clean from the trunk.
About as sharp as it could be put
is the comment Of the Boston Pilot,
upon the new Irish policy of Great
Britain "England's relief fund for
Ireland is the charity of the thief who
gives his victim enough to buy his
breakfast from themoney he stole from
him the previous day.
A li~fe.saving station on the Cali
fornia coast has been named after
Maggie Geddes of San Antonio, the
little girl who plunged in after aplay-
mate who had fallen into a mill race
and saved her from the wheel toward
which she was being borne. Maggie
is only nine years old.
Miss Lane, who in the DAYS of
James Buchanan was mistress of the
White House, and who is now the
wife Of Robert johnson, a wealthy
banker of Baltimore, has recently pur-
chased Wheatlands, the place where
her uncle was born, in Pennsylvania,
and will there erect a memorial worthy
of him.
California fruit growers are expert
menting with a new variety of peach
which comes from China, and is
called the Peen-toO or Chinese flat
peach, and is very different from the
common sort. 1t is described as fol-
lows: Fruit three inches in diameter,
very fiat, white, with red cheek, peals
very readily when ripe. Flesh fine
grained and juicy, dissolving with a
very rich, delicate roma. Very
early"
Mr.. Lawrence Barrett says that Mr..
Howell's drama, "A new play" so
facinates him that when he is not on
the stage he finds himself drawn to
the wings, where he stands staring at
the actors like one who sees a play for
the first time. "0ne night" he adds,
Miss Cummin's words so took posses,
sion of me hat | forgot that |, too,
was an actor, and before an audience.
When my turn came to speak | had
forgotten my part"
Moody, the evangelist, has been at
Jefferson City, Missouri, trying to get
Governor Phelps to pardon the Rev.
Joseph Keebaugh, a preacher poll
%tician, once postmaster of Glasgow,
Missouri, who is under sentence for
seventeen years for forgery. After
his crime he fed to Chicago, and there
happened to hear Mr. Moody preach.
Mr.. Moody influenced him to return
and confess his crimes, and he told
the court hat he would rather be
punished by the law han by his con.
science.