Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-19
Personal AND rOLITICAL.
Grant smokes 6ve-cent cigars.
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DIV nav "
A great many men who start out to
reform would leave themselves off for
the last job.
The trustees of the Rev. j. II.
Hartley's church, in Cincin 1ati, have
asked him TO resign, on account of his
habit Of borrowing money and never
paying.
About ten cents worth of damage
was done to a fence by a boy with a
knife, at Galesburg, III. The owner
MANNED the boy for life by kicking
him, and has had to pay So, 900.
The Black Crook" as performed
ina Leadville theater, lasts until 4
o'clock in the morning. But drinks
are sold between the acts, and those
convivial intervals average an hour
each.
Mr.. Christiancy is an impartial old
gentleman. He charges the original
sin resulting in the domestic disturb
ance which is familiar to the country.
upon two members of congress-a re-
publican and a democrat.
Returning Board Wells. of Louisi-
ans, still roams about Washington
and draws a salary as naval officer Of
the port of New Orleans. He can be
seen in the senate reserved gallery
almost any day when the kellogg case
is under discussion.
During the last forty years the Ap-
pletons have sold 40, 0 900 of web.
ster's Speller," or 1000, 900 a year.
And yet the governor of Delaware
cOntrives to get ag into the word
"Adjutant, which wa a thing that
Webster never recommended.
A professor said of an acquaintance.
He is writing a book on metaphysics.
and is really cut out for it. The
clearness with which he thinks he
understands things, and his total ina
bility to express what little he knows.
will make his fortune as a philoso-
pher."
Mr.. Gladstone is said to be the best
Greek scholar in England, if not in
Europe, and when high commissioner
of the Indian islands, in 1859, he ad-
dressed the local parliament in mod
ern Greek, with much Auency and ell
Oquence, to the intense astonishment
Of the natives.
The principal plank in the platform
of the Rev. Jefferson Washington
(colored), Independent candidate for
congress in the Fifth Georgia district.
is thus given by him: II am opposed
to having our children gobbled up by
these medicated students, and I'm
bound to stop it,"
The indications are strong that the
democrats and greenbackers in Maine
this year will unite upon q
common ticket, with General
h. M. Plaisted at the head
for governor. Governor Plaisted wa!
formerly a republican member of con.
gress, and is a man of some conse.
quence in his state.
A soldier does not often get .
weapon that comes so near to bein.
one Of Jove's thunderbolts as tina.
which the Mexican General TrevinC
has just received at the hands of Gen
eral Ord. The sword was forged from
an erolite and was presented at a bal
given at Piedras Negras, Mexico.
1t is reported that Mr.. TeunysoI
has consented to allow himself to b,
nominated for the office of lord recto
of Glasgow university, which become
vacant in November next. Mr.. Glad
stone is the present lord rector. MI
TennysOn will be nominated by tn
conservative club of the university.
Come to the club" says B. to hi
friend, an incorrigible Bohemian, wv,
will have a turn at baccarat." No,
never touch a card" what? yol
are a loafer, a drunkard, a libertine-
and you don't play?" what woulC
your" responded the other, with
sigh mo n is perfect. "-Frencl
Paper.
Henry Clay, a grandson of the ia
nous senator. will accompany tn,
Howgate Arctic expedition, as an al,
to Lieutenant Howgate. Mr.. Clay
T who is known in Kentucky as 'younj
Henry Clay is twenty-nine years o
age. He was born in Lisbon, Portu
gal, when his father was minister Il
that county. He is now ~prosecutinI
attorney in Louisville.
Mrs. Algernon Sartoris (formerl
Nellie Grant," writes Mrs. Luc,
Hooper, lis in London, and is LOOKING
extremely pretty. Her little girl ha
been named Vivian. Had l been con
suited as to her naming, l SHOULD
have christened her Lyssa. A pref.
tier group can hardly be imagined
than that formed by the fair and girl
ish mother and her two children.
Two Illinois boys accidently dis
charged a pistol while playing with it
and one of them was badly wounded
Fearing PARENTAL ~displeasure, the,
buried the weapon and told a har
rowing story about an assault by
a murderous tramp. The region wa
searched during two days and night
for the mythical william before tn
young liars under cross.questioning
confessed the truth.
DR.. Diller Luther, Secretary of tn
Pennsylvania Board of Charities. i
prosecuting a number of Dunkardi
for stealing his grandfather's skull
from a grave at Ephrata, a Dunkar,
village. 1t said that they committe,
the depredations in obedience to
reputed witch, who told them tina
by performing certain ceremonies owe
that particular skull they would lear
where some valuable papers we're hid
! den,
The French law does not allow an.
electOr to vote in more than n con