Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-09-20
AND GENERAL.

Elk President Enoch Pond, of the
Bangor Theological Seminary, is
ninety-6ve years old, and says he has
not had a headache in sixty-six years,
limitations come from Georgia that
General Gordon, having made consid-
cradle money since his resignation
the United States Senate, is dis
posed TO enter politics again, and may
make the race for Governor.
Mr.. Justice Cave, of the English
High Court of Justice, recently com
mitted a lady to prison for marrying,
in disobedience to an order Of the
court, a young gentleman who was a
ward Of court, the lady herself being
an adult.
Ex-senator Dorsey is the owner of
the best appointed cattle rancho on
the continent. 1t occupies half a
million of acres of well watered graz
ing ground in New Mexico. A rail.
road station near the rancho is named
Dorsey"
Colonel Benjamin King and Robert
Lowry, the rival candidates for Gov
ernor of Mississippi, have agreed
upon a series of meetings for joint
debate. They began last Monday and
will visit all the principal points Of
the State.
Mrs. Shaw, the daughter Of Prof
Agassiz and wife oPthe Boston mil
lionaire, has established over thirty
free Kindergarten schools in Boston
and the neighboring suburbs. She is
suffering ftom a nervous prostration
brought on by her exertions.
Secretary Blaine, while discussing
the situation in Pennsylvania, is very
cautious, but he gives the idea that he
will not be displaced if a strong indie.
pendent Republican movement is
shown in that State, and by indie
pendent" he means anti Cameron.
They tell Of a Boston s~hopkeeper
who closed his store a couple Of hours
on the day suggested by the Governor
for the holding Of meetings for prayer
for the recovery of the President, and
locked all his employees their pay for
the time.
Marked progress has been made by
the recently established school savings
banks in France. Founded in 1874,
the number Of banks three years later
was 1898, and the total deposits 1884,
1874. Now they are in use by 14,372
schools, and the total deposits have
nore than doubled, being 6,403, 773f.
A Denver girl advertised for pro-
posals of marriage, her father pub
lished a card to say that her adver.
tisement was merely q foolish freak,
and that nobody should regard it
seriously. Then the girl came out
with a declaration that, being of legal
ago to choose a husband for herself,
she had taken her own means OF get.
ting suited, and did not mean to aban-
don the plan.
Indiana is prohibited by its old
constitution from having more than
FIVE judges in its Supreme Court, and
as this number Of judges was 1900
cases in arrears last winter, the Legis
lature added five Commissioners"
who hear cases and make up reports
on them for the Supreme Court. In
general the Supreme Court accepts
the decision made by tho commits
sioners, and in case of a difference Of
opinion the five judges and the five
commissioners 60 into conference and
decide the matter by joint vote.
The Earl Of Dunraven, who is again
in this country, draws the bulk of his
great income from Ireland, and is one
of the few Irish mobiles Of Celtic
blood and lineage. Unlike his father,
who was a true son Of the soil, took
the deepest interest in it, and speEt
most of his time on it, Lord Dunraven
seldom resides on his beautiful estate,
Adare Monor, near Limerick, and
still more rarely entertains there. He
spends money freely, however, in his
splendid house in London, and in
Colorado, where he owns 10000 acres.
Mrs. Florence, the actress, says that
she talked with the Princess Of Wales
in the box of a London theater, and
found her charming In manners and
person. Her voice is soft and extreme
ly musical, and a slight German
accent makes her speech all the more
pleasing. Mrs. Florence says Of Lang
try: "She is not strictly beautiful.
She has a fair skin and large round,
dark eyes, which she uses very ex-
pressively, and with all art Of a pro-
tessional actress, in conversation. The
natural color of her hair is chestnut,
but she is as often seen with very light
or reddish frizzos as with those of the
color bestowed by nature. These
artificial adjuncts enhance the effect
of her really fine eyes"