Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-19
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win all the victories.
The earnings Of the Union Pacific
for the first three days in November
were twenty five thousand dollars in
excess Of the same period last year.
The Republicans can say what they
please about Conkling, but when a
Presidential election is on hand they
find him extremely useful.
There are still on the English pen
sion lists the names Of servants OF
Queen Charlotte, who draw one hun.
bred and twenty pounds annually, and
ten pounds is paid to those Of George
III.
Sitting Bull recently served as mate
on board the steamer Key West at
Fort Buiord. The crew deserted the
boat at that point, aud Sitting Bull
volunteered to unload it. He wore
the mates cap and directed the work.
The increase Of mortality at Wash
ington for September over the CORES
ponding month of last year was cOnsid-
cradle, and sixty-six more than the
average number of deaths for Septem
Der during the last eight years. Is it
Potomac marshes, OF what?
Mr.. Archibald Macarthur, said to
be the oldest mar in Scotland, died a
few days ago at Dunoon. He was born
on Sept. 5, l777, and was thus in his
l05th year. For many years he carried
on evangelistic work among the Gaelic
population.
Sir Edward Thornton is much
pleased with his new post at St,
Petersburg, and gives a large share
Of his time to reading up on Central
Asian and Eastern questions, having
drilted a little out of European poll
tics during his long stay in America.
Hon. George P. Marsh has been
Minister Resident of the United States
in Italy since 1861 continuously
nearly twenty Que years. A great war
has been fought, slavery has been
abolished and five administrations
have passed away in the meantime.
There is considerable satisfaction,
even if reason and conscience do not
approve it, in hearing that a couple of
Mormon missionaries who have been
engaged in the nasty business Of
making converts in Hackney, England
we're recently pelted with rotten eggs
and eventually driven out of the place
by an indignant crowd who had been
listening to their harrangucs.
Edward NJ. johnson for six sue
cessiye sessions, beginning with 1876.
clerk Of the New York Assembly, is
spoken Of as a candidate for Clerk of
the House Of Representatives, in the
event of the ~Speakership going to the
West. but if Mr.. Hiseock shall appear
to be the strongest candidate for
Speaker in the Republican caucus,
Mr.. Johnson's name will not be
pressed for clerk.
Queen Victoria, it is said. never
forgets her old servants. During one
Of her drives over the hill from Dee
side to Donide recently she CALLED on
the parents of the man Philip, who
died at Windsor in June, and placed
a bouquet of flowers on his grave in
the old kirkyard at S~trathdon.
Ever since 1910 Monmouth county,
N. j., has elected a Democratic State
Senator until this year, when a Re.
publican was elected by 900 majority.
Cause.-The Democratic nomination of
i man who had served a term IN the
~penitentiary for political crookedncss.
Verdict-served the party right.
Mile. Elise, the famous circus rider
Of Paris, is credited with being a
daughter OF the Emperor of Austria.
Her circus dress is spangled with
diamonds and diamonds CLEAN from
her hair as, standing with one foot
upon her flying steed, she directs with
her otEer toe the attention Of her au-
dience to the zenith.
We are informed by the Chinese
editor Of the Holyoke Herald, that when
a bank fails in China, the officers are
Immediately beheaded, and their
bodies arc placed around the room
among the furniture and nominal as
sets. There has been but one bank
failure since the year 88l.
The old appellation Dead Letter
Office has been changed to Returned
Letter Office in London, owing to the
fact that a multitude of people mis-
understood its significance. The Con-
%troller was besieged with demands for
information about missing people and
letters addressed to dead ones.
The Imperial Library at st. Peters
burg contains over 100000 volumes.
Among the treasures Of the institu-
ton is Voltaire's library, many Of the
volumes of which bear the former
owners autograph notes. A paripa-
patetic lecture upon the library, its
contents and associations is given
twice a week.