Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-22
PERSONAL AND NEwsY.

Gladstone and a select party recent
~ dined with Tennyson at his London
residence.
Victor Hugo has stock to the value
of about $350,000 in the national bank
Of Belgium.
A woman of North Troy, VT, after
fifty years of married life with her
husband, has applied for a divorce.
! Ex-M Marshal Bazaine spends most of
his DAYS in a Madrid coffee house,
playing billiards and drinking choco-
late.
Mr.. Dawes is advised by the Boston
Globe to pull his liver pad over his
cerulean abdomen and lie down to
pleasant dreams.
The operation of hanging a horse
thief in Texas is still performed with
great swiftness. In fact, it may be
called a special cable dispatch.
A Wisconsin newspaper advances
the theory that Senator ConkliPg
means to drive President Garfield to
resignation and thus make Arthur
president.
An English traveller informs his
readers that an American reporter
who attended a religious conference
wrote that the meeting topped off
with prayer.
A Colorado man amused himself by
throwing his revolver in the air and
catching it. The lady who was his
wife arranges her hair now with more
care than formerly.
The two baths which Mr.. Erastus
Wiman, Of New York. City, is to give
to Toronto, Canada, are to be built
upon piers, and are expected to cost
between $4,000 and $4,000.
The Richmond IVA Dispatch say
that several pieces of antique furni-
ture which belonged originally to the
JEFF Davis mansion in that city were
sold at auction lately and brought fine
prices.
The mother of the president will
return to Mentor next month, the ex-
citement of the White House being
too much for her. 1t will be too much
for the president. unless he welcomes
ofice-seekers with a Calling gun.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat says
that the Cremation society of that city
now numbers among its members some
forty or fifty gentlemen of high social
position, many of them quite wealthy,
and all in earnest.
A Berlin pipe manufacturer recent
ly presented Bismarck with a superb
meerschaum pipe, bearing the princes
arms. The latter returned it with a
nete from his secretary, saying that
when he wanted a pipe he could afford
to buy one.
Mr.. R. Barrett Browning, the son
of the poet, has been painting a pris-
oner under examination by a monk in
one of the dungeons of the Inquisi-
ton. The influence Of his fathers
poetry is said to be often indiscernible
in Mr.. Browning's pictures.
Louise Michel, the Partisan com.
munist, in a speech at the Acazar re-
Gently, said that when the proper mo-
ment for blowing up Paris arrived she
would not trust anybody to fire the
mine, but would do it herself. She
received but faint applause.
A private writer from the Sand
wich Islands describes Mauna Loa in
operation and says that a stream of
molten lava five or six miles wide and
ten miles long was pouring from the
crater. DR.. Freneaux. of Boston,
was painting a view Of the volcano.
The London World speaks of the
king Of Bavaria as a Hamlet among
princes, as having the grace and per-
sonal beauty of an Apollo, and as be.
ing of tall and graceful figure, with
waving brown hair and deep and
poetical blue eyes. He is a misan-
thrope and a woman hater.
The capital stock of a new cotton
mill to be established in New Or
leans, $1,000 in amount, has all
beensubscribed. The mill is to be
one Of the largest in the south, and is
to spin No. ID yarns and weav osna-
burgs, shirtings and other goods
adapted for the southern trade