Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

unable 10 edit a newspaper.
Bishop Simpson has gone to Florida
to preside at the Methodist Confer
ence that meets in GAINESVILLE, that
State.
Senator Lamar visited the Atlanta
Exposition on Saturday. He thinks
that it will help the South along
wonderfully.
Frank Carroll proudly wears a med
al, in Philadelphia, because he picked
up 100 rats and threw them in a bar
rel in q seconds. Frank is a bull
terrier.
Rev. Green is to betried by a church
tribunal in st. Joseph, No., on a
charge of letting a young woman sit
in his lap while teaching her a Sun
day School lesson.
Bishop Pierce, of the Methodist
Episcopal church, in a recent sermon
denounced dancing "as the %silliest and
most n%onsensieal amusement that ra
tional beings, SO called, ever engaged
in"
Boswell Smith, editor and publisher
OF the Century, has done a generous
act. He gave $4,000 in Christmas gifts
to those whom he employs and dis
tributed among the leading members
Of his literary and business staff $l6,-
900 worth of the valuable Century
stock.
One cake was especially made for
the noisy serenaders who were ex-
pected to disturb a wedding at Barn
hill, Ohio, but the drug which was to
have been put into it exclusively was
by accident distributed through all
the dough. All the guests were made
i'll, and the marriage was postponed.
There is a commotion among the
members OF the Cotton. Stock and
Produce Exchanges in New Orleans
on account of the adoption by the
Lower House OF the Legislature Of a
clause in the revenue bill imposing an
onerous tax on sll persons doing bust
ness in the city in cotton for future
delivery.
Ex-President Hayes is one Of the
speakers engaged for the Grand Army
encampment at Cincinnati in January.
He will respond to the toast: THE
rebels; we measure their value and
sincerity as friends by their desperate
valor as enemies" Speaker Keifer is
also announced for a speech.
The st. Louis Post Dispatch reports
that railway trains now hurry through
Newark, N. j., without stopping.
Though nobody there has yet robbed
a train, there is no telling what the
bank cashiers and city officials will
turn their hands to in order to make
money when the banks are all broken
and the city funds gone.
The Rev. o. p. Clifford, of Boston.
is an enthusiastic rider on the bycicle.
He says the centaur Of future art and
poetry will be a man on a wheel" He
spins on his "steely steed past foot
and horse to use his own words, until
the red blood rushes to the finger
tips, the nerves tinglo, the head
grows rested, and the heart grows
light"
Governor Long has appointed Viii.
liam G. Russell, Of Boston, Chief JUS
tiee OF the Massachusetts Supreme
Court, in plase of Justice Gray, who
succeeds the late Justice Clifford on
the United States Supreme bench.
Mr.. Russell was born in Plymouth in
1921, graduated at Harvard College,
and has practiecd law at the Boston
bar with eminent success,
The boarding of thirty million dol
lars in specie in a fortress, for war con-
tingencies, by the German Govern
ment, savors much of medieval bar.
barity. Absolute security might be
obtained by loRning it at 2 or 3 per
cent. on terms which would enable the
Government to realize on it at a weeks
notice. The interest at 3 per cent.
would pay half the officials in Prussia.
Judge Allison, of Philadelphia, has
his fancy and it is for b~o0tblacks.
So on Monday last the Judge, as is his
custom, had a dinner spread at a pop
ular restaurant in that city, at which
flty-one OF the youths who shine EN-
up we're seated. Surrounding the
table, the boys preserved a dignifed
silence whilst the Judge said grace,
and complimented them upon their
appearance.
The schoolmistress at Rush Greek,
Ohio, is short and slender. Consider
ing her lightness, nine of the biggest
boys concluded that it would be a
trifing feat to pick her up bodily and
carry her out Of the house; but they
did not take her activity into account,
and when they undertook to carry out
the plot she fractured one skull with
a heavy rule, scratched several faces
terribly and discolored three eyes.
The trial Of Mormonism made by
Mack johnson and his two wives,
in Kansas City, Missouri, was a fail
ure. He married one woman there
and one in Wyandotte. His bigamy
was o 0 exposed, but the two
wives agreed 10 a compromise, by
which he was to live a week with each
in alienation. This arrangement
lasted until he overstaxed his time
with the Kansas City wife, for which
o%ffense the Wyandotte wife shot him.
The Christmas mail, delivered by
the carriers in New York City, was
enormous, and oyertaxed that we'll
disciplined force. Over 100, 900 Xmas
cards were delivered and the inter.
v%ention of Sunday and a half holiday
collected tons of business letters, 80
the carriers had at least l00, 900 letters
to begin with yesterday morning.
Several Of tho carriers took as many
as 1900 letters on one route, and in
seven or eight deliveries a day travel
ed about twenty-five miles each.