Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-03
LEDGER.
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LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.

The town election at Hartford, Conn,
was carried by the Democrats on Mon
day by about 300 majority.
A Massachusetts merchant, who has
heard nothing of his son for two years,
has Just found him in the Sing Sing State
prison.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.
Anthony spoke for female suffrage in
Chicago last Thursday evening.
There are seven universities in Canada,
the oldest being said to be Kings Col
lege, Nova Scotia, which was founded in
1902.
Gen. Grant shows that 10000 men
have deserted from the army in a year,
or about 40 per cent of the recruits.
Board can be had for 80 so day at
the Pharaoh Hotel, in Lenox (ancient
Thebes), Egypt.
1t is said that Shepard, Msssachu.
sets wife murderer, is sorry that he will
not be hanged for year yet, as he wants
to haunt his mother.in.law.
Maine lumbermen are entering upon
their winters business. The sleighing
is excellent the most Of the way in the
woods, and logging operations are fairly
begun.
At New Orleans recently carpenter
ran out of an alley near the French mar
ket, and fell dead, with stletto in his
heart A coroner's jury found no furS
Their clue to the manner in which he had
been killed.
A st. Paul paper states that arrange
ments for the construction of the Lake
Superior and Mississippi River Railroad
have been fully consummated, and that
in two years the work will probably be
finished.
The water is being drawn out of the
Illinois and Michigan Canal, and prepa'
rations are being made by the contrac-
tors to commence active operations in
deepening the canal.
The Kentucky Democracy are making
provision for the widow of the late Gov
ernor Helm, and the Legislature is to be
petitioned to allow her the salary to
which her husband would have been en-
titled.
At Westboro, New Hampshire, gen.
tleman had growing in his garden, last
summer, dandelion, the stalk of which
grew to the enormous hight of ten feet,
and was nearly four inches in circum-
ference at its base.
A Presbyterian church in Ohio having
suspended member for joining the Ma
sonic Order, nm appeal was taken to the
Presbytery. This body, by vote of fif-
teen to ten, sustained the appeal, and re-
stored the party appealing to the com
munion of the church.
A Louisville paper states that court
plaster patches, or beauty spots, are
seen on the lips cheeks or chins of the
beautiful Louisville ladies, some even
putting them on a little white hand.
They are worn to,call attention to some
prettiness-a dmple, dainty curve, etc.,
or to make the fairness seem fairer.
The announcement wae9made in
Washington on Sunday fronithe Catho-
lie pulpits that the Archbishop did not
countenance the conduct OF Baron Won
Havre, of the Belgian legation, who got
q dispensation to he married in Catho-
lie church to Protestant, and subse-
quently had the ceremony repeated in
Protestant church
A physician in Peoria, ILL.,, recently
had lady patient strangely affected,
and his medicines in no case had the
desired effect Finally he resorted to
emetics, finding it necessary to admin
lister very strong doses AT last violent
retchings ensued, when the lady threw
up snake about ten inches long, of the
size of common lead pencil She has
no idea when such an unwelcome tenant
got into her stomach, She is now rapidly
recovering her health.
The names of Governor English, ex-
Governor Hawley and Buckingham and
of eighteen other prominent citizens of
Connecticut, are attached to published
appeal of the Christian women of the
State in behalf of its INDECENT, vagrant
and vicious girls. These gentlemen and
their associates propose to raise sub
scription of $25 900 with which to com
mence and endow girls industrial
school. There are now in the State five
hundred girls destitute Of parents, prop.