Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-13

Ihe mayor oil Noriolk mas sruck'
Salary too feeble.
Bad temper is now called "sever,
attack Of inflammation of disposition.
A man in Alabama got himself int
trouble by offering to register his deg.
The Southern Recorder, published a
Milledgeville, Ga, is for sale.
Across tie Atlantic is the name of The
play Mr.. Robertson has written for Mr.
Jefferson.
Harriet Beecher Stowe lives at Man
daria, Florida, where she has four hun
dred acres of land.
The negroes in Alabama are stealing
hogs by wholesale and poultry without
number.
There was genuine, unmislakable,
heavy frost in Mobile on Thursday
morning.
An old lady died in Main recently,
who, during the war, had fifty descend
ants in the Union army.
The Prince of Wales has a smoking
room attached to his box at the theater,
and he is attached to the smoking room.
The only fruit which grows in every
climate is the strawberry. It's the only
fruit which somewhere on the earth is
picked every day the year round.
Krona Mahesuarsivavilas, the late
heir of the King of Siam, leaves twenty
nine half brothers and thirty.three hall
sisters.
Charles Astor Bristed has written a
book, soon to be published by Leypoldt
and Holt, entitled Pieces of broken
down Critic, picked up by himself"
A waiter in an Albany restaurant
knocked man down and broke his leg,
the other day, because he had muttered
an intimation that his steak vas over
DONE
A satirical Democrat writes to the
Boston Transcript to print the hymn
"God moves in mysterious way. The
paper refuses, saying that they all know
"'Possum hunting" American citizens
of African descent, have been burning
fences, and doing in that way good
deal OF damage in Greene county, Ala
bama.
A birth is found recorded in an old
family Bible at West Haven, Conn, as
follows: Elizabeth Jones, born on the
10th of November, 1885, according to the
best of her recollection.
A nice bass, which had been scaled,
deprived of its entrails, garnished with
evergreen, and placed in the window Of
q restaurant, in Lafayette, Ind, for halt
an hour, actually Topped over and
cleared the dish Of everything upon it.
A merchant in Savannah has received
letter from a friend at Jacksonville,
Florida, which asserts that Florida will
not ship FIVE thousand bales of cotton
this year. There will not be third OF
an average crop.
AS Congress will soon be in session,
and as babies are not yet among the
10000 enumerated articles taxed, the
New York Express uegests to those who
have taxed almost everything else, that
the youngest ofyoung America should be
added to the list.
The Selma Messenger announced a
few days ago that the Rev. Mr. Campbell
would deliver a discourse on Til" "
The result was that the crowd was unex-
ampled, and hundreds could not find
standing room in church. The true
subject was Sin.
There appears to be at least one place
in the South where the negroes do not
believe in the Loyal League. The Natchez
Courier says an attempt to get up a
league at Columbus, Miss, proved an
entire failure; the respectable portion
Of the negroes refusing to have anything
to do with the concern.
The Mobile Times says the effect of the
proclamation of the Board of Health was
not long in being felt, and the Mobilians
are returning by hundreds. Boats loaded
with cotton are also coming in, and fast
crowding the wharves, and a much more
cheerful aspect prevails than has been
witnessed since last spring.
Newman Hall said in New York, the
other snight, that he had been in this
country about seven weeks, and had
seen only four drunken persons on the
streets. In London he would have seen
that number in one night, There are
seven drinking shops to one bakery:
$70,000,000 are spent annually for drink,
and $50,000,0 900 of it by the poor.
The New York tenement houses are
at last to be rendered habitable and, if
such thing can be done, safe resi-
dences 1t is announced that the New
York Association of Tenement House
Owners, who have heretofore been con-
sulting as to the best means of contest
ing the late law of the Legislature rela-
tive to such buildings, have recently had
a consultation with the New York Su-
perintendent of Public Buildings, and
have agreed to accept the situation and
make all the alterations required without
further notice. There is at length, some
hope for the unfortunate people who are
forced to live in these places.