Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-11
miscellaneous Items.

Two Swiss peasants made bargain /,
the one to kill neighbor who had dis.
pleased his friend, in consideration OF
the burning of bis masters house by the
other. Unfortunately, the first one killed
a son of the obnoxious neighbor, and 30
lost his bargain and goes to prison for
life. 81 df5 a tsr f..3 daa
A Nevada "brave" recently appeared
at Virginia City with his head and neck
adorned with turkey buzzard feathers
and bears claws, beads and spangles,
surmounted by dilapidsted stove-pipe
hat. the costume tapering on through q
dirty red shirt to pair of tattsred infan-
try trousers.
In the section Of country about Monte
yuma, Indiana, the fever and ague pre-
walls to such an extent that recently the
drug stores 10 that place were exhausted
of their supplies of quinine, and q post
rider was sent in hot haste to Rockville
10 procure new supply. isrea
The Rome (Ga) Commercial, speak
ing of the gold diggings in Barlow county
and of the Gill mines, owned by Bos.
ton company, says that discoveries will
be exhibited that will astonish ell the
searchers after mineral wealth, and
nothing Of the like has ever been heard
Of on the American continent. Some
of our most truthful citisens have seen
specimens of the ore, and bear witness to
the great value of il. 1t was represented
that one ton of the ore recently taken
from the shafts has been tested and ex :
amined, and will yield tweRty thousand
dollars" N-af ave
Not long since two men in Woodbury.,
Connecticut, we're wrestling, when one
was thrown and had his leg broken. The
unlucky man was in straightened cir
cumstances, and two OF his friends, one
sprightly butcher and the other q
blacksmith, proposed another wrestling
match for his relief, each man to put up
Eve dollars, and the one who was thrown
10 add another Eve dollars to the pile.
The match came off as proposed, bat the
blacksmith was thrown, and hfs leg was
also broken. 1t does not appear who is
to wrestle for the blacksmith's benefit.
toilet ear" is the latest invention
of Eugene, One of the new pattern was
lately used, and in tbe course Of trip
she changed her whole 9rpss, % her
arrival at Lyons, after having passed By
the last station in plsin travelling cos
Tune of little black straw hat and
wreath Of nowsrs, a tight black tunic and
dark blue skirt, she appeared at the gdre
of Lyons, where the authorities Sare
waiting to see her, in q magnificent court
dress Of asa green satin, with q long train
of the same fastspad on each shoulder
with dark red rose a splendid pearl
necklace .clasped with rubies, and q
coiifure Of water lilies and ruby studs, to
the i'm mmeuse admiration of the bourgeois
of the place, who felt The compliment
and acknowledged 1t accordingly.
For some months past the London
Sdturd9y Reriep has been set up 10 type
the separate letters of which are Joined
together with sort Of gun or cement,
40 that short words and parts Of Words
are lifted from the case By the eompositor
in one operation, instead of picking up
each separate and distinct letter. Ii 10
understood (ssys the Boeksellsr) that
this modern adaptation of the elder Mr.
Walter system Of logotypography is not
a complete success; the multiplication
of The type boxes and diiiculty of re.
membering the places of sll the varied
combinations Of letters, rendering the
process slow and tedious. The printers
rho make this experiment have tried
many plans for sbreviatisg time and
saving trouble in type-setting, but none
Of them have ss yet superseded the
method universally in use froH the ID
vention Of printing.