Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-15

A man in New York kicked a woman
in the mouth, knocking eight of her teeth
out. She has recovered $4,000 damages.
An old bachelor seeing the words
"families supplied " over the door OF q
shop, stepped in and said that he would
take wife and two childrep.
The staiue of Henry Clay. in Capitol
Square, in Richmond, has all the fingers
broken off from the right hand, and car
ried away by relic hunters.
Cleveland has lady who recently go'
into horse car, insisted on a stranger
giving up his seat to her, and then Of
fered him FIVE cents, saying loudly thai
she was able to pay for the accommoda'
tion. .....,.,- 4. ,r,ss ~
| n A telegraph message was recently sent
which read John is dead beat. Depot
this evening" The recipient was some
time in discovering that " beat " ought to
be the two words be st."
At Newark, Tuesday, a little school
girl was playing on the railroad track,
and seeing a train coming hurried to get
out of the way. Her foot got caught un.
der the track, however, and she could
not extricate it, being thus held to the
track ILL the train reached and crushed
her. yrg 4JU Eoc Goo
A New York mathem atician has fig'
ured up the extent of the business which
was done in gold in that city on Friday,
the Oath Of September. The sales
amounted to $500, ,e00. 900. and allowing
sixteen dollars to an ounce, and sixteen
ounces TO the pound, and two thousand
pounds to the ton, and one ton to each
cart, it would require thousand carts to
move it /; and allowing twenty feet to each
horse and cart, the strings Of carts
would be about eight miles long. But
the gold was not really bought and sold,
for the gamblers never intended TO de-
liver dollar Of it. They we're only bet
ting on the price.
The new executioner of Paris is op-
posed to the further use Of the guillotine
for dispatching criminals He says the
best way of executing them is to strangle
them as the old VenitiaDs and Spaniards
did, By seating them on q chair and put
| ting around their necks rope, turned by
fellow in the passage outside until
they are dead He hiss presented me.
mortal on the subject to the Minister Of
Justice. in which'he refers to the many il.
| lus,rious men who have been executed
! in thia man per, and none of whom mani
fested any dread OF that mode OF death,
While nova days nearly ali those who
are TO mount the scsffold manifest the
most abiect fear. The Minister of JUS
tice has referred the memorial to the
Senate. Is
Hotel bills abroad are famous for their
| iuordinats length, ss well as for the large
amount Of the ''suR totsLPI The land
lords. IL is true, give every item, bat this
| furnishes little satisfaction to the traveller,
except TO learn in how many ways he can
he Numbered and how ''extras' can be
added on. As model OF bill, however,
a recent visitor to the sea-bathiug resort
of Trouvil, France, who took bath in his
own room, furnishes the folio sing speci'
men Of charges reduced TO United States
currency. Two pals Of spring water, ten
cents; bringing thu water into the room,
twenty centsj coal, Tor warming the
| water = tan cents, matches, for lighting
tbe Are. Ave cents bellows, Eve cents !
large china bath tUb, two joilsrsi two
towels, eighty cents; two napkins,to mop
up the water spilled on the door, tosty
cents; for cleaning the, stairs on which
he vnisr had also been spilled, thirty
cents; Washing Of towel and napkins
twenty cents; making total OF - ~ ior
the vsru fresh water bath ~ the eea-
chamber ~