Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-04-21
Miscellaneous Items.


lunstic 10 Robinson street, New York, on
the 9Th inst.
Ten miles in twenty.eight minutes
are reported as having been recently
skated at Alphena, MINI.
For inventing an improved rudder
Henry Lumley has been made cheva-
lier by Victor Emanuel.
Wolves have been deer hunting by
Wholesale in the forests Of Canada ard
Vermont during the past winter.
Rstori's husband is about publishing a
book in Vienna on his better.halfs visit
to this country.
That 30 few Frenchmen marry Ameri-
can women is a subject of regret on the
part of the Paris Liberte.
A prevention of cruelty to animals
society is about to be organized in Ban
gor, Maine.
A Paris editor is reported as having
fought fifty duels.
Promenading in women's clothes cost
the arrest of q man in Charles street,
New York, on the 10th inst.
Hubert Wallens came near being a
victim of Judge Lynch, on the 10th inst,
for ravishing washerwoman's daughter
at Union Hill, N j. He was walled in
prison.
Charles Dickens was fed on chickens,
and was no thinner for public dinner,
washed down with wine on or about nine,
at Liverpool, England, P. NJ, on the
10Th inst.
A fifty mile velocipede race was to be
commenced at Boston on the 18th inst,
by Walter Brown-providng things went
right.
A woman of four score and five years
is under arrest at Gardiner, Me-, charged
with having murdered four husbands.
A New York equine worshipper has
recently purchased the Voolfolk mare
for $4,000, and three brood mares for
$4,000.
Wolves are slaughtering pork and
mutton by Wholesale in Amity county,
Miss, and break their fasts thereon most
voraciousIy.
A pugilistic shanghai cock killed a
little child in Kentucky recently. Let
the Legislature pass law against such
brutal" practices.
The Turkish bath, seven times heated,
is said to be cure for hydrophobia.
Yes, but wouldn't it kill the patient as
we'll as the disease ?
Spangler and Arnold arrived in Balti-
more on the 9th inst. from the Dry Tor
tugas. They look as if they had been in
some dry place.
$4,000 have been offered by Commo-
dore Vanderbilt to Erastus Corning, jr.,
for his trotting horse, George Palmer, 1t
is said.
The Androscoggin Riding Park Asso-
citation, in Maine, has purchased thirty
acres for about $4,000, on which hall
mile track is to be laid out.
Two thousand pounds is the aggregate
weight of ten brothers and sisters of the
Ingalls, family of Sheffield, Vermont, and
all The males are over six feet high.
The present Admiral of France, Tre-
houri, commenced his aqua-salinicai
career as cabin boy on one Of Napo'
leon rs war ships. Admirable
A matrimonial brokerage is stated to
have been established near the Central
Park. Matrimonial brokerage leads to
matrimonial brokerage.
A young Indian of Toledo, Ohio, con-
siders himself in full dress when he has
red hannel string only around his neck.
Very low on the part of the poor Indian.
Hannah French, of North Pembroke,
N. H., Of eighty-four summers, spun
five yards of wooden yarn between 9a.m.
aud pm. recently. Who says she is
not spinster2
Thousands of wild geese are eating up
the corn in the Jasper county, Indiana,
fields. The people are in high feather
about it, aud think the goslings are
downy customers.
For smuggling twelve hundred Canary
birds Charles Rose was arrested and
held in $4,000 baiIin Hobokcn, New Jer-
sey, on the Sd inst. A green rose, evil
dently, in being caught
Forty-eight thousand dollars worth of
beer was emptied into the river ct Mil
waukee, Wisconsin, last year, by c. I.
Melms, because it was not up to the
standard. HoRest man, but how about
the fsh2
A Buffalo hack driver detained two
gentlemen so that they missed the train,
that he might make more money out of
EN-. he was arrested and made 10 pay
their hotel bill and costs.
At a school exhibition near Plymouth,
Indiana, recently, mock duel was part
Of the programme, in which, unforta-
nately, one OF the pistols used was loaded,
and inflicted e probably fatal wound on
one Of the duelists.
A live grunter was recently introduced
in a fair scene at Manchester, New
Hampshire, and it got up lively scare
among the audience, many Of whom sud
denly abdicated when his porcine mrjesty
had the floor.
The opening Of government libraries
and useful exhibitions after church SER
vice on Sundays, il proposition now
laid before the British Parliament. Good.
Uncle Sam should 20 and DO likewise.
A game Of billiards led 10 boxing