Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Senz,or Morrill, 5 SEX at his home.
Lord Todshouse, Of England, Is in
Nsv York
LydiA Thozpson's troupe Is IN Troy
SsE 1ork
In Texas fhe Free Masoas are about
establishing q college.
A Vienna manufacturer prints hand
kerchiefs with maps Of the seat Of war.
A Washington suicide climbed tree,
Fixed bis head in the fork Of limb and
swung of.
A young lady at Miller. Canada has
become insane from the treatment Of a
brutal parent
An organ-srinder recently died in San
Francisco, leaving property estimated at
100000.
1t is said there is an "unpleasantness
between Secretary Robson and Admi-
raj Porter.
An inspired Mormon gentleman,
named Potter Christ, predicts another
American civil war within a twelve
month
n bOinDctDut III -udiut BAdft,f diuf
erected to the memory of wife, bears
this inscription: Tears cannot restore
thee; therefore / weep"
An interesting little boy, the son of
Joseph Goodrich, Of Ripley county, Ind,
amused himself, few days ago, by max
ing bonfire with $1,000 worth Of United
States bonds, the property of his father.
William G. Mills, an attache Of Dan
Rice's circus, fell from bar on which
he was performing, at Hudson City n.
j., on Thursday night last, and tore the
bone from its socket. 1t is feared the
arm will have TO be amputated.
From the returns made to the United
States Mz-shal the mortality exhibit, as
indicated by the census Of the State. in
dicates that Tennessee is the healthiest
country on the face of the globe, and
the most remarkable of any for longevity
of life.
Sir" said the astonished landlady to
a traveller who had just sent his cup for
ward for the seventh time, you must be
very fond of coffee. Yes, madam, /
am, he replied, or / should never have
drank so much water to get little
As two brothers, Eli BY name, residing
in East Berkshire Vt, were driving into
the Missisquoi river, in that place, to
water their horse, they suddenly sank in
the quicksand. Only one of the men
was able TO reach the shore The horse
and elder brother were drowned.
Charles Binghardt, of Louisville, Ky,
was so much affected, last week, by the
news of his brothers death at Gravel
lotte, during the recent battle between
the French and German forces, that he
ran to the river and held his head under
water until he was drowned.
At Beloit, Wisconsin, they have new
organ, which creates quite an excite.
ment. A local paper says: While the
big organ at the big church is played,
people living at a distance Of eighty
rods have told us that they could feel
their house fairly tremble. We can
youeh for their truthfulness. "
In the theatre Of war, the boxes are for
cartridges, the stalls are for cavalry, the
vivandieres' tent is the gallery, the pit is
for the dead, the tiers are those of widows
and orphans, the prompter is ambition,
or revenge, or conquest, or, sometimes,
just cause; the stars are the marshals
and generals, the stock is the army, and
the curtain which closes the final scene
Is generally a tape-bound diplomatic rag
or a patched-up peace.
A new and fearful warning is held up
70 tea-drinkers. A savant has discovered
that when we pour milk into a cup OF
tea or coffee the slbumen Of the milk
and the iannin c. the tea instantly unite
and form leather. or minute fakes Of the
very same compounds which Is produced
in the texture Of the tanned hide. and
which makes It leather as distinguishaDle