Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-11-01

e. FEGAN,
260 Second St., Vincent Block.
P.lS.-All goods packed. shipped and deliv-
cred ....a... In city free OF charse: 4s-es
Greeley weighs l53.
Forrest is roaring in North Carolina.
Agassiz is wrestling with the potato
bug. ..
General Butler is coming West. Ware
spoonsl
Punshon is to have $4,000 church
in Toronto.
Georgia doctors cure the ague with
spider pills.
Nena Sahib is suspected of being still
alive in India
Captain Jinks has paid $500 for thrash
ing a Bostonian.
Knoxville farmers goad their tardy
oxen with old bayonets.
Photographs of Shakspeare's skull
are on sale in London.
Sheridan is in Brussels, and there is
sound of revelry by night.
A niece of Father Abraham is teaching
little niggers in Alabama.
Colfax has been exhibiting his pensive
and child-like smile in Chicago.
A Michigan man named Perry sold his
wife for IS and an old shotgun.
Century" whisky, six weeks old is
the popular drink in South Carolina.
Sweet potato juice is a favorite cos
metic among the New Jersey bellies.
Benjamin Lunt, of Benton, Indiana,
was recently devoured by pack of
hounds.
Susan B. Anthony says Marriage is q
fearful thing" That's all she knows
about it.
George W. Smalley, the New York
Tribune correspondent, was raised by
Wendell Phillips.
Street car conductors in Chicago exc
out their salaries by little judicious
highway robbery.
Mike McCoole thinks that by careful
nursing, he may still be able to get good
service out of his wounded arm.
Mrs. Lotta Farnham has succeeded
admirably as a planter in Wisconsin,
having just planted her sixth husband.
August Belmont pays his horse trainer
$4,000 a year, and only allows gentle
mems sons to ride his horses at the races.
Mr.. Shafer, of Connecticut, has com
mitted suicide on account of an unfortu-
nate resemblance to General Butler.
Edward Cary, New York base-ballist
has exchanged an eye for more inti'
mate knowledge of the noble and ma.
tional game.
Michael Il. Kenny, doing duty at the
Georgia State Fair as the knight Of the
Red Hand" was thrown from his horse
and killed
The wife of Wisconsin roustabout,
who was ordered by the captain to twist
the tail of refractory mule that would
not go aboard the boat, has brought suit
to recover the value of her husband
AT the Georgia State Fair a wealthy
bachelor saw beautiful young lady in
specting new cook stove, sought an in
PRODUCTION, proposed and was accepted
since which all the girls crowd about
the stove department
1t is said that Mrs. James Nolan, of
Indiana, is now in pursuit of her seven
teenth divorce. IL is a noticeable fact
that when a woman, at the outset of mar
ried life, falls into train of worthless
husbands, she is very apt to keep it up
as long as she lives.
At a meeting of the Woman's Suffrage
Association, in New York, the other day,
it was declared by resolution that the
Scriptural injunction, Wives, submit
yourselves to your husbands" should
be thrown aside with the exploded theo-
ries of kingcraft and slavery embodied
in the injunctions, Honor the King,
and Servants, obey your masters.
Mrs. Stanton, indeed took broader
ground. She demanded a revision of
the scriptures, with special reference u
the views she advocates. Moses she tied
to Montesquieu, and then threw both
overheard complaining that men had
invariably translated the Bible hitherto, /"
and contending that, If women were
now allowed to try their hand, we should
have another and improved version"
Seven years ago a London bank was
robbed Of ell,O00 by a fellow named
Jones, and so well had he laid his plans
that he made good his escape with his
booty But the police of London never
forgot his great crime. The robber' 5
family was placed under surveillance,
and when, trusting that time had efiaced
the recollection Of the robbery from the
public mind, they ventured. two weeks
ago, TO sail to Canada to meet the guilty
\ husband and father, from whom they had
been so long separated, the sleuth hounds
of Justice accompanied them. On
Thursday there was happy family
meeting in To-ontO-the sorrow Of seven
wears separation was swept away in
blissful reunion-when the tender scene
was rudely interrupted by several unpo-
etical policemen, who took the crestfal-
len Jones into custody to answer for his
apparently forgotten crime.
A Western paper says "0ut on the
Union Pacific road, not long ago, Kick
apoo Indian saw a locomotive coming
down the track at Che rate Of forty miles
an hour. He thought il was an imported
breed Of buffalo, and was anxious to
secure it, so as TO take the prize at the
annual exhibition Of the Kickapoo Agri-
I cultural Society. So he fastened one
end of his lasso to his wAistbelt, and,
when the engine got near enough, he
threw the moose nicely over the smoke
stack. Perhaps it is not necessary, but
We may as veil state that the locomotive
/ did not stop. The engineer and tremau
Witnessed the most successful attempt tc
do the fying trapeze made by any Kick.
apoo Indian upon the plains since the
: / first Of January last. There was an
aboriginal funeral at the next station
vhen the engine arrived Thegrav wa
not large. fdr they only buried smal
piece Of copper-colored meat tied TO I
string and inclosed in q sardine-box."