Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-10

On a gate post of a farm house out
West is a sign reading: No life lnsu-
rance or sewing machines wanted here. :
The Troy N. Y. board of health have
commenced 10 take up the concrete
pavement having decided that II Is deiri-
mental 10 the public health
Rev R5bsr. Spencer Tinton, one Of
The Oldest members Of the Baltimore Con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, died On Sunday last. aged =
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An aspiring youth Of Richmond,
Va, vas recently forced 70 the third
story Of house By an indignant hus-
hand, and 20 hOtly pressed that he was
compelled 70 accept one Of two alterna-
tives-either jump through the window
or face q six-shOoier in the doorway DE
vent out by the window.
An inTeierate joker at Boston, not
long since, had the satisfaction Of seeing
q eolored man almost burst blood YES
sci in an attempt to beat a white man,
who had just blown thirty-hTe hundred
cubic inches on lung testeF" which
had been improyised for the occasion,
and consisted Of a cigar box, paper dial,
tin indicator and India rubber tube.
On Thursday last a party Of boys left
PheniKyills, Pa, 20 pick berries. They
heard the train from Philadelphia APP
preaching, and one Of them seated him
self on the track 10 show how near the
engine might approach and allow him 10
escape. The cowcatcheF struck him
and tossed him thirty feet. The boy was
killed instantly
In Mobile and New Orleans they are
about to run street cars with India rub
Der motive power. An India rubber
band, five hundred and twenty feet in
natural length, is stretched out to ten
times that length. 1t is first wound
around one drum so that as it unwinds.
its retractlle power propels the car, and,
in addition, winds it up around another
drum as tightly as it was around the first
drum, minus the power lost in oyercom-
ing the friction of the car. SO il winds
and unwinds, first upon one drum and
then upon the other, until the loss of
power occasioned by the moving Of the
car renders IT necessary to wind the
thing up by a renewed application Of
steam power.
In view of the possible complications
in Europe, the Fenians of this country
are again collecting money for the inys-
sion Of ireland. 1t is estimated that
two millions Of dollars have been raised
during the last four years by the Fenian
party, and the only results from il all
have been the two unfortunate expedi-
tons against the Canadians. 1t would
be a very hard thing to take a ship-load
of Fenian fighting men from America ia
Ireland, even though England were en-
gagged in a continental war. Her naval
ships, built of iron and propelled by
steam, would swarm in the Atlantic, and
the coasts Of Ireland would be guarded
BY very formidable naval fleet. II the
fenian leaders would announce their
plan Of campaign beforehand, as they
have always done on previous occasions
their followers viii be able to form some
judgment about the feasibility of the
scheme for which they are now so apx-
iOus 10 raise money,