Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-13
PHYSICIAN.
DIR. FRANK A. RAMSEY,
NO. VINCENT BLOCK,
l17.11-S EAST COURT STREET

The French population Of Vermont
numbers Ii, 49l persons.
California thinks Europe's war extrem-
ity her opportunity in the wine business.
New York has a pane of English glass
seventeen feet high and ten feet wide,
which cost $500.
The want of rain is being severely felt
throughout New England. Every kind
of vegetation is suffering.
Nitro-glycerine has been iu use but five
years, yet over LOO persons have been
killed or MANNED by it.
There are in the United States forty
eight manufacturers of railways cars.
Seventeen of these are in Pennsylvania.
The official report dispels the exagger-
atoms as to the loss by the CONSTANT
nople fire. Only $50 persons persisted.
General Sherman says official reports
show that the actual force of the rank
and file of the army is 1853 The mum.
Der will be gradually reduced to 10000.
The trial of Davitt and Wilson, the
Fenians, for treason and felony, was
brought to close in London on July
18th, when the former was sentenced to
fifteen and the latter to seven years penal
servitude.
An exchange says to obtain good
night sleep, sponge the entire length Of
the spine in hot water for ten or fifteen
minutes. This will reduce the circula-
ton, quiet the nervous system, and in
duee sleep better than any drug.
The chestnut mare Purity, formerly
Lucy, was sold at Boston last week by
her owner, Wesley P. Balch, Esq, to Mr..
Walker, a merchant Of New York city,
and owner of the bay gelding Henry tor
twenty-five thousand dollars. Purity
will trot for the twenty thousand dollar
purse at the Buffalo races, August 10th.
One day last week Mr.. Michael Brown
visited Cambridge, Ind, for the purpose
of marrying Miss Catharine Flanagan.
At two clock p m, when the marriage
license was procured, Mr.. Brown did not
feel.very well, and at five o'clock, the
time set for the marriage ceremony, he
was unable TO stand up, and it was de-
ferred He grew rapidly worse, and at
nine o'clock he died.
The hackmen at Niagara Falls have
long been a species of brigands, who prey
on the wretched public. They are Just
now in a state of disgust, for tourists
walk across the new suspension bridge,
instead of going in hack by the old
route The new bridge is twelve hun
dred and sixty-eight feet in length, four
hundred and sixty-eight feet longer than
the old one. and affords a magnificent
view Of both cataracts.
A California paper says: "All who
have attempted to swim in the waters OF
Lake Tahoe must have been startled at
their strange lack of buoyaney. Go0d
swimmers launch forth into the lake with
the utmost confidence in their skill, and
at once find themselves houndering, and
only able to keep themselves ahoat by
the most strenuous exertions The
bodies Of persons drowned in the lake
are never seen after they have once
sunk. OF the five white persons drowned
in the lake not a single body has ever
been recovered OF ever seen. Pine logs
float in the lake but a very short time,
then sink never again 10 rise. In places
far down through the crystal fluid are TO
be seen resting upon the bottom great
quantities Of slabs, logs and lumber.