Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-03
L,rd Lytton is writing comedy.


California lsborers have mostly aban-
doned the eight-hour system.
The fund for the reliet Of the Avondale
sufferers row reaches $l03 500.
Doctor lie Plum, Of New York, Gays
that peanuts are cure cure for liver
complaint
California manufactures "sweet oil "
from the suufower.
The Sultan has sent the Pope a $4,000
ring.
Mr.. Bsrgh reports that some "old
bachelor" has left him 100000.
II is said that james Fisk, j., has
bought the kdeiphi Theater, in Boston.
Rubber rings, with oval ceniers, 10
which il painted some petty device, are
the lstes. novelty in jsweIry.
Oas thousand uen are wandering in
the streets Of San Francisco, yainly seek
ing employment.
A handsome girl at Utica went crszy,
the other day. hecanse her pa wouldn't
let her marry man six feet high aud
red-headed.
Mr.. McDougalPs foot cau't be put upon
his native heath just gov, as the Ruperts
Island folk have put their foot dCwn.
Miss Garrett, a graduate of an English
medical school, hos established two schol-
arships for female medical stuientf.
A wttier wit than Whittier, says Jim
Fisk, Jr, ought TO be the fiscal agent Of
the Government; which is not whit bad.
All the swell, who parted their hair in
the middle on New-Y ears day are to be
the Au.ocrsts of the Reception Room
self-appointed.
General De Rodas, the Spanish SO.
called Captain General OF Cuba, wants to
get rid of the Cuban patriot chiefs by
assassination. "A Spanisrd for tresch-
cry"
JENKINS" says the most gratifying
feature in fashions at present is the indie
pendence shown in many instances by
our bellies. Does he mean that they will
ring in the New Year alone ?"
Mr.. McCue has bought the Brooklyn
Eagle for 100000, and Mr.. Kinslla is to
edit it. The American bird could have
been bought for that many mills in
Washington and no questions asked
DR.. II. N. Pierce, Bishop elect Of Ar
kansas, will BIO consecrated at Christ
church, Mobile, on the 25th of January,
1870. Bishops Greene, Whitehouse, Wit
mer and Young will be present, and
assist in the ceremonies.
The New York Tribune tells us that
"Mr. John Riel, one of the inspirers OF
the republican movement in Ruperts
Land. must have greater wit and wisdom
than kis Canadian decriers know; for
he lately advised one of his visitors ss
follows: When you reach Canada tell
them our great thought is to resist being
made Irishmen OF,
Mrs. Goldberg, of East Broadway,
New York, who has in her possession
some of the Oldest coins extant, is going
to send her collection to Vienna next
year. where they will form part of the
numismatic exhibition which is to take
place there OF that time. She has two
shel e's, dating respectively from the time
of Moses aud Soloman. She has also
several coins made during the reigns OF
Titus and Constantine.
A prominent Radical politician in
Congress was latey asked what would
become Of their party if the Fifteenth
Amendment was adopted and the negro
question disposed of. He replied that
he counted much on the continued re-
sistance Of the Southern politicians tc
keen their party alive. Such tactics are
III dsrstood TO be at the bottom of the
Georgia bill and the continued exclusion
ofVirginia, the object being, it is thought,
to goad aud irritale the South so ss to
utilizs the sectional agitation for party
purposes as long as possible. In con-
nection with this matter il may be stated
that NJ. Stokes, one of the Tennessee
members, has stated. that it would be
necessary to reorganige Tennessee, by
which is meant to take it BY legislation
out Of the hands Of the Conservatives.
The Radical members of the Rsconsiruc-
ton Committee are said to have had the
matter under ADJUSTMENT
Abstinence from tobacco and wine is
taken by some good people as an infGlli-
bic mark of goodness. This theory is
fallacious, however, and one should not
be too eager to lend unlimited amounts
of money to a man simply because he
never smokes nor INDUCES in viaous
beverages. 1t is stated Of Gray, the ab-
seonding deisultsr and forger, that be
never cheered his heart with a glass of
wine, never trsnquilized bis spirit with
the fragrant fumes of cigar. he might
have done both, habitually, and been q
fugitive from Justice all the same; but
the facts point a moral, which is: Don't
think that a TBn must necessarily be |
virluous because be denies himself the |
use Of liquor and tobacco, or necessarily |
vicious because be doesn't" 0fceurseit
would be too much to expect rsbid tee |
totalars TO view the matter in this light,
even with the example Of Gray before |
them, but it Is just as well to drsw the
moral nevertheless --Neto York World. |
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