Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-04-02
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The popular wedding day in San Fran
cisco is Friday.
An anti-mustard eating society is
talked of in Buffalo.
Out in Wyoming the farmers pillow
with tame buffaloes.
An editor of a paper in Indiana wants
10 know if modern whisky was ever seen
comm thro' the rye?"
A school teacher in San Francisco has
been sentenced to six months imprisOn-
ment for furnishing pupil.
The biggest shoes for women made in
the Philadelphia market go to Utah; the
smallest are ordered from Havana.
A poor little boy, ten years old, whose
parents are dead, shot himself through
the heart in Portsmouth, Va. 1t is sup
posed harsh treatment drove him to the
act,
We are informed that watches, jew
elry, aBd other neeessaries Of Gfe, can be
bought in New York twenty-five per cent.
cheaper than year ago, O Circnm-
stance which, our informant continues,
will prevent much suffering among the
poor.
A Cincinnati LADY who recently found
the gas escaping in hes servants cham
Der asked her if she had blown it out in
stead of turning it of, and was told that
she was not so green as all that she
had only turned it on again little, that
it would be easier lighted in the morn
ing"
The first execution in thirty-seven
years has just taken place in the Duchy
of Coburg-Gothe. A surgeon named
Kahn was charged with the murder of a
girl of seventeen, and sentenced to death,
the Duke refusing TO exercise his right
of pardon. A guilloiine was taken TO
the prison in Tonna, where the criminal
was executed on the 18th of February.
A ghost drove an entire family tumul-
tnously from a house in OsEego at a
late honr on Sunday night, After a
while their excitement was allayed, and
on investigation they found that COW,
on q foraging raid, had made her way
into a rear kitchen and inserted her head
into an empty -four barrel The barrel
became fast on her horns, and unable TO
escape the ineumbranee, the terrified
animal commenced a frantic rampage
about the apartment, with the result
aboSe described.
The Bowdojn Bank robbers are still
negotiating for their deliverance from
the Maine State Prison at ThOmaston.
They have offered to restore $55, 900 Of
the stolen money if they can be released.
The robbers offer $1,000 to defray the
expenses of circulating the petition, and
one Of them agrees TO give heavy bonds
for bis return to prison if the officials
will allow him to be absent three days,
so as to obtain the hidden treasure.
A blushing black bridesmaid near
Forsyth, Ga, accompanying her princi-
pals on the wedding tour, was caught
stealing shawl. Dinah was accused Of
the theft, and confessed her guilt, and
being DESTROYS of accompanying the we'd
ding party on its tour, she prayed her
punishment might be swift and sum
mary. Ii was decided-Dinah giving
her ready consent-that she should get
the lawful compliment of thirty-nine
lashes. She met her fate with calm re-
signation, and the party went on their
way rejoicing. No cards.
A lady writer in the Chicago Journal
is severe upon cruelty 10 horses. She
says; A thousand shames upon the
brute who would lash a terrified horsei
Go whip your wife-you are fully capa-
bic of it. Tell me a young man will
make q good husband il he viii abuse
dumb beast / tell you / would rather
marry a Sepoy. Take my advice ye
young maidens contemplating matri-
monyl Never marry a man who is impu-
dept to his mother, snubs his sister,
helps himself to the larssss.. piece Of cake,
or takes the under aapjaek at table, or
beats his hesse canselessly in sudden
temper"