Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-04-07
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Eugenies tobacco ration is ten cigar
cites per day.
IMPRISONMENT for debt has at length
been abolished in Rhode Island.
Thirty thousand natives are said to
have perished from cholera in Zanzibar,
during six weeks last year.
"No gentleman admitted without
trowsers on" is the notice posted on the
doors OF bathrooms in South America.
A brother at Kingston, New York, af-
ter a lengthy exhortation at a revival
meeting, raised his voice and said; i
omitted to say that if any one desires to
see me at any time, | can always be
found at the store Of, in Kingston,
where all kinds of dry goods can be OBJ
tanned at reasonable prices.
The Bremen Emigration Commission
ers report that, in the last thirty-eight
years, l,l49,2S2 German emigrants sailed
from their ports in 6,666 vessels. In
1860 only ten steamers sailed thence for
New York, with 3,63S, but in 1869 there
departed l04 steamers, with 47,456 emf
grants for the United States.
The Sheriff of Obion county, Tenn,
on last Wednesday week, had occasion
to arrest Tom elmer, who last fall killed
a man, in thai county, named Haskell.
Clmer, refusing to be arrested, fired a
shot, which wounded the Sheriff in the
hand Some of the Sheriff party then
shot and killed elmer.
The st. Louis Clearing House Asso-
citation. at a recent meeting, discussed a
memorial similar to that of the Chicago
bankers, and finally laid it on the table,
all the National banks voting against it.
A gentleman now in Washington is said
to be disappearing the st. Louis
banks, and kilograms were sent stating
that the majority favor the passage of
the funding bill as sent by the Senate to
the House.
In Detroit few days ago the keeper
of stall in the market, finding that the
melting snow on the roof dripped
through on his produce, climbed upon
the top of the stall with view of regu- |
lating matters He found six pocket
books lying there in the snow, each con-
tanning more or less money. 1t is sup
posed that they were thrown there some
time ago by pickpocket at the moment
of his arrest in the market
In Europe hard water is considered |
more healthful than soft The French
sarans, when inquiring after water for the
supply of Paris, foGnd that more con-
scripts are rejected ir soft water districts,
on account of imperfect development
and stunted growth, than in the hard;
and they concluded that calcareous mat
ter in water is essential to the formation
of tissues. Facts having a similar bear
ing have been noted in Great Britain.
The Weyauwega (Wis.) Times tells
the following: A young married couple
in this place lately commenced keeping
house, and during the week the head of
the family called on one Of our mer-
chants and laid in the following stock of
Five cents worth of soda,
five cents worth of salt, two cents worth
of pepper, one stick of gum, one cent;
one bar of soap, twelve cents. The bill
amounted to just twenty-five cents, which
he paid in specie, and as he turned to
leave the store he remarked to the OBJ
liging clerk that keeping house was
cheaper than boarding.
The adoption Of the Fifteenth Amend
ment was celebrated in Bloomington, ILL.,,
in mauner that created an immense
sensation. DR.. H. Schroeder, Radical
German of considerable wealth and
standing paraded the streets arm-in-arm
with a young lady of polor, named Nc
Creary, led by band of music. A large
crowd of men and boys followed the pair
until they arrived in front of the Doc
tors new marble building on Main
street, when the female Fifteenth Amend
ment was released, and the Doctor made
a short speech to the crowd and disap-
peared up stairs, II seems that the Doc
tor had made bet some time ago with
an old Democrat that he would make a
demonstration of this kind whenever the
of the Fifteenth Amendment
should be proclaimed