Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-29


cred in city free of charge: -. =. =, : !s.es
Grant and Hancock have made up,
Fanny Ferns weight is nearly two
hundred
Anna Dickinson delivers Joan Of
Arc" almost every night, and is making
money. I'D
The Rochester Democrat thinks it is
becoming serious question whether the
roughs own that city or not.
Brigham Young, jr., has proposed to
the Young Ladies' Seminary lately
opened by the Methodists at Salt Lake.
Count Mitkierniche will be missed from
our hotel registers. He left by the last
Indian steamer, name and all. II
Susan B, Anthony's ailment turns out
to be, not disorder of the windpipe, but
disarrangement of the .fungiform pa
pill@. a 9i'
Everybody will be glad to hear Of
Delano's promotion. His course in the
revenue department has been lessen to
thousands. .f1flt
Ten thousand Southern rnen who live
in New York have registered for the
coming election, and will make it warm
for the Republicans,
Josh Billings says that one ov the
hardest things for emmy man to do, is tew
fall down on the ice when it is wet, and
then git up and praze the Lord. f.ah
The well that for a long time past was
being bored for salt water at Lincoln,
Nebraska, is success. A vein Of salt
water was found six huRdred feet below
the surface and it now flows out of the
mouth Of the well. asao lyfsas
A foreign visitor to this country says
that Notwithstanding whisky is favorite
drink in America, where one man calls
for Bourbon six men call for the
same" He concludes that - the same F"
is a fayorite drink. 9m aa
The negro, Benjamin johnson, con-
victed of rape in the Sussex county
court, Delaware, on Thursday of last
week. was on the day following SEN
fenced to be hung in the Jail yard at
Georgetown, Delaware, on the 10th of
December next, ..i, "a
A female child with two heads, three
feet and eighteen toes, was born near
Cardington, Ohio, on the l4th instant.
The two heads are perfect in shape, but
the third limb is as large as the other
two. 1t seems to be- quite healthy, and
takes food in both mouths at the same
time. faamf ali
Greece and Turkey are said to have
formed defensive alliance TO resist the
encroachments of the Western Powers,
meaning, of course, Russia, which is not
Western Power at ALL If the latter
manages to get fleet on the Black Sea,
this alliance will not greatly intimidate
her, or prevent her seizure of her natural
gates to the Mediterranean. .lto
Forty-fve years on Tuesday, the 25th,
since water was let into the Erie Canal,
and cannon, from tide water TO Lake
Erie, announced the grand event. That
canal did great work for its day and
generation, but it had popular life of
less than half a century, and now must
be opened to free transit or lose its busi-
ness Will the next forty-five years
leave our present railroad system as far
in the rear as to-day sees the canal sys-
temp
A distinguished surgeon, surrounded
by many lookers-on, was amputating a
limb, and needing for this purpose a
cord, remarked to a boy standing near,
"Giye me that string in your pocket,
and the desired article was Immediately
brought from the varied assortment OF
buttons, broken pencils and other arti-
cles of value gathered by the youthful
| La. al
the operation medical man, who was
assisting the operator, inquired Of the
latter, "How did you know that the boy
had what you asked for when yod called
for cord9' He replied, did you ever
know boy that had not string in his
, pocket among his collection of 'valu
ablesY" aai
In the schools of Jaynesville, Wiscon-
sin, hoggings are of almost daily occur
renee, the instrument of torture being a
strap sixteen inches long, one and a
quarter inches wide, made of thick COW.
, hide, Timber with OIL One boy in the
,, High-School building received ninety
nine blows on the hand, after having
stood on the floor two days, for chewing
gum. Another, for turning his head and
smiling, was thrown on the floor, and
with the knee of the principal on his
throat, and the assistant upon his legs
was tortured with the strap upon his
body, limbs, and face for ten minutes
until the teachers had tired themselves
out Young girls are made to stand
upon the floor, holding heavy books al
arms length, for period Of two hours
until they faint from sheer exhaustion.
Prince Amadeus Fridinand Marie
Duke d'Aosta, Of the House of Savoy
Q who has accepted the long vacant throne
q Of Spain, is the third child and second
e son Of his Majesty King Victor Emanuel
d Of Italy. The Duke was born on the 30th
), of Nav, in the year ls45, and is twenty
n FIVE wears of age. His Royal Highness
1 holds the commission Of Lieutenant Gen.
eral in the Italian army and chief Of a
brigade of cavalry. He was married on
the 3Oth Of May, in the year 1861, to the
Princess Marie VictOire Charlotte Hen
; rietta Jean, daughter Of Prince Charles
Emanuel Cisterna and Louisa Caroline
u Gbislaine. Countess de Merode. II II
louite unnecessary to refer to the greai
I antiquity Of the House Of Savoy, OF whiel
, the Young King Of Spain is scion, ii
n brilliant history in war and peace, or 4
saw how his forefathers have borne the
banner Of the White CrOss-the ensign
I of their family-from the mountain ham
! lets of the country victoriously to the
plains--to Florence, Genoa, Turin and
: Saples-in former years, or mention hov
his father has finally thrown the ampll
! folds Of the flag Of united Italy over tn
entire country, from Rome to its remotes
confne. The most blue-blooded Span
? lard cannot certainly object to Prime