Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-13

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"I would not live always" an,
proved the truth of her assertion
| by dying five minutes after.
The Princess de Metternicl
claims to have restored over fifty
fallen women to their families anc
responsibility.
Great Darlington mourns ths
necessary destruction of gigan
+, tic oak 200 years old, one of thu
venerable landmarks ofits streets
1What shall / dor" exclaimed
a approximations exquisite, as he
paced his elegant apartment in
fine frenzy; "what is to be done
/ have scented my hair a Ia violet,
and my laundress has sent me my
shirts a la rose "
A society has been organized in
Coshocton, Ohio, composed en-
tirely of young ladies, the mem
bers of which cannot marry with
out unanimous consent.
A foreign gossipper pleasantly
records that among the other oc-
equations of Winnie Ream, in
Rome, she is blasting out a bust
of Brownlow with nitro glycerine,
A young man in North Adams,
Mass, who learned that the
woman whom he had looked upon
for his wife for four years, was
the lawful wife of another man,
Immediately left her for his faith
er's house, and then sickened and
died of grief.
An elegantly dressed lady re-
Gently presented herself to one of
the police magistrates at Paris,
and politely denounced herself as
the murderess of eleven children.
Investigation fortunately proved
that she was laboring under a fit
of hallucination, caused by the
horrors of the Pantin tragedy.
NY friends, l claim for a woman
the right to do as she's a mind to,
and no questions asked. If she
wants tic go into the grocery buzz
ness, and sand her sugar, salt
her starch, water her fish, and sell
old tea grounds for best Japaneze,
she shall do so-jest like any man.
If she wants to smoke, sh all
smoke, and if she she wants to
swear, she shall have the privi-
lege, without being called fast for
it. And she shall chaw terbacker
in public places, and spit all over
everybody's trowserloons that's
handy-jest as the gentlemen spit
over the skirts of our gounds. And
she shall stay out late of nights,
and she shall look sour if there
hain't some lady setting up for
her with good fire and strong
cup of tea; and she shall upset
and kick cats, and slam
doors, and swear at the lady jus |
like any gentleman. She shall |
line the Free Masons, and ride the |
goat, ard go to horse races, and
kiss the good looking man-servant
behind the door, jest as her hus-
band kisses the pretty maid SER
want. All these rights and privi-
leges shall be hurnl No man
shall step in and say yea nor nay. |
Somebody seq that Scripter is
ag'in this doctrine. That's jest as
you understand it. 1t hain't to be
expected that / or any other Wo-
mans RICHTER can find brains for
all the world to understand what
we say with. Eve tempted Adam
to sin, did she? Wall, if she hadn't
been the smartest of the two, he
wouldn't have got took in and
sold as he was, would he? That's
Jest as plain as the noses on yer
faces, my friends, and some of
you has got very prominent han
dies to yer countenances, or I'm
no judge.
Everybody that letters ag'in
Women's Rights alters brings up
old Saint Paul as wonderful
authority. Now, / don't think
Paul knowed anything about it.
He was a dried up old bachelor,
and how could he? It's proberble
that along about the time he was
starting a mustache, some gal give
him the mitten, and turned his
milk Of human kindness sour. / i
don't think his opinion is 'of any
more consequence than Parson
Powells, or any other good Chris
tan minister's. He didn't belong |
to the temperance society, and he
used to be a rather fast young |
man one while, but | don't hold
no hardness ag'in him. 1t amt
in the mater of Jerushy Rugg to
hold hardness ag'inst any human
critter that has repented and de-
tarmined to walk straight. But
seq Saint Paul, SEE he:
g Take two pints of turpentine,
half an ounce of castor lie, ten
cents worth of beeswax-"
There stopped short, and, gra-
cious airth come to Examine my |
mannerscript, I'd left the heft of
it to home, and had brung along |
the leaves of an old resate book |
instid. A little more and / should |