Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-21

In Washington City. Hon. @. c.
Bowen, M. G. from Charleston, South
Carolina, stands indicted for bigamy.
The Grand Jury concluded that Mr..
Bowen was not entitled to two wives; in
fact, that he was too much married.
A young lady named Agnes Cooper, a
few days since, stole $1,000 bill from
Captain RUSSELL steamboat man, in St.
Louis. The girl, to escape detection,
swallowed the bill--a savory morsel
worth $1,000. At the last accounts the
doctors were trying to get at the bill by
means of stomach pump and emetics.
The Rev. Horace Cook, of New York,
who some months since enticed away
Miss johnson from her fathers house,
was found by the police a few nights
since in state of beastly intoxication
in front of Jem Maces saloon. Next
morning Recorder Cox committed him
to jail, but discharged him few hours
afterward. The reverend culprit is evil
IDENTIFY falling rapidly from grace.
We have received from S. NJ. Petten-
gill 4 Co.'s Newspaper Advertising
Agency, New York City, copy Of the
Advertisers Handbook" containing a
full list of all newspapers, periodicals
and magazines published in the United
States and British Possessions. This is
an invaluable book, methodically ar
ranged, containing an immense amount
of interesting and useful matter.
George Francis Train has been abus-
ing the Reds" of Marseilles, France,
through the columns Of Cluseret's organ,
/" La Revolution In one of these bonn
bastic illusions he says: Do not shoot
any more women under my windows,
from which hang the flags of America
and France floating and interlaced.
To arms and En- dpant to Berlin"
The infection of Train on the French
people is too much. France is lost!
The steamer Hornet has probably
proved too sharp for our Spanish au-
thorities this time. They could not get
any tangible hold of her, although, Of
course, they had suspicion in plenty.
1t is now thought that she was fitted out
under Gen. Jordan's own supervision,
and that he has formed connection with
her at some point off the Southern coast.
The entire cost of the expedition is said
70 have been $3.50, 900, included in which
are nine thousand stand of arms, which
will be god-send to the Cuban cause.
A New York paper states that at a
fashionable clearinghouse in Twenty
first street the following rules and regu-
atoms are furnished to every boarder:
Notice to Boarders-The gentlemen
must not put their feet on the mantel in
winter nor out of the window in summer,
and the lady must not write her name
On the glass with quartz pin. The sin
gle gentleman must not play the from
bone, nor make love to the servants, nor ,
comb his whiskers at the table. If he {
loes he won't answer. The lady must
lot turn up her nose at everything on
he table, unless she has natural pug ,
md none of the party must drink or
ak with mouthful Of yictuals, nor {
must they fight for the top buckwheat !
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The following speech is said to have r
zen made before our Recorder few Q
lays since, by an attorney, in case in
diving fine OF five dollars
Law, sir, is very simple, if we under S
tandits elementary principles. The prin- 8
iple in this case, sir, is to be found in the c
orn-books of the profession. | hold in Q
Nv hand, sir, a volume Of Blackstone, Il
ir, the great author of the English law; ?
es, sir, / hold in Fmy hand, sir, that il
lorious mGgnas chdrtds, the foundation
nd bulwark of English liberty, which Y
as wrung by the illustrious King John,
word in hand, from the bloody barons
n the banks Of the pleasant Bonny-
lede, on that momentous occasion
Tut sir, / did not intend to make
peech, sir, and as have not examined
he question, sir, submit to the court q
18th these few and incongruyial re- b
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