Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-12

A lucky laborer named hurry, while
engaged in excavating upon the site OF
the old Fountain Hotel, Baltimore,
few days since, came upon q TN boN
which was found to contain $1,000 go'd
coins.
A box containing a black bear from
the backwoods of New York was re-
ceiyed at an express office in San Fran
cisco. .he other day, with this funny
inscription: BLACK Bare. FL ycw don't
want ter git bit, kcpe yer fingers ou'en
the craxp
At Syracuse recently n reporter saw 2
cloud of insects, and fastened TO record
the fact in his journal, stating that tn.
cloud passed eastward with a sound
not unlike the roaring of n cataract, and
vet as gentle as the cooling of pigeons
going home to roost
A gentleman in Paris recommends the
colonists to introduce foxes as a means
of keeping down rabbits in Australia,
adding, that when foxes become too nu-
merous, packs of hounds can be estao.
lished the equilibrium maintained, and
sport procured.
Troy has haunted cigar store, the
ghost being robed in snowy white. Inc
old lady who kept the store made grab
at the spook, the other night sheet re.
NAMED in her hands, and young girl
from over the. way was soon making
tracks for home.
Theodore Coon, young gentleman
who has heretofore resided with his pa
rents near Baltimore, recently returned
from Europe and eloped with one of his
fathers servants. He had gone abroad
for the purpose of trying 10 forget the
attractions of his charmer. The result
shows how far he was successful.
A young gentleman named White had
narrow escape from being made the
MONDAY meal of shark at Quogue, L..
l.. quite recently. While out with a
number of friends, he observed the fish
plowing through the water, jumped in
and held il by the tail until some fisher
men passed loop upon its neck and
hauled it on shore.
Elijah Ship, an aged criminal, con-
fined for many years in the Indiana
State prison, recently served out his SEN
tence and was discharged. In less than
a week he committed a burglary and was
shipped back there again. The keepers
manifested some surprise at seeing him
return so soon, but he quickly set all
speculation at rest by declaring that he
would not give up his prison associations
for all the wealth of the country.
A Characteristic gift has been made to
the Thirteenth Chasseurs regiment OF
Saxony, by the firm of Geissler Bros,
of Meissen, consisting of an order upon
the house of Eugene Cliquot champagne
fame, for six bottles of champagne for
each officer and one for every private
soldier, payable when the Prussian army
enters Rheims.
The author of the famous German war
song, Die Yacht am Rhein, is still
unknown. A teacher named Mueller, in
Crefold, is the reputed author But the
composer of the music, for twenty years
resident Of Crefold, and now living in
reduced circumstances at Schmalkalden,
stated years ago that he had received
the poem from an anonymous author at
Meurs, and had been unable to learn his
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name.
In many parts of Europe it was be-
lieved that a candle made of the fat
melted from the body of an infant, and
placed in dead mans hand, would
make the carrier invisible and enable
him to enter any house he chose. This
talismanic candle was much in use by
thieves. 1t was supposed that this SUI
perstition had long since vanished, but
recent trial in Russia shows that il
still exists there--a thief having stole
the body of child to obtain the mate
rial for his candle.
The Royal Family of England is suff'
ciently represented by its connections in
the present war. There are several blood
relations of the Queen in the feld-on
the German side, of course. The Grown
Prince is the husband of the Princess
Rayal of England. Prince Louis, Of
Hesse, who commands division, mar
ried the Princess Alice, and has received
10000 a year ever since by way of com
pensation. The Crown Pince gets f800C
year with his wife Surely, then, nc
suspicion can be cast upon Court cir
cles' in England in relation to theil
feeling toward Germany.