Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-27

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Gen. Banks is lecturing in Boston on
the European war, and takes ground in
favor of the French Republic.
The tailors say that if any effort be
made to reduce their wages this winter,
another strike will be matter of sheer
necessity.
What did the Israelites do after they
crossed the Red Sea?' asked superin-
dent of Sunday School "They dried
themselves" said shrill-voiced little
girl
North Adams now manufactures a
total of l7l0 cases of shoes per month in
six factories. OF these, Sampson, with
his Cinnamon, turns out four hundred,
and the striking Crispins cooperative
company one hundred.
That romantic story of how Eugenie
almost married Virgnian-young w.
c. Rives-before Napoleon came, is de-
MED, because Mr.. Rives was married
about six months before he visited
France.
A lady, aged SO, died recently in La
fayette, Indiana. The only property
left was a S2o gold piece, that she had
kept carefully concealed for thirty-Gve
years, in order to pay her own funeral
expenses.
"What fine head your boy has, said
an admiring friend. "Yes," said the
fond father, he's chip off the old
block; amt you, Johnnie2' II guess
so" replied the boy, my teacher said |
was young blockhead. "
A smart woman has been engaged at
Nashua, N. H., for some time past, in
selling several hundred dollars worth OF
molasses and water as valuable chemi-
cal mixture for the removal of warts,
pimples, corns and moles.
John" said poverty-stricken man
to his son, I've made my will to-day
"Ahl replied John, you we're liberal
to me, no doubt" Eyes, John, came
down handsome. I've willed you the
whole State Of Virginia-to make liv-
ing in, with the privilege of going else
where if you can do better"
A young lady at Western temper
ance meeting said: Brethren and sis
ters, cider is necessity to me, and i
must have it, If it is decided that we
are not to drink cider, shall eat apples,
and get some young man to squeeze, for
cant live without the juice of the
apple.
A man in Indiana the other day lost
COW by allowing her to travel at will
he, . tbao (,,a a1
to reimburse him. He proceeded to col
lect his pay singularly by taking up a
rail and allowing train to run over the
embankment The engineer and fire.
man were killed,
My dear madam, can you give me a
glass of grog?" asked a fatigued trav-
eler in Arkansas, as he entered a cabin
on the roadside. / amt got drop,
stranger" replied the woman. But a
gentleman told me that you had bar
rel. why, good gracious, replied
the woman; what do you reckon one
barrel of whisky is to me and my children
when we are out of milkY'
A fashionable individual who had pa
tronized the Boston hotels rather literally
for sometime past without troubling him
self about money matters, was discovered
to be an accomplished swindler few
days ago and taken in charge by the
Chief Of Police. He was supposed to
be a German Count until his trunks
we're found to contain nothing more val
liable than bricks, stones-not precious
and pieces of wrapping paper.
The question of right to reserved seats
at concerts, which has caused a good
deal of annoyance at Syracuse and else
where was recently decided by one of
the Washington County Court Judges,
who held that all seats previously Sc
cured by ticket were the property Of the
person for whom they had been secured,
and might be occupied or allowed to
remain idle for that particular entertain
ment at his or her pleasure.
One of the French prisoners in Ber-
lin, who is now earning some money by
making shoes, is very good-natured
fellow, who, like Mark Tapley, seems de-
termined to make the most of the situa-
ton. When taunted by a Prussian as
being a captive, and asked what had be-
come of French boasting now, he un-
dauntedly replied French boasting,
indeed We said we should be in Ber-
lin in three weeks, and here we arel"
The Newburyport Herald thus de-
scribes the aurora which has attracted
so much attention throughout the coun-
try: Last evening as soon as Tithonus
had retired for the night, and was en-
joying his first snooze, his spouse, the
rosy-hngered Aurora, daughter Of the
morning, snatohed the saffron-cOvered
coverlet from his bed, aud wrapping it
about her, danced jig in the northern
sky"
A party Of women formed an Anti
Coolie Laundry Association at Sacra-
mento, recently, and il worked beauti-
fully for a time, the women receiving
liberal patronage from the sympathizing
public. But the fact that the clothes
returned looked and smelled like those
done up by Cinnamon led to investiga-
ton. and turned out that the smart
women had sub-let the work to Chinese
washerwomen at two-thirds the price
paid by their Oonfding patrons, and
pocketod The difference. The concern
Dbusted
A husband and wife, formerly Of 0ber-
lin. Ohio, who have lived together over
thirty-6ve years, and have raised fifteen
children, having made up their minds to
bye apart, visited Oberlin last week to
arrange Tor the separation. The wife
gave up all claim on their joint property,
with the understanding that the husband
should provide for the younger children
till they ceuld take care Of themselves,
and then asked permission to return 70
re- IN home with her husband 80 that