Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-06-30
A woman as black as the ace of spades
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A woman as black as the ace of spades
says she was born to blush unseen"
The managers ola Chicago theater adj
yertise that they will pay twenty-five
cents cash for one hundred live cats, to
perform in a new sensation, The Shower
of Cats.
Oscar Oespedes, SON Of the reyolu-
tionary leader In Cuba, left young vie
to mourn his untimely taking of. The
Spaniards, with whom she is prisone-,
ignore the validity of her marriage.
A young lady reached town in Maine
last week, direct from Germany, and on
the second day after her arrival was
married 10 happy youth, who was en-
gagged 20 her six years ago in the old
country, and who, after securing house
in Maine, sent for her to come over the
water 10 Charlie only his name was
Frederick -
The Governor Of Massachusetts has
signed the bill amending the prohibitory
lew and the'supplementary act, II will
therefore be lawful TO sell cider, ale, por-
ter, strong beer and lager beer. The
bill provides that cities and towns shall
each year vote whether the sale Of strong
drinks shall be made within their respec-
tive municipalities.
A Kew York authority says that o
charming novelty for young girls is a
summer hat of light blue or pink silk
with kind of couture Of embroidered
Swiss muslin edged with Valenciennes
lace. A quilting of silk surrounds the
croEn; bow and streamers are at the
back. Bronzed baats arc worn with
brown or with white dresses, but black
kid boots, cut only half high, orhamented
with white stitching, and either buttoned
or laced on the sides, are more gener-
aliy saoa;ea,
On one of the bells which has been
taken from the steeple of the Lutheran
Church in Frederick City, Md, for the
purpose of having it recast in conse-
auence Of a crack in il, is the following
inscription: Peck & Chapman, Of Lon
don, felt l7fl.n The bell IS ,herefere,
ninety-nine years old, and was presented
TO the Lutheran Church in that year or
the year following. by Author Schaaff,
sho 4 hundred years ago, was an emf
Deni Hseh4Ler If the Frederick bar hut
removed 10 Georgetown, where he has
relatives still residing,
. THE Queen O the Wood" Is the fan
cifully pretty title given to the city of
Atlanta Georgia. This place owes its
present prosperity to Northern enter
nrise. II has received in FIVE years an
addition Of lhil,y tsgEsana peoRle n the
population, principally wide-awake me
chanics and manufacturer, with their
skill and capital from the North. The
busv hum Of their workshops, mills and
maknfscforiss i hesrd in every quarter
Of the city, and entsfpiise ana progress
pnlsates through every artery in the COM
mercial body.
A travelling bear, carried about for ex-
hibition. lately met with a sudden death.
The owner took bis grizzly charge to
Niagara Falls, and stopped 70 rest on the
banks of the river, short distance be-
low the new suspension bridge. Bruin
was chained to a stump, while his master
iay down 70 take a short snooze; the
stump proved &c be f0t.sA and vas
pulled up By the bear, and the latter,
vcnturing too near the edge Of the chit,
tnmbled over aud was killed The body
;yss ssaad seme distance below the spot
where the accident occurred, and the
skin removed By the diseonsolste French
gentlemen, who has thas been deprived
Of his net and supporter,