Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-23

A New Yorker has invented glass
coffin on the principle of self-sesling
cans.
Skating on steel stilts is the rink SEN
sation up North. At Fort Wayne, Ind /,
the skaters climb creased pole, the
prizs ct the top being bunch Of tickets
and pair of club skates.
A French girl, arrested for stealing a
watch from an sdmiring lawyer, during
an evenings festivities, retained him to
conduct the case in her defense, which,
according to French law, he cannot re-
fuse.
In Washington City Saturday q mar
risge license was granted from the clerk 8
Office Of the Supreme Court 10 John r.
Graves, white man from Virginia, to
Lucy Jane Poindexter, o colored woman.
.. The English courts have recently de.
cided that newspaper has copyright
in every word and letter of every original
article contained in it's pages that no
other person has a right to reprint them
without permission; and that copy is
not legalized even by acknowledging its
source.
The Pittsfeld Eagle says. 1--WE know
OF wedding that is to take place this
week, the man in the case being induced
to accept bis yoke for consideration OF
FIVE hundred dollars, to be paid him on
his wedding day by the lady who has
chosen him for her husband. We wish
him much jaw"
Two stock farmers in California bad a
dispute as to whether Cashmere goats or
fine blooded sheep furnished the 6nest
meat A jury was appointed, and about
one hundred persons partook of the bar
becue with which the trial was celebrated.
The jury decided in favor of goat by a
vote Of eight to four.
At Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the
9th, E. L. Gay was sentenced to three
years imprisonment in the State peni-
tennsry, for larceny. When the SEN
tence was pronounced, one of the pris-
oner's children, who bad little doll in
her arms, offered it, With tears, to one of
the counsel in the case, seeking to pur.
chase with it her fathers Liberation.
In recent trial in California, where
Chinese evidence was admissible, the
prosecHting attorney, having some doubts
as to the correctness of the testimony,
inquired Of the interpreter whether
Chinsmsn, under the usual cath, would
tell the truth. "Oh, no." responded
John "Chinsman be allie same as you
lie; allie same as any Melicsu lie"
Ia addition to the States Of Virginia,
West Virginia, Maryland, North aud
South Caroline, designated ss the De-
Of Virginia, the President on
S Saturday directed that the District of
Columbia should be transferred from the
Department of the East, under the COM
mand of General Mcdowell, to the De-
psrtment of Virginia, under the COM
msnd Of General Candy.
Jessie Fremont speaks in this cruel
way Of one of the brothers-in-lsw of the
Administration " Mr.. Corbin. if be is q
rather elderly person named Abel Rsth-
bone Oorbin, was often at Col, Benton's
house, not as an smsnuensis, but, as Mr..
Benton himself said to some one who OBJ
jscted to bic Urish Heep style of manner,
Every public man must have ferret,
and Corbin is mine"
A youRg lady recently applied for and
obtained clsrkship in q dry goods store
in Concord, New Hampshire, and availed
herself quite freely of the privilege of
buying ct cost price any goods she
v anted for her own use At the end Of
TWO months she resigned, and very soon
after she was married, IS was also her
lister. 1t has since transpired that she
accepted the position merely that she
might buy chesply the liberal supply of
Try goods 50 mysteriouSly necessary on
Iuch occasions.
Miss Kate Reynolds had narrow es-
ape at Nashville, Tenn, recently, while
at the Nashville Thea,er.
During the progress of the evenings en-
ertainment the trail Of her dress, sn
slaborately arranged illusion, scciden-
ally touched the footlights, and in a
moment il was ablaze. She remained
perfectly still, and said to Mr.. Frank
Noyes. who was on the stage with her,
Mr.. Noyes, my dressl my dressr BE
lmothered the blaze by putting his fee.
~ Il, Rhsn Miss Reynolds thanked him
o the dialect Of the character she was
assuming Al this the sudience burst
ats loud and prolonged applause. Il
vas a nsrroE escape, for had she at
supied 10 run from the stage, the light
material would have burned from her
rorm before the FIRE could have been ex-