Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-04-01
msscELLASEoUs ITEMS.

days of continuous slelghlng.
Constantinople has had the rarity o
ice and snow this winter.
Manchester, N. H., prohibits smoking
on Sunday.
The early death of the King of Prus
STA is said to be expected
Harper's Ferry is to be made water
ing place, and a large hotel is to be bull
there.
The Presbyterians are about starting
newspaper at Chicago, to be called the
Interior"
Minnesota claims to have ice thirty
three inches thick and clear enough to
read a paper through.
The Germans in Cincinnati have
started newspaper, which they faceti-
ously call the Scrubbingbrush-'
A New Orleans woman escaped COM
mitment for drunkenness by informing
the court that she had the smallpox.
By his last series of readings in Lon
don, Mr.. Dickens made $4,000 He
finds readings more profitable than wri-
ting.
New Hampshire will fast on Thursday,
April 7, the same day as Massachusetts,;
and Vermont on Friday, April 10.
Some of the fashionable colored ladies
of New York heighten the brilliancy Of
their compilations by artfnlly arranged
pieces of white court-plaster.
A man has been convicted in Wiscon-
sin of numbering his four wives one after
another, and has been sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life. There is no capital
punishment in Wisconsin.
In case recently on trial before a
court at Laramie City, Wyoming Terri
tory, all the male jurors were challenged
off the jury, leaving it entirely to the
women.
In New York, not great while ago,
stole Judge Barnards over
coat from the bench in the sight of law
yers, witnesses, etc On Tuesday his
hat disappeared after the same fashion.
4 Providence paper announces that
Miss Anna Dickinson will shortly be led
to the altar by well known Rhode Is
land literary gentleman. Whether for
or sacrifice is not stated.
"How much water do you put in your
milk" asked a Pittsfield, Massachusetts,,
man of boy who delivers milk on one
of the milk routes. We don I put any
water in it, replied the boy. What do
you put in it, then?" Ice said the
candid youth.
The town clock in Sing Sing struck |
times at 10 o'clock on Mon |
lay night. One poor fellow, who had
been to see his friends, counted the
strokes, and declared that he had never
)een out so late before in all his life, and |
ne did not know what his wife would say. /
A San Franciscan, speaking of the or
,hestra in the Chinese Theatre there, |
Jays: II can tell you, you can 90 your
POTION dollar that you never heard any
hing like it; why, when that band strikes |
ID, it sounds like ten thousand wash /
pliers tumbling off fiye-story building
IN to a brick sidewalk,
Sully, the portrait painter, is still living |
n Philadelphia, at the age of eighty
seven, and is at work on copy of The
Neapolitan Boy" which appeared as an
in Every Saturday. Mr.. Sully
painted the portrait of Andrew jackson,
which appeared on our last two cent
postage stamp.
They are proverbially polite in South |
Carolina, and therefore no one will be |
that the Columbia Phoenix
should put request which usually is
made in the most imperative manner, in
hese mild words; Will not the kind
md gentlemanly Superintendent of the
do us the distinguished favor
IF providing us, by some means, with
better light?
A bearded girl has made. her appear
lnce at Glade Spring depot, Washington
County, Va. She is four years old, and
has a mustache and whiskers, the hair
lpon the forehead extending to the eye
qrows. Very heavy hair, exceedingly I
black, extends below the shoulders.
The child is sprightly, with fully devel-
,ped limbs and well-formed body. The
arms shoulders, and back are covered
With soft, downy hair.
A prisoner named Tarter played the
ailer of DeKalb county, Missouri, a
icnryy trick last week, Ever since his |
return TO the Dekalh prison, Tarter had
manifested disposition to busy himself
in keeping the place clean by sweeping
It out quite frequently, on every occasion
under guard obtaining an opportunity
10 90 outside TO sweep the dirt and rubbish
away from his door. This was not deemed
wrong, but was rather encouraged by the
deputy jailer, Mr. Gaines Adams, who |
was glad to see the prison kept so clean.
On Wednesday evening about dusk, Tar
ter was again busy with his broom, and,
as usual, the keeper of the place was
standing by, with pistol in his belt,
watching the prisoner at his labors.
When the debris of the Jail had been
swept as far from the door as there was
any necessity of forcing it, Tarter raised |
the broom from the ground, and quick |
as lightning, gave the jailsF . severe
punch In the abdomen (which almost
the officer); then, with the
agility of deer, leaped over fence,
and ran of with a "good-byel aud an |
imprecatiop, No search or pursuit has
been successful in oEerhauling him, and
Tarter is nov at large. The injury to the |
taller was so sudden and severe that had
his revolver been in his hand, he would
have been powerless to use it for o min
ute AR none ,1hioh Was all the time the