Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The public school system is about to
90 into effect at Richmond, Va. White
teachers have been selected for white
schools, and colored teachers for colored
schools.
The Connecticut river is so low that
persons are driving across it with their
teams at points where it has not been
forded within the memory Of any one
now living.
The people Of Harrison county, Ind,
we're excited a few days since by the dis
covery of vein of gold, by laborers,
who were engaged An sinking well
The excavations will be continued.
Andrew Tarpley, a colored boy, aged
fifteen years, was hung at Graham, North
Carolina, on the 26th ultimo, for an out
rage on a white girl, aged eleven years.
He confessed his guilt.
A very sad scene was witnessed re-
Gently at the Troy Police Court. A
young girl Of exceedingly progressing
appearance made complaint against her
mother for drunkenness, and requested
that she might be sent to prison.
That was cheerful Fifteenth Amend
ment," who, when he was arrested for
stealing half carcass of mutton from a
STALL put in as defense, that since he
became a voter he thought he ought to
=" take sides somewhere.
A little boy six years old, and little
girl eight, were looking at the clouds one
beautiful summer evening, watching
their fantastic shapes, when the boy ex-
claimed, 80, Minnie, / see dog in the
sky" well, Willie" replied the sister,
" it must be sky-terrier"
The oldest man in 10 Davies county,
Illinois, according to the census which is
nearly completed, is Mr. Michael Hile-
man, of the town of Wards Grove, aged
man is a native Of Pennsylvania.
Gustave Dore has executed a picture
designed to illustrate the horrors Of war.
IL shows a burning village, with the
corpses of soldiers heaped up in the
streets, with dismantled houses and
perishing cattle; over this scene Of ruin
and distress rises lurid moon.
Miss A. P. Ladd of Augusta, Maine
was on Wednesday appointed by the
Governor and Council a justice Of the
peace and quorum. This is believed to
be the first appointment Of a lady tC
this Office in New England, and perhaps
in the United States east Of Wyoming
territory.
There is a smaller number of idlers
and loafers in Paris at the present crises
than there has been since 1915. All the
strarglers are being looked after and put
10 work on the Notifications. The gay
Parisians have been asking for some
sensation for long time, and now they
have IT,
The rolls Of the Pension Office show
that there are noS drawing pensions hive
hundred and six Union soldiers who have
lost one arm; four thousand six hundred
and twcnty-seven one leg: three hundred
and Fifty both arms; forty-two both legs,
and tweniy-one an arm and a leg.
A party at Cape Cod and Cape Ann
fishermen. numbering about 100, recent
Is sought admitiance at the house Of q
widow Sargent in Boothbay harbor,
Maine. where they had put in for the
night Being refused, they stove the
door in, seriously injured Mrs Sargent
and her nephew, who resisted them, fired
the house and then put TO sea before they
could be identified.
Fror -Fr0u gauze IS a new material in
troduced for ihe ladies' scarf trimming
and for wells II is thin, clear grena-
dine. Of solid color, with the threads
shaded to give the effect Of the crinkle
OF Grape, though the surface remains
liaf. L is entrined like q scarf around
royale and velvet bonnets, and hangs in
. square handkerchief or streamer on
the len side This streamer may be
used as q veil When the gauze Is black
ii has an applied border Of Spanish
blvnis.