Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-13


ting the Repolution, which is to be called
the Ne,o Republic.
Pleasure is rose, near which there
ever grows thorn Of evil. 1t is wis
dom's work so carefully to pluck the rose
as to avoid the thorn.
Tho II H,rtford Ice Company have not,
as yet, been able to gather any ice. The
company has, usually, large quantity
stored in December.
AT Albany, N Y, on Monday lal',
during the perform snce Of the Overture
to the Grown of Diamonds" at the
Trimble Opera House, Professor Liui,
Undsrner, leader of the orchestra, was
observed to cease playing and drop bis
head upon his breast. A portion of The
audience, thinking him under the infla-
ence of liquor. hissed, bat those nearer
rushed toward him and found him to
be dead. Deceased was well known and
much respected.
The Adrain mich J Times is respon
sible for the last good story at the ex
pense Of Justices jury. It says that
q recent case of assault was tried in that
city, on which six jurors voted By bal
lot. Juror No. | voted "No cause ol
action" No. 2 voted "Salt and battery,
Second d Gree" No 3 declared the
prisoner "Gilty of Salt" M. decided
there was 40 action of cause. No s
voted it assault aud Battery" while No.
6 decided the prisoner "Gilty of an q
salt only"
Just as services we're ope u;ng last Sun.
day at the Congregational Church, in
Kansas City,. Missouri, a young gentle.
man and lady rode up before the church
on horseback and sent in for the preacher
requesting 20 be married forthwith with
out alighting, when another minister,
who happened to be present, came out,
and, while religious services were going
on indoors, the marriage ceremony was
performed outside The two made one
were Ephraim Harbyast and Lizzie
Cook.
The Waco (Texas) Register says /:
The different Indian nations seem to
be following in the footsteps of some of
the border States in passing laws inju-
rious to the interests of cattle raisers
Mr. s. P. Mills, who has for some time
been engaged in the cattle trade to Kan
SOS, has just returned from fall trip and
informs us that the tribes in the Indian
Nation have passed laws requiring toll
for all Texas cattle passing through their
country. The toll is not limited to a
particular season, but is to be enforced
all the year round. The Cherokees
charge ten cents head, the Creeks
twenty-five cents, and lately the Chicks-
saws have enacted that fifty cents head
must be paid for all Texas cattle driven
through. These laws work great hard
ship to the drover. There is no way to
avoid them without driving much further
west and running the gauntlet of the
savage Comanohes."
At Louisiana, Mo-, about week sgo, q
skiff, containing q mother and her two
children, was seen battling its way from
the Illinois shore, through the grinding,
crashing fields of ice, as they pushed
against and piled upon each other, swept
along by the irresistible current. She
was in search of her four sons, taken
from her some twelve months ago by her
husband, who had married a woman in
Missouri, and was living on the point be-
tween Salt river and the Mississippi.
The brave woman, npon reaching
this shore, obtained an officer and pro-
ceeded on the search for her boys
Arriving at the residence Of their
father, he was found to be absent "hog
hunting" The joy of the little boys is
said to have ebeeu'indescribabl when they
saw their mother, from whom they had
been separated so many month";. They
had suffered greatly from sgue and fever,
and want of food, and we're nearly des.
titute of clothing, their caps being made
Of green coon skins. The brave woman
rescued her boys, aud has them now
with her at home, near Griggsville, H.
inois, where she resides. Her name is
Lucy A. johnson.
The December number Of the Salon,
published at L7ipsic, contains an inter-
eshng paper. entitled, From the Work
shop of Poet" by Adolf Strodtmann,
The editor Of Heine's last Poems and
Thoughts" who discourses of Heine's
handwriting, four fac similes of which
IRE appended. The first is an exact
,opy of q dedication which the poet
sroie 10 April, 1926, to friend 10 Ham
,urg-a foe, regular, clear hand. and
realty written on al octave sheet Later
lis writing becomes more indistinct aud |
coarse. In lS4S, when be was confined |
o the sick-room, after be had given up
be use of ink, be still used lead-pencil,
nd wrote, either in bed or supported in
n easy chair, upon cresn-colored,
quare fjliO sheets, resting them upon a
iriting case, or q thick wadding Of
,spers upon bis knee. while With his Jeff
and be painfully held up the lid OF his
alf-close1 eye TO read the writing. which
ecsme more aRd more iniistinct he
iciaied bis letters; but his literary
-orks, as the Romancero" and the
Miscellaneous Writings" we're written
' the poet, and afterwards transcribed
' bis secretary. Diciaiion was q very
ificult task 10 him; he said be could
ictaie 3 poem more easily than prose.
Is vas extremely critical, even down 10
is last year, and amid the pains Of
isease continually sirove to give TO bis
reductions the comple;est form Of
rpression.