Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-06-08

Won M0ltke IS engaged IN reOrSahlzihS
the German army on the regular peace
footing of 100000 men. This is nearly
twice its former strength. tii9 "
Eve hadisome advantages that no other
married woman ever enjoyed, chiet
among which was that her husband could
never lacerate her heart by telling how
his mother used to cook mi
The Americans in Rome are much
pleased because Harriet Hosmer's horse,
Blazon, has beaten three Italian racers
in a recent steeple-chase near that city.
Blazon leaped bitches, banks and fences,
in admirable style, and came in a long
way ahead .''''A' =
Sawtelle, the actor, who was reported
found drowned at Keokuk, turns up
at Columbus City, Iowa, and denies the
possession OF any desire to shuttle OIL
or quit this mimic stage" He says ne
is still rational man; that is, he takes
his rations as regularly as he can get
them. hfie leHna ty
In the time of the first Napoleon, when
a draft was made for soldiers, one man
had substitute put in his place After
a time another draft was. made, and the
same man was called again, but he said
" I am free. | sent substitute into the
army and he was killed, so | am as
dead man. " The case was carried to the
courts Of France, and it was there de-
cided that the man was free. oi q
DR.. Newman, last Sunday evening at
Washington, said from his pulpit, II
am neither prophet nor the son of a
prophet yet L venture this prediction
Within the next decade, aye, within the
next FIVE years, Christianity will be tried
as it has never been tried before. There
are men in England and America to-day
who will bring to the assault a ripeness
of scholarship, a power of INTELLECT, and
a breadth Of view unequaled by the
past" 9sostr
1t is not often that man is called to
suffer from a succession of bereayements
such as have fallen to the lot of the Rev.
DR.. Woolsey, President of Yale College.
In lS43 he. was called upon to bury one
daughter and two sons during the same
month, In 1852 he parted from wife and
daughter. In 1861 son and daughter
were removed within a month space.
In view of these singular providences
occurring at regular intervals OF nine
years each, he occasionally remarked
that, although he was not superstitious
at all, he dreaded 1870, Unfortunately
his most gloomy forebodings must then
have experienced complete realization,
for not onlya brother and sister, but two
fayorite daughters were carried to the
grave. faii aasag
7 The strawberry culture is attracting
in California, where, in Santa
Clara Valley, about three hundred acres,
irrigated by artesian wells, are planted
with strawberry vines in full bearing.
This year, it is stated, is more produc-
tive than any preceding year. In Cali
fernia, the best fields of vines, in their
third and fourth years, yield from four
to six thousand pounds Of
per acre, and the Wholesale
price in San Francisco in the middle of
May was FIVE cents a pound, thus bring
ing from 5000 to 5000 an acre. The ex-
penses are reported to be as follows;
Cost of picking, two cents per pound
railroad freight, one cent and half; |
1rayage, one quarter of a cent; commits
son, eight per cent. on amount OF sales.
From sixty thousand to seventy thous-
and pounds of strawberries, it is stated,
are received in San Francisco every
day The strawberries are mostly grown |
on. shares by Cinnamon, and as the
vines produce nothing the first year, the
land owner supplies the provisions on
credit. 1t is estimated that the profit to
the owner of the ground from this crop
amounts to 500 an acre.