Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-21

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The last Of G. F. Trains dispatches
was addressed to Governor Campbell, OF
Wyoming Territory, and as might be
expected, relates to the veto Of the re-
peal of the woman suffrage law in that
Territory. 1t is as follows; You are a
trump. So are the women. They must
be united Ito man. Next PRESIDENT
OF AMERICA"
The Davenports have some dangerous
rivals, now performing in New York, in
the persons of the Thorne brothers. All
Of the wonderful manifestations Of the
former are reproduced, with some start
ling mystifcations added, and not the
least of which is the power Of healing,
even eclipsing the scripture records OF
similar miraculous gifts Dupea are not
wanting to testify to the wonderful bene-
fits received from their curative powers.
The San Francisco Chronicle copies
as follows from the diary of an intelleo-
tual young woman Of that city; The
Grand Duke is not coming to California.
All, cruelest Of inventionsl pitiless tel
epraphl couldst thou not have delayed
those fatal words2 Verify, this is the
most unkindest cut of ALL Dream of
my life, thou art gonel Idol Of my heart,
torn from its pedestal, fare thee WE'LL
Cruel thou art--but not my will, but
thine be done, o Alexisr
The New York Mail is responsible for
this: I'm Boston society everybody snubs
everybody else, in New York society
everybody gossips about everybody else,
in Philadelphia society everybody at
tends to the morals of everybody else, in
Baltimore society everybody fraternizes
with everybody else, and in Chicago So
ciety just at present everybody is borrow
ing from everybody else. Boston, there
fore, is aristocratic; New York and
Philadelphia, democratic; Baltimore, pa
triarchsl, and Chicago, communistic.
A party of wits once stopped at tav-
ern. When the feast was over, one OF
the members called on the hostess. An
gelique," he said, am going to give
you a lesson in astronomy. Have you
not heard of the Platonic year, when
everything must return to its former CON
dition2 Know, then, that in sixteen
thousand years we shall be here again
on the same day and at the same hour.
Will you give US credit till thenT The
hostess, however, had her reply, am
perfectly willing" she retorted, but 1T
is Just sixteen thousand years since you
we're here before, and you left without
paying; settle the old score, and ! will
trust you on the new"
An old MSS. containing Indian tales,
prepared by one Elan Crane, has the
following: Red Jacket $50 well known
as the brave chief of the Senecas) once
made visit to Canandaiga, and, not ar
irving until after dinner, the girl was
ordered to make preparations for him.
She, through carlessness or thinking it
would do well enough FOR an Indian,
placed on the table a dish of meat which
had been visited by the flies. Red Jack
ct advanced to the table, and seeing the
maggots busily engaged In the meat
took the dish and placed it on the sill of
the door, stepped back, raised his rife,
deliberately took aim and discharged its
contents through the meat. The report
Of the gun alarmed all the house. They
ran to inquire the cause. Red Jacket
replied that he always killed his meat
before he ate it."
A duel between two oil men Is about
to break out in Titusville. the Herald
says: up to six o'clock last evening
the challenged party had not replied to
the message, but was busy looking
around town selecting weapons of death.
he at first proposed to fight in an oil
tank, with bowie-knives in each hand,
and the coat tails Of both parties sewed
together, but the seconds objected to this,
as the blood would have tendency to
lessen the gravity of all oil stored in the
tank, and cheaper the product. BE
then thought of Kehoe's Indian clubs,
at Hurds, but the clubs being heavier
than the men, that project was given up.
A city coroner, with an eye TO business,
proposed that each principal procure
cook-stove and build FIRE with kero-
sene. Others suggested that both par
ties be compelled to drive through our
city streets in the dark, and the man
who survived contribute toward the
geWer contracts, but as no seconds could
be prevailed upon to accompany them,
this motion was lost.