Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-17

Are dose bells ringing for tireY in
ouired Simon of Tiberius. No, in
deed" answered Tibe, dey ali got
plenty OF FIRE, and de bells are ringing
for water"
The Chicago Republican gets off tn,
following According to the New lorh
advertisements, it appears that Eliza
Hancock will take you from Troy TO
Gotham for ten cents. She is steam
boat For the same amount John 1.
Hoffman will carry you from Saratoga
to the Lake. He is an omnibus
There are 100000 miles of telegraph
wire in Europe, 10000 in America
IA. 600 in India and 10000 in Australia,
There are in addition 10000 miles OF
submarine cable, and yet telegraphic
extension throughout the world is gong
ON at the rate Of 100000 miles of wire
per annum.
An oqed colored man living near
Jacksonville. Fla, killed his adopted
daughter a few days ago by beating her
brains out. and attempted to kill white
man who interfered. When arrested he
sand Jesus told him to kill the girl and
ANYBODY else he should meet.
A lady living in Lyndon, Vt, who lost
her husband in the late war, had an offer
of marriage from a man who lost his
wife by divorce. She answered: The
Lord parted me and my husband, but
your own devilish actions parted you
and your wife; and if you want another
ono Won must 90 TO the devil for her, for
/ won't have you.
A correspondent writes from Saratoga
that the shoddyites have nearly all dis
appeared from that fashionable resort.
One hears no longer the rustic of pre-
tentious silks and satins at the breakfast
table. nor are many eyes diverted from
the morning papers by the glitter OF
diamond necklaces and bracelets.
At picnic near Rochester, Monday,
a young German girl was walking with
a man in the darker part of the grounds
when a number of young rowdies col
lected about them evidently with evil
designs. Her escort, espying them,
ANONYMOUSLY fed, while the girl, in her
fright, ran toward the brink of preci-
pice and fell over distance Of seventy
five feet to the dry bed of the river be-
low, where she was found dead with her
neck broken.
Victoria appears to have shared in the
latePrince Albert antipathy for Ireland.
That prince wrote letter. afterward pub
lished by the veteran publicist, Alexan-
der Won Humboldt, containing his con-
opinion of the Poles, adding
that they were as bad as the Irish.
During the last thirty years, that is since
her first visit in August, 1912, Queen
Victoria has spent about four or five
months every year in the Highlands of
Scotland, upon large estate which she
has purchased there, and which she lately
by a purchase of adjacent ter
ritory, at a cost Of $575, 900. Within that
same time, nearly one-third of cen
tury, Victoria has only twice set foot
upon Irish soil. On the Sd of August,
l849, she landed at the Cove of Cork
since called Queenstown-went up the
river Lee into Cork, where she remained
two hours, and thence went by sea to
Dublin, and from thence to Belfast; her
whole visit to Ireland covering exactly
a week. Again, in August, 1861, she de-
voted two or three days to Killarney.
On the whole. during the reign Of thirty
four years, Queen Victoria was ten days
in Ireland In the same period, one
third of her life has been spent in Scot
land