Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-24

forty years ago, has been exhumed en-
tire, and found turned to stone, weighing
about 600 pounds. 1t has been reinterred
in Greenwood cemetery New York.
Colonel General o. 0. Howard, com
missioner Of the Freedmens Bureau, in
his forthcoming annual report, will re-
commend the total abolition Of what
there is left of that institution, and the
transfer of its functions to other de-
partments.
Colonel Samuel Bowles, the editor Of
the Springfield Republican, has invented
a patent hen-roost. The peculiarly of
this invention is that Of the astronomi-
cal contrivance attached to the roOst,
and the hens are compelled to awaken
exactly at daybreak,
A Chicago girl wrote to her lover, the
Colonel, in Springfield, Mass, just after
the fire, saying: "0ur wedding day was
set for next week, and if you will stand
up with woman dressed in a cotton
skirt and her fathers overcoat, come
on" The brave youth telegraphed in
reply Get ready. i will be with you,
A few days since the Ottoman Porte
had arrested Colonels Emin Bey, ex-frst
secretary to the Sultan; Hussein Avni
Pacha late minister Of war, and Husni
Pacha, ex 'minister of police, had been
suddenly arrested and shipped off in a
penal exile to a fortress in Cyprus. The
charge was stealing the public money.
The new wife of the medium, Colonel
Hume, is conservatively described as a
pretty brunette, with little hands and
feet, high-arched instep, and nice man
ners. Her family is very rich, and the
estates willed to her by her uncle are
said to be as large as some German prin-
CAPABILITIES"
Colonel Isaac Pitman, the inventor Of
photography, resides In Bath, England
and besides attending to his phono-
graphic business, owns and conducts a
large printing establishment and edits
the Phonetic Journal He is also a
prominent member of the temperance
anti-tobacco, vegetarian and Sweden
borgian societies.
Colonel Richard Hargis, who lives
near Roxborough, thirtyodd years age
turned out sassafras tree to grow fol-
the purpose of making himself coffin
and about twelve months ago the old
man had it cut down and got some one
in Roxborough to make his coffin out OF
/ it. The old chap occasionally gets IN
( it and stretches himself out, by way oil
showing his neighbors a good fit. be
paid the maker of the coffin in wheat.
A GOODNESS exists between Colonel
Christian, the king of Denmark, and bis
liegemen of Iceland. The population
of Iceland, which is about fifty thous'
and, are now in a state of intense exi
element at the arbitrary course Of
King Christian, who has recently over
thrown thor constitution and dispersed
their folkething or legislature. For this
summary proceeding the Icelanders
threaten to drive the Danish authorities
from the island.
Col. Robert Laird Collier preached in
Chicago on Sunday last in.deprecation
of a religious revival in that city during
the coming winter, which he said was
threatened by the brethren of the 7. M.
C. A. The latter, he said, we're going
about with praying machines" and with
their insane words and notions were
dealing most frightfally with the nerves
of the people; and if they did not cease
this kind Of thing they would drive the
unfortunate people of Chicago into
hopeless dependency.
Col. James Parton lectured in Boston
last week on "Who are the Vulgar2
Mr.. Parton claimed to have visited the
very hot bed Of vulgarity. He attended
the last ball of the Americas Tam
many) Club. and saw the very cream of
vulgarity. A strange assembly, marked
by "bad grammar and fine diamonds,
white kids and dirty paws" The French
revolution gave nothing to compare with
this. The Boston Advertiser says the
striking sentence of the lecture was
this: "The more man knows, and
the more he is, the more charitably he
Judges his fellow-men.