Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-07

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belle of New Haven was sent to Jersey
jail the other day for drunkenness.
About dozen clergymen in New
York are said to receive salaries oil
$4,000 and upward.
Now is the season to look out for
those taking men who slyly enter halls
and take overcoats and take leave.
A good drain on farm-Heavy mort
gage at ten per cent. will drain it about
as rapidly as anything we know OF.
Alexis has telegraphed for Driyegals-
off to come on and join the suite imme-
dia.ely.
The Washington Capital says; Ex-
Senator Wade is asJ coarse as a horse, as
vigorous as horse, and as ignorant as
horse.
Schenck will defend his case without
any horid excitement. He never goes
into action with teli-tale flush or bob
tail flush.
Uncle Sam has l, 400, 100000 acres of
land for sale after all his donations for
the benefit of railroads, schools, colleges,
etc., etc.
At banquet in Boston, recently, the
toast to the press was what do we
value and SO highly prize as newSpa-
per that never lies"
Proof positive.-Good young LADY
Little boy, have you ever been baptized
Small heathen-Oh, yes, mum; I've the
mark here on my arm.
Two hundred and thirty-three deaths
from smallpox in Philadelphia last
week--an increase of eighty over the
previous week.
The Countess de Salm-Salm, formerly
Of New York city, aud widow of the late
Prince Salm-Salm, is secretary and
amanuensis to Arehduchess Sophia
A Sacramento assessor took advantage
of run on savings bank TO observe
those who withdrew deposits, and caught
several Juggling away few thousands
apiece who had sworn two days before
that they did not own a cent.
/ A correspondent wonders if Judge
Kent, who said that " the abominablC
practice of wearing hair on the upper
lip is reprehensibIe," ever heard of the
old Spanish proyerb, "a kiss without a
mustaehe is an egg without salt.
An exchange says that ten million
dozen corsets we're imported into the
United States last year. This is only
three apiece for every man, woman and
child in the country, or, counting Out
men and children, about ten for every
American woman.
The Chicago Republican also wants
to see William Cullen Bryant made
President: " Being poet, he could send
down his annual messages in rhyme, de
voting one canto TO San Domingo, and
another to the Reduction Of the Debt
and could write his own campaign
songs
A current paragraph asserts that
many years ago Horace Greeley wrote
to female contributor requesting her 70
abstain from further poetry. A council
of friends inspected the letter and finally
pronounced it an offer of marriage
Hence Mrs Greeley and the juniol
Greeleys.
If long hair be the glory of woman
then there is a glorious young lady il
/ Boston. She was persuaded the othel
day to give a private exhibition of hel
beautiful head of long and heavy black
hair. Her height is FIVE feet three
inches, and when she is standing cree
her hair falls to her feet, and trails 4
quarter of a yard on the floor. 1t /
seventy-fve inches in length.
The King Of Italy is the most martial
in appearance of all the soyereigns o
Europe. His characteristic mustacb'
finds many imitators, especially in North
Italy. The kings favorite amusement
is shooting. and his chief dread is til,
opera, which he only attends on STATE
occasions. He was personally unwil
ling to 20 to Rome, much preferring tn,
Pitt Palace, at Florence, as a royal res
idence.
A Pennsylvania paper says that thu
parents Of Victoria Woodruff at on,
time kept tavern on Chestnut Ridge, il
Snyder county, Penn. Vietoria's moth
er was Rosanna Hemel, and was born
: about three miles from New Berlin. Il
1886 she married Backman Clahin, 1
Yankee, and after short residence a
Chestnut Ridge moved to Ohio, where
b Victoria was born. This should be .
dreadful warning against crossing Yer
mont Yankees with Pennsylvania Dutch
The musical world Of Vienna is mourn
ing over the death Of Josef Strauss, who
about two years ago, received such bar
barous injuries at the hands Of some
drunken Prussian officers. Those who
have enjoyed the Strauss concerts be-
fore miss his earnest face now and the