Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-01-26


The introduction of negro children
into the white schools of New Orleans
was begun last week, and was productive
of much ill-feeling.
Theater parties are very fashionable
in New York A gentleman or lady
takes box or row of orchestra chairs
at one Of the theaters, invites his party,
and gives a supper afterward.
Near Seneca Falls, in New York, one
George Harper made seven attempts to
commit suicide, and failingin all of them,
he went to Waterloo and got married.
He must regard wedlock as the last
refuge Of desperate minds.
A young man in Portland saw lady
across the way shaking some apple par
ings out of napkin and mistook it for
handkerchief signal. He called, and
when they picked him up at the foot of
the stairs he had splendid head on him.
A lady in London got the idea into
her head that the devil was in her, and
hung herself. If women 90 to hanging
themselves for little thing like that,
they are going to be mighty scarce,
that's ALL
One of the newly erected brown stone
houses on the upper Fifth avenue, New
York, contains a picture gallery and
theater combined, bowling alley in the
cellar, croquet ground on the attic floor,
and billiard room in the basement.
The new Mayor of Toronto gave the
Council and some of his friends dinner
on Monday night, and in responding to
complimentary toast, assured them
that the dinner they had discussed was
but the shadow Of very many repasts to
come, for he intended to be no niggard
while holding the Chief Magistracy Of
such great city as Toronto.
A Massachusetts boy of Ten years who
had been punished by his otherreyenged
himself by directing an undertaken to
send hearse and carriage for her fune-
raj, and they drove up to the house in
solemn procession, much to the horror
of the worthy woman, who quickly proved
to the drivers that she was very much
alive.
An unusual event took place in Bere
gen, New Jersey, last Thursday, when
Mr.. and Mrs. George Tice celebrated
their pearl wedding. A large party Of
friends visited them. Mr.. Tice is ninety
one years old and his wife eighty-seyen.
They are in excellent health, and on this
occasion danced with their great-grand-
children. They have ffty-nine descend
ants living. b 30
A genius of New York city has hired
large tract of land in the country, at
the junction and crossing place of several
railroads. He is about to erect there
tremendous building and fence, upon
which he will paint and post conspicu-
ously business announcements for a
stated consideration. He claims that
these announcements will be read and
impressed upon the minds of the people
going to and from all parts Of the coun-
try and the world Very ingenious, but
it is nothing like the newspapers after
all
After all that has been said of the su-
perior safety Of the English railroads,
with their elaborate systems Of guards
and signals, over those of America, it is
somewhat astonishing to meet the state
ment that during the last three months
more ptOlit were hAlAcu " AeAAAouA 0ClA-
dents in Great Britain than were killed
in the United States by the same cause
during the whole Of the year 1870, al
though we have built more miles of road
in the year than England now operates.
| If this is true, one explanation. may be
that the English railroad operatives rely
too much upon the supposed safety of
their system, aud do not keep sovigilant
a watch for causes Of accident as the
same class practice here. Another
probability is that our locomotive engi-
neers and other train men, having the
apprehension Of danger always in their
minds, are prepared to act with greater
GOODNESS, promptness and effect upon its
approach than is usually the case on the
other side Of the Atlantic But five do
not kill so many people on our railroads
as the English, We kin a great many
/ r,ora than We OuCht