Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-25

make move on Cleveland next mohth'
The allopaths and homeopaths are not
walking in paths of peace just now.
An English lady has been granted e25
damages, just for one stolen kiss.
An Indian prisoner who has been dead
a month has been granted new trial.
The popular amusement with Bedford,
Ind, ladies and gentlemen is wrestling
matches.
The price of wife beating in Indiana
has been raised from two and half to
three dollars,
The Norwich Advertiser considers
E Pluribus Unum a good name for the
son of Mormon.
Persian fathers are selling nice mar
riageable class of daughters at five dol
lars head
Wendell Phillips speaks of "the will of
rotten, blind, staggering Massachusetts
Republicans.
Mr. Barney Aaron is looking with
pugilistic intent after the man who hung
him to lamp-post
The bed on which President Lincoln
died was sold at auction few days ago
for eighty dollars.
A Schenectady enfant terrible ex-
claimed: "Aunt Mary, l wish had cop
per-toed teeth like yours"
A correspondent afirms that his very
soul was coiled up in horror" by some
incident of the Chicago fire.
Mr.. Gladstone is noted pedestrian.
His last feat in that line was walk of
twenty-six miles one afternoon.
A Richmond woman asks for a divorce,
saying that she had not seen her hus-
band since he murdered her father.
Let there be no muss among the mus
clemen who are going to attend the Mace
and Coburn jamboree at New Orleans.
1t is estimated that 5000 pianos were
destroyed in the Chicago Ere, beside
81 100000 worth of other instruments.
A Wisconsin man mourns that he
couldn't find word in the dictionary
because the blasted book hadn't got an
index"
The friends of a suicide out in Peoria,
ILL.,. resurrected the remains to get $500,
which the unfortunate had hid in his
boots.
Pliny relates that Lolita Paulins, who
was considered the most beautiful woman
of her time, wore about 81, 100000 worth
of jewelry.
After twenty-three years absence in
Australia, a runaway Jissourian re-
turned to his home and pArtook largely
of the fatted calf
In England George Isliotis considered
the only novelist of lhe frst.class now
living. There are seven or eight ro-
mancers OF the second-class.
A noble red man drank fre-water to
excess, planted his wigwam on Mime
sofa railroad, aud soon departed to the
happy hunting-lrouuds.
A man who slept in pew in Chicago
church the night after the FIRE, declared
that he had often slept in pews under
more agreeable circumstances.
A gushing young lady writes to a
Chicago paper that ''her heart is as
light as ball Of popcorn on a bed of
swans down"
Rev. Green Clay Smith, ex-Generl
and Ex-Governor, is conducting "a pro-
tracted meeting in the Baptist church
at Danville, Kentucky.
To meet the demands Of fashion in
this city, we are told that builders are
now constructing stables with bride
chambers attached.
The wind blows with such force in
Colorado that when a man loses his hat
he has to telegraph to the next station
for some one to stop it.
Cardinal Antonelli has not grown thin
on asceticism. BE is now dreadfully
prosecuted with govt and other ailments
engendered by luxurious living.
Smith objects to signing the pledge,
on the ground that he has just gone into
business, ard it wouldn't look well to
have his name on too much paper
The Orleans Princes have been sue
cessful in their application for the re-
storation Of the estates Of which Louis
I Napoleon deprived them in 1852
How to put money in your purse
Open your pocket-book, take a green
back between your thumb and finger,
and lay it right in. This is the way to
do It.
George Thompson, the English agiia-
tor, noted for his zeal in the cause Of
emancipation, is still living at an ad-
vaneed age in suburb Of the city Of
/ Leeds.
Chicago cries bravo to the Captain Of
the tug Magnolia, who left his own house
hold goods to burn and used MS boat all
night in saving lives and the property
along the dock.