Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-19

10000 peach boxes day.
Mahogany wood has been discovered
in the Guinea region Of Africa.
A saw-mill in Davenport, Iowa, sawed
in one day $1,000 feet of lumber.
Lafayette, Indiana, is plagued by a
tiger that has taken up his abode near by.
Samuel Weller was before IA Detroit
court the other day. 1t was not the
Sam.
Daniel Webster is in Jail at Nashville,
Tennessee. How little there is in
namel
Joaquin Miller delivered a poem be-
fore the citizens of San Francisco on
the Fourth.
Nicholas Fish, son of the Secretary of
ytate, is Bancroh's right hand man in
Berlin.
Hon. S. S. Cox is in Washington. He
is quite recovered from his recent severe
Klness.
Carroll county, Georgia, sportsmen
challenge the world TO a bat-shootng
match.
Pauline Lueea is baroness, has
husband living, and two beautiful, goi'
den-haired children.
. Whitelaw Reid has had hundreds Of
invitations to repeat his excellent lee
ture on journalism.
A son Of Tom Sayers, the pugilist, IS
creating quite sensation as a comic
star actor in London.
There is a greater run Of salmon al
the Dalles, Oregon, this season than was
ever before known.
The old story is revived that Whitelaw
Reid will marry Kate Field, and next
Christmas is fixed as the time.
General Berdau, of sharpshooting
fame, is trying to induce the Gar oil
Russia to buy more of his rifles.
A Chicago bridegroom is reported to
have worn "a diamond pin in his shirt
bosom and a sardonyx smile on his
brow"
The Freeport Journal'says pairs are
abundant at that place, and front gates
are loaded down with them on fine even
ings"
When young lady offers to hem a
cambria handkerchief for rich bache-
lor she means to sew in order that she
may reap.
The Saturday Review has a merciless
article on James Gordon Bennett, whose
career it declares is a conspicuous ex-
ample of prosperous infamy."
The Parisians are going mad over the
acting Of Ristori. They say she Isl
greater than ever before; and crowd the
theater night after night to witness her
wonderful impersonations.
Miss Kate Stanton has been invited to
speak in many Of the large Western
cities, in behalf Of her favorite Presi-
dental candidate-Uncle Horace.
George, asked the teacher Of Sunday
school class, who above all others shall
you wish to see when you get to heaven
With face Frightening up with antiei-
patton, the little fellow shouted, Gerliahl
The alligator is disappearing from the
Florida swamps and the negro baby
weeps for joy. The business Of selling
alligator hides has proved so good that
the hunters are exterminating the rep
tiles.
An Irish paper publishes the follow
ing: A deaf man named TaH was run
down and killed by a passenger train
and killed on Wednesday morning. He
was injured in a similar way about
year ago"
Among our national postofices are
the following: Ii Ii, Toto, Why Not,
Pipe Stem, Stony Man, Sal Soda, Shiek-
shiny, SnoWshoes, Overalls, Lookout,
Last Chance, Backbone, Marrow Bones,
SOrrel Horse, Tally Ho and Tired Creek.
Counsel ito vitness): Now, sir, what
is the character Of the plaintiff in this
suit9" Witness: Her character isl
slightly matrimonial" Counsel: what
do you mean by slightly matrimonial
eharacter7" Witness: "She's been
married seven times"