Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-17

Boston is 10 be sued for damages Il
the buildings blown up to stay the fr'
A new line Of steamers is to be starte
connecting New Orleans aud Liverpool
Queen Victoria owns so. 900 worth Q
horses. The Sultan ten times tn
amount.
( Ia a Nevada niue there are thre'
mules that have not seen daylight fo
I fifteen months.
American currency, it is thought. will
be round again when specie pay
ment is resumed.
The celebrated lion Of Thorwaldsen
at Lueerne. recently lost one Of his fore
paws by thunderbOlt.
Kansas seems to be rapidly going tc
grass A haystAck near Wichita already
extends quarter of a mile.
A Tennessee girl, fourteen years old
ran of with a circus because her mother
wouldn't let her wear hustle.
Miss Lucille Western is i'll, and gives
notice that the doctor enjoins her TO de-
sist, for a while, from professional labor.
There is a negro woman living near
Columbus, Ga, one hundred aud six
years old, who never nursed Washington.
Marye's Heights, near Fredericksburg,
Va, comprising $50 acres, and the scene
OF number of fights, is offered for sale.
A youth of Atchison, Kansas, drank
two quarts of raw whisky ON wager,
and his epitaph runs, He smiled and
died"
A Texas paper complains that the In
dams are drawback to settlement in
that State. Precisely so; generally in
the region OF the hair.
Some one has discovered that Lake
Erie will dry up in 1880 years. The
people out there should Immediately
commence 10 prey for rain.
"Well, we've got her boxed up" was
the pathetic exclamation of a grief
stricken husband in Lenox, lately, as he
turned away from his encofined wife.
A Kentucky man in the depths of i'm
pecunious dependency was lately made
happy by finding in an old drawer for
gotten certificate Of the deposit Of $l376
in a Knoxville bank.
A Young lady in Virginia desiring to
ford stream, and having no horse con-
venient, made the transit in safety and
dryness recently by taking two chairs
and using them as stills.
Two plugs Of tobacco in his pocket
stopped bullet and saved Kentucky
mans life recently, but you will never
see this circumstance related and circu-
lated in the form Of tract.
Some singular Indians have been
found near the coast Of Peru. They
are ruddy and fair, with strong, shapely
bodies and long, full boards. Some rem
nants CT ancient royalty, perhaps.
A colored man, who was trying to in
spect his mules feet at the wood market
yesterday, involuntarily swallowed one
hoof, with miscellaneous lot Of teeth.
He threw up the hOof.-Terre Haute Err
press.
A Milford Massachusetts, man is in
ecstacies over an interesting and sug-
gestive relic, in the shape Of hat, which
be declares he has worn through one
hundred and eighty DRINKS. and ten
derby says it is still thing Of beauty"
There have been many definitions Of
a gentleman, but the preitiest and most
pathetic is that given by a young lady:
" A gentleman" says she, is human
being combining a woman's tenderness
with man courage.
Here is a story about a remarkable
church. The fzeremich Tartars have
no particular religion, aud have an odd
way Of excusing this. They say that
they once had religious book for their
guidance, but one day a COW came and
ate it.
What a glorious world this would be
il all its inhabitants could say with
shakspeare's shepherd, Sir, AN
true laSorer; earn what wear; owe
no man hate envy no mans happiness;
glad Of other mems good; content with
my farm"
We are informed by New England
newspaper that paper boy had both
legs cut of by railroad train at Cler-
mont, N. H., few days ago. This is
using gigantic apparatus on q very
aimsy victim. If they wanted to cut
the legs off a paper boy" Why didn't
thev take a uair of scissors9