Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-23

All new railroads in Mississippi are to
get $4,000 q mile subsidy, and must pay
into the State treasury one and half
per cent. OF gross receipts within two
years after receiving the subsidy.
A negro waiter. who had twice awak-
ened a traveller to inform him that break
fast was ready, aud q third time broke
his slumbers by attempting to pull OF
the bed-clothes, thus explained: "Massa,
if you isn't gwine to git up, must hab
de sheet anyhow, case deyre waitin' for
de table-clofl' H tls
"Julia, my dear said old Professor
H. the other day, to his young and pretty
wife, awhen die you will be richi but
if you ever so far forget me as to marcy
again, / will come from the grave to
your bridal couch and put my cold hand
upon you" "Ahl do not fear, my dear
husband, replied she, playfully, YoH
ssiu nerer lire 70 see that" am SO
delighted to hear you say 50, my love,
said the old man abstractedly. ~
"The Seventh Vial" by the Rev. DR..
Cumming, will shortly be- issued by
Carleton; but though the authors got
his seventh vial in, it is not to be sup
posed that he means to play second hd-
die to any one in the matter of apoca-
lyptic expounding According to him,
there isn't ever to be any other coming
On the contrary, man is going
very soon; the world, despite its sphere
idal form, showing unmistakable indica-
tons Of sharp end. I
A man in Virginia City owned three
hundred shares of Savage stock, says the
Bee and the day before the
rise he was advised to sell it, as it was
reported that the mine was becoming
poorer every day, and that the stock
would surely decline. He concluded to
sell the stock, then worth 500 per share;
but somehow he ran foul of whisky sa-
loon and got gloriously obfusticated--so
much so, indeed, that he forgot all about
his intended sale, When he sobered off
bis stock was worth $l65 a share, and he
had fortune Of $4,000.
A writer in the New Orleans Times
says that not many months ago as gen.
tleman was about TO plunge into forest
stream for pleasant bath, he saw far
down on the pebbly bottom a terrible
simuIacrum of himself; lifeless limbs
swaying with the tide; white, drowned
face, with staring eyes and blue lips. 1t
was but second, and the vision faded,
bat with cold SILVER he turned away. |
A few weeks ago came the news of his
death. He fell from the deck Of a yes
sci one stormy night in crossing the At
lantic.
When a rakish youth goes astray,
friends gather to bring him back to the
path of virtue. Gentleness and kind
ness are lavished upon him to bring him
back to innocence and peace. No one
would suspect he had ever sinned. But
when poor cenfding girl has been be.
trayed, and receives the brand Of society,
and is henceforth driven from the ways
Of virtue, the betrayer is honored, re-
spected and esteemed; there is no peace
for her this side of the grave. Society
has no helping. loving hand for her, no
voice of forgiveness. There are earthly |
moralities unknown TO heaven.
The bridge now in process Of erection
across the Mississippi at St. Louis, is
one Of the wonders Of the age. 1t is to !
be a tubular. cast-steel, arch bridge, sup |
ported by the abutments and two piers;
the latter are 5l5 feet apart, and 49Hfeet
each from its nearest abutment, making
three spans of about 500 feet each. Its
greatest span is the same as that Of the
Kuilenberg bridge over the Leck, an arm
Of the Rhine. in Holland. Telford's
bridge across the Menai
Straits has span Of $40 feet. The Vic
.oria tubular iron bridge Of Montreal ex-
,eeds this greatly 10 length, being $500
feet lone mile and halo, but it rests
1pon twenty-four piers, and its spans are
mainly only 275 feet. The suspension
bridge at Niagara spans s2l feet, and is
rs feet above the water. The East river
bridge spans 1000 feet, at hight midway |
IF 1870 feet. br