Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-11-06


ago and followed the profession o: a
beggar. 1t was good one. He now
holds mortgages on the farms Of seve-
raj of his benefactors. reg
An Oregon sheriff attached show in
that far-away country the other day,
and while lacking mp "sale . notice
on the elephant s headquarters which the
official took for small barn, the ami
NAL swung his toll around--and now
when that county wants sheriff they
will have to elect one 7Itasriite Press.
In Indiana, the other day, a man was
awarded premium for a twoyear old
colt, when the animal he entered was
horse eight years old. The owner had a
colt in pasture and sent man to
bring him to the fair; the man made a
mistake and took the eightyear'old
horse, which was in the same pasture,
and the committee put him through
A great outrage was recently commit
ted in the Astor Library of New York.
One of the persons admitted to a seat
within the alcoves, and to free access to
all the books, has committed the triple
crime of cutting out of a rare magazine
an article, which he rewrote as his own,
and then sold as original to the pub
fishers of another magazine.
The California papers are beginning
to claim that that State will be soon the
great wheat producing State of the
Union. They assert that, owing to the
absence of rain during the summer and
fall months, the wheat crop ripens per-
fectly, and can be so harvested as to be
shipped to any part of the world without
injury.
During the last year two hundred and
twenty.six new streets have been opened
in London, with an aggregate length OF
thirty.eight and a half miles, During
the past ten years one hundred and fifty
thousand houses have been built in Lon
don, and new streets opened involving a
length of six hundred and thirty-fve
miles.
The experiment of the Reading Rail
road Company is carrying coal to Eas-
tern ports in steamers instead of sailing
vessels, and returning in ballast instead
of freight, is said to be great success.
The company are now about to add
number of vessels to their present fleet.
The engines are to be built in their shops
at Reading, and the boilers and hulls in
The ship-yards on tide water.
Our English brethren seem to be doing
ar more than we to enable the working
classes to better their condition. They
ire throwing open magnificent museums
or them; are writing popular scientific
works for them; are trying to educate,
lot only their children, but the men and
he women themselves; and, best of all,
ire promoting cooperation by every
means in their power.
Boys who sell cigars on the cars will
ave to look out for the new instruc-
ions from Washington. 1t has been
ecided to allow them to sell only from
roperly stamped packages under a
pecial receipt as dealers. The sales
aust also be made exclusively in the
moking car, and the receipts must state
he route over which the dealer travels
nd the number of the ear.
Germany claims that she will soon be
of America as regards pc
.oleum. The crude material has been
scently discovered in Gslicia in great
Guidance, and extensive preparations
re making TO fit it for market. In one
ngle villsge twenty re6nsries are in
psration. As yet all the production
as been from surface boring, but when
lie wells are sunk to the depths Of those
this country the production, it is esti
Iated, viii be sufficient for the supply
{ a large part of Europe.