Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-14
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wood annually.
The councilmen Of Boston and Chel-
sea, Mass, have voted to adorn them
selves with badges.
A session of Florida court was bro
ken up by free fight among the oppos-
ing counsel and clients.
The University Of Oxford has alto
gether 1882 members on their books, in
GLIDING both professors andstudents.
An officious stomach pump interfered
materially with the plans of Mr.. Wilson,
of Louisville, in the strychnine line.
A New York temperance lecturer has
been drunkard twenty-seven years,
and has had the delirium tremens six
times.
In New Orleans it is said the ladies
are observing leap year by giving up
their seats in the street cars to gentle
men.
The Shetland Islands, of the north
west coast of Scotland, have three fe-
males to every two males of the inhab-
itants.
In New Orleans, it is said the ladies
are observing leap year by giving up
their seats in the street, cars to gentle
men.
A son of Mr.. Walter, of the London
Times, is engaged in stock raising in
Colorado. His losses this winter have
been heavy.
After column of eulogy, a Kentucky
paper allows that Mrs. Moulton is as
handsome as Bluegrass girl, and that
is the highest praise it can give.
Clara Swain, graduate of the Wo-
mans Philadelphia Medical College, is
winning golden opinions and enjoying a
large practice in the East Indies.
Three rascals whose business it was to
rob graves, for the purpose of supplying
the cbignon market, have been arrested
and imprisoned at Lyons, France.
A Pittsburg preacher by the name Of
Milligan is preaching in favor of capital
punishment. Gentlemen who contem-
plate being hanged should send for Mil
ligan.
At Independence, Kansas, they man
ufaoture the best whisky in the State,
and Thy spirit. Independence, let me
share" is favorite quotation in the
vicinity.
In a country paper, under the head
Of personal" is the following: "sher-
man has interviewed the Pope. We are
not informed whether he kissed the
Pope toe. They say he kissed Harriet
Beeeher Stowe once"
Laura A. Berry, Of Davenport, Iowa,
is the first woman who, as Notary Pub
lie "swore man in Iowa. A local
paper wishes to be understood that she
is not the FIRST woman who has swore
at man in that State, or caused man
to swear.
Judge Primm, Of st. Louis, was the
first to adopt the legal fashion proposed
in that city, by taking his seat on the
bench, on Monday, robed in black
silk gown, a costume which some of the
papers regard as not COMFORTING with
Primitive simplicity.
Some of the Cinnamon in San Fran
cisco holl important positions. The
Bulletin speaks of Lee Can, an EN-
ploye of the Bank of California, whose
quiet figure and gold-bowed spectacles
have long been feature behind the
counter of that institution"
The Bishop of Oxford, having sent
round TO the church wardens in his do
cese circular Of inquiries, among which
was, "Does your officiating clergyman
preach the gospel, and are his conversa-
ton and carriage consistent herewith
one church warden replied, He
breaches the gospel, converses beautiful,
but don't keep any carriage
A correspondent Of the Kansas Far
mer writes from Solomon as follows;
From single pumpkin seed there grew
vine with ore hundred and six
branches, that measured in the aggre-
gate one thousand three hundred and
sixty-eight feet. The pumpkins were
very large. one measuring four feet four
inches the short way by six feet six
inches the long way.
In Milwaukee, at e recent minstrel
performance, the lend man" made
some facetious remarks about England
and the Alabama claims. An English
man in the audience at once arose,
angriIy protested, and pointed a pistol
at the stage. The Ethiopians withdrew
in double-quick bshipd the scenes, and
the Englishman was led osi g the side
walk by a policeman, when the perform,
suce was resumed.
A Maryland paper tells the story Of a
marriage under difficulties, where the
first bridegroom failed TO appear at the
appointed time, through bAshiulness, and
was discovered, pursued, and only
brought to with shotgun. The
bride then became indignant, and re-
fused 10 marry so faint-hearled swain.