Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-16

attend the lectures in the university o.
I Moscow.
A number of house roofs in Buffalo
were recently broken in by the weight
of snow.
Three Vermont hotels have lady
clerks, and they clerk to the satisfaction
of the public.
The last month is said to have been
the coolest November known in Ken
lucky for years.
4 $500 law suit has just ended at
Winamac, Ind. about horse hire bill
of three dollars.
One Indiana sheriff has had the pain
full duty of selling out six printing offices
within year past.
About one-sixth of the potato crop Of
Iowa is still in the ground, and will re-
main there until spring.
Twelve young ladies' of St. Louis took
the veil of the Order of the Good Shep-
herd on the 2lst ultimo.
A Mr.. Davis has gone to North Ger
many for thousand or more workmen
/ for the Lake Superior mines.
Prince Leopold, the youngest OF Queen
Victoria's sons, is in too delicate health
to pursue his studies at Oxford.
Mexico having become tranquil
France is doing duty as the political
volcano, and there is new ferment.
There is an unexploded she'll in the
organ of the Strasburg cathedral, and
no one wants the job of removing it.
A couple were recently married in
Naugatuck, Conn, three hours after
then FIRST introduction to each other.
Iron and lead mines have been discov-
cred on the east coast Of Africa, and
they are to be worked by Americans.
Milwaukee lager beer manufacturers
complain that under high taxation brew
in only yields them bare livelihood.
Michigan is reyiving through her Dor"
ders the old-fashioned spelling schools,
to counterfeit the decline in matrimony.
Between the years 1870 and 1872 no
fewer than one thousand eight hundred
public officials Of France have become
deranged.
The Yale school of journalism num-
bers sixty-Gve members, one or two of
whom may possibly edit weekly paper
some day.
A French journal has been established
at St. Petersburg with the purposes of
promoting an alliance between Russia
and France.
The Car has founded thirty free
scholarships in the University of War
saw for Polish students belonging to the
Greek church
Nine Ollie Won Goethe. daughter-in-
law OF the great poet, and herself we'll
known as a writer. died few days ago
at an advanced age.
An unprecedented drouth prevails in
Southern California. Ranchers are
driving their cattle to the mountains to
keep them from starving.
East Houston street, New York city,
has become an almost exclusive foreign
quarter. 1t is crowded with French,
Spanish and Italian hotels.
/ An Illinois sehool-boy has been fined
by police magistrate for kissing the
school-mistress; under what precise
criminal statute is not stated.
The citizens Of Washington territory,
at the recent election, voted down a
proposition to apply to Congress for
admission into the Union as State.
The frstclass hotels in New York
make from Sl5O,OOO to 100000 profit
every year, but the man who pays FIVE
dollars per day won't wonder at it.
There is in the county house of La
porte county, Indiana, girlonly fifteen
years old who is mother. She is de-
ranged, and she and her child are both
blind.
A Toledo female tainted when told
that ever five hundred thousand men
died last year, but was brought to by the
information that there we're thirteen
million left
Two convicts were pardoned by the
Governor Of Massachusetts, on Thanks.
/ giving Dav. according 10 custon One