Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-19
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Hotel keepers are people we have TO
"put up with"
An Illinois boy has been fined for
kissing his schoolmistress.
Ionia. Michigan, has but 1900 inhab-
litants, but as each one feels equal TO
three they want a city charter.
The Mayor of Oldham, England, and
his family we're recently mobbed for not
attending church when the pious roughs
thought they should = 49,
Captain Savage, Chief Of tie Boston
lpolice, has politely retprped the funds
contributed by the Chicago fremen for
the benefit Of theirB oston brethren. This
is more like the act Of q saint than a
savage = ~ 49,
II have been thirteen years in the
practice Of the criminal law in this city,
saws Mr.. John d. Townsend, of New
York, " and my experience has led me
to the conclusion that there is no place
where the uncertainty of punishment of
criminals is greater than in this city"
Stokes swears TO observation-disclosures
that his mania for Mansfield was manly,
and that she is now studying in France
| for the stage; and Stokes remaining at
torney asseverates that if Stokes contin-
ues to let the reporters Interview him,
Stokes may get one of thea to defend
him.
The Boston Globe complains that Liv-
ingstone is being sacrificed for Stanley.
What gives additional poignancy to this
fact is the rapidly growing belief that it
would have been a. good thing if Stanley
had been sacrificed for Livingstone. =
Nep York COMMERCIAL Advertiser.
A Florence correspondent says the
members of the Italian Parliament are
but poorly paid, and that many of them,
having free passes on the railroads, take
northward bound train in the evening,
and make themselves comfortable in a
first class carriage, returning about nine
in the morning, thus saving the expense
of nights lodging They must be the
worst dead. heads Ia the business.
Two of the thirty, five ton guns re-
Gently made for the British Govern
ment, and famlliarly known as the Wool
wich "infants, we're recently being
slung on board lighter for transport,
when one of them slipped from the
sling, crashing through the bottom of
the lighter, causing both it and the
other Infant" to go to- the bottom Of
the dock. They have since been recov-
cred with the aid of divers. is
While Victor Emanuel was taking a
drive recently, he met the viaticum or
the procession bearing the consecrated
water 10 a dying person at the Piazza
San Domenice Soriana, andimmediately
alighted from his carriage, and remained
standing in the street until it had passed.
the king was under ban Of the
church, the priest struck with the edify-
ing spectacle, bestowed upon him
benediction- ~ ~
A Baltimore prophet recently wrote a
long letter TO the ex Empress Eugene,
at Chiselhurst, to inform her that he was
by the spirit of the exEm-
press Josephine to inform her that the
ex-Emperor Napoleon would die, and
then ia 1875 she and her son would
again rule France, The letter gave
minute details Of the death scene of the
ex-Emperor, and Of the circumstances
attending the restoration of Bonaparte
rule to France. =
In characteristic ncte to the Pail
Mall Gazette, explaining his position on
the subject Of capital punishment, Mr.
Ruskin says: If / ever murder any
body--and, indeed, there are numbers of
PEG pie ! should like to murder won't
say that l ou.ght to be hanged; for 1
think nobody but bishop or a bank
car ever be rogue enough to
desc rye hanging; but l particularly, and
with all that is leftIRe Ofvhat ! imagine
to be sound mind, request that ! may be
Immediately shot" rrrq