Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-15

they have recently been cut down to one
fare in seven, and many Of them are
dissatisfied.
The plucky mistress Of a colored school
in Texas, whose school-house was burn
ed by an incendiary, assemblies her
scholars and continues to teach under a
brush shed.
Notwithstanding the anticipated pop
ularity of the postal cards, no instance
has yet come to light whore they have
been used in arranging the preliminaries
Of an elopement.
A correspondent Of the Baltimore
American is anxious concerning the
spiritual welfare of the little boys who
sell Sunday papers when they should be
in Sunday-schools.
Spinks objects to the hot weather. He
says that for week he has been empty
ing Spot pond upon his garden through
halfinch nozzle, and cannot see that
the ground is any moister.
At certain point on the Housatonic
road, in Massachusetts, a COW invariably
makes her appearance when a train is
heard approaching, and then calmly
waits until she is whistled Off
The horse of practicing physician, if
not worth more than 500, is now ex.
empted from taxation in Connecticut.
The Legislature has just refused to
extend the exemption to 5000 beasts.
Two or three hundred acres of land
near Pemberton, N. j., are under cult
walton for cranberries. and the owners
speak confidently Of realizing at the
least $500 per acre therefrom.
The Oswego Palladium aifectionately
demonstrates: Devastating fires are
raging in the north woods. When will
our sportsmen learn to smoke plug to-
bacco instead Of cigars2'
A coffin auction is the reigning sensa-
ton in New Haven. Crowds wend their
way to the salesroom to see where they
shall shortly lie, and where the auction
eer does all the time.
Greensburg, Pennsylvania, had we'd
ding the other day at which the brides
ten sisters-six Of whom are married
and have children were present. One
brother added to the felicitous company.
A young man from the country
slapped big copper cent under the
nose ofthe stamp clerk at the Troy post
Office the other day saying, II guess I'll
take one of them eer pastorael cards,
Mister.
Wisconsin highwaymen are gentle
manly fellows. A pair who were robbing
a farmer, the other day, held an UNI
brella over his head to keep the sun of,
and offered him a sip from flask Of
good brandy.
A Tennessee baby rose as a star and
beamed lucently with meteorc splen-
dency along the horizon of her parents,
their pathway with the sheen
OF hope" and then passed over the dark
river.
A.bill has passed the lower branch of
the Connecticut Legislature providing
for the inaiction of the death penalty
upon persons convicted of placing OBJ
upon railroad tracks where
fatal consequences ensue.
An English newspaper mentions that
a husband and wife recently set sail from
Derby for Glasgow, Scotland, on the way
to Edinburgh, the wife having on her
knee her thirty-third baby. Twenty
four of the thirty.three are still living.
Some excitement was created near
Baker City, Oregon, last week, by
woman on horseback, armed with a six
shooter, riding at breakneck speed, and
inquiring if the stage was ahead. She
overlook the stage, but the man she
wanted wasn't in it.
A Troy man advertises the largest
assortment of boys pistols in the mar
ket" Inasnuch as the merchant has
an undertaker's shop on one side Of him
and a surgeons Office on the other, sus-
picion has been aroused that the three
nave formed sort Of triumvirate part
lership.
The longevity in East Haddam, Conn,
s illustrated by the fact that the average
lge Of those buried in the graveyard
luriag the last quarter Of a century was
ifty.one years, while the number of those
more than eighty years old now living in
single district is greater than in the
'ntire city Of New Haven.
On Monday, the 9TH instant, while a |
,icnie party from Belvidere, N. j., we're /
Gated on the table rocks at the Cascades !
N the Delaware, large stone rolled /
own the steep side Of the hill, striking 4
lady named c. Boolerman. aud killing !
er instantly. Il vas aiterwerd discov- \
red that the stone had been set in mo {
ion by man on the nights above, who I
robably had not seen the picnic party. (
A German chemist has recently de- {
ised a plan whereby white dress may
e changed to any desired color. The
ieibod consists in coloring the starch,