Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-17

4 oided hit In the production 81 the Gaia
rael Of the Ganges on the local stage
there recently. The "hlt" was mAd'
with the mules dexter bind hooi on cn'
Of the star performers. resulting IN Z
total eclipse.
senior Emilio CASTELAR, has issued u
spanish " Life Of Lord Byron which
Ia il said. will be one Of the most origi
nal monuments Of Spanish literature
Itisa volume Of $50 pages. senol
CASTELAR, il no, only wonderful ofAsol
but deep student in literary history.
Aeolored woman in Providence wal
called 10 the witness stand in court viii
baby in hor arms. Not wishing 70
testify in the case. she secretly pinched
the baby until ahe was suffered tempo
rary absence from the room to sooth'
is wailings. when she irudged of be-
yond recall. faaE ataara1
It's astonishing how much wisdom
there is in the papers. Here Is a Min
nesota journal that, with a'gravity that is
characteristic OF il at all times, describes
the old flag which the First Minnesota
Volunteers carried to Bull Run and
says: at bears the inscription, May
God defend the right, the regimentha
ing been on the right during that battle.
A few days since a seedy person APP
piled to a wealthy citizen for help and
received the small sum Of five cents.
The giver remarked as he handed him
the pittance: Take it. you are well
come; our ears are always open to the
distressed" THAT may be" replied
the recipient, "but never before in my
life have seen so small an opening for
such large ears
The other day lady in New Bedford,
seeing a red flag displayed from a dwell
ing house, unceremoniously entered, and
sitting down in the parlor asked OF
servant who was in the room when the
auction would begin2" On being in
formed that the red flag did not mean
auction, but smallpox, she rushed from
the house like crazy woman, and was
soon lost to view.
The following are the members Of the
Select Committee of the House Of Lords,
appointed ito inquire into the condi.
ton Of England with regard to horses,
and its capabilities Of supplying any
present or future demand for them"
viz: The Duke of Cambridge, the Duke
Of Richmond, Lords Halifax, Lans-
dswne, Ailesbury, Portsmouth, Malmes-
bury, Lucan, Grey. Falmouth, Tyrone,
Redesdale, Rosebery, Kes-
teven, and Blachford.
The editor of the Albany Post at
tended General Dix's first reception.
He concludes a rapturous report as fol
lows: Hence the picturesque tables
which invited you to boned turkeys,
baked partridges, wing jellies and night
mares last evening. One of the mares
referred to we rode after We went to Led
TWO or three hours. The last we saw of
he quadruped she was going west on a
wire, with birthstone flames
coming out of each nostril. chased by |
,even-winged crocodiles. swearing in
tight syllables, the crocodiles being fol-
owed by thirteen ourang-outangs, with |
.ed-hot pokers in their hands. AS the
mare passed through Schenectady she
vas doing her mile in 2:40."
There are some curious laws on the
Pennsylvania statute books. twas only |
he other day that mention was made of |
he law in that State which authorized a
married man to refuse his mother-in-law |
access to his wife, and to forbid his wife
access to the church of her faith. A case
Philadelphia court, few days since,
developed another quaint regulation in
orce in the land Of Pennsylvania, and
his is that, in addition to the ordinary
luty Of man to support his wife and
il he has any, the law Of Penn
iylvania also requires that where
poor person is not able to work, and
lis parents or grandparents children or
grandchildren, such ancestral progeni-
ors or descendant posterity as the case
nay be, shall maintain such poor per-
on," at rate to be prescribed by the
Court of Quarter Session. Pennsylvania,
hen, is the paradise of the poor rela-
ion that social and family waif, the
,athos Of whose existence none who, if
lot himself or herself poor relation,
AN ever truly know.