Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-26

An Indiana dAirymAn put seven hun
bred dollars in his parlor stove for safe
keeping. and soon after his wife, iguo
rant Of tie fact, made Ere in the stove
aud the money went up the chimney.
An ingenious BAlimorean has in
vented the name Camdenline for an In
FAINT daughter unexpectedly presented tC
him few days ago on the Camden rail
way.
A Cairo jury has just decided that
Adam Jones leg, cut OF by the cars
was werth $4,000. The query arises as
to what one of Lydia Thompson's would
be assessed att
The California wine crop Of 1872 is
nearly million aud half Of dollars.
OF this it is expected that two-thirds
will be exported, yielding an average
price Of seventy-6ve cents gallon.
tits charged that AEassiE likes a mint
julep as well as many other men who
don't make any pretensions to knowing
where the water went to when the flood
subsidized
A judge at Waterloo New York, has
been swearing witnesses on a patent
office report. supposing il to be u Bible.
He said he noticed that they swore pow
erful hard.
The Russian government is negotia-
tong loan of $25, 900, 900 in Paris, pre-
paratory to undertaking new lines Of
railways roads, canals and other public
improvements.
Lieutenant f. d. Grant, son Of the
President, has been assigned to the staff
of Lieutenant General Sheridan, and will
have to rough it at the headquarters in
Chicago.
A contemporary-and he seems to do
it on purpose-spells it "denuement."
That won't do; the denousment " is the
close of a piece, while the "denuement"
If such a thing there be-is no clothes
at all.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mitten, Of New York,
was robbed of eight hundred and five
dollars while riding in BECKER street
car. The money was in a bag tied
around her waist with a string, under
her dress.
The Princess Pierre Benaparte went
to Camden House after the death of the
Emperor, as did other members of the
family, and was received with respect
and esteem, notwithstanding her man
shop in London.
A lawyer in Trenton, New Jersey, was
tried and sentenced to six
months Of penitentiary and fine of one
hundred dollars for taking advantage of
a poor woman's ignorance and eating |
up three hundred dollars Of pension
money belonging to her by hiS voraeious
fees.
1t was a wsful disappointment to
Prince Arthur and other eminent persons
that the game they chased for hours over
the Rompan Campagna in the belief it
was fox should turn out to be nearly
wholly frightened and stub
tailed cur.
Delegate Callegos, of New Mexico,
wants to be reelected to Congress-. He
is harmless, does not speak English,
neither wastes the public time, nor in
creases the expense Of public printing,
and only costs the small sum per annum
specified in the Butler increased pay
clause
Charleston, S. c., with a population
IF $4,000, has imported, during the past
season thirty-one cargoes of fruit from
he West Indies, consisting of 2,l36,605
besides over $4,000 from Flor
da), 10000 punches bananas, and 507,-
81 cocoanuts.
A Massachusetts, paper asks us TO be-
ieve that it costs couple from that
State $50 day to board at a Washing
on hotel during the Inauguration fes-
ivities. The incredible part of the
tory is, not that Washington hotel
Keeper should ask such price, but that
my one from Massachusetts should pay
t.
A shark eleven feet in length was re-
emily presented to the Dundee Muse
I'm. On being opened, for the purpose
# stuhing, it was found to contain the
emains of a variety of fish, a woman's
'onnet, and a saltwater bottle, in
which was note conveying some inter
sting intelligence in lady's hand
writing.
Jeferson's advice to his daughters
Tas to avoid breaking with disagreeable
'eople as long as they could with honor.
iacriGces and suppressions Of feeling
Or such an object, he thought. cost
much less pain than in open separation.
he effort Of self control was soon for
often, but an open breach haunts the
eace of every day.
Imprisonment for debt is by no means
0 generally abolished as people suppose.
he Hartford Conn., Courant men
ons that ten or twelve debtors have
cen lodged in the Jail of that city during
ne mast winter. and thee are confined