Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-22

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in thirty-two years.
Green Island, on the Hudson, has a
lager beer saloon and coffin manufac-
tory in the same room.
Madame Catacazy has bought large
amount of jewelry formerly belonging
to the Empress Eugene.
The announcement is made that the
Society of Friends have begun mission
airy work in Matamoras, Mexico.
Mr.. Frothingham's congregation has
repudiated the name of church. They
wish to be known as THE Independent
Society"
A Western woman has just discovered
that if dishes are washed in very hot
water and set on the edge to drain they
will not need wiping.
The rear view of a bow-legged, round
shouldered man engaged in thought on
cold day is one of the most instructive
spectacles to be seen.
Clarkstown, Michigan, had pair OF
lovers who took morphine together. The
young lady still lives and will wear
mourning for the one VINO didn't.
A Tioga, N. Y, man has written to
Professor Tyndall soliciting an agency
for the sale of his prayer gauge. He
thought it was some popular patent.
The lemon groves Of Corsica are suf-
fering from curious disease. The fruit
dries up and becomes as dusty as the
"smoke-balls" in our country pastures.
A monument commemorative of the
late James Fisk, ira name which it
would be a great comfort to forget-is to
be made by Mr.. Meade Of Rome, and set
up in the graveyard at Brattleboro, VT.
Mrs. Sewell. lately deceased at New
buryport, Mass, was one of company
of children that, some eighty years ago
or more, greeted Washington with sing
ing on the occasion Of his entrance into
that town.
The King Of Italy has given decora-
ton to Gerald Rohlfs, Of Lubbock, resid-
ing in Weimar, who has made the jour
ney across Africa, from the west coast
of Morocco to Egypt, and from Tripoli
to the Gulf of Guinea.
Reports from the interior of Russia
state that the Baptist sect are making
unprece dented progress in the acquisl-
ton Of converts. Dozens and scores are
re-baptized in the rivers or the sea, de-
spite the biting cold.
A Chicago clergyman took occasion,
in recent sermon, to praise some gym
nastic exercises he had lately witnessed,
and said of dancing that he did not know
as it made much difference which way
people shook their feet.
A marriage took place recently at
North Stoniugton, Conn, in which the
bride had to be carried in the arms Of
her husband, she having met with an
accident two years ago, which deprived
her of the use of her limbs.
Richard Asbury, the first American
Methodist Bishop, was the first clergy
man of his denomination to preach in
Trenton, n. j., and there is minute
still existing which shows that he was
paid seven shillings for that service.
The Honolulu Advertiser says that the
Chinese have for several years been buy
ing all the twenty dollar gold pieces
which arrived in the islands, and are
now freely offering twenty-one silver
dollars for the twenty dollar pieces.
The Congregationalist states that a
popular Boston pastor, on a recent
Sabbath, wound up prayer as follows:
And give grace, we beseech Thee, to
the deacons, that they may be able to set
cody example to US common people"
A rumor was current that one OF the
largest and weslthiest Jewish eongrega-
tons in New York was about to substi-
tute Sunday for Saturday as its day Of
worship. The Jewish Messenger en-
phatically denies the truth Of the
rumor.
The Hon. Samuel F. Hunt has pre-
scented to the Historical Society Of Gin
cinnat the manuscript copy Of Jeffsr-
son Davis veto Of the resolution,
adopted by the Confederate Congress,
exempting Newspaper men from active
military duty.
Il is stated that, since Mile Christine
Nilsson was married. toe demand for
Christine Nilsson watches" in Paris.
has largely fallen Of, and this fact is
quoted in support Of the vulgar notion
that an unmarried woman is, to the pop.
ulace, more attractive than q married
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