Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-07

Major Pauline cushmau Is very N a
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lished In Vienna during the exposition.
A leading gambler At Fort Scott,
Kansas, has subscribed $4,000 toward n
new church WrTD IeIuf
A Woburn woman has called At the
posioiice twice day for twelve years,
for a letter that does not come. , q
Mrs. Perry. Of Three Rivers, Canada,
formerly New York belle, was recently
Drained BY her maniac brother. sl
Mr.. Robert Browning is at work on a
new poem. and has been forswearing
dinner-pastes Of late. in order to write
more diligently,
Mrs. Sarah p. Durrell, Of New Mar
kst, N. n. has had her Thanksgiving
dinner in the same house for iifty-one
consecutive years. ll lns ,samal.l,
The women Of Columbus, Georgia,
have discarded silks and satins, and are
wearing the plaids and checks manufac-
tured in that city.
The following reminder has just been
placed on tomb in Montmartre: "Ob,
my dear Henry, come and rsioin me as
soon as conveniently possible" \
The editor of the Examiner, at Elk
Falls, Kansas, huHg himself lately, and
left a note for his foreman telling him
to go and chop wood il he would be
happy. tAr - ~ 'l~
Miss Cobbe, British female metaphy.
stefan, contends in two long and labored
articles that dogs have immortal souls.
If so, their spiritual development should
2. once be attended to.
A Chouteau avenue (St. Louis) girl
frankly confesses that her advocacy Of
the woman's rights movement is due to
an insane desire to wear red-top boots
and pistol pocket. rs
Four girls in Augusta, Me-, were mar
ried about eighteen months ago at the
same hour. Two have since separated
from their husbands and the other two
want divorces. 70 gas ~ ? Fist
Mrs. Mary c. Mast. widow Of the late
register Of deeds of Leavenworth county,
Kansas, has been appointed by the Board
Of County Commissioners to succeed her
late husband in that Office.
The night before Western man died
his faithful wife watched by his side all
the dreary hours, with no COM
panion but the dying husband and
copy Of Jack Sheppard.
Miss Helen Matthews, of Knoxville,
Ia. daughter Of Prof. james Mathews,
of the State Agricultural College, has
been appointed Professor Of Music in
Simpson College at Indianola.
The jailer at Peoria, ILL.,, while going
his rounds recently, was locked into one
Of the cells by his son. and only re-
leased after promising to give his young
hopeful three dollars as Christmas
gift. ~ 80
Phoebe Couzins excluded the naughty,
naughty men from her lecture in Des
Moines, Iowa, on Licensed Sin,
though girls Of twelve were allowed to
listen to speech describing female i'm
morality.
After life of peculiar vicissitudes,
commenced as a eircus-rider and cul-
as a princess, the Princess
closes her romantic career
as nun in convent at bleak Inns
bruck in the Tyrol.
The saloon-keepers Of Dubuque are
the most soulless wretches on earth.
They fatty refused when Mr.. Hammond,
the revivalist, mildly requested them to
empty their whisky in the cutters and
close up shop.
Mrs. Dorcas Rice, of Jaffrey, N. a.,
whose lO5th birthday was celebrated by
q social gathering on the 10th ult., still
walks about the house, makes her own
bed reads her Bible, and converses as
readily as for years. ~ M /
A maiden Of sixty lately died in West
England, and left $500, 900 to |
a gentleman who had captured her ma
ture affections. The will is now being |
cohtested on the ground Of irregularity, |
incapacity, and ignorance.
A New Hampshire young lady, Miss
Laura Stevens. has received prize of
twelve dollars offered for the best COM
position on why society for the pre-
Vention Of cruelty to animals should be
formed in Great Falls.
A Lincoln paper claims that a seven
teen-foot vein of lime has been discov-
cred in Nebraska. The lime is said to |
be so free from carbon and other foreign |
substances as TO be ready for use with
ont burning. fa
All the chicken-stealing done in Sac
ramento is carried on by one Chinaman,
who is an adept at the business. This
Is cheap labor, indeedi Imagine the
responsibility Of man with the chicken
stealing for a whole city on his hands
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