Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-30

many horses thOuk"'
One hundred and thirteen boys under
the age of twenty, have been received al
Sing Sing within the last FIVE months
A heightened wedding in Southern
Indiana is when the groom pitches into
the brides father and gets his nose BIT
ten off.
Art at Vienna includes the erayon
drawing representing Luther throwing
his inkstand at the devil. Good place
for it.
Brooklyn is in danger of being taxed
to death. The regular rate last year
was 50 Sc for every 500 of assessed
valuation.
Florida watermelons are now extern
siyely used as mediums for the circula-
ton of cholera throughout the Southern
States.
An Alabama lawyer, defending muir
derer, spoke nineteen consecutive hours
but the jury convicted the client In seven
minutes.
Milwaukee talks of arming her police
with msllets having handles live feet
long 80 that unruly folks can be
nonnded Mt a safe distance
The people of New Albany, Indiana,
have petitioned the Common Council to
make the playing of base ball a INSIDE
meanor, punishable by fine.
A French physician at Spencer, Mass,
has inoeulated one hundred and htty
children with smallpox lymph, thinking
that he was using genuine vaccine virus.
A Georgia murderer was acquitted be-
cause he stabbed his victim forty-twe
times. The jury thought sane man
wouldn't have inflicted more than hall
that number.
Five German families, all related to
each other and living in one school DIS
trict in Wisconsin, have seventy'iive
children among them, all sound and
healthy.
An old and wealthy citizen Of New
Orleans embraced his colored servant
on the street the other day, by way OF
sarcasm on the black-white amalgama-
ton movement.
A young English nobleman IS Great
ing a sensation in London dramatic cir
Giles by his splendid amateur acting, and
his family are in agony lest his passion
will take him on the stage.
The latest thing in the way of musical
instruments in the pyrophone, or fame
organ. The notes are produced by the
singing flame, that is, by vibrating
flames in glass cylinders.
The Republicans of Texas, at their
State convention on August 18th, will
reorganize the party throughout" The
colored men of the State will also hold a
convention OF Brennan on July 80.
Mellowville, Florada, had public
meeting the other day to build church
and secure a pastor and the generous
public subscribed seven dollars. The
church and the pastor are in the dim
vista Of the future.
An Iowa man, a few days since,
dreamed that he saw his brothers head
severed from his body without the loss of
a drop Of blood. Next day he learned of
the removal Of that brother from snug
postmastership.
OF the Yale College seniors, foriy-one
have chosen the law ioF 2 profession,
fifteen business, thirteen the ministry,
SIX medicine, six teaching, two journal
ism, two banking, two civil engineering,
one art and one mining
A negro IN Columbus, Ga, dreamed
that he found FIVE dollars in a certain
place in a street. He went to the spot
next morning, found one dollar, and is
blaming the ghost Eko told him Of it for
taking the other four.
Patronage has fallen of atthe Chinese
theater in California since the ordinance
relating to the number Of cubic feet Of
air necessary for sleepers wentinto effect.
The Celestials supposed it applied to
their places Of amusement as well as
their bed chambers, since they remained
in the fsrmer all night.
/ have great hope Of wicked man,
slender hope Of a mean one. A wicked
man may be converted and become a
prominent saint A mean man ought
to be converted six or seven times, one
right after the other, to give him fair
start and put him on an equality with a
bold, wicked man.-Beeeher.
The white marble statue Of the En-
press Josephine" says the Constitu-
tiounel, which was placed in 1867 st
the intersection At the Rues Calico,
Newton, and the Avenue Josephine, and
which was removed by the men Of the
iib Of September is about to be re-
placed on is pedestal, which has re-
NAMED vacant nearly three years"
A New York Central railroad conduc-
cor seized q ss5ssssy dressed young fellow
Who had dropped an insulting note in q
lsdys lap On bis train. the other day,