Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-28

dollars the other Jay lOt SH""b
baceo in meeting.
Western pork packers estimate the hoi
value of a Congressman at one thousand
fat ones annually.
Worcester, Massachusetts, contains
woman not yet thirty years old, who ha'
thirteen children.
The Maryland oyster beds have beer
scraped so clean that a tight market If
looked for next year.
The portraits of the e1-mayors o.
Louisville are to be frescoed on the walls
of the new city hall.
A woman at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, has sued
seventeen saloon-keepers for selling
liquor to her husband.
Galveston, Texas, claims to be the
first Southern city which has adopted
cumulative voting.
1t is estimated that France annually
produces, l, 100000, 900 gallons of wine
valued at 100000 600.
Two men in Murfreesboro, Tenn. were
recently fined twenty dollars each fol
whispering in church.
Paris has genuine Chinese restaurant
where eats and dogs are cooked for those
who are fond of them.
1T is harde to hav yure CURL 90 back
on you, wrote John Shell. of Lacrosse,
before hanging himself
A good many old cider.suckers who
wanted to act as Indian agents, few
weeks ago, don't care about it now.
Robertson county, Texas, claims that
its native coal is forty-two per cent.
more calori6c than that of Pennsylvania.
Ancient Jerusalem is about to inno-
vate on the accommodations of its
fathers in Israel, and ride in street
car.
A Kentuckian who said that he never
heard of Daniel Boone was promptly
shot in the leg by an enthusiastic young
man.
The new Gardner gun, which com
bines both magazine and breech-loader,
fires twenty-seven shots in sixty-three
seconds.
The first Protestant Easter service
ever held on the shore of Cuba took
place in the Episcopal church in Havana
recently.
Some one has managed to make a
diamond of 1854 carats turn up in
Africa, and will exhibit it at the Vienna
Exposition.
The keepers of Central Park, New
York, say there hasn't been SO backward
a spring as this within the length of
their memories.
A girl ten years old, at Vicksburg,
jumps from barn with an open UNI
brella in her hand whenever a crowd
will give her fifteen cents.
o'Kelley's contract with the Herald
was to furnish box full Of loaded mat
ter. The 'grandees coolly advise him to
fulfill it by shooting himself.
Texas babies who don't take castor
oil readily have their jaws pried open
with the shears. One was killed that
way at Houston the other day.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has re-
fused to change the libel law, and news
paper men will have TO be careful who
they call thief and heather.
A Florida alderman sold his vote for
an oroide chain and circus ticket, and
his friends pitch into him for not asking
for a jacknife in addition.
Some young men marry for dimples,
some for ears, some for noses; the con-
test, however, generally lies between the
eyes and hair. The mouth, too, is occa-
sionally married; the chin not so often.
Startling news comes from Monaco.
An Englishman who had won 10000
francs at the Casino, and who had left
By rail for Mentone, had been found
dead in the carriage on the arrival Of
the train. His pocket had been ran
sacked Of everything. It Was thought
he had been poisoned with chloroform.
Somebody is advertising a prepare
ton which, among other merits, is var
ranted to keep lady's hand free from
chaps. We know another way to effect
this. Let her dress " the present fash
ion. snd have It knoVn that she has no
money. Chaps il they are sensible
ehaps viii let her hand olone very &C.
verely.