Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-20
FACTS AND PANCIRs.

, in the city OF New York.
An Indiana ghost was exercised by
rat.trap one night last week.
Female footpads are monopolizing III
garroling business Ia Kansas City.
The Princess Fursiemburg Of Ausiri
is the belle Of the season at Rome.
General Won Mollke has nearly CON
pleied his history Of the Franco Germa
war.
European court costumes are to b
worn by japanese officials at the Mika
dos levees.
Kentucky has put check on basgag
smashing by Furnishing it by ine o
from $50 TO $500.
Senators Alcorn, Gordon and Ransom
we're generals in the Confederate arm.
during the war.
A California father ia under arrest fo
selling bis first born TO an organ grinde
for tamborine girl.
Professor Fursi, the greatest Hebrew
scholar Of the age, died recently at Leip
sic, at the age Of iiity-eight.
An old mau in Switzerland. county
Ind, has recently been united in mar
riage to his granddaughter.
The death is announced Of the Prin'
cess Sally, a member Of the royal fam
lily Of the Siwash tribe, in Oregon.
Milton got for his Paradise Lost" five
pounds, with five pounds for the second
edition, and eight pounds afterward.
The postmaster Of Bridgeport, Conn.
is reported to charge wocents extra fol
licking and sticking" postage stamps
1t cost the Egyptian government $780,
600 a day to marry of the Khedive's
son, and the ceremonies lasted several
days
tits proposed, in Alabama. to exempt
all widows from taxation whose property
does not exceed ten thousand dollars in
value.
II woman tells more than the truth
in speaking of rivals age, she will
probably make the thing even by under
stating her own.
Mark Twain, according to a profound
English critic, WILL in the history Of
American literature, be considered as
one Of its founders.
Floating down the sea Of matrimouy,
by the light Of the honeymoon" lis the
way city editor touchingly alludes to
the marriage of his son.
The prisoners in the Olympia, Ore
gon, Jail demand oysters, or they threat
en- to strike; and they want them served
up in some kind Of style, too
A justice at Vernon, Iowa, wound up
marriage by saying And | now send
you to the county Jail for thirty days.
He was thinking Of another case.
The lady members of his congrega-
ton are indignant at the impotence Of
Rev. DR.. Burlingame, Of St. Lous. His
last text was, How old art thou?"
Gariballi lives a patriarchal life at
Caprera, rising before the sun and retir-
ing an hour after sunset. He is sur
rounded constantly by pet animals.
Elvina Stickney, the Iowa school girl
who shot her teacher some weeks ago
because he wasn't in love with her, has
been pronounced insane, Of course.
Twenty thousand Birmingham women
have informed the English House Of
Commons Of their belief in the right Of
man to marry his deceased wifes sis
ter.
A Bluebeard Of Jonesborough, Tenns
has brought home three brides within a
year, and furnished funerals for two Of
them without arousing the curiosity Of
the coroner.
One Of the very youngest inhabitants
Of Lockport, Penn, sports twelve toes,
ten fingers and three thumbs. He
would make firstclsss god II trans
ported to India.
An Illinois bridegroom, in the first
flush of welded bliss, made magnif-
cent gift to Che Quincy Wing editor Of a
bottle Of whisky and yard and a half
of bologna sausage.
At Normal, ILL.,. John Ryan was put
under bonda not to whip William Ken
needy again. I'm keep the pace" re-
piled John, but III have the ould wo-
man bate the head of him.
An Oregon town got on land slide
recently, and deposited itself in another
county. And now the residents coolly
refuse to pay taxes on the ground that
they don't belong in that county.
NJ. Brandus, the leading music pub
Usher Of Paris, died recently. He held
the exclusive right TO publish the com
positions Of Meyerbeer. and Of mum
Der Of other prominent composers
Baltimore has some very aristocratic
prOperty-owners on its tax-list. Among
others are the Marchioness Of Wellesley,
the Duchess Of Leeds, Lady Stafford,
Lady Emily NcTavish, and Madame
BOnaparte Patterson.
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