Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-02

Sunday, because a pet carbuncle for
. bsde his standing up. His text wa
+ from Job,
While dancing at a ball in Akron, o.
: young lady broke out with the small
pox. Her young man danced to a differ
: ent tuRe Immediately, but has since
taken the disease.
Four girls in Augusta, Me-, were mar
ried about eighteen months ago at She
same hour. Two have since separated
from their husbands and the other two
want divorces.
Some negroes at work on the Chesa
peake and Ohio railroad used nitro
gycerine to kindle fire. Three oil
them were killed instantly, and several
others were severely wounded.
The table on which the Declaration
Of Independence was signed is now in
the possession of the Laurens family in
South Carolina, one Of their ancestors
having been a signer.
A Pittsburg paper wants a real
printers monument to Horace Greeley,
to be cast from worn.out type, which
newspaper offices from all over the
country can contribute, and be mounted
on granite base.
| Henry VIII, after the death of Jane
Seymour, had some difficulty to get
another wife, His first offer was tc the
Duchess of Milan but her answer was
"She had but one head; if she had two,
one should be at his servicer'
The statement that Miss Ida Greeley,
to whom her father by one will left his
entire estate, is Catholic, and that the
younger daue liter is Protestant, proves
to be one.half true. The Freeman's
Journal says: Neither of Mr. Greeley's
daughters is Catholic"
The Savage Club of London, the
same that entertained Artemus Ward
and Mark Twain, has applied the last
feath er necessary to dislocate its spinal
vertebre, by entertainin G the perambu-
lating lunatic, Bates.
In Germany, when the vote of the jury
stands six against six the prisoner is
acquitted. A vote Of seven against FIVE
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leaves the decision to the Court, and in
vote of eight against four the prisoner
is convicted.
In speaking of the Bosten FIRE, the
editor of the Religious Magazine says
The only person we have met who APP
peared disturbed by his losses was a
rich man who had suffered tee ll;:::::le 10
call out the real nobility Of his nature"
At county fair in Louisiana lately a
premium was offered for boys under
fourteen years of age who neither drank,
smoked, chewed, played cards nor car
ried pistols. Only twenty entries were
made.
Il am self-made man, said native
of Stonington, Connecticut the other
day to a New York gentleman, with
whom he had been driving sharp bar
gain. Glad to hear you say so, re-
sponded the New Yorker, who had been
worsted in the bargain " for it relieves
the Lord of great responsibility"
There should be 3 law against carrying |
on the streets umbrellas or other danger
GUS weapons protruding from under the
left arm. A man in Baltimore was :
rushing along the other day with the
handle of his umbrella projecting long !
way behind at dangerous angle, when /,
it caught in the headgear of lady, and !
took away not only her bonnet, but her 1
curls, puffs and other elaborate adorn- !
ments of the head, leaving her covered
only with confusion.
Brompton, conductor on the New
Haven and Hartford road, is gentle
man, but timid withal. The other day
be received a telegram for one Of his {
passengers, and, going to the car door, '
be timidly inquired Is there Hone J
in this carr" For an instant there was ,
no response, when a little gentleman
squealed out: why don't you use
your bootleg?" This gave Brompton SO
much confidence that he bribed brake t
man TO canvass the other cars.
When you make sidewalk you want
10 get it very narrow and very high
like the shape Of an egg. I
Then when any one slips on it, a leg will !
20 OF at each side, and he will be split !
through at each side, and he will be split t
through the chin. and die without a t
struggle. and bis wife can get the insu.
rance, and marry = man who will go into +,
business and make an assignment. On J
any other walk q man will fall and Grip :
pie himself, and live on for years after Z
bis wife is dead, and then die and leave !.
bis insurance money to his mother. i
The exact text Of Congressman
Snaps classical interlude in his speech t
On civil service reform is as follows Z
Cincinnati buried such hopes; but bis I
civil service humbug, ike Nemesis shirt !
sticks to the Republican party, and, I'M u
less thrown of. it eventually viii bring s
disastrous ruin and shipwreck to the s
party" This little piece Of Congress '
lional rhetoric is both clear and com {
huf We would snggest q