Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-21

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Donaldson's purpose to attempt a
transatlantic air voyage is making a
great hollow-ballooin' in Pennsylvania.
The Society of the Army Of the PotO-
mac is to hold its annual meeting this
year at New Haven, on Wednesday, May
II.
A number Of human scalps were re-
Gently discovered in a bale of rags re-
ceived from the West by paper mill in
Petersburg, Virginia.
In recent murder case in Tennessee,
the counsel for the prosecution spoke of
the victim Lying wrapped in the solilo-
guy of his own blood"
The playbills of some of the Partisan
theaters have printed on them map of
the principal streets in the vicinity for
the convenience of strangers.
A man in Kentucky claims to have
discovered a method of transplanting
hair, so that new hair may be planted on
bald places as soon as they appear.
1t is related, as an instance Of Western
energy, that man at st. Paul, Mimi,
sneezed the other day, and so strained
his spinal column that he has been help
less ever since.
An Iowa clergyman's moral insanity
takes the form of stealing Bibles, of
which he has presented numerous
elegantly bound copies to favored mem
-bers Of his flock.
Denver is to have new hotel, and the
public are assured that the new walls
will be bullet proof. so that guests won't
run any risk on account of an affair in
the other room.
The discovery in Pompeii of marble
Venus with celored hair and drapery
gives assurance to contemporary that
the ancients were in the habit of tint
ing their statues.
1t pays, even in this world, to become
known as an able and faithful worker in
the Lords service. Sturgeon has been
offered $4,000 to deliver fifty lectures
in the United States.
A conductor on the Pennsylvania
railroad telegraphed from Derry station
recently: Train delayed fifteen min
utes on account of lady. Don't know
whether it is boy or a girl
An Indiana man is naming his chill
dren after the New England States. He
now has Maine, New Hampshire, Yer
mont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island,
with fattering prospect of Connect
cut.
A convict in San Diego received from
mis- friends a number of letters saturated
with morphine. When he had collected
sufficient he chewed them, and, by thus
poisoning himself avoided death on the
gallows.
English oyster eaters are excitedbver
the rumored discovery of new bed of
oysters of almost inexhaustible dimen-
sions, which is calculated to cover 800
square miles, with oysters (of fine quail
ity) two or three feet deep.
Intending visitors to the great Aus
trian Exposition will do well to look to
Their vaccination marks Is well as to
their letters of credit, the deaths from
smallpox in Vienna, at last accounts,
averaging sixty a week.
Wealthy Americans with handsome
daughters whom they are about to take
to Europe, should know that French
law provides that sons-in-lsw may claim
support from their fathers-in.law. Paris
is full of "barons," very handsome and
decidedly impecunious.
Another Illinois verdict for $4,000 for
breach of promise suggests the question
why it should be so hard to alter a mere
to commit matrimony when it
is so easy to dissolve marriage already
contaminated and further gives rise to
the reflection that if breach-ofprsmise
laws were repealed there would be fewer
applications for divorce.
A Chinese servant was brought home
by the gentleman Of the house, and his
mistress inquired his name. Yung
Hoo Wing" Oh" said she, cannot
call you that; l viii call you Charley.
"Whatee your name?" be asked in re.
turn. MY name is Mrs. John Brown
ing" Welle, ealle you Johnr' ex.
claimed the Celestial.
A British officer who recently visited
Sebastopol says the town is almost de
serted and in ruins. Shot holes and dents
are to be seen in everything that remains
standing Very little atteniioa has been
paid to rebuilding. The place reminds
one Of Pompeii-nothing but stone walls
and roofess wrecks Of houses.
A daring attempt is shortly to be
made 10 cross the Pacific, from San
Francisco to Japan, in a small sioop.
hirty feet long. She is named the Dol
,hin, and viii carry q crew Of three
men, in addition TO her captain. The
biect is to hunt sea otter. which are
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