Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-19

ono hhd @p,aoo marriages anu w.
divorces las, year.
The fashion Of ladies parting thei
hair at tho side is extending.
The Indians at Oneida settlement
Wisconsin. have organized brass band
An actress at Denver. Col, was latell
called before the curtain aud shot in thu
hip.
A child in Logan county. Ill.,, was IA
tally poisoned recently by chewing
glove.
Ex.President Andrew Johnson re
Gently appeared MS counsel in law sui
In Tennessee Justices court
The people Of Dululh have spent all
their money upon 6re.proof sales, aud
haven't anything leh to put in them
Raskin denies that the knowledge Of
anatomy is necessary to the artist, and
French critics pronounce him insane.
Decatur county, Tennessee, was Or
gained in 1850. aud yet never sent a
man 10 State prison until the other day.
Miss Mary C. knight, of Franklin, N.
II. has sailed for London TO be a teacher
In the Normal Blind Institution there.
A widow argued a will case before
Georgia court, ard by putting in judi
eious assortment OF smiles and tears
won IT,
Rogeraville. Tennessee, is getting to
be great freight point Nineteen hun
bred possum skins were shipped awayin
one day.
A Vermont boy, about eleven years
old. was some months since hit upon
the head with SNOWFALL, from which
he has lost his health and the use of his
limbs.
il Is said that high heels and tight
lacing will render a return to the stately
minuet Of the last century imperative
among fashionable dancers.
The Western press avOws its will
iugness to accept the theory of sponta-
neOus generation il potatobugs appear
after such winter as the one just passed.
A SIeer City miner remarked, after
attending prayer meeting few weeks
ago, that il was the first time be had
heard the word Of God handled for close
on TO forty years.
A Eoosier who lives on the State line
avoids the penalties Of violating the
liquor law by rolling his stock in the
back shop, which is across the border,
when the officers come.
OF the forty-two Cardinals now living,
all but two are old men; Lucien Bona
parte, the youngest, is forty-fye. The
Oldest, Archbishop Of Chambery, has
reached the great age Of ninety.
A gentleman. recently arrived from
London, in giving his experience OF
New York boarding house, said it was
most extraordinary, but, by Joyel it
seemed 10 be hash Wednesday every day |
in the week.
Boston seems to be particularly de-
lighted with Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack.
We are glad these great artists have sue
eeeded there, especially as Rubinstein
failed to came up to the Boston standard
Of excellence.
In Ruskins late edition of his own
works be Gays: "Of America | usually |
say nothing, because. as a nation, they
set their truth in liberty and equality, of
which detest the one and deny the pos
sibility Of the other"
It's suggested that all the remaining
servants of Gssrge Washington attend
the centennial celebration in one body,
with becoming escort Having been
collected they can be killed of all to-
gether, and the country relieved Of them
forever.
The Forty-third Congress will have
one hundred and seventy-two new mem
bers. VIII those one hundred and sew
enty-two new members brand themselves
As fit successors Of the Forty-second |
Congress by taking 81 100000 more out
Of the Treasury?
A Pittsburg man has invented new
tombstone. 1t is Of iron, cast in the
right shape, with grooves, or rests, for
marble tablets. They can be manufac-
tured at price that will give the poor-
est Of US two or three changes Of tomb
stones apiece.
The maddest man 10 Camden is Smith.
BE wound up his clock regularly every
night for fifteen years, and then discoy-
cred that it was an eight-day clock. He
muses. on the work that he might have
done in those wasted minutes, and his
profanity is dreadful.
The Misses Greeley will not hire out
the farm at Chsppaqua the coming sea
son, but intend 10 manage it themselves
They go out to Chappaqua early in May,
accompanied by their aunt, Mrs Cleye
land and her two daughters, who will
make chsppaqua their summer resi-
dence.
Certain salts-such as the alkaline nj
trates or cblorates-are applied in Esq