Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-19

Governor Dix is to pass the winter in
Florida. The intentions of Sergeant
Bates are as yet unannounced.
1t is the duty of every young theologi-
cal student to do what he can to confuse
Tyndall. Let John Stuart Mill alone;
he's dead.
Every German steamer arriving in
New York brings not less than a thou
sand canary birds, but our mocking
birds are not jealous.
The Marchioness Of Thomod, whose
husband used to style himself the lawful
King of Ireland, died recently. She was
eighty.two years of age.
According to an Auburn paper, they
are going to put in that city an addition
to their seminary, ITO accommodate
Sc students 200 feet long"
Mons. Plhon, a person who was not
far off when Nelson made known that
England expected every man to do his
duty" died in France lately.
A Colorado exchange says: The
Canon City girls don't take kindly to
croquet They say it is too heightened
for them. Leap.frog is their best hold"
The Carlists are accused of having
tried to introduce coal oil into Irun by
means OF shells. They excuse their
inhumanity by declaring that the article
used was the non.explosive kind.
The Chicago Board of Education is
very unpopular just now, because it re.
Gently reported the population of the
city 100, 900 less than the number claim
ed--400, 900.
The three thousand Pennsylvsnians
who attended the double hanging at
Montrose last week went away satisfied.
The victims were "jerked upward seven
feet, settling to two and a half feet from
the ground"
1t is stated, as scientific fact, that
there are four distinct belts of territory
crossing the State of New York, through
out which gas in sufficient quantities for
use as fuel and 70: Illuminating purposes
may be found on boring.
Dennis McCarty, who killed his old
neighbor at Loogootee, in June, 1873,
has been acquitted. McCarty is IS years
old and his victim was 70. Their great
age had somewhat to do with the acquit-
tal.-IndiGnapoHs Neios.
Boston has an abduction case which is
attracting considerable attention, the
victim being Hattie NJ. Hastings, a
school girl ten years old. 1t is feared
that she is restrained of her liberty in
some Of the "dens of the city.
Mary Mapes Dodge writes that 1.-TWO
little girls are better than one; two little
boys can double the fun" and if she
were to come to this town and look at
some Of the front fences and front gates
she would find the latter statement cor
roborated.
At one of the depots yesterday was a
family of seven persons, out Of money
and not knowing where to 90 or what to
do, and they bore names as follows:
Hortense, Viola, Augustine, St. Clare,
Percival, Clementine and Flora Belle
Detroit Free Press.
The last eccentricity Of Mr.. Ruskin is
setting up a tea shop. Subscribers to
the Fors Clavigera have lately received
from Mr.. Ruskin's Kentish publisher,
with their copies, card with the name,
" Harriet Tovey, tea and coffee dealer,
No. 20 Puddlngton' street, Portman
square" printed upon it, and at the back
written statement TO the effect that
Mr.. Ruskin's object in setting up this
shop is that the poor round about may
be able to get their tea and coffee pure
and unadulterated."
Warwick, in Franklin county, Mass.
has an old lady in the ninety
year Of her age, who has never seen a
train Of cars, though the railroad is only
three miles away. She used to visit her
friends in Boston when young, riding all
ths way on horseback, making a journey
Of about three days. Her frst visit was
made eighty years ago, when George
Washington was President and Samuel
Adams was Governor. She is sprightly
and intslligs and now lives with her
daughter, a young lady Of seventy.
A monster pike was caught the other
day with a net in Ripley lake, near Bag
shot Park, in England, which belongs to
the royal domain. The fish weighed
thirty-f pounds, and measured three
feet ten and half inches in length. The
eye was exceedingly beautiful, the head
shone like smoked mother-of-pearl, every
scale was perfect, and fms as red as a
perch; four black bars extended some
distance from the tail upward. giving the
fish a zebra-like appearance. The fsh
is supposed to be about fifteen years old
It's roe weighed three and half pounds