Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-16
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B. Hayes.
The enrolled militia of San Fran
cisco numbers 1854.
Black Hills signboard signal
z Look out for the %Injin."
The wool crop Of Utah is larger
his season than ever before.
Walla Walla, Washington Terri
5ory, is to be lighted with gas.
Horses can be bought from the
in Oregon at $40 apiece.
The Connecticut tobacco crop is
reported to be excellent this year.
General Custer was a German,
and he would have voted for Tilden.
Three sons of one Of the Siamese
twins are %cultivating a farm in
Missouri.
Eau Glare, Wis, tallies one for
baseball. Catcher was hit in the
eye and fell dead.
Republican campaign documents
are passing through the mails free
of postage. Hold the fortl
The peanut is a symbol of Ameri-
can independence quite as much as
is the eagle.-New York Post.
Sitting Bull could put an end to
these rumors of his death by for
warding a brief dispatch, but he's
ugly.
A Kansas City father, whose alb
surd daughter married a jail-bird,
has thrashed the minister who tied
the knot.
Omaha is criticised for staring at
Josie Mansfield rather than at Lord
Dufferin, both being there on the
same day.
Prince Potocki, the youngest
brother of the Emperor of Austria,
and Count Droholowski, an Aus
trian government official of high
rank, are at San Francisco.
The Australian rihemen who are
to compete in the International
match at Creedmor, arrived at San
Francisco a few days ago and left
there on 4th inst. last for the East.
An exchange reports hat 'FMatt
Carpenter has so far recovered that
he can lie on a lounge" He can
lie on his feet, or on horseback, or
in any position that he can assume.
The grape growers Of Sonoma
Valley, CAL, propose organizing a
joint-stock wine manufacturing
company, and erecting a manufac-
tory for the purpose of pressing the
fruit.
/. A grand fandango" is shortly
to be given by the Piute Indians
in Nevada, to which the Washoe
Indians, ancient enemies of the
givers of the entertainment, are to
be invited.
Sacramento, Cal, talks of intro
ducing the fire alarm telegraph,
and a host of patentees are waging
a bitter war before her councils to
secure the adoption of their par
; ticular system.
, A tract of forty acres purchased
ten years ago by a California fruit
grower for 800 now yields its
owner $4,000 a year net profit. This
years crop of fruit is estimated at
one hundred tons.
7 Daniel Webster died in 1852, but
his widow, Caroline Leroy Web
ster, aged eighty-five, is still living
t with a relative, Robert Edgar, in
New York. Mr.. Webster has a
e grandson, Samuel Appleton, resid-
a ing in Chicago.
In an article on the habits of the
fly, the New York Tribune ably
e says; "Great care has to be taken
g in eating huckelberries, because
It nothing pleases a fly so much as to
IS be mistaken for one and, if he
d can be baked in a cake and pass
himself off on the unwary as a cur
d rant, he dies without a regret"
!" Every male teacher in Canada is
N by law required to pay into the
Iy fund for superannuated teacher.
81 every six months one-half o
70 this total contribution being re
funded to him in the event of hi.
n quitting his profession. So popula.
is the teachers profession in Canad,