Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-08-17
LOCALS IN BRIEF.

We are very much obliged to Mr.. s.
NJ. Williams for basket Of luscious figs.
Col. J. F. Dowdy, after three weeks
absence to the mountains, returned this
morning in fine health and spirits.
Our young friend, Col. N. A. Van Pelt,
of the firm Of Van Pelt q Gibson, leaves
10 few days on an Eastern tour. 1t is
understood that there is lady in the
question.
Capt. John c. Heazlitt. late Secretary
Of the Memphis and Little Rock rail-
road, passed through the city to-day from
New York to Byron City, Texas, where
he will make his future home. He has
formed connection with the prosperous
firm of Mr.. Emmett Wicks, formerly Of
Memphis. A8vsst sffN''
The following postoffice appointments
have been made: James II. Rhodes, be-
tween Memphis, Tenn, and Grenada,
Miss, vice John T. Boyle, resigned !;
Moses Hopkins. between Canton, Miss +,
and Jackson, Tenn, vice W. Fl. Lanca-
shire, removed; John e. Carpenter, be-
tween Memphis, Tenn, and Bowling
Green, KY, vice VIM. d. Ray, removed.
Mr.. George r. Rutter has been arrested
in New York on the charge of embe zzling
six hundred thousand dollars of the
Tennessee School Fund. This is sup
posed to be done at the instance of Mr..
James L. Rust, the State Treasurer, who,
doubtless, has use for some information
supposed to be concealed in Rutter's
bosom.
Addison Hall, negro, shot another
negro, name unknown, on the Holly
Ford road, near the place Of MIR. d..
Pointer, four miles from the city, Sa,ur-
day night. The negro died Sunday eve
ming. The cause at the bottom Of the
affair was woman. Hall has not been
arrested. He has brother at Buntyn's
Station, and it is reported that he has
been there and sent home for his clothes.
All the counties in the State have been
heard from officially except six. as fol-
lows: Cooke, in East Tennessee; Cum
berland, Grundy, Lawrence, Putnam,
and Stewart, in Middle Tennessee. The
result is as folows Ia East Tennessee
Senter, 23,llS; Stokes, alias. Middle
Tennessee Senter, 58,208; Stokes, 49,
1898. West Tennessee-Senter, 1851
Stokes, l3,209. Total for Senter, ll9 ,0O7.
Total for Stokes, SO. $50. Senter's ma
jority, 65,057.
Mr.. Thomas F. Bailey, who has very
promising crop on Horn Lake road, half
a mile below the corporation line, pre-
scented us this morning with some fine
cotton bolls, which, considering that he
planted on upland the 23d of April, en-
titles his cotton to rank among the first.
Mr.. Bailey thinks that, with an imme-
date rain, he would realize bale to the
| acre, but says the hot, dry weather is in
| juring some of the squares and causing
them to fall of.
Mr.. J. L. Avent. son of our esteemed
fellow-citizen DR.. Aveut, showed US to-
day some very fne cotton bolls, as speci'
mems of his fine crop, three and half
miles from the city. Mr.. Avent expects
| to commence picking cotton next Mon
day, and to have out bale by the mid
die of the week. This Is his FIRST expert
ence at planting, but he is making it pay
| from the start. To about five hundred
pale-faced young men, .who need exercise
and appetites, if not the money, we would
like TO soy, go and do likewise
The contested election case of Hunter
vs. Smith, for the 6hspcpllorship, came
= ..-fore Chancellor Harris yesterday at
csrmantovn AT the instance of Judge
Hunter the case was cccntipped until the
fourth day in October next a vast
amount of evidence has been taken, IN
the shape of depositiops. Judge Hunter
was attended by Colonel John Bullock
and W. p. Dickinson as counsel, and
Chancellor Smith was represented BY
Chas. Kortrccht, Charming Eic4srds and
j, G. Mcdaniel.
y In consequences of spurious issue of
$40 greenbacks a new Issue of them, of
all denominations, from III to $1,000
notes, will soon make their appearance.
The plates are now being executed at the
Bureap Of Engraving and Printing. The
designs are setirely new. No likeness OF
any living man will Dc p!0ccd on any
note. The engraving of the new Issues,
and the faces and seals of all the de-
nominations, will be performed in the
Printing sEd Engraving Bureau, while
the backs will be printed ip New York.
There will be every possible grecantion
to prevent fraud, including the taking of
lead Impressions for electrotype plates.
a. 2. FRAsKLASD sells clothing, dry
goods, shoes. bets and notions Wednes-
day morning, 10 o'clook-to close con-