Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-11
COUNTRY GLEANINGs.

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blast in vicksburg, "a $50 n4a
I Five negro convicts escaped from the
penitentiary at Nashville a couple OF
days ago, IS aaa,a.igf araAia
The profits of the st. Mary's Orphan
Asylsm fair in Nashville recently netted
$3726 40.
The Tennessee horticultural Society
is to have an exhibition at Nashville on
the 10th inst, and will continue it for
three days. Isl,
A. G. Morrow, Esq, is to give an en-
tertainment at Pulaski for the benefit CT
the Confederate 0rphans Asylum at
GAINESVILLE, a8.
The Macon Miss, Beacon says there
is no use in expostulating with govern
ment concentrated down into tax col
lector'' We should think not.
During last month 27s5 hossheads of
tobacco we're shipped from Middle Ten
ressee to Louisville, against 2Sl3 hogs
heads for the same period the previous
year. s-,.s u sa..
The common school Commissioners OF
Davidson county and the Nashville Board
of Education have formed themselves into
a voluntary association for mutual advice
and cooperation. asN 80 eoi tst
DR.. George s. Blackie, of Nashville,
has received from Dublin the regala of
Senior Grand Warden of the Masonic
Grand Lodge of Ireland, of which he is
the Grand Representative to the Grand
Lodge of Tennessee.
Green Durrah has been committed to
Jail to answer for the killing of another
negro named Lewis Nichols, on the plan
tation of VIM. Kincaid, Esq. in the
western portion of Noxubee county,
Miss.
The literary societies of Oxford, Miss,
had a jolly time last week at the PHI
Sigma anniversary Mr.. Hampton M,
Sullivan, of Pamela county, delivered
the grafton, the subject of which he
STYLED ITO thine own self be true.
The probable route of the Southern
Pacific railroad through this State will
be by the Nashville and Northwestern
| road, placing Knoxville, Nashville and
Memphis very nearly on an air line be-
tween Norfolk and San. Diego, via Ell
Paso.
A man named Erwin, living near Elk
mont, Maury county, in fit of drunk
enness struck his son with chair and
instantly killed him The wife of Erwin
became so insane from the loss of her
child that in her paroxysms of madness
she tore the flesh from her arms with her
teeth. brs
The DuvalIs Bluff Journal says: " If
General Williams can put us drought to
! Memphis in daylight this summer, as ne
saws he can, he will be entitled to the
gratitude of our people, and the travelling
public generally. Wepropose to aid the
management all we can to secure its
early completion; and if this summer
! is not sufficient, we will extend the time
to the end of the year.
Last week three fellows appeared in
Oxford, Miss, and stated to certain par
ties, says the 0xonian, that they were
ex-Federal soldiers who had been plant
ing in the vicinity of Coffeeville, and
who were forced to leave on account OF
their political sentiments on pain OF
death, To other parties these worthless
made entirely different statements, their
only object being to gull the ,credulous,
which they did to certain extent
Rev DR.. W. P. Harrison, il La lecture
on Woman's Sphere" in Macon, Miss
last week, pictured says the Beacon
of that place, Mrs. John Smith as car
rying all before her at the polls in 1906
by placing shillelah in her hand and
an Irish speech in her mouth. " When
clergyman comes down TO vulgarism anC
nonsense, he is generally found to be thu
most vulgar and most nonsensieal o
beings. A glance at Brownlow's "Grea
! Iron Wheel Examined will convince
E any one of this,
The citizens of Mobile are to pas
through paving ordeal similar to tina
which Memphis is passing through. Tn
. Mobilean authorities ordaip that $500
900 of city eight per cent. bonds shall
be issued for the purpose of paying TO
the wooden paving, and that the bond
shall be negotiated for the best pric
= which can be obtained, not less than pa
for those running twenty or more years
ainety-six per cent for those runnin
ten or more years, and ninety per cent
> for the bonds of FIVE years.
4 An old citizen of Knoxville, name
: Samuel Mccarthy. committed suicide O.
: Friday last by taking draught Of lands
\ mum. In a long letter written two week
previous to the rash act and addresse
to his children he says II have take
i the idea into my head, or rather ] hay
arrived at the conclusion, 10 end nay III
and risk the consequence in my futur
condition with my God. This conclI
sion and determination is not arrived 8
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