Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-03
country Gleanings.

mile from Searcy, Ark, was recent
destroyed by fire. A Mr.. Davis lost sl2l
a shotgun and trunkful Of clothes b
the conhagration. s4 rgt u sa,
A contract has been given to Mr.. Lis
embee, of Little Rock. for building
courthouse at Monticello, Ark, wort
S29,970 aai KS
The survey for the new county to b
formed out Of the northeast end Of Madi
son, the west end Of Carroll and the cas-
end Of Gibson is nearly completed.
The Milan (Tenn.) Times says Their
will be a largerqnantiiy of cotton an'
corn planted this year in that vicinity
than during any year since the war.
Improvements are progressing il
Winona, Miss. The Democrat says thu
early and late sounds of the mechanic
hammer demonstrate that progress which
our community is making, and will nj
doubt soon count her citizens by tn,
thousand" 4tis Aial
The Grenada (Miss.) Sentinel says
there are large number of quack doctors
throughout the country, and especially
in that neighborhood, whose proper
place ought to be in the peniten;iary.
Citizens of yalhermoser township,
Ala, have resolved that they have every
reason to be grateful at the peaceable and
law-abiding condition of the people, who
have committed no acts Of violence
since the surrender. KY
Oxford, Miss, has just completed a
new hotel, and proposes to build eight
or ten three-story storehouses of elegant
structure. ~
Henry Farmer and Leo Wheat's con-
cert at Little Rock, on the 18th ult, was
largely attended. They were assisted
by Miss Whipple and Miss Dodge,
amateur vocalists of the Rock
The contract for grading that portion
of the Opelika, Gadsden and Gunters-
vile railroad between Attilla and Gads-
den has been given. 1t is expected that
a train will run into Gadsden about the
first of October next.
One thousand men are at work on the
Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad
Trains will run to Lewisburg on the 4th
of July.
The jackson Miss Clarion says "the
Legislature has come out at the small
end Of the horn in the proposition to
remove Judge Shackelford for ordering
the release of Col. E. NJ. Yerger" aiia
The Augusta ARK. } Sentinel is respon-
sible for this: ION Saturday last a wo-
man living about FIVE miles from town,
whose husband had been whining her.
started to town to lay her complaint be-
fore Squire Cohn. When she left home
there was but one plaintiff in the case;
when she got here there were three. The
minors insisted upon their right to be
heard, and the Justice continued the
case"
The Fort Smith ARK. J Herald thinks
and thinks correctly-that the estab-
lishment of Oklahomma Territory will
be one of the latest jobs the Radicals
have had for some time 1t will open a
large field for Offices, and in a thousand
other ways for the free practice and car
rying into effect of the calling and pre-
dominating traits of character of the
members of that party = speculation,
peculation and plumber.
The remains of General Cleburne ar
rived at Helena on Friday morning, and
we're escorted to St. Johns Episcopal
church, whence they we're borne to Ever
green Cemetery and deposited in mother
earth. Unlike Memphis, every business
house in Helena was closed, and cor
tege Of carriages quarter Of a mile
long carried the ladies of Phillips coun-
ty, who bore in their hands wreaths and
festoons Of flowers TO decorate the hero
grave All the societies in the neigh
borhood including the Masons, turned
out in their regalia. The pall-bearers
we're General J. C. Tappan, Major W.
Z. Moore, Judge H. P. Coolidge, L.
Cage, Esq, j. S. Monnier, Esq, Judge
George West, Captain ]. c. Davis, Ed.
W, Pillow, Esq, Major Jesse A. Jack
son, j. f. Burke, Esq, Major T o.
Thweatt, Captain ]. C. Barlow, Captain
W. B. West, R. n. Bailey, Esq, and H.
H. Smith, Esq. The correspondent Of a
contemporary thus pictures the process
sion: up the winding, terraced road
the procession moves; the ladies of the
association have dismounted, and two
by two, bearing their floral tributes of
respect, ascend the way. Beautiful and
still more beautiful grows the prospect
as we ascend. In fine contrast with the
verdure of the scene fash the draperies
Of the ladies and the uniforms and rega-
liza of the societies Turning this curve
or that. we catch glimpse Of the noble
river, moving silently and grandly on to
the Gulf its forest-crowned shores
framing its curves into the appearance
of romantic lakes. Here and there upon
its surface a steamer puffs its steam aud
smoke in curls along the blue horizon,
and far off fatboat, bound for New