Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-17
COUNTRY eLEANISes.

I'd Of June. 10000
A couple of cooper shops and a broom
factory is wanted at Brownsville. Sc
says the lively Bee.
A negro named Francis Pold, one hun
dred and five years old, still lives neal
Carriers creek, Maury county.
Several negroes are in Starkvillc( Miss.
Jail, awaiting trial for attempting to Kill
Mr.. j. r.. Conner, in 0ktibbeha county,
Colonel Kinloch Falkner delivered the
address at the decoration of Confederate
soldiers graves in Holly Springs, Miss,
ON Saturday 4a
Governor Alcorn has reprieved for
thirty days Bob Wood, who killed his
wife Amanda, and Ned Gator, who killed
Nick Oakley.
Ham Carter was one Of the dis
tinguished orators " at the Fifteenth
Amendment jubilee in Vicksbarg on
Friday
w. NJ. s. East, of Greenwood, and
Simeon Stoveall, of Carroll county,
Miss, two old and respected citizens,
died last week iiGe
The Reporter says Holly Springs is
growing rapidly, and will soon be the
most important place in Mississippi save
jackson and Vicksburg.
Major Sykes and number of East
Mississippians are urging the people to
build the railroad from Aberdeen to Ely
ton as quick as possible.
The Mississippi Conservative Press
Convention convenes at Oxford on the
Goth of June next. Colonel j. P. Pryor
will deliver an grafton and DR.. John d.
Woods read an essay.
The Pamela Miss Star says the pros
poets of good corn and cotton crops in
that neighborhood are fattering, and
that the people are busy and displaying
some industry.
The prospects for large corn crop
about Carrollton, Miss, are good; but the
late cold nights and mornings, says the
Conservative, has done some damage to
cotton.
A Radical sheet in Huntingdon, called
the Republican, still keeps up cry
about the Ku-Klux Khan. 1t had better
harp on the Shoe Fly" excitement by
way of novelty.
The Tennessee Central Railroad Com
pany will be organized in few days
Stock subscriptions enough have been
given to enable a corps of engineers to
survey and locate the road.
Pine Bluff, Ark, is improving The
Press of that place hears nothing from
morning till night save "the ringing
sound of the hammer, the saw and
plane" Pretty good music for the
Bluff.
The Jackson Tenn. Tribune states
that when Horace Maynard ceases to
croak, all may be assured that law and
order prevail in Tennessee, He has
been the evil genius Of our State for
years; not less malignant than Brown
low, he is more willy, able and unsorupu-
lous.
A Mississippi paper says the legisla-
tors of that State are making a good
thing Of it. Besides drawing eight dol
lars day one follows the tonsorial pro
fession, while another, more intellectually
gifted. plcys fiddle for dancing parties
Take them all in all, they are jolly
queer set.
Gen. John R. Drake died at his resi-
lepce in Madison county, Ala, on the
18th iaet, The Huntsville Advocate
says ''he was eeaesally known, was man
Of fair ability, and was a member Of the
Parsons State Convention in 1865, as
well as Senator in ls66-'67.'
The editor of the Augusta ARK SEN
tinel thus expresses one of his inten-
tons: We intend to SOW along down
the burrows of our paper among the rigs
charley, some texts Of Scripture now
and then Whether they fall among
thorns or in good ground, they will be
good news " to half our readers, and
ours is newspaper
The merchants, planters and traders
Of Southwest Virginia and East Tennes-
see avs 10 held 2 convention at Mont
gomery White Sulphur Springs, Va, on
the 2lst of June next The object is to
more intimate business rela-
tons with Norfolk, Petersburg and
LTpehburg, and the cities of East Ten
nessee.
The Record trusts and believes that
the people Of Upton county, nov that
they can again exercise the right of
suffrage without the permission of a
Registrar, will show that they appreciate
the precious right and that they feel an
interest in the welfare Of the State by
turning ont at this election and choosing
judicial officers who will be worthy to
the laws Of the land.
Now, says the Trenton Gazette, "as