Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-31
COUNTRY GLEANINGs.

promises to be large one 1fsal
Cotton has been planted pretty exten
sively throughout the Yazoo Valley,
There are about six factories in opera
ton at Jacksonville on the Tennessee
The Democratic State Convention OF
Alabama meets in Montgomery on the
LIST of September.
The area of land in Georgia planted
in cotton is scarcely as, large as it was
last year. N u 9eAh Is 4al
Hon. Jefferson Davis spent few hours
among his friends at jackson, Miss, on
Thursday. a7tn ma-if
A negro was killed and another had
his limbs broken by a, railroad accident
at Decherd on Monday. a
Prospects for good yields of corn and
cotton in Marshall county, Miss. are
hattering asals Aa0see
One or two Radical papers in the rural
districts still talk about the Ku.Klux
Klan.sE i,te ba8a aaw Hah n n
Mr.. Butler, our new Secretary Of State,
is a native of jackson, and in the fiftieth
year of his age m 4
General Forrest has nearly thousand
Irishmen at work on the Memphis and
Selma railroad rear Columbus
Rumors are floating to the effect that
Generals Kirby Smith and Bushrod John
son intend turning the Nashville Univer-
sity into military academy. lf1H
General Thomas D. Arnold, an old
citizen of Greenville, in this State, died
suddenly at Jonesboro on Thursday
morning. vega
The Reporter thinks that by the first
of June the mail route from Memphis to
Byhalia will be extended to Holly
Springs. rrf
The Federal Government destroyed
the Mississippi levees during the war,
but so far has made no appropriation to
reconstruct them.
There is maehinist in Trenton who
can make and mend a printing press.
Trenton in that respects ahead of Mem
phis. aad ~
A Radical named Norris, who has been
acting as military sheriff in Warren
county, Ga, was arrested last week for
swindling citizens out of money to the
amount of $1,000.
The Knoxville Wing says Horace
Maynard belongs to a race of the fox
family whose propensity for dealing upon
the sly has never lost any of its freshness
and yigor in any of its descendants
Judging by the accounts of the fisti-
cuff demonstrations in the Radical Leg
islature of Mississippi, one might cor
rectly call it the Mississippi Valley
Inferno. Aa'
Here is the latest charge Of a negro
Judge in Alabama: Gentlemen OBJ de
jury, charge you half a dollar apiece
factious currency; and in de Emphatic
langwidge oh de law, you mus ante up
before de case goes ON.
The Sentinel rejoices in having good
item. House-breaking, it says, " has
become as common in Grenada as in
Chicago" 1t wants another good item,
and recommends that the house-breakers
be made to dance between heaven and
earth on the limb of some tree
The Knoxville Chronicle says: Tx
Surgeon General Hammond has exam
ined Gov. Brownlow, and states that by
proper medical treatment his life may be
prolonged fifteen or twenty years Good
Lord deliver us from such a calamity / ]
Judge Busted, of Alabama, has re-
Gently decided, on the authority Of Thor
ington vs. Haley, that acts done by per
sons in States which were in antagonism
to the United States Government, if reg
ular and authorized by the power reg
nant, must be recognized as legal
The Executive Committee of our State
Teachers Association, at recent meet
ing in Nashville, passed a resolution
" that it is extremely desirable that the
friends of the cause of education draw
near together in sympathy and co-opera-
ton that they may discuss the best sys-
TEN Of free schools for the State and
arouse an interest in the cause among
the people" There will be a meeting of
the Association at the Capitol on the
18th Of June.
The GAINESVILLE Chronicle states that
until the South shall have put in mo-
ton machinery enough to supply its
home demand for all leading articles Of
daily use, its railroads win be but tribu-
tary to the North, carrying the raw ma
terial and bringing back and distributing
the products of It's machinery and
skilled labor. Without a plenty of
freight roads cannot be profitable, and
when the wealth Of the Southis absorbed
in the effort to provide means Of trans
portation, it viii find thatit has commit
ted fatal error in not deyoting to ma
chinery the capital and energy expended
for the purpose of getting nearer to New
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