Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-24
COUNTRY GLEANISGs.

Friday, one fellow shot ano'nfr ieiiow
, nose off Jolly.
A negro was mashed to death on the
Memphis and Louisville road, near
, GAINESVILLE, on Friday last.
A row occurred at Union City on
Thursday, between two brothers, in
which one shot the other dead.
A little girl named Josephine Doxey
was burned to death at Sewells Mills,
on Duck river, last Sunday week.
There is some likelihood of Congress
helping Southern railroads, especially
those running through East Tennessee
The Sunday-school children of the
Protestant churches of Water Valley,
Miss, will have aunion picnic on Friday
next.
A bill creating the county of Grenada,
with the town ofthat name as the county
seat, has passed both houses of the Mis-
sissippi Legislature
A number of immigrants from Scan
dinayia arrived in jackson, Miss, on
Friday, and were Immediately employed
by planters in Rankin county.
Col. B. d. Nabers, formerly of this
city, has succeeded Dr. VIM. NJ. Comp
ton in the editorial management of the
Holly Springs Miss Star, which is
sort of Radical paper.
A Knoxville barkeeper recently had
his upper jaw broken in two places, his
mouth cut badly, his teeth knocked out
aud deep cash inflicted on his tongue
by the explosion Of beer barrel.
A yonng man named Noodle, a student
of the East Tennessee Wesleyan Uni
versity, while returning from a marriage
ceremony at Athens was shot in the
right side by some unknown person and
killed
A man named Thomas Sizemore was
called to his door and shot dead in Haw
kins county on the Eth The assassin
is supposed to be one of party who |
have for some time been quarreling with 1
the Sizemore family.
The local editor of the Trenton Ga
zette had the following item in hispaper
of the 2lst inst: " We return the thanks
in the name of our entire portion of
town to the individual who fired into and
dispersed that gang of bowling, yelping
ours the other night
A meeting of the Agricultural Con-
gress of Tennessee will be held on the
second Thursday in June in Nashville.
Its object is to produce cooperation and
harmony among all the agricultural as
sociations of the State, and to secure the
establishment of societies for the adj
vancement of the interests of farmers in
such counties as are still without them.
An East Tennessee paper has placed
at its masthead, as its choice for posi-
tons on the Supreme Bench of this
State, the mines of Hon. T. A. r. Mel
son and Hon. T Nixon Van Dyke, of
East Tennessee; Hon. A. o. p Nichol
son and Col. Pete Turney, of Middle
Tennessee Hon. J. B. Heiskell and
j. l.. I. Sneed, of West Tennessee.
The editor-in-chief of the Trenton
Gazette is philosopher Hear what he
says Man was created high order of
being and endowed with faculties and
bodily members that enable him to per-
ceive the situation and shlpe things at
will; and to be surrounded by comforts
and Injuries, he must make use of those
gifts" As Tom Hood sang, What do
you think of that, my cat?'
Mississippi is enjoying the benefits of
The jackson Clarion
states that at a colored ball at Stamps
hall on Wednesday night fight occurred
between two female pugilists, during the
progress Of which one of the parties to
the pleasant recreation lost the better
part Of her wearing apparel Fighting
and foul language are the chief char ,
acteristics Of the Mississippi Radical :
Legislature
The Springfield mo- Leader says
the Kansas City and Memphis road 2
crossing the South Pacific will make
Springfield railroad center" OF 7
course it will. The same paper states
that the road is a certainty-it will be
bull" OF course it will, And every :
railroad man coming this way rom the '
Northwest and the Northeast will ex-
pect to find Memphis a good market for
produce and manufactures.
Generals Walthall and Brantly, Col
Majors Prewett and Terry,
Captains Gage, Collins, Woods, Drum
mon, Sykes, Freeman, Norton Town /
send, Love, Rose and Boothe, Lieuten- ,
ants Wslpole, Morrison, Bew, Halle,
Hall. Adams, Campbell, Mitchell, MAR :
ket, Wittey Collins, Craig, Knapp and =
Tribe. are expected at meeting Of the
ofthe 18th Mississippi regiment
at Winona on Saturday next.
The Winona Miss Democrat says I