Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-04
COUNTRY GLEANiNGs.

Johu 4'iohhef ''~ - "
is lecturing in East Tennessee.
On Thursday piece of plaster moi
more than two inches in size fell from
the high ceiling of the Mississippi House
of Representatives and struck on the
Clerk desk, making report as loud as
the speakers gavel ''The members
states the Jackson Pilot, evidently hav-
ing the fearful Richmond disaster before
their eyes, sprung wildly from their seats
and rushed for the door in the greatest
CONSERVATION, but they were disappointed
in finding that it was false alarm, and
that they were not to be slaughtered in
the House of their friends The wicked
flee when no man pursueth. f."
The Canton Miss. Mail says num-
Der of dogs recently went into its office
to celebrate the Fifteenth Amendment,
but were driven out by the printers.
"The assembly" states the Mail, gene
rally took the hint, and such scamper
has not been seen since the Bull Run
panic. Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart
black-and-tan, ours, bull-fce, yellow
pups NANCY amalgamationists, poodles,
foreign importations and scalawags ske-
daddled in every direction"
Work on the Memphis, Holly Springs,
Okolona and Selma railroad is progress
ing favorably. Gen. Forrest is not the
man to allow grass to grow under his
feet
The Episcopal Council which was in
session at jackson, Miss, last week, ad-
journed to meet at Natchez on the last
Thursday in April, 1871. The reports
of the various committees showed large
increase in the amount of contributions
for religious and charitable purposes, and
general prosperity in the churches of
the diocese.
A number of prominent citizens of
jackson, Miss, met last Saturday and
established a Mechanics Association.
One of its acts was the appointment of a
committee of eight mechanics to ex-
anime the State Capitol as to its safety,
durability and probable cost of repairs.
The local editor of the Mobile Tribune
thus pictures a new policeman in that
city "a model policeman was seen
strutting his way down Dauphin, near
Commerce, as black as the ace of spades,
but in form and figure, costume and
style, hard to beat The sidewalk APP
peared to be too small for him. He
looked and moved as if Mobile belonged
20 him, and in his hand he carried an
umbrella which he handled in the most
improved manner He wore breastpin
as large as his police badge. and watch
chain as heavy and massive as Newgate
irons. He is, indeed an immense per
sonage-Bumble the Beadle not a cir
cumstance to him-and musical withal,
for he hummed in low tone Shoe Fly,
don't Bodder me.
Two citizens of Macon Miss, whose
united ages count over eighty years, have
agreed to walk thirty-fve miles in twelve
hours. The loser is to furnish supper
to a number of interested gentlemen.
The following Mississippians are in
cluded in the disability bill: j. A. Orr,
W. H. vasser C. A. Brougher, 7. C. |
Lyon, j. w. Nader, H. A. Pope, H. W.
Foote, H. F. Simrall, F. s. Pate, w. S.
White and W. J. Richard
Says the Columbus Miss Index:
An exchange wonders why the negro
members of the Legislature call them
selves black birds instead of colored
men. 1t is an indirect way they have
of admitting they are carrion birds.
They are always black, you know, and
there is nothing more apt than to say a
scalawag crow or carpet-bag buzzard.
A correspondent of the Macon Miss
Beacon thus describes the Odd Fellows
celebration and decoration of Confede-
rate graves at Columbus on the 26th ult. :
"At four clock in the evening the ladies
formed a procession at the Methodist
church, and, escorted by the brass band,
marched with solemn music to the Odd
Fellows cemetery. The ground had
been carefully cleared and appropriately
ornamented for the solemn occasion. |
After the beautiful music Of the band, a
prayer was offered by the Rev. Mr.
Strainback, and was followed by an ora
ton by Judge Simms, which was one Of
the most beautiful and appropriate we
have ever heard on an occasion Of this
character. In manner, tone, temper
and taste it was worthy the occasion,
and no man with a right feeling, of what I
ever political or sectional cast, could F.
have wished him to say less The whole
ceremony was beautiful in its observ-
ance, and not protracted to tedionsness,
though it was quite warm during the
early part Of the exercises" At night
the Odd Fellows closed the proceedings
with large torch-light procession.
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