Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-06-07
COUNTRY GLEASISGs.

South. ..t sisa. Ms
The Sentinel says the Episcopallan'
of Grenada are talking Of erecting
D handsome church. \.
An express driver named 0ziah Rus
/. sell was drowned in the Cumberland
0 river on Friday last
a A great German Turner'S festival is il
d progress at Knoxville. One hundred
9 and ffty-six societies are represented,
The Memphis and Charleston Railroad
Company has commenced the construc-
ton of commodious depot at Chatta-
nooga.
The citizens of Carroll county met at
their courthouse yesterday and organi-
zed an agricultural and mechanical So
ciety.
The Roane Iron Company is re6tting
1 the machinery of the old Cleveland cop
per mill, and will soon have it in running
order.
The Chattanooga Times says no mem
Der of the Legislature who votes for the
reputation of the railroad bonds need
ever hope for reelection" Bosh.
Rev. R. B. Campbell and John Ais
worth, Esq, one minister and the other
member of the Presbyterian church,
died at Canton, Miss. last week
Judge Clifford is codifying set of
Mississippi laws for the special use of
magistrates. Codifcation of Tennessee
laws, such as they are, might be of
some service among our magistrates.
Our whilom friend Rainwater, of the
Atlanta (Ga.) Sun, is delegate to the
International Typographical Union, now
in session at Cincinnati 1t looks queer
that the Sun should shine for all on one
page and Rain-water on the other.
The Radicals are making overtures to
the Wings in Mississippi The Canton
Mail says they are pouring out honeyed
illusions before that brave old party in
the effort TO tempt them from heirsturdy
adherence to principle, and in the en-
deavor to weaken their spirit of unyield
ing opposition to wrong and corruption"
The Gazette says the people of Dyer
county have cotton on the brain, and
elsewhere adds: Dyer is a county of
beauty, fertility and many natural ad-
vantages. We owe it to the outer world |
that this favored section should be known
to all men in search of pleasant and |
prosperous homes.
The Senatobia Miss. Times says
ain 1865 a hat-headed beast by the
name of Leonard was elected County
Trustee of Shelby county, in Tennessee,
Memphis included He simply stole
500, 900 and ran away. The detectives
of New York city arrested him as he
was going aboard a steamer bound for
Liverpool, and returned him TO the
authorities at Memphis. Curry, the
former sheriff, let him out for consid-
Grafton, and the grand jury seems to be
prying into the matter a little too closely
for Curry's comfort
A correspondent of the Knoxville
Press and Herald thus describes noun
tainops district in East Tennessee that
will be Of great value in the course Of
time: Carter county is not so far be-
hind the rest of the world, after all.
Elizabethton has six or seven good bust
ness houses, fine school of about one
hundred and fifty students, large
wooden factory and two good hotels.
All over the country are FORCES, where
the iron ore, which is found in great
quantities, is worked up. Formerly
iron was the principal currency of this
county and johnson, and, to some ex-
tent now, iron is used as circulating
medium. The mineral resources of the
county are not confined to iron alone, if
we may believe the stories of the people
The following was related to me by
gentleman who heard the conversation:
-Four mountain men were eXpatfatlng /
upon the vast resources of their county
TO a stranger, when one of them point ,
ing to a range of mountains, said:
Mister, them there mountings you see {
are nothin' but iron, clear through; it's
so, sir, amt it, Bob? Bob, thus APP /.
pealed to- shook his head You missed
it little, Jake. You see, Mister, the Z
is solid, bat her jist half :
silreri' !
The Yazoo Banner gives the following
account Of the reception of ex-President
Davis in that city last Saturday week:
The news of his presence among us was I
rapidly spread, and during the afternoon c
a large number of ladies and gentlemen
did themselves the high honor Of paying :
their respects At 10 o'clock in the eve t
nipg the Yazoo City Brass Band, fol- u
lowed by large concourse Of citizens,
repaired to the residence Of Mrs. l.. l.. :
Hyatt, where Mr.. Davis was stopping, g
and after several fine airs were dis t
loud calls were made for the ex- ,
President. Mr.. Davis then came to the !
'front.' Of the piazza, and in very hand i
ZONE speech, short and to the point, and il
nto which politics were not permitted TO :