Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.


The yellow fever at Natchez is nearly
all gone.
The Giles county, Tennessee, woods
are on fire.
The Atlanta True Georgian has sus-
pended.
An 81, 900 FIRE occurred in East St.
Louis day or two ago.
There has been thirty-six deaths from
yellow fever in Vicksburg up to October
81.
Savannah shipped 22lO bales of cot
ton, valued at slsS,224 Al, to Liverpool
on Wednesday.
A New Yorker has sued the city of
Des Moines, Iowa, on floating warrants
to the tune Of $4,000.
Henry Smith, living near Traintown,
Iowa, became discouraged because he
was sick, and blew the top Of his head
off with loaded musket last Friday.
Mr.. James Peace, of Shenandoah
county, Va, was seriously shot by his
father-in-law, last Friday, while endeay-
oripg to recover his child from his
wife, from whom for some time he had
been separated.
At meeting of the Virginia division
of the Army of Northern Virginia, held
at the capitol in Richmond last Thurs
day night, General Fitz Lee was elected
President for the ensuing year.
Louisa c. H., Virginia, is said to have
300 inhabitants and Gordonsville 500.
An attempt will be made to form a new
county this winter out Of parts of Lou
lisa, Fluvana, Albemarle, with Gordons-
vile as the county seat
Mrs. Diana Wick, aged ll5 years,
died recently in Williamson county,
Tennessee. She was twice widow; both
husbands we're revolutionary soldiers,
and up to the time of her death she was
drawing two pensions from the govern
ment.
A Culpepper county (Ya.) farmer
says that from three quarts of the Tou-
zelle wheat sown on one-tenth of an
acre he harvested five bushels, weighing
sixty-six pounds to the bushel. 1t ripen-
ed June LIST, about eight days earlier than
other varieties.
The manufacture of sassafras oil in
Virginia is attracting a good deal of at
tention, There is large mandatory
at Frederick Hall, in Louisa; one in
Spottsylvania, and one in Richmond
One will, it is said, soon commence at
Tappahannock.
Messrs. Bennett, Campbell and Jack
son, the Virginia debt commissioners on
The part OF the State of West Virginia,
propose to visit Richmond about the
.enth instant, to arrange the prelimina-
-ies and mode Of procedure for the con-
.emplated settlement between the two
States.
The stockholders Of the Savannah,
Griffin and North Alabama railroad
have elected A. J. White President, and
W. A. Huff, of Macon, and Messrs.
Boynton, Chapman and Stewart, Of Grit
in; Whitaker, of Fayette; Wilkinson
md Smith, of Newman; and Camp and
Long, Of Carrolton, directors. The work
will be pushed ahead.
An old colored man named Peter
Snapp, living in the second civil district
II Washington county, Tenn, was acct
lentally killed on Wednesday night. He
vas out hunting possums, and, having
reed one, climbed up after it, but limb
broke, and the old man fell to the ground,
| distance Of thirty feet, and was killed
A Mr.. J. Moody has made the discov-
Try Of rich silver mine in Granger
county, Tenn, near the foot of Clinch
on the north side. The ore
vas found on the land of Mr.. Robert
Yolfenbarger Mr. Moody has presented
he Knoxville Chronicle a small bar
melted from the ore, and thinks that, if
worked, the mine would prove very rich,