Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A Miss Meyer, of Talbotton, Ga, die,
on the 18th inst. from the effects o
taking too much chloroform.
Gov Caldwell has issued proclama
ton to the people Of North Carolina
calling upon them to aid the Chicago
sufferers
The Quitman Ga Banner proposes
the name of Hon. A. II. Hansell, Of
Thomas county, as United States Sena-
tor from Georgia
Grants suspension Of the habeas cor
pus IN South Carolina is confined chiefly
to the counties where the whites are in
the majority.
The members of the New Orleans po-
lice force have donated each one day 3
pay for the relief Of the suffering police
Of Chicago, ~
The officers, clerks and employees of
Gosport Navy Yard, Virginia, have sub
scribed $1,000 for the relief Of the Chi
cago sufferers.
Rev. s. s Harris, OF the Episcopal
Church in Columbus, Ga, has accepted
call TO the reetorship of Trinity Church,
New Orleans, at salary Of $4,000.
A Georgia man, who was bitten by a
rattlesnake last week, took three drinks
of turpentine and two and half bottles
of whisky, and is rapidly recovering.
e Laborers are offered two dollars day
in West Baton Rouge, La, and yet
planters fear that they will not be able
to procure hands enough te take off
their crops. " I
The grand jury OF the United States
District Court at Atlanta, Ga, have re.
turned indictments against thirty-one
persons, charged with being guilty of
Ku-Klux outrages.
Mr. A. r. Stewart will tender the
Grand Duke Alexis grand banquet, to
take place at Mr.. Stewards new marble
palace, corner of Thirty-fourth street
and Fifth avenue.
The Wilmington, Columbus and Au.
gusta railroad has been completed from
Sumter to Columbia, thus giving
through and direct communication by
rail between Wilmington, N, c., and
Augusta, Ga.
n iNNfBNtOh was gwen III hNlhnltt VA
atsthe Kimball House. on last Friday
night, to the Hon. Daniel Voorhees, and
the Hon. Thos. f. Bayard, Democratic
members Of the sub KuKlux Committee,
now in session there.
A Virginia negro, who was hunting
'possums, treed one, and standing
too near the tree, as it fell after being
cut, the butt end struck him, and the
possum hunt was ended.
At the last term in the District Court
in Victoria county, Texas, three negroes
were sentenced to the penitentiary for
life, and one to be hung, for committing
a rape upon one Of their own color.
Columbus, Ga, is a thriving place,
and the youths of that city are surpris-
ingly energetic. The Sun tells of two
boys, one ten and the other twelve who
were seen, last Sunday drunk as billed
owls.'a af
The Wilmington IN. c. Star reports
that arrests of alleged Ku-Klnx continue
in Cleveland and Rutherford counties,
North Carolina, and that hundreds OF
parties ere fleeing from perse-
cution. h..
Rev. DR.. Sears, agent Of the Peabody
educational fund, has agreed to aid the
public schools of Alexandra, Virginia,
to the extent of fifteen hundred dollars
for the years 1912, to enable the school
board to erect school-houses.
The San Antonio Herald Of the lIth
inst says: The RAIDS told the negroes
if Hancock was elected every one of
them would be put back into slavery
The negroes have at last caught them in |
4 lie; they viii not forget it. /"
Houston, Texas, boasts of quite nov
city in the way of birthday associa-
ion, originated about year ago, and
now consisting of some twenty-five mem
)ers, who are bound by the rules of the
association to celebrate the birthday of
each member as il comes round.
The gentlemen most noted for wealth
n New York are becoming somewhat
for age. William b. Astor
$ seyenty-eight; Daniel Drew, seventy
me; Peter Cooper, eighty-one; George
LAW seyenty-three; William Cullen
Bryant, seventy-seyen, and James Cor
lon Bennett, seventy-seven. All except
he latter are still actively toiling in
BUSINESS harness.
So dense is the smoke from the burn
ng forests Of Michigan and Wisconsin,
which covers Lake Huron and Lake Su-
'erior that the steamer Arctic, the crack
essel of the upper lake trade, on her
nst trip down, was ffteen hours in find
ng Marquette after she was of that
ar6or by clock and compass. Such
hick darkness did the smoke establish,
hat the steamers lamps were kept
urning all day the same as at night.