Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-03
II WSEssER NEWS.

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The Messy srsek Zinc Works property
thirty miles ab owe Knoxville, established
at a great cost just before the war bu
mover successful lily worked. was sold b,
United States { omp .issioner H, M. Al
ken, on the sOth ult.. to Messrs. s. d
Robbins aud J. d. Champlin, OF New
York, for $4,000 The purchasers, as
soon as put in leg al possession, expect
to put the entire " orks in running order,
and in addition 10 erect furnaces FOR the
manufacture Of sileller. or impure zinc.
The enterprise is the third one Of the
kind in the Unite d States and is Of vast
Importance to East Tennessee.
Knoxville people are moving to have
water-works.
Rev. Thos. II. MeCallie. for twelve
years past pastor Of the Presbyterian
Church in Chattanooga, has resigned his
pastorate and preached his farewell ser
mon last Sunday. His health has been
steadily falling for two years past, which |
has compelled his retirement.
Young Gray, the cadet who was acct
dentally shot by his chum, at the Uni.
versity. in February, was taken to his
home, in Middle Tennessee, ON Monday.
His wound has not yet healed, and he is
still in a critical condition.
A colored man named Chas. Easley,
in Hickman county, few weeks since,
killed his sickly wife and their two chill
dren, because he was tired OF supporting
them, aud then burned his house over
their bodies, to destroy all evidence Of
his crime. He made his escape.
1t is claimed that Colonel J, J. VIII
liams. Of jackson, has invented q steam
register for railroad locomotives that
will unerringly register the number Of
miles travelled and the speed and the |
number of stoppages and the length Of a
each stoppage. I
The Wing and Tribune says: The Al
aud Knoxville air line railroad
are at work in earnest. Major
W. ]. Sykes, Governor John C. Brown e
and others addressed the people of Law U
renee, at Lawrenceburg, on the subject,
April 2lst. and good spirit Of improve 2
ment was manifested. The road is in a = =
lair way to be built despite all Obsta- t,
cles." d
William Savage, Of Decatur county, is =
l04 years old.
The Brownsville Bee is FIVE years old.
Mrs. Nancy Rankin, died at Ruther-
ord Station, Gibson county, April 2lst, g
n the 9Sth year of her age. %
The Troy Times says O5ion county be
vas territory fifty years ago. with less in
han one hundred men in it. Five Of
he men, who we're then old enough, and pr
Iere married, still live there, and have
ever lived out of the county. Elisha y
'arker was perhaps the first man that W. ";
yer built permanent residence IN the di,
srritory, and be lived there fifty years, mi
nd moved to Arkansas TO start grave ca
ard, but still lives. =.
Hydrophobia prevails among the dogs I'M
various parts of the State. II Gillem pu
as here he would find something that -,
E could do.
The Dresden Democrat chronicle. tbe I'll
arriage of II. C. Williams to Malinda Ia
Murphy. Williams was employed by
e late husband, Mr.. Simon P. Murphy, !
farm hand to make crop. Murphy Srl
on sickened and died, and after mourn. VII
g for him FIVE whole weeks, Mrs. NJ. cas-
to make the best Of the gitua- on
IN and took Mr.. Williams to be full kar
rtner in the cultivation and gathering Tor
the crop. was
The fruit crop was almost totally de- PiNn
Dyed in East Tennessee by the late po'
Eere frost. VI
The Bolivar Bulletin says: "Obser- ~
lions in the woods around Bolivar go
ID as to believe that myriads Of cater "a
lers are going to devour all manner nos,
vegetation this season. Millions of who
.se pests in diminutive form are to be Co.,
% in almost every nook and corner" III
The Supreme Court at jackson, last upo
turday, rendered very important de- -,
ion in case from the Twelfth Cir per-
t. Heretofore it has been accepted lar
law, that where a payment had been rant
de upon a note, such payment took couI
instrument out of the statute Of linn
lions. According to the late decis- ia'O
F., no note can now be collected after thes
years, on the ground that partial the
Tment has been made. The payment won
o be considered as an acknowledge
Mt pro tdRtO, and not for the entire iHeri
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