Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-03
MISSISSIPPI.
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Natchez boasts of a Choctaw Indian
lO2 years old.
The candidates fol county officers con-
tinue to crop out.
The Holly Springs South spells water
melon with u double Il"
Naichez is going to turn the old grave
yard back of the cathedral into a public
park.
DeSoto county has t%wenty-nine csndi-
dates for tax assessor, and several pre-
ciucts to hear from.
Big watermeloRs sell in Natchez at
five cents apiece and the doctors are sell
dom found at home.
Reporter: Miss Willie Patterson, of
Memphis, is visiting her friend, Miss Nal
Williamson, on College street.
A jury in Hancock county has decided
that goats are a nuisance, and that it
was not a violation Of the law to kill
them.
The Vidalia Eagle reports cotton stalks
seven feet high and with twenty eight
large bolls, also fifty bushels of corn to
the acre out in Concordis.
A Chickasaw county Democratic club
adopted a resolution inviting citizens to
join the club regardless of race. color
or previous party affiliations"
A colored youth named Jesse Thorgild
was drowned in the foundry pond at
Holly Springs while bathing last Tues
day. Two Federal soldiers we're drowned
since the war at the same place.
An old colored woman named Jennie
Jones, residing at Sardis, wishes to
know the whereabouts of her two child
rem, Rachel and Henry Jones. formerly
slaves of Benjamin Jones, of Holly
Springs.
Holly Springs South: Our State Uni
versity now pre- emihently merits pub
lie confidence. Its board of trustees, its
faculty and its cheapn!ess, all conspire
to recommend it to the parents, guardi-
ans, young men and youth OF the State,
Pamela county is not harmonious. The
town of Pamela, the old county site, has
not become r~econeiled as to its loss Of
the courts, and opposing divisions Of the
county are now organizing n holding
its meetings at Pamela and the other at
Sardis.
Holly Springs Reporter: There are
fifty open candidates for office in this
county, and about sixty sleepies. A
sleepy has this advantage: II he doesn't
get in, he can say he wasn't q candidate.
1t takes an unsuccessful sleepy seven
years to grow into a full,Aedged candi-
date, and only seven seconds when they
wake him up at the proper time.
Port Gibson Reveille: We have in our
office a specimen of coal found on the
, plantation Of Hon. E. h. Stiles, in this
county, embedded several feet below the
surface. 1t resembles in every particu
lar the celebrated camel coal, and W.
learn that the State geologist is of thu
opinion that it will be found, by digging
in great abundance. We trust it MAJ
prove the f%orerunner Of rich develop
msnts of coal, and scarcely any create
material blessing could be bestowed
. on us.
A long standing Baptist church (eol
Z ored) quarrel at Washington, Adam
county, was on Saturday decided in tn
court. That night the defeated part!
set fire to the church, and the others he'll
divine service next day among the ruins
q Thursday the incendiaries went to tn
site of the burned building and took b.
" force all that had been spared by tn
flames. The quarrel is wholly q persona
q one, so that no question Of negro the
g. ology can be said to have been settle
Ii either BY the arson or the theft.