Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-11
TENNESSEE.


Huntingdon vindicatOr: Chickens
we're sold in town this week at a nickel
apiece, Eggs are worth about seven
cents a dozen.
American: Jerry Wells, colored, Ga
years old, Of Maury county, was yester.
day left 10 the penitentiary to serve out
a term of one year for larceny.
Polly Martin, aged one hundred and
fifteen years., died near Cbickamsuga,
August, 1917 She had a vivid recollec.
ton Of things that occurred during the
Revolutionary war.
Colonel J.. C. Stanton, Chattanooga
enterprising citizen. has leased the en-
tire interest in the Whiteside estate on
Lookout Mountain, ard proposes to
make some valuable improvements on it
Winchester Home Journal: Cholera
has done great damage to the hogs in
this section. II is safe to say that %
per cent. Of the number within several
miles Of Winchester have died from this
Dire tdful disease.
The barn Of James Coward, at loves
Springs, Anderson county, was destroyed
BY FIRE a few nights since A wagon.
With one hundred and fifty bushels Of
wheat, beside other grain, was also de-.
stroyed, makinglhe loss quite heavy.
Nashville Banner: The railroad State
tax assessors are still engaged in their
work, They have not yet completed
the schedule Of any road. Certain items
have sprung up which have caused con-
siderable discussion. The assessors hold
daily sessions in the senate chamber.
Morristown Gazette: They say if a
man stays at Hale's Springs ten days be
can eat a hen aud twelve chickens and
then cuss because Captain Powell didn't
kill the old rooster.
That is where Judge Heiskell and Sam
Cannon 60 every summer EDITOR
LEDGER.
The wheat threshed in Hawkins county
this season is Of unusually fine quality
Tie yield, however, is very small. If a
large crop is sown this fall and enough
gardened 10 make bread for the country
until another crop is harvested there will
not be much left for market. The corr
crop is promising.
Knoxville Chronicle: A very large
slab Of marble, the largest ever gotten
out here, was shipped from this place
yesterday by the Knoxville Marble Com.
psny to St. Louis. 1t is ten by twelve
feet and one and a half inches thick.
The railroad company only had one box
car it could be got into aRd that by q
tight ct.
Milan Exchange: The corn and cot
ton prospect in this neighborhood hal
improved wonderfully during the pas
two weeks. II nothing happens, we vii
have immense crops. TIE wheat in thi
section did not tura out we'll as was au
ticipated. Not as much to the acre wa.
produced and the rust damaged somI
very badly.
The Washington county courts are ct
tended by a larger number Of attorney
than any other courts east OF Knoxville
and circuit and ~chancery courts usual.
last from two to three weeks each term
Judge Mckinney has greatly reduce
the Circuit Court doekets aimee he cam
upon the bench, and he will o hav
the dockets down to the old a~nte-bellun
condition.
Prof. A. W. Brayton, Of Chicago, an
d. S. Jordan, Of Indianapolis, accom-
panied by John Oliver, P. w. Ritter eh
0. H. Gilbert, OF indianapolis, are il
apeetiug the various streams and river
Of Tennessee, Georgia and Alabamr
5 They are connected with the Unite
States fish commission, and are sendin
specimens Of the water Of these stream
to Washington for the purpose Of havin
/ analyses made Of them with a view
supplying the streams with young sha,
They are at present in Alabama, hayiu
visited Chattanooga some days since.
: Knoxville Chronicle. The marbl
which is to be converted into a mon
= ment for the tomb Of Governor Will
Blount, at Clarksvirle, Tennessee, WI
shipped from this place yesterday eve
1 ing by Mr.. Boss, Of the Knoxville Ma
!: Bile Company. 1t consists Of four lar,
q pieces, which are just hewn out in Il
rough, and to be dressed at Clarksyill
II makes a care load, and, when erecte
U the monument is to be seventeen fe
high. The marble s beautiful-the fine
that could be gotten ont and if it
@ properly dressed Of aud put up, il "
70 make a tombstone not to be surpass
anywhere.
Mrs Rachel PorIer Mathes, nee Bale
- died near cambridge, Jefferson coun.
s. a few days since, in her eighiy-seyer
year, and was buried at hat place besi
her husband, Nm Mathes, Esq "
u died many years ago. She came o
G. long lived family. Her father, Jo