Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-26
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Edgefeld has a few cases Of diph-
liberia.
Mr.. G. j. Moody has retired from
the editorShip OF the Shelbyyille
Gazette.
The yield Of wheat in Sumner
county will amount to about 165,.
900 bushels.
Gallatin has a thriving lodge of
Good Templars, numbering about
seyenty-fye members.
Brownsville has three citizens
whose aggregate ay%oirdupois is a
little over one thousand pounds,
Chattanooga has invited Cover
nor Wade Hampton to be present
at her celebration on the Fourth of
July.
The 0'Conner Zouaves, Of Knox
vile, talk of being on hand should
a competitive drill take place at
Huntsville in October.
From the Cleveland Herald we
learn that black rust has struck the
wheat in that section, though it is
too late to do any damage.
Captain D. W. Peabody has ten
dered his resignation as assistant
United States district attorney for
the Middle district Of Tennessee.
DR.. Williams has been appointed
oil inspector for Lebanon, in place
of DR.. r. L. G. White, resigned,
who didn't kero-cent for the office.
Major John T. O'Brien has been
called to the position of chief engi-
neer and superintendent of the
East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad.
Judge Thomas A. Raynor, of
Brownsville, is a brother Of Ken
meth Raynor, lately appointed So
licitor of the treasury at Washing
ton from North Carolina.
Knoxville Tribune: We have not
heard Of any special rejoicing over
the appointment Of Mr.. Z. A..
Thompson, one of the prOprietors
of the Avalanche, to the Memphis
pOstoffice.
jesse Adams, while netting, the
other day, in the East Fork OF
Stones river, dipped mp a trout
twenty-eight inches in length, three
inches between the ewes, and weigh
ing eleven pounds.
Mr.. J. G.. Sehorn died at his resi-
deuce in Washington county a few
days since at the age of fifty. He
was a very corpulent man, weighing
about four hundred pounds, and
his death was sudden.
Athens Post: Began Cash, an old
and much respected citizen, died at
his home, in the Second civil dis.
trict Of McMinn county, on the
morningof the 18th instant, in the
sixty-seyenth year Of his age.
A sample of new Tennessee
wheat was shown FRIDAY, in Gin.
cinnati, on Change, by Hill Bros
& Co., representing 1000 bushels.
The grain is well matured ant
plump, and of excellent quality.
Rev. J. II. Borum, of Lauderdalt
county, is writing a history of The
Baptist ministry in Tennessee, {
sort Of biographical sketch of thC
various ministers belonging to the
Missionary Baptist Church in thu
State.
Two desperate negroes, confined
in Jail at Ripley on the charge 0
murder, made their escape last weel
by knocking down the iailer ant
his assistants and taking to theil
heels. They have not been recap
tured.
The charter Of the Mechanic.
and Traders Bank Of Chattanooga
was registered by the secretary o
State the other day. j. @. Vance
II. G.. Huston, j. B. Medley, M. II
Gift and G. L. Wilson are the in
co~rporators.
A party Of revenue officers mad,
a raid through the counties 0
White, jackson, 0yerton and Put
nam last week, breaking up four
teen distilleries, destroying 1000
gallons of beer, 100 gallons 0
whisky and 500 gallons Of singLngl
besides capturing twelve prisoners
who gave bond before the Unite