Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-15
TENNESSEE.

The East Tennessee University opened
on the 18th with favorable prospects.
An invitation has been extended to
Governor Porter to visit Knoxville with
the President on the 2lst Of September.
There will be a reunion of the Forty.
fourth, Twenty.ffth and Fifty.ffth con.
solidated Confederate regiments on the
I'D instant, at Fayetteville.
A company struck oil on Spring Creek,
0verton county, last week, in which the
oil rose sixty feet. This is considered a
good indication of what the we'll will do.
Morgan Dispatch: According to the
census and tax lists there is not a man
in Morgan county named Smith. Why
shouldn't We be a happy and prosperous
people2.
DR.. Joel j. McCutcheon, a we'll known
Franklin county physician, and during
the war surgeon of the Seventeenth Ten.
nessse regiment, died near Winchester
last Sunday, aged sixty.two.
Major j. W. Powell, of the Smithson.
ian Institute, and Prot. 7. o. Summers,
jr,, have been engaged for several days
in opening the stone graves in the vicin.
ity Of Nashville. Some interesting relics
and almost entire skeletons have been
obtained.
The programme for Knoxville has
been changed, so that the Presidential
party will dine at the Lamar House and
enjoy a collation. at Colonel McGhee's al
night. Mr.. Perez Dickinson, as before
announced, will deliver the address of
welcome.
The docket Of the present term Of the
Supreme Court is a voluminous one and
to clean it up will require months. More
than the present month will be taken up
in going through with the business of
the First District, according to the pres.
ent indications.
The friends Of Representative Atkins,
who has an army bill prepared, say that
from such interchange Of views as have
been had by letter during the recess, he
thinks the Democrats will 20 no further
in opposition to the army bill than to in
sist upon a reduction from Is, 900 to 20
900.
j. D. c. Atkins, by invitation of the
Democratic executive committee of Ohio,
will deliver several speeches in that
State in October next while en- route to
Washington City. His appointments will
be Cincinnati. Cleveland and probably
Columbus, Ohio. He is very hopeful of
the political situation at present and san
guine of brilliant Democratic victories
in the future.
Colonel John B. McEwen, of Franklin,
has sent to the Tennessee Historical So.
ciety a copy Of the bible printed in Ed.
inblrgh, Scotland, in 1869. 1t was the
property Of John Williams, a soldier, who
served under the immediate command of
General Washington; was W~ashington's
overseer several years, migrated to Ten
nessee between 1879 and 1898. arrived at
Nashville when the only house was a log
occupied by an African, and died
IN Williamson county in 1917.
Nashville Banner, 18th; Mr.. Samuel
Watkins, an old resident Of this city,
met Elder Jesse Cox from Williamson
county this morning. They we're both
under General jackson in 1918,
and this is the first time they have met
II was interesting to hear them
relate the narrow escapes they encoun-
tered sixty-two years ago. Mr.. Watkins
is in his eighty.fourth year, and Mr.. Cox
in his eightY.fhh. Mr.. Cox has been a
minister of the Primitive Baptist Church
for the last forty.6ve years, and nov is
pastor of a church neal Franklin, Of
which be has been a member for the last
years. He is a very active
man for one Of his years, and is deter.
mined to work until his Master calls
him to bis home above.