Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-31
MISSISSIPPI.

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Hamilton for auditor.
Tippah county has instructed for Gen.
". d. McCardle for secretary Of State.
Colonel W. B Helm declines to be a
candidate fos senator in the Thirty first
district.
Edward Mays. son-ia-law of L. Q G.
Lamar, has been appointed law profess
sor of the University of Mississippi, at
Oxford.
The Vicksburs postoAice has been in
the hands of %rascals, and somebody has
to suffer.
The crop prospects around Natchez
continue to be exceedingly good. All
reports concur.
Robert L Boyd, a popular young man,
born at Natchez and educated in Europe.
died at Arlington on the 22d of July.
General Wslthall says that he hopes
his name will not be presented to the
convention, but if nominated for cover
nor he would feel in honor bound to &C.
cept.
a. X. Murphy, formerly an alderman
from the Third ward Of Vicksburg, was
shot down dead in the streets of that city
last Friday by one John Gavigan, who
gave himself up, They were formerly
partners in the timber business.
The Yazoo county convention, which
met in Yazoo City last Wednesday, a +,
pointed sixty delegates to the State con-
v%ention and instructed for ]. C. Prewett,
Of Yazoo City, for lieutenant governor.
and Colonel McCullum for secretary of
State.
The Brandon Republican prints the
following extract from a private letter
written by Hon. Stewart L. Woodford.
of New York, to Hon. j. l.. McCaskilL.
OF Brandon: my visit to Mississippi
was so full of generous welcome, hearty
friendship and encouraging hopes that |
have marked it with a white stone, as
among the most pleasing memories of
my life."
Francis Marschalk, editor and propri.
etor of the Natchez Telephone, in deGn.
ing his position, says; Individually, we
are here where our grandfather printed
the first newspaper ever published in
Mississippi, and where our father has
lived and published a paper before us.
We feel identified with this community.
and we shall do all in our power to Or,
mote the interests and welfare of our
people"
Meridian, July %: LAuderdale county
has chosen, at the primary election, as
follows: For governor, Lowry; lieuten-
ent governor, Horn; secretary of state,
F%alconer; auditor, Street; treasurer,
Hemingway; attorney general, Hall;
superintendent of educatioR, Bardwell;
representatives, M. H. Whitaker, @. W.
Gallagher; sheriff, r. l.. Henderson;
county treasurer, E T. Ramsey; assessor,
d. 5. MALONE; surveyor. Aleck Harvey;
coroner and ranger, j. G. Houston.
Natchez Democrat, July %: The Rev.
Alexander Marks returned yesterday
from Church Hill, where he went to at.
tend the very interesting occasion of the
delivery by the venerable Rev. j.. A. Fox.
of the ermon delivered there fifty years
before by him. 1t was o strange and
sadly beautiful scene. There was a ven.
cradle old servant of God preaching the
same sermon from the same pulpit in
which he preached it fifty years before.
The men, m and children to whom
he preached last Sunday were the chill
dren, grandchildren and great. grand.
children of those who heard it halt a
century ago, but OF all who heard it then.
only two-Mrs. Payne and Mrs. Greene
survived to hear its repetition. The
rest were in the churchyard hard by, and
the venerable preacher could see their
monuments aud e%pitaphs.