Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-17

The Chestnut Grove Fair will meet at
Chestnut Grove. Jefferson county. on
Thursday November 9Th. and continue
for three days.
The total amount Of Tennessee wheat
exported over the Southeastern road
from September l, 1876, to August 81,
1871, was 1854 5 6 bushels, or 2,S54,49O
pounds.
The acreage Of wheat and rye 10 Hay
wood county, SOW this fall, is larger
than ever before known. The people
have tried it and 6nd that it pays to SOW
small grain.
Nashville American, l4th: W. NJ.
WoodcOck, the newly.sppeinted revenue
collector for this district, forwarded his
bond Of $3.50. 900 to Washington, Friday,
and will be indicted into office Novem-
Der l.
Attorney General J. B HeiskelI has
been to Nashville to represent the State
in the matter of an injunction restrain.
ing the comptroller from sending out
certificates Of assessments to the various
counties and incorporated towns through
which railroads pass.
Governor Porter has offered a reward
Of two hundred and Fifty dollars for the
apprehension and conviction each of the
masked incendiaries who burned the
Office OF the Knoxville Iron Company,
fred the chute from their mine, and shot
at the guards. Times are warm up
there.
Crockett County Sentinel: Farmers
look to your grain crops and let cotton
a'sne. 1t will pay you better in the long
run, besides it will not wear out POUR
land. This cotton-raisiDg is getting to
be an immense fraud, particularly in our
county, where twice the money can be
made on grain, grasses and stock.
The certificate Of award and bronze
medal to Colonel j.. B. Killebrew, as
Commissioners of the Bureau of Agricul-
ture, Statistics and Mines, from the Cen.
t%enHial Exposition, for having exhibited
the greatest variety and best specimens
Of marbles, was received at the bureau
at Nashville Monday.
The cambridge Waterman continues
to d%enounce and expose oae DIR" j.
D. Daugherty, who married a Miss Han
nah Hammond at New Market and
shamelully deserted her. The DR."
has tried his hand at preaching and sew.
eral other congeuisl occupations, and
has lately located at Chattanooga. If
the half the Waterman says about him
is true, he is no good.
A railroad man says there is scarcely
any limit 10 the amount of tobacco
raised in West Tennessee, and that the
shipment Of the weed over the North
western road will be greater than ever
before known. AS it will bring not less
than six or seven cents, and probably
more, according to the estimate of Col.
Killebrew, Tennessee is likely to realize
a good revenue from that product.
Gadsden has at this time four dry
goods houses, three family groceries, two
drug stores, two saloons, one hotel, one
livery and sale stable, one saddle shop,
} one boot and shoe shop, one blacksmith
} shop, one wood shop, one photograph
gallery, one cotton gin, one church, and
another in contemplation, one fine
school, one Odd Fellows lodge, one Ma.
sonic lodge, one Lyceum lodge, and three
doctors. Every business house and
dwelling in the place is occupied.
The Rogersville Spectator gives AN
account Of an accident which occurred
Wednesday last, by which VIM. McCar.
roll, Of McPheter's Bend, in Hawkins
county, was crushed to death by a cane.
mill. He leaves a wife and several chill
dren. Mr.. McCarroll had served in the
Mexican war, as we'll as in the Conied.
/, crate army. Some years ago one Isaac
, Taunell met with a similar accident on
upper Beech Creek, in that county, his
head being pulled entirely of by a cane
mill.
Jackson Wing and Tribune; Hon. W.
P. Caldwell ,..of the Ninth district, pro-
poses to held a competitive examination
at Humboldt to fill a vacancy that will
occur at West Point in June next, for
his congressional district. The examin
alton will be made in January, by a
physician, a teacher and a lawyer. Merit
will win regardless Of personal or politi-
cal considerations. This is as it should
be, and will doubtless meet the hearty
approval of the people of the Ninth dis.
trict.
The Brownsville narrow.gauee railroad
is to be rapidly extended. The Bee of
the 18th says: Tuesday morning last
President Vaughan moved out with a
corps Of hands and mechanics and went
to work putting timbers in place and
pushing forward the work Of track lay
ing. The iron is now at our depot, and
next week will see several more miles of
it laid down. Colonel Vaughan has spent
several days of this week up the line be.
yond the Forked Deer. Our Crockett