Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-18
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The municipal election for mayor ant
aldermen Of Brownsville will come Of
on the lst Of September.
Jasper Herald: The wheat of thi.
oOuntgproyes to be a superior article
aud the farmers are busily engaged in
threshing il.
Fayetteville has received and tested
her new Ere extinguisher, and entire sat
~isfaetiOn was the result Of the fire test to
all except a few, who thought it " cost
TOO much
Mrs. Betty Ball. of TrousdaIe county,
aged .~ninety-6ye, died last week. She
was one of the Oldest citizens Of the
county, and up to the time of her death
was remarkably active for her age.
Brownsville Bee; The Browsville Mer-
chant Mills are running day and night
nov, and Messrs. Lea & Cowen are sell
ing the finest -four in the Memphis mar
ket They ship a car load per day.
Trenton is making undetermined fight
against the demimonde Of that place.
City Attorney HarwOod says that he in.
tends tc make the last one of them fee
to green fields and pastures new"
The satyivias members Of the Forty.
fifth Tennessee regiment aud Twenty
third Tennessee battalion will hold a 70.
union meeting at Murfreesboro on the
second Thursday in September next,
Rogarsville Gazette; Our county man,
Mr.. y. I. Beal, Of Meadow Brook. re
Gently sold to Mr w. S, Shields, of CIinch
Dale, Granger county, four Jersey heif.
ers, two and three years old, for $l25,
being SlO6.25 per head,
Chattanooga Dispatch; Eight hundred
bcshqls of peaches were taken from two
hundred aud fifty trees on tie Higgins
farm, near Missionary Ridge, six hun.
dred and t~wepty-eight boxes of which
were shipped to Cincinnati.
Franklin Review aud Journal: It is
said that 100000 have been expended
in buying farming implements in Mar
ahall county. They have also at Lewis
burg an aseat Representing S25O,OOO buy.
ing up all the walnut and cedar timber
in this county.
Mary Goober, who was convicted at
the January term, 1876, Of the Criminal
Qourt Of Knox county, Of miscegeuation
and sentenced to Imprisonment for two
years, was pardoned Friday last by Gov.
Porter on the recommendation Of War.
doa Cummias for good behavior. She
noa awaits another Goober-grabber.
Captain Booker Freeman, a prominent
citizen Of Macon county, committed sui.
eide at his house six miles north of La.
tayette, last week. He hung himself with
a piece Of hickory bark. 1t is thought
his GOaucial affairs were troubling him.
he was a soldier in the Mexican war
and Was a federal captain in the late war.
London Journal: Died in Loudon
county on the 9th inst, Jesse Matlock, in
the sevsnty.second year of his age. Mr.,
datlock vas one of the first settlers of
East Tennessee, and during his life &C
cumulated a vast body Of land on the
river, just below Loudon, owning at one
ime about five miles Of land up and
own the Tennessee.
The farmers of Hay wood county are
still busy with their crops. 1t will be
he drst Of August before they are done
killing grass and blowing out cotton. The
wheat crop has mostly been threshed out
and some of it mOrketed, So they have
nothing to do now but clean out the
heavy growth Of grass and weeds which
sprang up luxuriantly under the contin-
ued June rains.
Knoxville Tribune: "a revenue officer
out hunting for illicit distillers in the
mountains Of Western North Carolina, a
short time since, stumbled into a den oil
rattlesuakes, and, before he could extri.
cate himself, was bitten in several places.
He succeeded in reaching a house a mile
or two distant, where be died the next
day in great agony" This item has
djne service for som time, but it doe:
not seem to preventrevenue officers from
hudting more %rattlesnakes.
Huntington Vindicltor; Last Friday
th;ee Of the %penitentisry c%onvicts, be.
longing to the work-train stationed here,
we're Frustrated by sunstroke while at
work in a cut a mile or 50 from town,
and Que of them died in thirty minutes
from the time be was FIRST affected, while
the other two were brought to town and
given medical attention, aud will recover.
The one that died was a negro preacher,
aud "a sentenced to the penitentiary in
twelve hours after his arrest, remained
inside the prison walls twenty four hours,
was brought ont on this road to work ant
died inside Of thirty minutes.
Bradley comfy has a sea-serpent OF
dry land. II o seen during the war
and has lately ~reappeared. Various re
liable citizens report it to be fully thirty
feet loug, with O huge body, aud in NOV
ing, it carries it's head as high as that o