Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-01
TENNESSEE NEWS.

The Knoxville jail contains thirty
seven prisoners.
A new railroad from Cleveland to
Ducktown is talked about as a possi-
bility.
Mr.. R D. Williams, an excellent citi-
zen Of Ripley, died Of consumption at
that place on the 25th inst.
Jerry Fuller, a prominent and wealthy
citizen OF Jackson, died suddenly last
week of rheumatism Of the heart.
At a recent meeting held in Denmark
q resolution was passed in favor Of pay
Jag the present market value or price Of
the State bonds.
A postofics has recently been estab.
lished at Cave Mills, on the headwaters
OF Yellow Greek, iR Dickson county, with
Mr.. Bud Norris as postmaster.
Cedar telegraph poles are being shipped
by the car load from Wilson county,
Tenn to New Orleans, for the use Of
the Western Union Telegraph Company.
Captain A, G Sharpe, special agent
Of the postoiice department, is in Nash
Vile investigating charges preferred
against Postmaster Hasslock OF that
city.
Rails have been laid over half Of the
distance which the management of the
Nashville, Chattanooga and st, Louis
railway propose to extend the Jasper
branch.
Colonel John B. Browulow, of Knox
vile, was, on Wednesday last, appointed
a revenue agent sad assigned to duty in
charge of the department Of Tennessee
and Arkansas.
Daudridge Waterman: Things looked
lively in Daadridge last Thursday, when
toe steamers May Bell and Harry Helm
came in sight, close together, under H
big head Of steam.
Colonel J. B. Killebrew, Of Nashville,
will deliver an address to the grangers
Of Sumner county, at q meeting to be
held on the fourth Saturday Of the pres
sent month at Richland.
A large gray eagle, measuring six feet
and nine inches from tip to tip and
weighing eighty pounds, was killed while
feeding on q carcass on Pend creek, in
Monroe county, last week.
The corner stone Of the new Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, Athens, was
laid last Tuesday, and the hards are
now at work putting in the foundations
Of the tower and main building.
New York Graphic: Thomasson in
Tennessee has obtained a commutation
ticket on the Black Mriar" to prison
for life. Any man with such q name
ought to be hanged OF suspicion.
Ripley News: The fruit prospect in
some portions Of the county continues
to be fine. In other sections it is nearly
all killed. On high ground thu trees are
unhurt aud heavily loaded with young
fruit.
Governor Porter has offered a reward
Of $3.50 for the arrest aud conviction OF
John Williams, colored, who committed
a foul and atrocisus murder upon the
body Of bis wife, at Johnsonville, on the
10th ult.
Clarksville Chronicle: DR.. Shearer,
as financial agent OF the Southwestern
University, is meeting with deserved
success 10 soliciting aid in behalf of this
institution. He received subscriptions
in Memphis to the amount Of $ll,O0O.
The late storm, which played such
havoc at Layergae, started in Mississippi
and travelled eastward, passing through
West Tennessee and doing very great
damage to houses, fences and forests
It passed from Union City TO Lavergne
in three hours.
Paris Gazette: Frank Barham, a
negro well digger in Henry county, had
a bucket filled with Maud to fall from the
top of the well on his head, one day last
week, with no other result than 10 elicit
the remark that be had a powerful neu.
raleee for about ten minutes"
= Lswisburg Gazatte: A. NJ. Hughs,
revenue collector for Maury county, &C.
oompRnisd by seven men, made a raid
upon the illicit distillers Of Lawrence
aRd Wayne counties last week, and de.
stroyed 1900 gallons of beer aud two
large distilleries. BE also succeeded in
arresting several Of the law breakers.
Jackson Sun: We learn that WORK
will very soou begin on the machine
shops Of the Mississippi Central railroad
in this city. Some twenty thousand
dollars haze been appropriated by TIT
management for this purpose and th,
much needed work will ere long be &C
complisked. Nov let the two great road
passing through this city lay theii
heads together and evolve a union depo.
building, asd then the Jaeksonian goosl
will hang at a lovely altitude.
Knoxville Tribune and Age, 9th
The body Of Frank Branner, who va
drowned about three weeks since in thI
Potomac, near Washington, arrived il
this city on the nooa train yesterday an,
was Immediately conveyed to the resi-
dence Of Mrs. Z. G. Branner, mother @
TIE deceased, on Olinch street, wher
the funeral SERVICES we're conducted b.
, the Rev. James Park, pastor Of the Eirs
Presbyterian church, who paid a jus
tribute TO the memory Of the decedse
thus called away at the threshold OF hi
early manhood. The body Of youn
Branner was found near the place wher
, he was drowned, having risen to the So.
, face after remaining three weeks unde
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