Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-08
TENNESSEE.

dence IN trenton
Hoa. g. W. Day, Of Humboldt, hal
been quite sick this week.
The negro population in Trenton is OF
q decrease, FIVE dying Friday of las
week.
1t is said that Mr.. Hendrix, living
near Clarksburg, Henderson county, il
l24 years old.
The very best article o 'pure white
wheat brings $l,lO per bushel in the
Bristol market.
The Sumner county annual fair, neal
Gallatin, commences September 18th
and continues FIVE days.
School opens at the East Tennessee
University next Thursday, 18th inst.
The students are coming in daily.
Bolivar Bulletin; The army worm is
devastating those large estates, the Guy
aud Jones plantations, near Salisbury.
About a month ago some Nashville
druggist placed two packages of NOR.
phine in the postofice. AS they are not
mailable they are there yet.
The most intelligent observers tell us
that the crops in Madison will be abund,
ant and good, and that there will be ever
a greater yield in Henderson county.
The funeral of Albert Gibson, who
was killed in Memphis last winter by his
nephew, Bob Drury, was preached at
Bethel, Wheatley county, last Sunday.
Prof. ]. NJ. Hubbard, formerly of the
Bolivar Bulletin and a successful
teacher, has been elected principal Of
the Atemonson Institute, Novasota,
Texas.
Tipton County Record: Thirteen chill
dren have died recently in the vicinity
Of Randolph from whooping cough. The
disease is not so fatal a it was a few
weeks since.
The West Tennessee Wing is again
aaoat, with sails unfurled; the old cap
tain is standing on deck, with a reform
banner in one hand and the governing
helm in the other.
There has been much sickness and a
number of deaths during the past sum.
mer in jackson and the country sur.
rounding it, and the same may be said
of almost every city in the State.
The application Of the Louisville asd
Nashville and Great Southern railroad
to Judge Trigg for an injunction to re
strain the State tax assessors from re
porting the assessment of that road and
branches has been withdrawn for the
present.
Colonel A. S.. Colyar refuses to serve
on a committee appointed by the mer
chants exchange Of the city Of Nash.
vile to receive President Hayes on the
ground that the exchange had no author
ity to represent the whole people in the
matter. But the President will come al
the same.
Milan Exchange: The Louisville snC
Nashville road now runs six passenger
and six freight trains daily. The Cen
trail runs four passenger and eight freight
daily. This makes a total of twenty
four trains passing here every dsy-ont
every hour. This is getting lively, ant
will probably increase soon.
Three train thieves, who gave theil
names respectively as John Mickey, o
Chicago; ]. R. Green, of Memphis; ant
B. g. Stewart, Of jackson, who hav'
been operating from Knoxville to Bris
tol, we're arrested the other day and arr
in jail at Abingdon, Va, awaiting q re
QUESTION from Governor Porter.
Colonel V. S. Allen, Familiarity know
as Colonel Sub Allen, died at Clark
vile last week at an advanced age. Fo.
many years previous to the war he was
citizen Of Carroll county, Tennessee
and just preceding the war representa-
the counties Of Carroll, Gibson an,
Dyer in the stste senate.
Huntingdon indicator: Mrs. Sara
Churchwell, an old lady living two mile
west Of town, died last Sunday at tn
advanced age Of n~inety-two years. Sh
was probably the oldest woman living i
tho county, yet up to a few weeks befor
she died she remained very active, wall
ing the distance from her house to thi
place every three or four weeks. Mr.
Churchwell and her husband we're th
FIRST couple married in Msury COUNTY
Tenn, as was afterward found out b
referring to the records of the county, 1
determine whether or not she was legal
married, in order to have a pensio
granted. There is an old nan name
Wilson, living four or FIVE miles fro
town, who is said TO be over 100 yea
E old.
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