Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-22
TESNESSEE.

During December All immigrants Ii
Gated in Middle Tennessee, having com
under the auspices of the Immigration
Bureau.
Hon. Peter Staub. OF Knoxville, ha
been appointed by President Hayes a
honorary commissioner to the Paris Elk
position.
Bryant's minstrels got busted and lef
at Knoxville last week. and had to paw
a. $1,000 diamond ring before they cOulc
60 on east.
The editor Of the Jonesboro' Journa
still yearns for the introduction Of til,
oli-fashiOned whipping post, for the sup
preston Of petty crimes.
The cotton shipped ever the East Ten
Aessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad tn,
present season has exceeded IS, 900 bales
The shipments for December alone we're
Is, 900 bales.
Colonel James L. Gaines, State Comp.
t%roller, has been on to New York to set
tie the Indebtedness of the Mississippi
and Tennessee railroad to the State
amounting to S29s,sl4.
A new wire is being put up between
Nashville and Bowling Green, for the
benefit of the Louisville and Nashville
and Great Southern railway. A line
from Gsllstin to Hsrtsville is talked Of.
Nashville Banner, 18th: Mrs. S. Mus
kovitz today received $1,000 due her on
account of the death Of her husband,
who was q member Of Tennessee Lodge
No. 2, Ancient Order of United Work.
mes.
Cleveland had an exciting municipal
canvass on the 9TH instant, and elected
a very excellent man for marshal, who
tried it u week and resigned. Another
election has been ordered for the 18th
instant.
An old skeleton, found under a stable
floor in Nashville the other day by ne.
gro lsborers engaged in removing the
building. so frightened them that they
declared they would not work there any
longer at two hundred dollars a day.
Chattanooga Dispatch; Most every
house on Market street, if not all, has a
high water mark or its walls. Every
stranger is shown how high the water
was in 1875, and in some few houses the
hight the water reached in 1867 is shown.
The students of Goodsoa Male Acad.
envy, at Bristol, had a debate a few days
since on the subject, Resolved, that the
Democrats of the South should iudorse
Hayes Southern Policy" The decision
was rendered in favor of the negative of
the question.
An enterprising poultry dealer at Chat
tanooEa has gone up to Meigs county TO
buy a big lot Of geese and try the novel
experiment Of floating them down to the
market, a distance of eighty miles. Their
wings will be cropped to keep them from
of, and the driver will ride in a
canoe. This is natural and cheap trans
portation.
The Chattanooga Times Of the 18th
says that the railroad convention which
met in Macon, GA, on the l4tb, decided
to issue excursion tickets to all points
South leading to the usual winter resorts
invalids. Consequently the Florida
which has materially decreased,
will icon be restored to the rush Of last
and the year before. Considered both
ways it will be a benefit, enlarging the
railroads earnings and atfording cheap
transportation.
The Pulaski Citizen says: Mr.. Jack
W. McKissack died at his store near
Vale Mills last Saturday night, alone.
He was found next morning almost in a
standing posture and leaning against q
with his head on his arms, dead
and cold. About II o'clock on the night
Of his death be told the man that had
been cooking for him that he was dying
and wanted to be left alone, and then
locked himself up. Esquire Alexander
held an inquest Sunday and the jury
declared that he came TO his death from
consumption.
A. Z Cannon, son Of VIM. G. Gam.
mon, Of Rome, Ga, while on a visit to
his relatives near B%lountville, East Ten.
Dessee, was thrown from his buggy while
out driving last week and killed. he
was q handsome, promising young man.
His father lives at Rome, Ga, and it is
understood his remains will be taken
there for interment, The mother of the
unfortunate young man died four or FIVE
years since, and be has no sisters 10
mourn his sad fate. The deceased was
a brother Of the gallant Captain Ed
Cannon, who ives killed on the Confed.
side at the battle Of Morristowu in
1864.