Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-03-28
MISSISSIPPI


; We have thought they had n already
The ladies Of Sardis have organized
a cooking club, at the meetings Of which
the ladies will do their own presiding AnG
cooking.
The P~ascagoula Star and Hsndsborc
Democrat have combined, and the Demo
crat-Star will be published hereafter al
Pascagouls.
Moore, who was recently stabbed at
Yazoe City By John Hinkle, is rapidly
improving. Hinkle is under $4,000 bond
to answer at court.
Mayor McGill, of Jackson, has ap'
pointed q committee to collect funds for
the relief Of the smallpox sufferers Of
Marion and Pike counties.
The citizens of Macon sre holding
meetings to take measures to secure the
location Of the Agricultural aud Me-
chanical college at that town.
Fifteen hundred immigrants from In
diana aud other Northern States have
lately settled in Marshall county, and
the most of them are well pleased.
C. H. Williams has brought suit for
$40, 900 against each Of the two insurance
companies that prosecuted him for the
burning of the Phoenix hotel at Me-
ridian,
The sheriff of Copiah county last week
captured at one haul and brought in
three gentlemen of the colored persus-
sion-one for stealing a pig, another for
stealing a sheep, aud another for burn
ing a school-hOuse.
Vicksburg Herald; At the proper time
a direct proposition will be made to the
city and to Shsrkey county 10 complete
the Vicksburg, Deer Creek and Mem.
phis railroad to the Northern boundary
Of ShArkey county.
Holly Springs South: In point Of
ability of her members, Mississippi is par
ticularly we'll represented in congress.
Besides Lamar in the senate, the State
has three members Of the house that
take rank with the sblest leaders of the
body-Singleion, Hooker and Chalmers.
Rosedale Journal: Washington county
has q railroad, CoahomA will have one,
and perhaps Bolivar will follow suit.
The greatest need in this bottom is roads
back to the interior, and as Judge Rucks
remarked, no other roads bat rail can be
constructed that would be psssAble at
all seasons
The Window Index states that q white
man, who has been teaching negre
schools there aud in ChoctaW county,
had been arrested for forgery. His wife
is one Of the daughters Of Ham, and he
has been heard 10 boast that he had not
eaten a meal at a white man table since
be had been in the State.
On the l2;h of April, 1857, there was
in Vicksburg a genuine snow storm, dur
ing which the snow fell thickly for an
hour, but melted rapidly. SO that by even.
ing there was DO trace of it, and the tenn.
perature was almost too warm for a FIRE.
Since then the people Of Vicksburg never
feel sure that winter is over until after
the 18th Of April.
Smallpox Of a very malignant type
has been raging in the counties of Ma
rion and Pike. Some terrible deaths
have taken place. The disease was in
troduced by an Irish peddler named
John 0'Brien, who had nursed o case at
Brookhaven. The people are terror
stricken and afraid to nurse the sick;
hence many die rom neglect.
The Chickasaw Messenger advocates
the recalling Of the legislature, and says:
In view Of the fact hat the governor
did not see ft to approve the bill, which
both houses, regulating the rates
Of freight charges upon cotton, as q
choice of evils, it we're better that the
legislature be convened in extra session
than that the people should suffer two
more years from the extortions Of the
rAildroad mouopolists."
Judge Peyion. chancellor of the Co.
piah district, decided recently in the salt
of the Mississippi Mills vs.. W. W. Cook,
tax collector, that the legislature had no
power under the constitution to exempt
corporations from taxes, aud that there
fore the Mississippi Mills we're liable for
taxes, notwithstanding the acts of the
legislature Of 1872 aud 1873. The de-.
murrer to the bill OF cemplalnpnts was
sustained and the bill dismissed.
Governor Stone has appointed the fol.
trustees Of the Mississippi Agri.
cultural and Mechanical College: State
at Lsrge-A. NJ. West, Holly Springs;
Frank Burkitt, 0kolona; Charles L. Gil
mer, Sharon, Madison county. Congress
sional districts: First district--W. B
Montgomery, s~tarkville; Second district
Thomas c. Dockery, Loves Station;
Third district - William B. Augustug,
Macon; Fourth districl-L. B. Brown,
Enterprise; Fifth district. M. Caussy,
McComb City; Sixth district - D. L.
Phsres, Woodville.
Family Feud.
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