Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-03-22
TENNESSEE.

is making more out Of convict labor than
any State in the Union.
Miss Lulie Clay Bsgbie, a native of
Kentucky, but now living ct Franklin,
has recently made her debut as an elocu.
zionist.
On and after the frst of April the
name Of the Memphis and Paducsh rail
road will be changed to Memphis, Psdu.
cab and Northern road.
H. V. Red6eli has been ordered from
Chattanooga to Washington to remain
for several months and correspond for
the Cincinnati Commercial.
JOhn NJ. Larkins. a prominent me,-
chant of Columbia, committed suicide
on the l9:h by shooting himself. Cause.
financial troubles and dependency.
The Southern Presbyterian general as.
sembly will meet OF Knoxville, May I6.
The opening sermon will be preached by
Rev. c A. Stillman, D. D, moderator Of
the last assembly.
Milan Exchange: Our farmers are
planting corn this week. II the fine
weather continues a large acreage will
be planted. The season is about ore
month earlier than last year.
Hon. Robert P. Caldwell, Of Gibson
county, Ninth congressional district, is
a candidate for congress. This not the
William P. Caldwell now in congress,
though he was a member some years
ago.
Governor Porter says the Brasswells
must swing, and declines to take any
action in their case. The prisoners were
baptized in the Jail yard Sunday after.
noon, in the presence Of 500 persons,
zoo of whom we're ladies.
Thomas E. Hayes, Esq, editor of the
Franklin Review and Journal, will be q
candidate to represent williamson coun-
ty Ia the next general assembly. He ia
for low taxes ard a settlement of State
debt at 335 cents on the dollar.
The woTkmen bearing a well in Gibson
county, last week, struck what appears
to be coal in its first stages Of formation.
1t appers to be layers of vegetable mat
ter, hardened almost equal to coal. It
was found at a depth of sixty.fve feet.
The map of Fort Donelson, as drawn
by Major Wilbur F. Foster, has been
placed in the %adjutant generals Office at
Nashville. It was the result Of a trip.
made not long since to that famous bat.
tie ground, by Major Foster, Governor
Porter and DR.. John w. Morton. Those
who fought at Fort Donelson and have
seen the map say that it is accurate in
every particular.
Chattanooga Dispatch 10th: About
thirty-hve men, women and children
came down from the mountains Of East
Tennessee yesterday en- route to St.
Louis and Texas. Il was pitiable to
witness the insanity of these people in
leaving their homes and friends for a
strange country and a strange people,
woutheut knowledge of the world, and
with bat a very small supply of this
worlds goods.
A mania for suicide has attacked the
quiet own of Fayetteville, Lincoln coun.
ty. On Thursday morning of las. week
Mr.. Andy Thomson, while at his broth
er's house near that town, talking with
his brother, drew a pistol and shot him
self, not fatally, however. On the next
day friday VIII Wilson, livingin town,
shot himself in front of a saloon, and
died that night from the effects of the
wound inflicted.
Nancy Morgan, a colored woman liy.
ing on Mr.. P. q. Mama place, twelve
miles from Brownsville, is actually turn.
ing white. Macy is G~fty.tbree years
old. Her father was half Indian; her
mother a negress. Twenty.eight years
ago. small white spots began to make
their appearance on her skin, which have
continued coming out and spreading IN.
til at the present time she is more than
half white. Her feet, hands and various
portions of her body have changed color
almost entirely.
Hickman Pioneer: A correspondent
from Sven Bluff says when the news
reached that point that the horse.thief
was out of jail, Messrs. Marion R. and
I. s., Of that vicinity, notified the neigh.
bors to keep a lookout for him, and that
night armed themselves and took quilts
and pillows and repaired to the crib to
keep watch over the horses. The next
morning they awoke-the sun shining
beautifully-and found the horses were
about a mile from the stable and the dogs
bad crept into the crib and taken the
pillows and were quietly sleeping on
them.
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A correspondent of the Chicago 1;,,a.