Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-09
TENNESSEE.

Cleveland has a handsome new Operl
house.
1t is estimated that over 1000 appl,
trees we're destroyed by the late storm
in Coffee county.
A telegraph line has been put up be
tween Decherd and Winchester, and viii
be extended to Fayetteville.
The Murphy movement, and the wheat
rust, and the caterpillar seem to be the
absorbing topics of our State exchanges.
John NJ. Bright, jr., son Of the Hon.
John N. Bright died at Fayetteville, last
Saturday week, Of congestion, in the
thirty third year Of his age.
Vernon X. Stevenson, jr., formerly Of
Nashville, bat for some years a real es.
tate broker in New York, has been ad.
judged a voluntary bankrupt; liabilities,
S6S, 500; assets, the same as nothing.
Knoxville Chronicle: There has never
been q better prospect for an abundant
fruit crop in Eastern Tennessee than at
present. Strawberries aud cherries are
%ripening and soon we will have black.
berries, raspberrieS, apples and peaches
in great abundance,
Dyersburg Gazette: The prospect is
that the wheat crop in Dyer cousty will
be a failure, while the high tax preclivi-
ties OF our County Court will be- a sue.
cess. II the County Court does not re.
scind its high rate OF taxation, their &C
ton will kill the public schools in Dyer
county,
Humboldt Peoples journal: Two
negro women gotinto an alteration Just
after leaving church, at Williams Chapel,
a school.house near Mr.. jackson Viii.
liams' residence, last Sunday, one
striking the other on the head with a
fence rail, inhieting q wound from which
it is thought she will die.
Chattanooga Times: Tramps are an
abominstion in the land, and our kindest
hearted people, the ladies especially, are
to blame for it. They never should feed
any one without demanding eompensa.
ton. II they are disposed to take cog.
nizance OF them, let them have the meal
we'll earned by work in the garden or
elsewhere.
Manchester Guardian: BLIZZARD, Cald
well and Fleming are the prominent
candidates of East Tennessee for the
gub~ernatorial nomination. Each he's a
strong following, and unless a concen-
tration Of forces upon some one can be
effected there ia little probability that
the Eastern division can secure the
nomination.
A suit has been commenced in the
Federal Court at Memphis against the
town of Dyersburg for interest money
alleged to be due TO the Memphis and
Paducah Railroad Company. The peo-
pie have determined to resist it to the
bitter end. The case will come upfor
hearing the fourth Monday in this month.
Nearly the entire bar of Dyersburg, EN-
bracing some OF the best talent in the
State, have volunteered their services in
behalf of the town.
A correspondent of the American,
writing from Liberty, says: ITO give
your readers an idea Of how the storm
OF last week ragged in this neighborhcod,
/ will mention this incident. On Clear
Fork, q few miles above this place, q
large poplar tree measuring twenty
seven feet 10 circumference and eighty
feet in length, vas blown up by the roots
and carried nearly one hundred and Fifty
yards. 1t was plain that II did net slide
for il left no track. Had it been seen in
daytime, carried about on the wings Of
the wind. one would have been forcibly
reminded Of those monster pterodactJ Is,
or filing reptiles, which winged and
wheeled their way through the air in the
secondary era OF the worlds history"