Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-03-30
TENNESSEE.

Knoxville people are eating North
Carolina apples, brought over in wagons.
About one hundred aud fifty acres
have been set in Strawberries around
Milan.
State Treasurer Marsh T. Polk hes
placed bis daughter, Miss Mamie, in a
Catholic convent at ST. Louis to be edu
Gated.
Wheat crops in West Tennessee are
unusually promising at this time, and
the average is largely in excess Of sny
previous year.
As a Orn-grOyiug State, Tennessee
ranks sixth. The average annual pro
duction Of this cereal is from forty FIVE
to fifty FIVE millions bushels.
A farmer named James P. Collins.
aged about So years, was instantly killed
by being run over by a runaway team,
near the Chattanooga depot, at Nash
vile, on the 9Th.
Commissioner KiliebreW has received
from DE-. B. Franklin Clarke, Of Charles
ton, Mass a letter in which be states
that a large colony was forming there TO
move TO Tennessee, and tina, a portion Of
the party has already started for this
State to select a suitable location.
David kirkpatrick, proprietor Of Kirk.
patriek's steam Touring aud wooden
mills, six miles southwest of Rogersyille,
Hawkins county, died on Monday morn
ing ct 4 o'clock. On the previous Sstur-
day evening Moses kirkpatrick, a for.
mer slave Of the Kirkpatrick family,
eyed about n~inety.fve years, died at the
same place.
Immigrants from different localities
have come into the State since last Nay
under the influence of the bureau OF
agriculture as follows: Indiana, $50;
Ohio, 53S; Michigan, 255; PennsylvAuia,
ILL Wisconsin, ia; Minnesota, ITO;
Illinois, 81; New York, 30; Iowa, 80;
Nebraska, Is; New Jersey, II; Maryland,
10; Missouri, s. Kentucky, 2. Total, 1904
Rev. VIM. H. Pssrne, formerly Metro
politsn police commissioner Of Memphis,
was a few days ago appointed as pastor
Of q church in Trenton, n. J.. The
official board Of the church held a meet.
ing aud determined not to receive him.
The Ease is the cause Of a great deal oil
excitement among the Me,hodists in
Trenton. The door Of the church has
been locked BY the trustees.
Nellie Greene, sent to the penitentiary
f1r three years from Rosne county, died
Of congestion Of the lungs at the peni.
teniisry hospital last Sunday John
Henry MercAison Ccolore5), sent there
from Madison county for FIVE years for
grand larceny, also died Of consump.
ton. Convicts inside the penitentiary
walls number 81. aud those working
outside 56S, making q total Of 1859, an
increase Of 20 within the past ten days
Hickman Pioneer: Hrs. Francis Dod.
SOD, who lives neal Union City, Tenn.
last week, paid her grand daughter, Mrs.
A. N. Reaves, Of this place, q visit. Sd,
is sixty-six years Of sg-, and seems t.
be s~prightly as g girl OF sixteen. Las
Sunday evening she walked down to the
place where the new bridge is to be built
a distance Of about hall a mile. and
climbed the little ladder from the bapl
to n Of the pillars aud walked all owe,
the pillar. She came from Dickson. 3
distance Of about thirty miles, on horse.
back, in n day. She returned hom,
last Monday.
Knoxville Tribune, 18th: "Chancello
R. J. Morgan, Of Memphis, is in the city
the enest Of the Lamar House. Chan
cellor Morgan is a candidate for tb
nomination by the Democratic iadicia
convention, for seat on ina Suprem
bench. He IS, 10 every respect, a geatl,
man OF the first order. Az a ehancello
he has shown himself to be one of n
, finest %juFists ia the State. We feel bouu.
: to tell the truth in regard to each cand
date as he passes our way. We kno-
not how Judge Morgan may fare els,
where, but we have had recent occasio
for discovering that Shelby, at least. ma
be counted solid" for him. His hom
will certainly not go back on him. Judq
Morgan will proceed hence through III
: per East Tennessee.