Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-29

Captain John Cowdon will visit
V~icksburg and lecture on river and
harbor improvements about the 9th or
9TH of January.
Edwards Bulletin: The State can
safely and with credit to herself en-
trust her interests in the hands of
General E. G. Walthall.
The stock of the Wesson mills can
not be bought at any price. This
shows how cotton factories can be
made to pay in this State.
The Summit Times, holiday issue.
published by the printers Of that
Office, places the name of Ohio R.
Singleton, at its masthead as its choice
for senator.
COrinth Herald: The Vicksburg
Commercial urges General Chalmers
for reelection to'congress, which will
suit him and friends too, much better
than to have him beaten for the Sem
ate.
Holly Springs South, "a Our neigh
Dor, Mr.. B. +. Boden, completed last
week a beautiful monument, which is
to be erected in memory of Mr.. Fox
Moore, who Tell a victim to the cpl
demic of last year.
Yieksburg Commercial Major
Barksdale's friends are determined
that he shall have "boom" enough.
But-pardon the nau(ghty)-ca diver
sion-we do not think the boom will be
long enough TO place his stage plank
upon the senatorial landing.
The Hazlehurst Monitor thinks
that every editor has the right to of
fer suggestions to the legislature, and
accordingly declares against the re-
peal of the lien law, against any
change in the manner Of selecting
presidential electors; for the intro
duction Of music as a branch in the
public schools; for the abolition of the
caucus system and for the repeating Of
the concealed weapon law.
A thoughtless married couple named
Grissom, living in Vicksburg, went off
on a visit one day last week, leaving
two children, n three years old and
the other a younger infant locked up
in an upstairs room. They returned
in an hour and found the oldest child
burned to death, its clothes having
caught fire evidently from the CRATE.
Such people ought to be sent to the
lunatic asylum or tried for murder in
the first degree.
Pamela Star, 9th: On Wednesday
night Sidney Williamson, colored.
killed George Horton, colored. with a
brickbat on Main street. Upon ex-
animation, Horizons skull was found
to be fractured he lived only a few
minutes after receiving the second
blow. The %corOner's inquest returned
a verdict in accordance with the above
facts. The difficulty originated in a
trivial dispute about the quality of a
watch chain. Williamson escaped.
Ripley Sentinel: W. are reliably
informed that on Saturday night Of
last week, Mr.. Dep Cullens, Of Union
county, and a negro whose name we
did not learn in trying to cross Mud
creek, several miles west Of New Al
bany in a wagon, lost their way in the
bottom which was covered with water.
and got into the channel of the creek
and were both drowned. The night
was very dark, and they tried to get
to stay at a house just before going
into the bottom, but being refused
concluded to try to cross, with the
result above stated.
New Orleans Democrat: The stall
wart organs arc striving to bring the
YazoO affair to the front again by
circulating the statement that Banks.
dale, who klle5 Dixon, will be a prom.
inent candidate before the Mississippt
legislature for United States Senator
The statement is either a wilful false
hood, or it is the result Of inexcusabl,
ignorance. Colonel Barksdale. who 4
a candidate for United States Senator
had no connection whatever with th,
Yazoo tragedy. He has long been +,
prominent politician IN Mississippi. i
chairman Of the Democratic Stat,
Committee. and for many years ha
been the editor Of the leading Demo
cratic paper, the jackson Clarion
There is not the slightest excuse "a
confounding Colonel Barksdale wit.
another of the same name, The fac
that this is done can have but one ex
PLANTATION.