Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-20

SOUTHERN NEWS.

There is a lady in the Virginia leg
islature.
Waverly, Tenn, has homemade ice
seven inches thick.
A Texarkana barber sports $1,000
worth Of diamonds.
Savannah's mayor has been reduced
to $1,000 per annum
Virginia is shipping from Norfolk
large numbers Of cattle to Europe.
Commodore Rollingpin, ofSt. Louis,
is coming South on a featuring tour.
A planter in Ascension, La, made
four thousand pounds of sugar to the
acre.
North Carolina papers are waging a
war on the high salaries paid by the
State.
A monument to the memory of the
late W. j. L. Holland, who died of
fever at Holly Springs, is talked of.
The Tennessee State legislature
proposes to cut their messengers and
porters' salaries from 81 to 50 per day.
Brownsville scrip is down to less
than twenty-five cents on the dollar.
1t used to be worth over three times
that.
Caytain w. w. Deloach, of Stark
vile, Miss, committed suicide at Gre
NADIA Christmas week by taking lauda-
mum.
Tuesday the 2lst is the day fixed for
the senatorial election in the Arkan-
sas legisture. R. w. johnson $ friends
are confident.
Fifty persons applied to be made
%penitentiary physician in the Tennes-
see State prison, where 1863 convicts
are l%ncarcerated.
j. W. Jennifer (colored), is the re-
Gently elected chaplain of the Arkan-
sas legislature. Miss Bedinger (white)
is ~engrossing clerk.
10 Williams, charged with the muir
der of Rufus Pate, was recently cap
tured in Arkansas, and is now in Jail
at Coffeeville, Miss.
VIM. King rode across Boync Chit
to Miss slough, thirty yards wide,
on the ice, during the freeze, a feat
unparalleled in that latitude.
People have a habit Of emptyinq
shotguns in the streets of Vicksburg.
The Commercial thinks they ought to
go out Of town for such sport.
The steumer Danube was ice-bound
near Shreveport during the late cold
snap, the first time on record for such
a thing to be known on Red river.
Jim Linscott, a rough, demanded
drinks in a Vicksburg bar-room re-
Gently and was shot through the heart
by VIM. Bussleman, the bartender.
Fires in Yazoo City destroyed, a
few days ago, the business houses of.
W. G. Williams, R. C. Shepherd, F.
Otto, L. B. Conner, /. II. Havercamp.
and j. Barned.
A screech-owl was sent as a present
to James NJ. Morton, editor of the
Hickman Pioneer, recently, He would
like to know the emblem. 1t means
"howler, of course.
James McCullum, of Perry county,
Tenn, while carrying a heavy stick Of
wood during the late freeze, slipped
and fell; the log struck his head and
killed him instantly. He leaves a wife
and four children.
The Y|icksburg Herald says there
is very little water in front Of
the city now, and the quantity is
steadily decreasing. 1t is only ques-
ton of time when Vicksburg will be
left high and dry.
A romantic individual went TO sleep
in a street gutter at V~icksburg last
week, slumbering sweetly and peace
fully for several hours. An unappre-
policeman had him hauled Of
in a scavenger cart.
Too much taxes; too much fees, is
the outcry in Arkansas. An average
Of $4,000 per annum is the estimated
expenditures in each county for petit
Sebastian county paid &4lS
for jurors in 1878, each getting - per
day in scrip worth fifty cents on the
dollar.
George McAdory, aged seventeen
years, shot a small boy named G.