Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-16
SOUTHERN NEWS.

home in Philadelphia.
Little Rock is thronged with editors,
legislators and lobbyists.
A habit of plastering front gates
with tar prevails at Helena, Ark.
Balloting for United States Senator
begins at Little Rock noxt Monday.
Hot Springs has a population of
over 5000 people, and it wants to be a
city.
DR.. Lenow, of Little Rock, has been
elected physician of the State peni-
tentiary
The sheriff of Weakley county,
Tenn, has been put in Jail for misde-
meanor.
Reuben Hornsby, pioneer and the
oldest settler about Austin, Texas,
died last Saturday.
The Oxford Eagle thanks one of its
patrons for sending 81 due for sub
scription to that paper.
Cheap provisions enables hotels in
San Antonio, Texas, to keep guests at
81 per day, or $3.50 per week.
Texas has 3,5OO,OOO acres of public
lands The area settled on and en-
tered last year was 1,535,OOO acres.
Jake Frolich, secretary of State in
Arkansas, has appointed Major Will
liam i. Woodruff as his chief as
sistant,
During the recent cold snap the
temperature marked 2O' below zero at
Van Buren, and other places in Ar
kansas.
Thomas Reed, late cashier of the
First National Bank, of Galveston,
has absconded with $4,000 of the
banks funds.
Galveston, Texas, is worried with
non-taxpayers and their inability to
give good titles to property sold for
taxes in Arrears.
Fakirs among the gamblers and
drummers among the doctors are two
mitigated evils Hot Springs, Ark, has
to contend with.
John Mccullough plays Rolla
and L. L. James " Pizarro at the
Boston Theater for three weeks, COM
mencing last Monday.
The moral status Of some neighbor-
hoods is low. A gander pulling was en-
joyed at Richmond, Texas, recently,
and on the Sabbath at that
Thomas Charleston, ofsDallas, Texas,
recently married Mrs. Annie Morton,
at st. Louis, and afterwards found out
that she was his step-daughter.
Mr.. John II. Prewett, editor of the
Mariana ARK Index, and member
elect of the State legislature, died at
Mariana last Thursday, of consump-
ton.
Coon, wolf, wildcat, catamOunt and
other scalps, given, to the number of
337, in payment for dog tax, were
burned at the courthouse in Paris,
Texas.
Myra Clarke Gains is nearly seventy
one years of age. She has an abund-
ance of hair mot dyed. that hangs to
her waist, and expects to live eighty
years longer.
The Galveston wharf company is
paying institution. 1t earned during
the year ending November Both, 1878,
$l61, 1869; its expenses were $1O9,-
246.32. 1t declared a dividend of
$i5,965.5O, and has S5,934.35 cash on
hand.
Low rents prevail throughout Texas,
not because the country is less pros
porous, but because the price of every
thing has been reduced, and it is
reasonable that property should come
down. Living is reduced eGe e-half.
The directors report of the st.
Louis exchange shows that the total
income of the past year was $50, 247.97,
and the expenses about $3.50 less. The
rent of the hall is $4,000 per scar
and salaries $l2.350.
A number Of candidates are already
named as likely to succeed the late
Congressman Schleicher, Of Texas.
Among them are his son-in-law; also
Judge Ireland, his recent competitor;
Mr.. Burgess, Judges Deyine and Rus.
sell and Ex-Governor StOckdale.
TheHumptyDumpty party was beset
by party of supposed highwaymen
few days since. while in a stage be-
tween Austin aud Luling. Every oc.
cupant was obliged 10 get out and
throw up their hands. The Miacco
brothers were put through course of
grand aud lofty tumbling for the