Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-08

and marketed. His place Is near
| Newtown and his cotton was sold
/ there for a good price, being of good
grade and good staple, aud he realized
handsomely from his crop.
Newton Report: The cast bound
train on the night of the Goth inst
ran over and killed an Indian named
John Allen a half mile west of Kick
DRY. He had evidently become drunk
and dropped upon the track as he was
returning home. He was regarded as
a good, honest. industrious man. SIN
gularly enough his father met the
same fate at about the same place
three years ago.
A correspondent of the Clarion thus
writes of our candidate for speaker OF
The next house, Colonel Roderick
Seals, of the sea coast: For the
~speakership, | have heard all over
central and southern Mississippi an
emphatic expression for Hon. Il.
Seals, Of Harrison. No man in the
state has more legislative experience.
No man is more familiar with parlia-
mentary laws and special rules.
Tupelo Journal A gentleman writ
ing to the Journal says ION my farm
three miles west of this place, Mr.. Z.
L. Carothers, with five mules, raised
h~fty-nine bales of cotton, 200 bushels
of corn, l26 bushels of wheat and 70
bushels of oats. And Mr.. A.
w. Patterson, with three mules, raised
thirty-fve bales of cotton, 800 bushels
Of. corn, also some small grain, peas;
potatoes, ETC., while Mr.. I. +. Para
more, who also rented land from me,
raised eleven bales cotton to each mule
he worked. Patterson cultivated three
fourths bottom land and one-fourth
upland, and he gathered one bale of
cotton for each acre he had in cultiva-
ton"
Leashore Gazette: Our brethren of
the press are again coming bravely to
the front-thiS time as candidates for
the positions of "supeS' upon the leg
i%slative stage. Our old time friend B.
+. Jones of the Winona Advocate,
desires to be sergeant-at-arms of the
senate Sam. D. Harper, of the Ray
mOnd Gazette and w. II. Cochran. Of
the Starkville Times are candidates
for clerk of the house Of representa-
tives. These gentlemen are all worthy
and competent. and have our best
wishes FIR aipptiOD
The position of postmistress at
Tazoo City, offered by the Post
Office Department to the widow
Of Mr.. Henry NJ. Dixon, has
been declined by her. In a letter to a
relative she says she declined because
the present incumbent and her hus-
band were friends. She puts a check
also to the stories about her seeking
refuge in the North from persecution
by saying that people are kind to her
In YazOO, and that since she is likely
to get better treatment there than
elsewhere, it Is her intention to re-
main.
Vicksburg Herald, 4th inst: Two
homicides have occurred in Washing
ton county recently. At Silverlake,
about twenty-five miles from Green
vile, a man named Steele shot and
killed 4. j. Page. while the latter was
trying to effect a forcible entry into
the saloon Of the former through a
window. There had been bad feeling
existing between the parties for some
time before the killing. On the night
Of Saturday. November 21th. at Green
villo, a butcher named Henry Mandlc
shot a eol0red man named Henry
James in tho bowels, in q quarrel
about five cents worth of hog meat.
James died from the effect Of the
wound and Mandle has since disap-
peared.