Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-22

amounted to $~296,6l9.95 balance I'm.
called for $47, 50S.44, to be distributed
among 39,882 depositors, who have not
been found.
Carroll county, Tenn, enjoyed a
sharp contest over the superintendent
OF public schools a few days since,
The salary is $3.50. Rev. L. A. Bid
well was chosen and he is reported to
be well qualified.
All of the rivers in East and Mid
die Tennessee were booming high last
Friday and Saturday. Some streams
were reported up beyond any former
known rise. Much damage has re-
suited and country roads were totally
impossible.
Mrs. Chanfrau is playing Aurora
Floyd and Parted, at Nashville. She
closes there tonight. McWade n
acted Rip Van Wrinkle at Nashville
in the Opera House, while Lolita per-
formed Zip and Musette at the Ma
sonic Theater.
The Galveston committee. consist
ing of Messrs. Fisher, Robira and
Spaight, are preparing their recon-
mendatiOn to the Texas legislature ON
the matter of quarantine. Mr.. Fisher
favors a State board of health, and for
certain months of the year a strict
quarantine.
There isa curious creek in West
Texas. 1t is called Cibolo, and three
miles from BOerne enters a rocky
gourge and runs under ground for for
ty miles. In some places natuaral
wells 240 feet deep are found, through
which this subterranean creek can be
distincly heard.
Captain T. j. Berry walked from
Hawkins county, East Tennessee,
Mark Twain's early stamping ground,
all the way over the mountains to
Nashville to run for the position of
d%oorkeeper Of the senate. He was de-
feated, but secured a place as guard at
the pe%nitentiary.
Mrs. William Humphreys, jr., was
burned to death near Gadsden, Tenn.
a few days since. While trying to save
her child, whGh had turned over in a
chair, her own clothes ignited and
burned entirely of, except where they
were bound around her waist. She
died in a few hours.
Recently DR.. James A. Thompson.
of Homer, Angelina county. Texas.
having been informed that a man by
the name of Martin had made threats
against his life, took his shotgun, went
to Martins grocery and deliberately
shot him dead. Thompson was sent
to Jail and bail was refused.
II. G. Brewer has been chosen may
or of Huntingdon, Tenn, and 4.
Briant marshal. They permit land
owners only to vote in that section.
A foot of land was decided to a mum
Der of voters at the recent election,
thereby circumyenting the law. The
Vindicator asks lift isnot a dangerous
precedent.
A man named Martin killed a deer
with a tap-wrench recently, seven
miles from Benton, Saline county.
Ark. He was in the act of screwing
bolts on the railroad track when the
deer dashed almost on him, evidently
being in a hurry and not seeing Mar
tin until too late. The man was so
excited after the affair that he ran all
the way to Benton, seven miles, to
carry the news
Dallas, Texas, is agitated over q ro-
mantle story Of a young girl, fourteen
years OF age, who is in that town from
Illinois, searching for her mother. 1t
seems that she and her mother sue
ceeded in saving about $4,000 in the
millinery business, when a man by the
name of Foster came along. can't
waited and captured the widow and the
$4,000. They went to Texas together,
and left the daughter penniless.
A party killed wei 1900 young
prairie chickens on the Arkansas
prairies last summer, all of which
spoiled, and two barrels of eggs were
carried to Little Rock at one time.
all of which also spoiled. The chick
ems have been trapped to such an OK
tent recently that they threaten to be-
come extinct, and the people are call
ing upon the legislature to establish
game laws for their protection.
The Ancient Order of United Work
men, including the amount to nav
death losses, will have received in
this State, when the latter are ali
paid, the sum of S67 1868 81 for account
of the past year. The loss amount is
$4,000. OF this amount 500. 1000 has
already been paid. The order lost
forty members in the Tennessee iuris
diction and twenty-eight elsewhere.
making the total losses to the organ.
J zation $l36,00