Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-23
TENNESSEE.

Commencement week at Messy
Creek College begins on the 29th and
closes June 9th.
Blount county is to have the finest
courthouse in East Tennessee, in
place Of the one recently destroyed by
fire at Maryville.
The twelfth annual meeting Of the
East Tennessee Dental Association
will be held in Morristown, commenc-
ing on Tuesday, the 9th day of August,
1879.
The wheat crop in some West Ten
nessee counties is heading out very
fast. Some complaint is made of the
thinness Of the crop on poor land.
But the farmers cannot expect good
crops on worn out lands. ye
Lawrence county voted, on the 18th,
in favor of a subscription to the Nash
vile and Florence railroad. Total
vote, 1913; against subscription, only
247. The people have been firing off
anyils ever since.
Col. G. w. Day, of Gibson county,
whose people he has several times
represented in the legislature, has
written a letter in favor of the 50 and
4 proposition, which he regards as a
triumph for the low tax party.
Milan Exchange: Up to last even
ing 1919 cases of strawberries had been
shipped from here by express and $40
by fruit train, making in all 1852
quarts. This is a very slim show, not
more than one-fourth of what had
been expected two months since. But
the frost and drouth did the work.
Bolivar Bulletin On Col. Marsh
Folks farm a n year and a half old
blooded Jersey heifer has a fine calf,
and she gives two gallons of milk at a
milking. On this farm there is a field
of hundred acres of rank clover.
Beautiful sight A rebuke to those
cotton planters who are buying North
ern hay to feed stock.
Humboldt Argus Last Saturday a
little excitement occurred at the depot
which is worthy of notice. 1t appears
that Rev, Wheaton and Prof. Floyd
met by accident on the platform, and
the old subject was brought up again
about an article published in the
Alamo Sentinel, in which Wheaton
accused Floyd of being the author.
Floyd denied it up to that time, but
the Rev. W. pulled a pistol on him
and made him acknowledge it.
Jackson Tribune and Sun, 22d
Twenty sheep were killed by dogs re-
Gently on the farm of Major B. B.
Hurt, five miles east of this city.
RObt. A, Hurt with a pack of hounds.
trailed one Of the sheep-killing dogs
into this city, and killed him. Bob
says that the hounds ran the sheep
killer as if he was a fox, and that the
five mile chase was one of the most
exciting and musical he ever witnessed
and heard. 1ni
Nashville American, ODD: Rev. W.
A. Nelson, ID, who has been en-
gagged in a series of religious meetings
at McMinnville for two or three weeks
past, returned home last evening.
Forty-fve professions of religion were
made during the progress of the meet
ings. The numerous friends of DR..
Nelson ia this city and surrounding
country will be gratifed to know that
his health is better now than for
several months past.
Major Charles w. Smith (Bill Arp),
of Cartersville, Ga, the best known OF
Southern humOrists, has consented to
lecture in Tennessee under the aus
pices Of the Lee Monument Fund
Society, and will favor Nashville with
a visit at an early day. Mr.. James c.
Goldsmith, who writes the personal
Intelligence Of the New York Her.
aid, states that he was told by Mark
Twain some twelve years ago that Bill
Arp was one Of the few real American
%humOrists.
Paris lutelligencer We have seen
some very fine specimens of wheat
during the last week, which we think
fully up to the highest average. In
r this county there are to be seen many
crops, on good land and early sown.
which will make a full crep, while
many other crops, especially that in
/, poor land and late sown, is very poor.
DIR. SmallwOod sends us some heads
among the best we have seen. His
crop will be a good average if not
above it. The crop in the tier OF
counties west of us, which border ON
r the Kentucky line, is said to be very
fine.
Mr.. W. T, (bettor known as "Tom')
Bell, of Knoxville, died at the Insane
} Asylum near Nashville last Wednes-
+ day. MIR. Bell had been an inmate OF
the asylum for seventeen months. For
years he had been q successful bust
ness man, was a large, robust man.
the very picture of health. Suddenly
in the winter of 1876-77 he became
J insane without the slightest apparent
f cause. He grew rapidly worse, and
) was sent to the asylum for treatment.
His constitution gave way, paralysis
ensued and he died a mental blank
and pbysioal wreck, His case is as
| remarkable as it is sad,
Nashville American, 22d: The
legislature is entitled to the credit Of
, passing at least one good, wholesome
, law-tAat Of imposing heavy penalties
{ ipr the carriage of CONCEALED weapons.
Such instruments OF death can, under
this enactment, only be carried openly.
/ The law has already begun TO show It's
good effects. A gentleman who de.
/ sired to kill a vicious dog, in North
f. Nashville, for having severely bitten q
little girl on the leg, went by the
police station yesterday afternoon to
inform the officers of his peaceful in.
. tensions. IL was noticeable, TOO. thai