Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-14
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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married on the Both inst.
Atlanta, Ca, has natural skating
ponds for the first time since 1863.
Marion county, Tenn, is to have a
new court house, not to exceed over
$4,000.
The city council of Little Rock has
impeached Judge w. ]. Warwick, the
police judge.
]. NJ. jenkins, county trustee of
Ripley, Tenn, has $1,000 Of common
school money on hand.
Revenue collections for the Fifth
North Carolina district for 1873
amounted to 1894, ,222.8j.
The Tennessee river at Tuscumbia
is reported full of heavy Aoatiag ice,
and boats run with difficulty.
Ice chunks, FIVE inches thick, have
been put up for future use, both at
Ripley, Tenn, and Helena, Ark.
The Meridian (Miss.) Mercury re-
ports very cold weather down that
way, and has frozen out to half sheet
The people of Tuscumbia, Ala,
will have ice four and half inches
thick next summer, and Of their own
raising.
"Your patronage is worthless, says
the Senatobia Tidal Wave, and it has
reduced to half sheet, until delin-
qaents pay up.
Milton Mobiles was playing "And
the villain still pursued her at Vicks-
burg, Miss, last week. He comes this
way after bit.
Jennie Winston played the Grand
Duchess" at Atlanta, a few nights
since, in place of Adah Richmond,
who was indisposed.
The county in which Clarksvillc is
situated pays its superintendent Of
public schools the liberal salary Of
5000 per annum. We can raise him
800.
Knoxville is to enjoy Genevieve
Rogers, Mrs. Chanfrau and Emmer-
sons minstrels within the present
month. The Adah Richmond troupe
set the people there in ecstasies.
The newly elected mayor and city
council of Chattanooga had general
row az their first meeting after the
new yeaE They called each other
liars, and broke up their sitting in bad
temper.
The river was on another big swell
yesterday, and for hours was covered
with ice as far as the eye could reach.
With ten foot rise the view was mag
Sifcently grand along the river front.
Il Knoxville Chronicle, 10th.
There are % national banks in Ten
nessee; capital, $3,OSO,3OO; dividends
last year, $l42, ,480 ratio Of dividends
to capital, 4.62 per cent. These fig
ures are from the annual report Of the
comptroller of the currency just fur
nished.
In the United States Court at New
Orleans, last Tuesday, Myra Clark
Gaines got judgment and execution
issued against a number of persons for
a large amount of money, with inter
est at 5per cent, from various periods
in 1877.
The Chattanooga Times of the 10th
reports the steamers Hally, Helen aud
Emory City cut down and sunk by
ice, near London. The steamer r.
NJ. Bishop is safe at the mouth of
Pinty and the r. c. Jackson is safe at
Bridgeport.
D. w. Scott, an old citizen Of
Clarksylie, Tenn, is dead. Miss Sue
Ogden Caldwell, promising young
girl of fourteen, also died in the same
place a few days since. The funeral
obsequies were celebrated together at
the Methodist church.
Shelbyyillc (Tenn.) Gazette: Rents
in Shelbyville are out of all proper
tion to the price of real estate. The
rents now received by landlords pay
from s to II per cent on the property
rented, clear of taxes, insurance and
repairs. This is much better than
lending money at 6 per cent.
Coasting down the slippery inclincS
of The streets in Nashville, last Fri
day, caused Robert Stacy, railroad
conductor, to break his leg, and John
Smith, q plumber, met with the same
misbap B. Hom aud Phil. Hoyte
were carried FROM tie street insensi-
Bile from bruises, says The American.
W. A. Phillips of Spring Place, Ga,
had his skull broken by Il negro last