Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-28
SOUTHERN NEWS.

ne nappy county OF MONTGOMERY,
Miss, gets dollar for dollar for its
warrants.
Several persons froze to death in
Southern Mississippi during the re-
cent cold snap.
The next meeting of the Masonic
Grand Lodge Of Mississippi will be at
jackson in 1880.
Senator Branch X. Bruce (colored),
OF Mississippi, has purchased a cattle
ranch in Colorado.
The orange orchards were not much
hurt along Lake Ponchartrain, La
by the late cold weather.
Governor A. S. Marks and Treas
urer Marsh I. Polk have but one lee
and Comptroller Gaines has only one
arm.
Pumpkins are among other things
received in payment for dues to the
Wnona Advance by Colonel B. f.
Jones.
One million dollars worth of the
the Cincinnati Southern railroad bonds
has been taken by a Boston house at
The sound Of the hammer and noise
OF the saw is constant at Waverly
Tenn, where improvements arc going
on in lively way.
The knights of Honor are praised
and hOnored everywhere, and many
applications for membership are pend
ing in the several lodges here.
Georgia has $3.50 people who can
not read or write. Five years AGO the
number was 1924. The reduction
Is partially due to emancipation.
The concealed weapon law in South
Carolina inficts fine of from 5000 to
$1,000, and Imprisonment of six months
and one year of each offender.
Carroll county, Tennessee, has "A
paupers. The people of that county
have three times voted down a tax for
free schools and are about to try it
again.
Nashville has grown up around the
penitentiary so fast and thick that it
is deemed advisable by many to re-
move it. A bill is before the legisla-
ture for that purpose.
In Texas they get up hunting clubs
and have grand time catching wolves.
wildcats and other game, until enough
is bagged to pay their dog tax. after
which the hunt breaks up.
The town of Waverly, Tennessee
has Resting Club" and they meet
occasionally at the journal Office to
worry the editors because they fail to
provide seats for them.
Little Rock is anxious to make a
contract for ten years to have gas sun
piled at So for each light per month
and S2 80 each when the lights are in
creased to sufficient number,
The Oxford Eagle and Grenada
Sentinel are against the pardon of Mr..
B, /. Eddins, now imprisoned for
ballot-box stufing in Shelby county,
Tenn. They call it a Just sentence.
II is now limited that the Hon.
Horace Maynard will nurse the Sec
ond congressional district and see if it
cannot be made to give him better
berth than that he now occupies as
minister to Turkey.
The calculations Of Professor Tice
have gone wrong. His warmest was
the coolest and the coolest turned out
to be the warmest. SO says the Fort
Smith Elevator, and it will fit this sec
tion all the same.
The Jail birds at Arkadelphia, Ark.
now sing hymns and perform other de-
votions without fire or frewood. They
used the latter some time since in try
ing to break out, and the keeper cut
off their rations.
Knoxville has elected S. B. Luttrell
mayor by a majority of 255 over c. w.
Charlton. There is now So persons in
the Jail at Knoxville; So of whom
were sentenced by the United States
Court now in session.
The steamer Shields went IN Duck
river, Tenn, few days ago to Cen
teryille with load of salt and furni-
ture, returning with a large cargo of
peanuts. She has no whisky, and don't
carry any barkeeper
The mayor of Atlanta, Ca, SAYS
that city must be run on what it re-
ceiyes, and it must not go one dollar
beyond; that the various departments
must be so managed that the receipts
will cover them all.
A vast deal Of carefully acquired
misinformation is charged by the
Knoxville Tribune on neighboring
paper, because the latter announced
that Colonel A. S. Collier is chairman
of the senate committee on finance.
when John II. Savage is, and Collier
is not even member of the present
general assembly.
Jonesboro, East Tennessee, has
thirteen lawyers, and johnson City.
near by, four more. 1t has become
question how so many are to live But,
says the Jonesbore journal, "They do
live and all wear respectable clothes
and have plenty to cat How they do
it will be ascertained when their es-
tates como to be wound up"
Cotton factories and cotton seed
mills are constantly increasing in the
South. A little establishment near
Westminster, Ca, of which the ma
chinery cost only $500, turns out
about 500 worth Of manufactured goods
daily, and employs eight hands at fifty
cents a day. The village consumes
the product, and the owners, who are
also planters, obtain vastly higher
price for their cotton than if they
shipped it. h