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

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Virginia last week.
Crockett county, Tenn, issued 175
marriage licenses last year.
Jane Coombs is playing Camille
and such pieces through Texas towns.
Counterfeit half dollars are making
their appearance in some parts Of
Texas.
The new municipal charter proposed
for Mobile, is called a dOuble-headed
m~onstrosity.
In Western Texas sheep are dying
extensively from the effects of the ex-
cessive cold.
Texas, with a Democratic majority
of 10000, has five negro members in
its legislature.
Pneumonia prevails all over the
South, and in many localities to an
alarming extent,
Huntingdon now has eight drinking
saloons and three houses where they
sell by the quart.
The Hon. Horace Maynard, United
States minister to Turkey, is en- route
home on a furlough.
The board of trade of Mobile have
petitioned congress to remove the OBJ
structions of Mobile harbor.
Colonel V. H. Rhodes, a planter on
the Yazoo, eight miles below Green
wood, suicided on the Sd inst.
The Dennison (Texas) News and
Herald are debating the question, who
is the champion liar of the world2
Gibson county has been paying 5000
per annum for a school superintend-
ant. The Mirror wants it raised to
$500.
Texas is getting excited over the
proposed visit Of all the judges of the
United States Supreme Court next
month.
The Spanish steamship Guillenno
has engaged to take from Pensacola,
Florida, a cargo of 300 cattle to
Havana.
Shelbyville, Tenn, has shipped
seven car loads of turkeys and chick
ems and 5000 quails within the past
two months.
DR.. John Holt, of Yazoo county,
Miss, was stabbed by his son last
week, and so dangerously that his life
is aespaired of.
Fifteen wagons filled with colored
people recently left the neighborhood
of Macon, Tenn, for Arkansas, where
they propose to settle.
The expenses of Lauderdale county,
Tenn, for 1878, not including salaries,
were 81, 785l IA, out of which they have
a pOOr-house remaining.
The Yazoo valley is filling up with
colOred emigrants, who are moving
from the sterile fields about Meridian
and other wornout places.
The present levee bill, appropriating
some $3,5O0,0O0 for the construction
of Mississippi leyees, it is believed will
not be carried through congress sue
cessfully.
At Fort Gaines, Alabama, at the
residence of Mr.. Shelf Tester, there
was a watermelon party on the 9th of
January. The melon weighed twenty
five pounds.
Hon. H. l.. Muldrow, of Missis-
sippi, says Reuben Davis, his pro-
posed contestant, has of all other men
in the State the least right to com
plain of violence or intimidation,
The County Court of Crockett has
refused to levy a tax of 10 cents on the
500 as a school fund tax, but will
leave it to a vote of the people whether
or not a levy shall be made of2O cents.
Funnagusha is a small river in Mis-
sissippi and a still smaller is the
Yocony. The 0tuckolota was on a
bender down there last week, and had
submerged the low lands along its
couse.
High water has interfered with gov
eminent work at Muscle Shoals, Ten
nessee river. The officers arc off Of
duty and are getting up a ball at Flor
ence to while away a few Of the dull
hours.
A crowd Of Helena people are fixing
to 20 to the New Orleans Mardi- Gras,
They here that the Queen Of Momus'
Jewels alone will be we'll worth cross
ing a,continent to gaze upon, and they
are going.
Two dividends have been declared
BY the defuuct Freedmen's Bank. The
first November /, 1875, amounted to
S293, $1,000; Of this dividend there re-
mains a balance Of $46,612.10, payable
to 3,56l depositors who cannot be
found. The second dividend, 1878,