Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-11-03
MISSISSIPPI

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Vieksburg last week.
There are nine cotton seed oil mills
in the state of Mississippi.
Starkville is to have a new court
house. to replace the one recently
burned.
Meridian, week before last, shipped
one hundred bales Of cotton direct
to Liverpool.
Mr.. BobO, of COahoma, recently
killed a panther measuring nine feet
from tip to tip.
The citizens Of Scooba and vicinity
have organized an anti-seed cotton
buyers association.
On Monday night IF last week all
the prisoners in the Brandon jail
broke out and escaped.
While two Sumner county boys were
playing in a gully the banks thereof
"cayed in and killed them both
Camp meetings have been held in
Salem, jackson county. for fifty years
in succession. One closed there last
week.
fazOo county has appropriated 800
for the purpose Of having all the pub
lie roads surveyed and mile-posts
erected.
Gen. G. Y. Freeman has returned to
his home in Grenada, much improved
in health, from his extended Europe.
an tour.
A colored couple was recently mar
ried in Jail at Greenwood. The groom
is working out a fifty dollar fine for
burglary.
At the late term Of the chancery
court Of Lafayette county twenty-six
persons were divorced from the bonds
Of matrimony,
Judge G. W. Ryan, Of jasper coun-
ty, gathered s~eventy-fve pounds Of
pecans from a tree that he planted
fifteen years ago.
Rev. A. P. Leech, of Lowndes
county, has produced, on an average,
456 gallons Of molasses to the acre.
which, at the market price, Is cents Q
gallon, amounts to 1912. This beat:
raising cotton.
PascagoWla Star. Last Sunday the
men on the dredge boat at the mouth
Of the river caught a shark nine anC
a halt feet long and weighing three
hundred and fifty pounds. An ordin.
airy man would make only a good mea'
for such a fish as this.
At the grange fair near Memphi,
recently, Pamela claimed three Of the
four premiums on cotton, as follows
4. Compton, first premium, $500; Mr.
Murray. third premium, $500; John
Gracey, fourth premium, 5000. Hur.
rah for Pamela county,
Canton Mail: The big buffalo be.
longing to Coup's circus died at Thu
place under the canvass last Thursda,
night, from the effects Of a wound IN
the head received at the hands of the
Indians that morning in a sham buff
falo hunt, coupled with the very warm
weather.
The Mississippi law against sellins
liquor to minors is very severe. Ii
provides that offenders shall pay a fin,
Of not less than twenty nor more thar
a hundred dollars, and shall be con.
fined in the county Jail not less thar
ten nor more than thirty days, and Il
pay the cost Of the prosecution.
Meridian Homestead: Major Geo
?. lierndon, editor OF the West PoinI
Sunady News, proposes to issue a bool
entitled Biographical Record of Mis-
sissippi, which will contain brie
sketches Of the prominent citizens O
each county in the state. Mr.. Her.
don is a graceful and polished writer
and is well qualified to make the pro.
prosed work interesting to all who fee
an interest in the history Of the state
Greenyille Times. A number O
our county planters have been In jack
son during the past week. seeurinl
conyicts from the new %lessees. Their,
was loud s~quealing over the figures
but the striped brigade was in grea.
demand Notwithstanding. At SO ne.
month net. The lessees disposed of III,
following squads in this county h
Richardson, one hundred g. II
Smith, ninety; II. Burdett, forty .Johi
Hebron, twenty-five. James Fettus
twelve. Messrs. Clay & Miller. o
Bolivar, secured a squad. AZ tbi,
rate there is a very good margin 70.
speculation on the price paid TO tn,
state.
Macon Sun, Last night DR.. Matt
Clays's gin house, on the Columbu.
road, was entirely DESTROYED by 6re
with fifteen bales Of cotton. Two ne
groes, John Heard and Lewis Hooper
were brought in town charged viii
the act, and are in Jail to await their
trial. The crime Of arson was form.
erly punished in England by death.
Vicksburg Herald On Friday las.
IN the afternoon the governors man.
sion was entered by burglars anc
robbed of several hundred dollars
worth Of property. There was no one
on the premises. Investigation deyol,
oped that the robbers were the motto.