Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-16
TENNESSEE.

Morgan county has a population Of
52l2.
Somerville felt the shock Of the
earthquake Friday night.
Greenville shows q population Of
1904, according to the census, and
Morristown 1850.
1t is reported that sixteen state
credit delegations will go from West
Tennessee to the gubernatorial con-
vention.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Jeck, aged so,
who came from Germany four years
ago, died of sunstroke in Nashville on
the 18th inst.
The census returns for Macon coun-
ty are all in. The population of
Macon county is 1920. In 1870 it
was 6638, which shows a gain in ten
years of 26S7.
Thomas Harrison, married only q
month, was sent to the Nashville
workhOuse last week for 663 days for
beating his dear young wife. She,
woman-like, tried to get him out.
Complaint is made that the tele-
graph line from Moscow to Somerville,
a local affair, built mainly by funds
collected from Memphis merchants, is
about to 60 down for want Of repair
ing.
State Superintendent Trousdale is
in receipt of letters from East Tennes-
see announcing that the normal work
in that portion of the state is boom
ing" nearly every county having
opened a normal institute.
Bristol News: Hon. Robert L. Tay-
lor was in town last Saturday and
Sunday and looks too happy over
the nomination of Pettibone, whom
prominent republicans admit will be
beaten much further than in 1878.
Nashville American: The tax ag-
gregate of Madison county, for 1880,
as reported to the comptroller, is
$l,198 1872; for 1879, $4,61O,188, in
crease, $l8S, 1874. This is the first re-
port for 1880 received by the comp.
t%roller.
Somerville, FALCON 18th: The farmers
have put in good time during the dry
weather of the last ten days, and the
crops will soon be laid by. Both cot
ton and corn are looking remarkably
well, and with propitious seasons dur
ing the next month will make a hand
some turn out.
Henry Clay Harmon, of Campbell
county, was sentenced by Judge Bax-
ter at Knoxville, last Tuesday, to pay
a fine of 81, 900, and suffer imprison-
ment in the state penitentiary for two
years, for forgery in connection with
some pension papers.
Clarksville Tobacco Leaf To Mr..
w. H.. Jones, of Robertson county,
belongs the honor for having carried
off the highest price paid for tobacco
on u market this year-the hid.
sold by the Grange warehouse ten
days ago at $14 per hundred.
The high tax and the low tax dem
ocrats of Montgomery county came
together tremendously at GAINESVILLE
last Monday, and held a Hancock and
English love feast. This good feeling
should at least be cultivated until
after the November election.
Morristown Gazette: Morristown,
perhaps, has the oldest woman living
in the state. Mrs. Sally Spoon is her
name, and her age was given to the
enumerator recently at 103 years. She
is in very feeble health and has been
confined to her bed for several years.
Brownsville has organized a board
of trade. The officers elected are
A. NJ. Austin, president; j. A. Will
der, vice president; E. Tamm, vice
president; P. B. Winston, vice presi-
dent; w. G.. Brockway, secretarya
Gabe Felsenthal, assistant secretary:
A. w. Brockway, treasurer.
Mr.. Samuel Watkins, an old and
public spirited citizen Of Nashville,
has purchased the Fogg property,
corner of Church and High streets,
for $4,000, and has appropriated
$4,000 in his will for the purpose of
establishing thereon a scientific libra.
~ similar to the Cooper institute, of
New York.