Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-06-14
MISSISSIPPI

Oxford is to have water works
soon.
The Oxford Falcon looms up for Mr..
Tilden.
The Brookhaven Ledger looms up
for Tilden.
The Aux prevails in Attala and ad-
joining counties.
DR.. I. j. Burchett has been elected
mayor Of V~icksburg.
The press association will meet at
Aberdeen next year.
Nearly every little town in Missis-
sippi is organizing a brass band.
Kinds county has t~wenty-four Sun
day-schools, with a membership Of
1868 pupils.
A negro man, 81 years of age, pro-
cured a marriage license in Pike cOun-
ty last week.
The press convention at Yazoo City
was constituted of 81 members, repre-
senting Sc papers.
The congressional convention of the
Second district will be held at Water
Valley August l1th.
The state supreme court has decided
that l.. X. Wilson is the legal sheriff
of YalObusha county.
The Pamela Star is convinced that
a ticket composed Of Bayard and
Thurman would be invincible.
Sardis boasts of a man who can eat
six boxes of cove oysters and fifteen
pounds OF soda crackers at one time.
A young man named McCrackin, OF
Yalobusha county, was killed last
week by the accidental discharge Of a
pistol.
The supreme court has decided
that j. j. Baker, greenbaeker, is the
legally elected sheriff of Holmes
county.
Hazlehurst Copiahan The outlook
indicates that Col. Hooker will',be his
own successor in congress from this
the 9th district.
The democracy Of Kinds county
have declared for Hancock and
Hooker, and Coahoma instructs hei
delegates for Hancock and Chalmers
The murderer of Jim Henry, a col
ored Baptist preacher of Oktibeha
county, has been sentenced to bt
hanged on the second day of July
next.
Mr.. H.. P. Dotson, of ChoctaW
county, has Joined the Mormons and
gone to Utah. He had a wife and
several children, all of whom he took
with him.
The Flag of the Union comes to us
this week with the names of David
Davis and General A.. NJ. West, fol
president and vice president at it;
mast head.
The congressional committee on the
Improvement Of the Mississippi river
has appropriated $6,6l9,000. including
S250,OOO for V~icksburg and $780, C(
for Natchez.
Columbus has two artesian wells
to each Of which is attributed great
medicinal properties. One we'll is
chalybeate and the other highly min.
eral. iron predominating.
The Clarion, whose senior editor is
a delegate, thinks the Mississippi dele,
cation stands about as follows: Han.
cock 6, Bayard 6, Tilden l, Thurman
l, and the other two undecided.
The state tax in Mississippi the
present year is So on every $1,000 Of
assessed property. In 1874. under
radical rule, the state tax was $14 on
every $1,000 of assessed property.
General James Ballou, the Copiah
county dwarf, is 10 years old, weighs
Il pounds, and measures 81 inches in
height. He travels about selling his
photographs and a sketch of his life.
Dock Drake, the negro who attempt.
ed to asSassinate Mr.. Lyons, an old
and inoffensive white farmer, neal
Starkville, in 1877, has been caught.
tried and sentenced to the peniten-
tiary.
Pamela Star A new p~ostofice has
been established at Egypt Mills,
(Sledge & Alexander's,) ABOUT twelve
miles west of Sardis just on the edge
Of the bottom, and is to be known a.
" Mastodon."
Governor Stone has appointed L.
2. Pipkin, of Pope, James Rufin, Of
Como, and Joe Brown, of Sardis, as
commissioners of election for Pamela
county. The first two are democrats,
and the latter is a colored republican.
Water Valley Courier Mr.. VIM.
Terry residing neal Shiloah church in
this county was right severely stun
ned.a few days since by a lightning
bolt which seemed to strike the ground
some fifteen feet from him, as he was
blowing in his field.
Batesville Blade: We are informed
to-day of one of the most inhuman
acts ever committed by man. The
savage, whoever he was, entered the
stable Of Mr.. Phillip, two miles west
of this place, and shaved his horses
name and tail, and cut off both ears as
near his head as possible. Certainly
the mean, contemplate scoundreI
should meet with a just and speedy
retribution.