Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-13

j. w. Holt, one of the old and es-
teemed citizens of White county, died
last week.
One hundred and sixty-fve license
to marry we're issued in Independence
county last year.
Large quantities of cotton are being
shipped from Gainesville over the
teamway to the railroad.
The Jennie May is the name Of a
new steamboat put in the local Ar
kansas river trade above Fort Smith.
The Helena Yoeman reports a wo-
man in Phillips county living with
her ninth husband, having planted"
eight.
The Fort Smith people are endeav-
oring to get up another excursion to
the southeast-this time to North
Carolina.
Arkadelphia is battling against Hot
Springs and endeavoring to secure the
trade of the Montgomery Silver
Mining District.
Two hundred wagons were to start
from Harrison, Boone county, on the
9th inst, for Russellville, ladened with
the produce of that section.
a Mr. Joseph G. Griffith, a citizen
of Little Rock over 65 years of age,
was married on Christmas afternoon
to his adopted daughter, aged IA.
A little steamboat named Bull Of
the Woods" has been put in Black
river at Corney, and viii ply in the
interest of the stove factory at that
place.
The Jonesboro Times warns the
public and Masons generally to beware
Of a degenerated Mason named Del
witt, from Wesley Lodge No SO, Of
Mississippi.
A majority of the voters Of Middle
Township, Franklin county, signed a
petition to the county court asking
that no liquor Incense be granted in
that township for the coming year.
They have county Judge to elect
in Prairie county, and the papers
there are full of announcements OF
respectable citizens who are willing tC
sacrifice themselves for the position
Farmers are making contracts with
hands for the present year. As far as
we can learn, the majority of laborer;
seem satisfied to remain on the land,
they cultivated last year; formerly i
was the custom to remove at the enC
of the year.
Little Rock Democrat: The Little
Rock Woolen Mill is turning cut
heavy order of blankets for a leading
New York jobbing house, and is ais
making several hundred yards O
striped cloth for Col Zeb Ward, to b
manufactured into suits for convicts
Helena World: From the numbe
of colored immigrants that have ar
2 rived at this place recently from Ten
Dessee, one would think it was Al
kansas instead of Kansas with them
We noticed amongst their genera
household and kitchen furniture"
goodly supply of cur dogs, the natura
concomitant Of the present generation
of freedmen.
Des Arc Citizen: Don't shoot bird
. out Of season; neither kill birds tha
9 are not for game. Arkansas is pecu
: llarly exempt from pests, which is n
: doubt owing to the great number @
birds that we have to destroy sue
pests. Our next legislature shoult
! protect the farmers by passing gam
law. 1t is much needed. 1t will b
B 100 late after while.
There is evidently brisk demand
. for marriageable girls in Westerr
Arkansas. A Mr.. Reisbold, who las
U year arrived here direct from Ger
many, with large family, and settled
in the neigbborhood of Roseville; ha
married three Of. his buxom daughter
, already to well-to-do German farmer
in the neighborhood, and he says h,
, could easily get rid OF a dozen more il
less than no time, if he had them.