Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-31
TENNESSEE.

The senatorial convention meets at
Brownsville Sept. 2lst.
The merchants of Belleville con
tinue to do a good business.
The population of Wilson county is
28,645 against 25,SSl in 1870.
Colonel Byrd, Of east Tennessee, is
still a candidate for governor.
Dyer county isnow promising to pay
six per cent interest on its registered
county warrants.
The population of Williamson coun-
ty in 1870 was 1928; this year it is
2S,3O9, an increase OF 1881.
Cotton still comes into Brownsville
in wagons. One hundred sbales were
brought in one day last week.
Colonel 7. H. Baker, of Carroll, is
spoken of as a candidate for the SEN
ate from Gibson and Carroll counties.
The Brownsville board Of trade is
agitating the Improvement of the
Forked Deer and Hatchie river lev
ees.
The negro Frank King, who muir
dered his wife in Brownsville, got off
with a life sentence to the peniten-
tiary.
There are two colored candidates
for the legislature in Haywood coun-
ty, n greenbacker and one republic
can.
Brownsville States: The crop pros
poets of this section are splendid. The
Haywood county farmer rejoices in
the generally favorable outlook.
Clarksville Tobacco Leaf, 30: Rev.
DeIacy WardIaw left Nashville yes
terday for Brazil, South America,
where, as a Presbyterian minister. he
will begin his missionary labors. Rev.
Mr.. Wardlaw is we'll known in this
city, being the son of DR.. Wardlaw, so
long the pastor Of the Presbyterian
church.
Cor. Morristown Gazette | see in
your last paper that you think Merits
town has the oldest person in the
state. Hancock can beat that. In
my travels when enumerator | found
one Mrs. q. Gilins that was 104 years
old, and on the same day a Mrs. Led
geF % and MIR. D. Wilder who was 80
all of Hancock,
Wartrace cor. American July 26:
Wheat threshing is over at last.
Much of the wheat is too damn to be
in a mercantile condition. Farmers
are generally disposed to bring it to
market without much delay. A crop
Of 100 bushels was sold here for 92l
cents. The corn crop is looking
better than it has for many years. An
| abundant yield is now almost assured.
The total population of the thirteen
counties comprising the third super
visor's district in this state, was in
| 1870, 800, 36l. According to the cen
sus taken this year by Mr.. +. NJ.
Paul, the population Of the same ter
ritory is 357 .246, an increase of over
II per cent. These counties are
Davidson, Cheatham, Bedford, Moore,
Marshall, Giles, Lincoln, Maury,
Robertson, Rutherford, Sumner,
TrOusdaIe, and Williamson.
At the congressional convention at
Humboldt last week, the following
executive committee for this (the 9th
district. was appointed: r. s. Thomp-
son. of Crockett; II. Parks, of Dyer;
j. +. Rawlins, of Gibson; w. r.
Leigh, of haywood; M. A. Lowe, of.
Lake; w. Il. Lynn, of Lauderdale; r.
a. PieEca. of Gbion; j. NJ. Young, of
Upton; j. L. McGlothlin, Of Weak
ley. The committee organised ky
leiecGng r. A. Pierce chairman ana
Nv. r. Leigh secretary. ="
American, Both: Mrs. Thomas l..
MaRshsll presented to the tennessee
historical society, yesterday, a copy of
the Confederate States Almanac and
Repository Of Useful KnoWledee for
1864" it was published by II. Z.
Clarke. Mobile, Alabama. and devotes
almost its entire pages to the late Con-
fe9eggcy, including the constitution
and goyeFAmagt Of the Confederate
states, members OF congress and sen
/ ate, and also a chronology from the
| SEst day o. gSDuary, 1861 to the battle
Of CbfcSamauga. September, 1863.
There are but very few Of these books
extant. aud II is a gift which the
members Of the society duly appreg
ciate.
In Nashville eighty-three building
permits have been issued since the
first Of January-mostly small family
residences, outside Of the fire district,
except one, an ~elegatpe, The esti-
mated cost Of thesei IS $i29, $40: sixty.
five permits have been issued for
brick buildings, the estimated cost of
which is 26I,350, making a total of
1894, 1870. This does not include many
buildings iq the Eleventh to the Eff.
teenth wards Inclusive, WHICH have
been lately annexed to the city, nor
does it include that massive structure
now being erected at the Vanderbilt
university, The brick buildings in
the city proper are of that excellent
character which would reflect credit
on any city,