Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-19
TENNESSEE.

Union City is in deplorable sani-
tary condition.
The Nashville Centennial will be
celebrated on the 24th of April.
The Fulton Ledger is the name of
a new paper recently started in Fulton.
Nashville seems aroused to the i'm.
portance of having a fine centennial
building.
Pneumonia is rather prevalent in
Lauderdale and other West Tennessee |
counties.
Madisonville has five churches and |
fine school house within her bounds, |
but not barroom.
Humboldt has prospect of fifteen
thousand dollar furniture factory, ac-
cording to the Argus.
The continued warm weather has |
destroyed or injured a considerable
quantity of meat in various parts of
the State.
The Brownsville Bee says, Colonel
George @. Porter, of Ripley, is promi-
nently spoken of as a candidate for
congress from this district.
Ripley News: Wesley Garrett, son
of Mr.. S. j. Garrett, died at the resi-
dence of his father near Dry Hill, a
few days since, from pneumonia.
A brute named VIM. Reed has been
lodged in Jail at Nashville on the
charge of violating the person of his
little stepdaughter, only six years old.
Mr.. Frank B. Ernest, who has con-
Quoted the editorial department of
the Knoxville Tribune for the past
eighteen months, has severed his CON
ineetion with that journal and gone TO
Cincinnati. perhaps to locate perma-
nently.
| General Bate was at Clarksville,
| having been retained as counsel for
| the plaintiff in the case of Goode VS..
the i. & n. railroad. This was a suit
for damages for the death of brake
man named Goode, who was killed
while coupling cars at Erin.
Union City Chrcaicle There was
! issued from the county court clerks
flee at Tro,t during the year 1879,
about $50 marriage licenses and 200
| privilege licenses. About $50 pro-
bates Of deeds of conveyance and in
struments Of like character were
also taken.
Mrs. McClain, who died at Lebanon
at an advanced age, last week, was
the wife of Josiah McClain, deceased,
who occupied the position of county
court clerk of Wilson county for over
forty years consecutively. Their son,
Rufus P. McClaiu, is the present
chancery court clerk
Clarksville Chronicle, 18th: On
Tuesday morning lest some three or
four hundred colored people, men,
women and children, left for Kansas
on the steamer G. w. Anderson. We
learn that they were from the counties
ofLogan and Todd, Kentucky. We
hear that another lot will be ready to
leave next Tuesday.
West Tennessee Wing: Mr.. w. A.
Taylor has sold to the trustees Of the
colored Methodist high school four
acres of ground just beyond the cor
porate limits of the city, where they
contemplate erecting school build
ing for the purpose Of affording educa-
tional advantages to their race, and
especially to those having the ministry
in view.
A Springfield correspondent of
| the Nashville American writes
Mr.. Moses Fizer, of Memphis, was
married to Miss Jennie Fizer, at the
residence of the brides father, two
} miles west of Springfield, Tuesday
morning. Mr.. Fizer is well and favor
/ ably known By everybody in this com
munity, and Miss Jennie is one of the
bellies of Robertson county.
Brownsville having no charter, but
several institutions of learning, the
; retail liquor business has been abol-
ished under the four mile law. There
has been little talk about re-ineor-
porating the place, but a majority
/, Of the people seem to think they can
: get along without a charter and with
out saloons. A walk of four miles
and back before breakfast to get a
drink of whisky is good exercise.
The Alamo Sentinel of the second
instant says that a serious accident
r occurred four miles south of Friend
S ship one day last week Two men
E we're out rabbit hunting, and while
seated on a fence, about forty yards
: apert, watching their dog chase a rab-
bit, one Of them-Mr Thomas Belts
e let his gun clip, the hammer struck
a rail, the gun was discharged, and
the contents lodged in his right side,
, from the effects of which he died in a
I few minutes, He leaves wife and
!. one child.
!, Huntingdon Vindicator Miss Susan
S ID. Smith was tried Wednesday on
the charge Of disturbing public wor-
ship, found guilty, and fined twenty
f FIVE dollars. The young lady was
much admired during the trial be-
= cause of her handsome features, but
+ especially were her piercing, sparkling
II black eyes the subject Of much COM
d ment. Had the jury been composed
+. Of young men exclusively, and she
had bent one beseeching glance upon
them, they would never have returned
t a verdict Of guilty.