Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-04-17
TENNESSEE.

Coles circus will be in Jackson on
April IS. ,
Robt. Vernon, of Grand Junction,
committed suicide last week.
W. w. Wade, a prominent nan of
Jackson, is dead.
A new broom has been invented by
a Morristown man.
Rutherford county darkies have
caught the exodus fever.
Hosse-thieves have been operating
about Knoxville lately.
Hon. B. B. Enloe declines to be a
candidate for congress.
The Maury county republicans
want Judge A. NJ. Hughes for gov
ernor.
The Union City Anchor expresses a
preference for Captain ID. d. Bell, of
that place, for congress in the Eighth
district.
The sheds erected to protect the
compress at Jackson fell down Friday,
involving a loss of fifteen hundred or
two thousand dollars.
The oldest house in MurfreesDOro,
built in 1913, was burned recently.
It's honestly conducted walls were but
slightly damaged.
The Tennessee press association
meets at jackson on the 18th of
June.
The Haywood county court voted
500 for-the jackson statue.
One hundred and fifty negroes have
left GAINESVILLE for Kansas.
The posto6ice at Gladeville has
been re-established and christened
Partlow.
Henry county sends uninstructed
delegates to the democratic conven-
ton,
Lincoln county levies a tax of forty
five cents on the one hundred dollars
for school purposes.
T~rousdale county declares fo- Thur.
man for the presidency and r. E,
Thompson for governor.
Mrs. Nancy Tins, a pauper of Har.
deman county, is said to be one hun
dred and fifteen years old.
II. G. Bate, formerly editor of the
L~awrenceburg Free Press, has ac-
cepted an editorial position on the
Pulaski Herald.
Hon, Henry H. Spofford has pre-
sented a costly clock and bell to Giles
county to be placed in the eupola O.
her courthouse.
The low tax party in Wilson county
want Hon. r. h. Thompson, of Leb-
anon, for governor, and are down on
Marks.
BrutOn and Balch, of the Jackson
Wing, have dissolved their partner
ship. The paper will be published
by Mr.. Balch in future.
A new lodge of Knights of Honor.
christened the "Stone Fort Lodge"
was organized at Manchester a few
days ago, with nineteen charter mem
bers.
Milan Exchange A piece of iron
weighing six pounds fell from a height
Of thirty feet, at Cade's compress last
Friday, and hit Jack Beck on the
head. Owing to the providential
thickness Of the Uranium, he was not
b hurt.
Brownsville Democrat: A couple O
negro preachers, the Rev. Lawson
Anthony, jr., and the Rev. Sneed
Waddle, had a fight last Sunday over
the question whose time it was to
'lpreach at the colOred church at An.
thony's school house. Anthony got
his nose mashed and the crowd broke
up in a row, and nobody preached.
Bellville Enterprise: We would
like to know, for the benefit of oul
citizens generally, what kind of mai
agent is running on the road. We gel
our dailies from Memphis and Nash
vile about once a week, and then
from different directions from what
they should come. Sometimes the
Humboldt, Gadsden and Brownville
mails are thrown off here, and alto
gether, the agent gets things generally
mixed.
The republicans of Carroll have
RESOLVED" that they want U. S.
Grant for president and Alvin Hawk.
ms for governor. They also decided
to hold a primary election on the last
Saturday in MAY, to settle the dues-
ton as to who shall be candidates for
county Offices. The county executive
committee is composed of the follow
ing gentlemen: John Spellings, NJ.
D. Carmel, James Taylor, of Layinia,
NJ. Il. Sparks and Geo. Mccall. The
delegates to the state convention are
instructed to vote as a unit.
Paris Intelligencer: A physician
, who is well posted came very near
making a fatal blunder a few days
since. He was sitting in his room
reading, and felt some symptoms of a
chill, and concluded to take a dose Of
quinine, and putting out what he
supposed to be five grains, put it into
his mouth, but before swallowing the
dose concluded it did not taste exactly
| right. Upon examination he found
it was morphine. There was q bis
splitting and mouth washing Just il
2 time to save him from the effect of {
big mistake. OF course the morphine
was not swallowed, but there was 1
badly scared doctor.