Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-19
MISSISSIPPI.

tn census of Summit shows a pop
.lation Of 1904. so,o.
Jackson has a population Of Ool''
ll,76O. -
Meridian is returned as having
,opulationsOf 4Ol2. 81,
HandsbOro shipped 100000 feet CT
in one week.
Lauderdale county has a CO..
woman lis years old. -ored
CRYSTAL Springs has beer
one hundred boxes Of peac' shipping
Mrs. Amy Dixon, VII d e daily
II NJ 1ixon. died las re of the late
City. VEGA III Aa1OO
There will be
nlss aSsI pe Siment at Verona on
Mrs. " ark, an estimable lady aged
R.ne.yF Ight, died in Pike county
hiohO ay night, the 18th inst.
LAST year an 0ktibbeha county
iarrder made eighty one bales of cot
Ton on eighty acres ofland.
The Port Gibson Reville announces
that cotton worms have made their
appearance in Adams county.
The population of Pamela county
will be between $4,000, an increase Of
twenty-five per cent in ten years.
General James r.. Chalmers was
re-nominated for congress at Natchez,
last Wednesday, by reclamation.
The Terry Southern Enterprise
hoists the name of Hon. Ethel Banks
dale for the next governor of Missis-
sippi.
Colonel R. D. Baugh, formerly
mayor Of Memphis, was one of the
census enumerators in Carroll
county.
Hon. 0. R. Singleton has no oppo-
sition to his nomination in the fourth
district, as all of his competitors have
withdrawn.
Judge }. q. George and family are
spending the summer at "~Cotesworth"
the old homestead, about two miles
north Of Oarrolton.
According to the report Of the
state census ~enumerator, Lehore
county has a population of 10,169. OF
this number only ZIG are white peo-
pie.
The health officer of Attala county
receives a salary of $50 per annum
He is required to practice gratitiously
for the poor house, and the paupers
of Kosciusko.
An enumerator of the census in
Tallahatchie county, found a wo-
man who gave her age at thirty
years, who had a daughter whose age
was twenty-five years.
D. R. May, OF Summit, has gath
'ered $50 bushels of Irish potatoes
from one acre of land. Fourteen hun
dFed pounds of cotton seed meal were
used In mapuring this land.
The Brandon Republican has en-
tered upon its thirty-frst year, and
for nearly twenty-nine years it has
been edited and published by the
present proprietor, A. j. Franz.
Mr.. Dave Mayer, Of Mississippi, is
the second great cotton planter of the
south. He has recently connected all
his plantations, gins aud mills in the
vicinity Of Vicksburg by telephone.
DR.. D. B. Mathews, for forty years
a citizen of Marshall county, died at
his residence in Holly Springs last
Sunday, in the seventy-ninth year Of
his age. DR.. Mathews was uniyer-
sally respected, and his death is
widely regretted.
Governor A. G. Brown had been
engaged the last two years of his life
in writing his autobiography. The
manuscript is now in the hands of
Colonel }. +. II. Claiborne and forms
a material part of volume eleven of his
history of Mississippi.
Colonel j. 2. George has resigned
his position as chief justice of the SUI
preme court, and Hon. Fl. H. Chal.
mers now fills that position. Colonel
George, however, still remains a mem
Der Of the court, and will so continue
until he enters the United States SEN
ate.
Mrs. Underwood. an old lady living
in Scott county, Miss, was killed a
few days ago by an unruly COW, goring
and trampling her TO death. Her
| daughter was first attacked and much
injured, when the mother went to the
rescue and met her death by trying to
shield her child.
Grenada Sentinel: Mad dogs are
reported in several parts of the state,
but we have heard of no mad sheep:
and sometimes we wish amad dog had
every member of the last legislature
who voted against our dog ald sheep
bill, by the coat tail, provided be
would do him no more harm than
learn him a good lesson of the advan-
tages Of more sheep and fewer dogs.
The COnklings-Father and Son.
Portland Adyertiser.l