Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-11-16
MISSISSIPPI

A young lady is express agent at
Mississippi City,
Ed helms, colored, is to be hung at
Hernando on the 10Th inst
Colonel T. J. FAINT has been re-
elected mayor Of Holly Springs.
The pay car disbursos about $25,-
0OQ once a month at Water Valley.
Winona is building two new
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Chris
tian.
Every week Pascagonla makes
large shipments Of lumber to foreign
ports.
The fair, held at Aberdeen recently,
proved quite a success and was largely
attended.
The new code Of 1880 is now the
law OF the state, having gone into eff
feet November LIST.
In Kinds county, within the past
year, personal property has increased
in value more than 20 per cent.
One night last week the court
house at COffeeville was broken open
and the principal indictments stolen.
Many horses and mules have the
opizoOtic IN a light form abeut Match
es aud in other portions Of the state,
While at Biloxi, Coup, the show
man, lost, by %epizOoty, his leapinl
horse. "Nettle,' which cost him
$4,000.
Major Withers, a colored man in
Yarshall county, voted for Manning
and his wife deserted him in conse
quence,
The electric light is in successful
operation at the WessOn Mills. These
mills have a day and night force and
run all the time,
Two young adies have come all the
wav from switzerland TO teach French
AID other modern languages in the
,chOols in jackson.
1t is rumored that there will be a
called session of the legislature this
winter ia make an apportiOnment un-
der the new state census.
judge George will deliver an ad-
dress on the life and character Of the
ate x-Governor A. G. Brown, at the
capitol, in Jackson, on the 18th inst
Colonel Ned Richardson, the cotton
king Of Mississippi, it is said. viii
make fourteen thousand five hundred
bales o cuttOn on his individual plan
t%ations.
Between two aud three thousand
people attended Sells Brothers circus
at Water Valley last week, many o.
them coming a distance of tWe1ty
or twenty-five miles.
The next session Of the Mississippi
annual conference of the NJ. +. church
will convene at V~icksbnrg on the 8tl
of December next. Bishop Wight
man, OF South Carolina, will preside
J. Il. Ashcraft, Of Lexington, Miss.
was shot and instantly killed on Nov
%. +. j. Lockhart, who was wound
ed 10 the ARRAY has since died. On,
was sheriff and the other CHANGER
court clerk.
Gen. ;. Y. Ramsey, who was 70
manv years a prominent lawyer il
Meridian, but for the last Eve year
has been practiciDg his profession a
Dallas, Tex has come back to live a
his old home,
Mr.. George Stewart, Of Fulton, TIA
wanda county, writes US that the cleo
ton passed off very quietly in tina
place, 300 votes polled for Hancock
Muldrow 302. Aot a radical or
grecnback vote was polled at this box
Col. Claiborne, the distinguish
historian Of our state, reads sermons
but rarely ever hears them preached
He has not attended church in thirty
five years, Another peculiarly to tn
colonel is that he has never had hi
picture taken aud does not intend t
do go.
Canton Mail: A man made thi
year on Mr.. Robert Ford's place nea
sharon, eight bales Of cotton and owe
TWO hundred barrels Of corn, one hun
bred gallons Of molasses and plent,
# potatoes to do him, and at a cost o
only four dollars outside Of his owl
labor.
The Jackson Comet says: Hon
John r. Lynch was in jackson
Thursday, and fled with the governo
his protest against the issuance Of
certificate to Hon. Jas. K. Uhalmer
scongressman-elect Of the Sixth dis
trict. Mr.. Lynch claims that from
the returns he has a majority Of tn
fotes ranging from 500 to 1900. Their,
5 evidently. a lively contest in sigh
f,r this seat when congress meets"
The Meriditn Mercury. says tn
democrats of that place left the can
non loaded Monday night in order I
shoot upon the first faint murmur @
clad tidiBgs Of great joy. Il is useles
70 say the load remains in the cannon
\ lad went to King, the blacksmith
to procure something 10 draw the loa
With. kim asked, why don't the
shoot it Out2' Boy, "the democrat
lon't want tn shoot any more" Kiln
go aud tell EN- to sell out the loa
. the republicans and let them shoe
i. out A cipital idea.
VA yF1V: There we're sixtee
)a.es Of c'amn cole (or cholera MOI
lusl occur ed in town last Sunda
hight Some Of them were quite 81
we're, and required the attendance of
MUSICIAN. We do not know the caus
frhis unusual outbreak, but think
lutte probable that the filthy cond.
lou Of our streets and iowa general
Turing the summer and fall had
, much TO do with it as any other on
fact. The poison has been qraduall
absorbed into the systems Of poop.
> during weeks past, and now a chanl
fweather causes IL 10 manifest itsel
Reeds Gilt Edge onic cures dyspeps
A Detroit Wiie's SeIEPOssessIOl
The other evening the wifc Of