Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-11-27
MISSISSIPPI

49,
Col. ]. W. FAINT is the new mayor,
reelected, of Holly Springs.
The state will soon build a chapel
inside the penitentiary walls.
The state grange meets in Brook
haven on the 18th Of December.
Covington county farmers have
made enough corn to do them two
years.
Mississippi democratic election law
is an exact copy of Ohlo's republican
election law.
A party was lately given in Merid
ian at which all the ladies were dressed
in tissue paper.
Enterprise has received moro than
1000 bales of cotton than the receipts
to this date last year.
Alobusha county owes ten thousand
dollars. The tax levy for this year
will only raise $1,000,
Mr. Glen Davis, formerly editor OIL
the Vicksburg Commercial, is DOW
travelling for a circus.
A man was fined sixteen dollars in
Starkville last week for beating his
mule with a trace chain.
A Kinds county farmer will make
three thousand gallons Of mOlasses
aud several barrels Of sugar this sea
son.
The penitentiary ~lessees have re
ceived the necessary machinery L
manufacture wagons by the whole.
sale.
Mr.. +. C. Durbin has retired for
the Carrolton Courier Consery arvi
and I. IL. Curry succeeds him as ed
itor.
A colored convict, who is six fee
and seven inches in height, was late
ly sent to jackson from east Missis
sippi.
lathe coroner Of Warren county ha
resigned because the new code reduce
the fee for holding an inquest iron
ten TO five dollars.
|, Owen franklin and wife (colored
made this year in Lincoln county, nea
Summit twenty bales of cotton an,
b other crops to match.
; The total vote Of Mississippi in tn
| late presidential election is as follows
Hancock, 1880; Garfield, 1885,
Weaver, 5797; scattering, 677. Ae
gregate vote east, ll7O28,
Pamela star, 10Th: The instrument
for the Sardis colored band have ar
/, rived, and the boys are footing thei
I breath and leisure moments ava
after the most approved style.
!. While the sheriff of Alcorn count
and his family wee attending the cir
i Gus, thieves broke into his residenc
and stole $500 worth Of property, il
; Guiding $500 in county warrants.
The only vote polled in Harriso
county for Weaver, greenback candi
date for president. was cast in Biloxi.
L Mr., John Hahn has been given III
: credit for being the only man in III
county friendly TO the greenback doc
trine.
4 Terry Enterprise: A we'll know
planter tells that he will lose about /
bales OF cotton by not being able /
have it picked. Others, We learn, ar
6 Offering one-half for the other, owia
to the scarcity of labor and ba
e weather.
u hatcher Democrat Two negl
le women living in Clark county got in
a lively fight, 10 which one of them b
the others ear entirely off. III
MANNED woman stuck the ear on vii
pine resin, apd it is said hat it vi
probably adhere snd zeal,
Governor Stone has appointed ia
ID tain G. Ii. Campbell, Of Kosciusk
E. Judge Of the circuit court Of the Fiji
IN district, to hil tie vacancy occasion
is Judge Cothran's death Capta
Id Campbell is the brother Of Judge
10 A. =. Campbell, Of the supreme ooul
While Mr.. Tyler Hesteraud famil
AZ Of Neshoba county, we're absent, the
lS home was robbed Of 5000 and burn,
{. to hide the crime. A young color,
o. man, with $500 ct the money lin col,
was captured, and he made full col
f%ession, duplicating several Others
y his color, all Of whom have been a
p rested.
70 A St Louis drummer has test,
r the city tax imposed upon the sale
/ goods by sample. He went to Wick
r burg to sell goods, did not pay tho t.
n and was arrested. lie sued out a WI
ST OF habeas corpus, and on a hearing T.
circuit judge discharged him, on u
,e ground thar the Vicksburg tax Ia
v was in conflict with the clause in Il
n constitution Of the United States,
reference to commerce between Il
/, states.
oil Gresnyille Times; The storm OLA
IS Tuesday night was very severe an
disastrous, the beating rain and dril
ing wind knocking out a great desl Z,
the cotton. Since then there has bee