Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-05
MISSISSIPPI

The legislature meets at Jackson
Tuesday the 9th inst.
Mrs. Margaret Pryer, wife of DR..
Pryer, died in Fleksburg on New
Years day.
A good many families who went to
Texas last Spring, have returned to
their homes.
The young ladies' of Whitworth
college, Brookhaven, publish paper
called the Beacon.
i. @. G. Lamar, jr., of Oxford, was
married to Miss Kate Lester, Of the
same place, recenCly.
The stock of the Mobile and Ohio
railroad has suddenly jumped up from
s. to S26 per share Of 800.
w. j. Driver, formerly of Brook
haven, was killed at Oxford, recently,
by a relative named Butler.
The Mississippi Republican is the
name Of a new Republican paper
started at jackson by Robert J. Al
corn.
Judge j. A. P. Campbell, who has
been codiiying the laws of the State,
will submit his work to the legisla-
ture.
A lot of Vicksburg young bloods
amused themselves on New Year. eve
night by defacing and DESTROYING pub
lie property.
There is talk of building a plank
road from some point in Pontotoc
county across the swamp to a point
opposite Helena.
Mississippi Central. Five new and
complete locomotives were built in
the Water Valley machine shops du-
ring the year 1879.
Fulton, in Itawamba county, was
visited this week by steamboat, the
first, it is said, that has reached that
point since the war.
Rev. John NJ. Caldwell, a Presby-
terian minister, seriously wounded at
Minerva some time ago, has been tax
en- to his home at Carrollton, and i;
reported to be improving.
Mr.. Frank Shelton, of Carroll
county, a few days ago, killed a hos
raised on his place that weighed 57S
pounds. 1t was aith some difficulty
that he was killed, as it took three
gun shots and an axe to do the work
The hog was about two years old.
Carollton Conservative, Sd: A negr,
man, named VIM. Washington. wa
brought to our Jail from Walden las
Saturday evening, charged with cary
ing three of his sable companions int
sausage meat. We understand tina
all three of them were very seriousl
cut.
The body Of Mr.. Addicks, the ma
who committed suicide at Waite
t Valley few days since, was packe
e in charcoal and sent to Philladelphi
on Thursday mornings train, agreea
BILE to telegrapbic orders from Colont
j. W. Forney, of the Philadelphi
g Chronicle.
Vicksburg Herald: Three negroe
e with their families who worked aroun
en- plantations down about Newtowr
9 passed through the city yesterday e
route to Kansas. They had severa
I "yaller dogs" two or three old mus
d kets and lots of other household good.
d We sought out the leader of the party
q was very reticent, and in answer t
innumerable questions ascertainet
that they had made no crops for them
S selves, but hired out to others VIII
9 did, and that they had more none
. than it would take to defray their ex
penses to the promised land. He dit
: not know to what point he would tax
his colony, but expected to meet al
agent somewhere out on the railroad
who would relieve him Of his charge
He knew nothing of the climate, ant
less of the staple products of the sol
he is to till, and based all his calcula
tons upon a fattering report of tn,
land of 'fritter trees and lasses ponds,
given by a trusty envoy sent on som,
months since.