Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-03-16
MISSISSIPPI

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week.
Yallabusha county has an empty
treasury.
Tallahatchie river is booming out o.
its banks.
Senatobia has the measles about il
small patches.
Natchez boasts Of the only cracker
factory in the state. B
Corn on the coast is reported to b
several inches high.
1t takes nine shots to kill a so
called mad dog in Sardis.
During the past month 1912 mule.
have been received at Vicksburg.
Marion Smith, ESQ, was r~e-electe tel
superintendent Of the p~enitentiary.
Grenada has a fat mans club, with
ten members. Max Ginsburger, presi-
dent.
The new code says that no person
convicted Of petit larceny is allowed
to vote.
The exodusters continue to leave in
squads, from Fast Mississippi, to
Kansas.
Whippoorwills were heard in Mead
vile on the I'D ult., earlier than ever
before known.
There is an abundance of congress.
sional timber in the first district and
it all growstall.
The Sardis Panola Star, a demo
cratic paper, boasts of a hundred col
ored subscribers.
The legislature appropriated $4,000
for the erection Of an asylum for the
blind, at jackson.
The 13. IA, Is had not arrived 1t
Water Valley when the Central went
to press last week.
"a Meridian firm has collected five
car loads ofiron and 10000 pounds of
rags for shipment.
During the past season Kinds
county brought 1000 mules from Ken
lucky anu tennessee,
The republicans meet at Jackson on
the 9TH of May to choose delegates to
the Chicago convention.
j. C. Clarke. editor of the Central
Star, was married on the Sd instant
to Miss Emma Young.
%Taxpayers are coming up promptly
In Ficksburg and the delinquent list
will be less than usual.
Mississippi is the banner state, hav-
ing produced more cotton than Texa S
last year, by $4,000 bales.
General Vests favorably mentioned
as a candidate for vicce-presidont on
the national greenback ticket.
1t is asserted that Ex-Governor
Alcorn will canvass the state for the
republican nominee for president.
The appointment of General Writ
Adams, as revenue agent for the state,
meets with universal appreciation.
The game Law in this state has been
amended so that it goes into effect the
10Th of March instead Of the 10Th of
April.
Pamela Star, 10: To date over one
thousand deeds of trust have been re-
corded in this county the present
year.
Robert H. Matthews, son of the
ex-sheriff Of Tate county, has been
appointed q mail-route agent on the
NJ. & T. r. r.
The state democratic convention, to
appoint delegates to Cincinnati aud to
choose electors, will be held at Jack
sln on the Sd of June.
On August 4th a farmer in Chicka-
saw county planted a crop OF South
ern Queen sweet potatoes. They
yielded $50 bushels per acre.
The Grenada Sentinel calls upon
the authorities to clean up the place.
What's the use; they didn't do it last
year and had no yellow fever either.
Vicksburg Herald: The winter is
ended and no ice crop has been gath
cred. Humble individuals can pre-
pare to drink straight whisky instead
ofmint juleps.
Vicksburg Commercial A large
force Of mechanics are at work putting
the finishing touches to Holy Trinity
church. The work is progressing
quite rapidly.
Worthy master, Put Darden, of the
national and state grange, inpursuance
of a request of the latter, will canvas
the entire state during the coming
spring and summer.
Pamela Star Since January LIST the
city warrants Of Oxford have risen
from seventy-fve to ninety cents on
the dollar. That's what comesol hav-
ing an editor for mayor.
The legislature passed a dog law
that hereafter the penalty Of a tax o.
one dollar shall be paid on every dog
in exces Of one to each head Of {
family.
Under the provision ofthe new code
all male persons between the ages Of
sixteen and sixty years, except teach
ers, students and preachers, have t.
work on the roads.
Rev. G.. K. Marshall says. Il am
greatly pleased with the bill topreyenI
cruelty to animals. Ii properly en-
forced it will save ten millions Of dol.
lars to our state in a few years.
At a caucus Of the democratic mem
bers of the legislature, a COMMITTEES
was appointed, consisting Of twenty
three from each congressional district
and two from the state at large-tt
confer with the governor, in References
to calling an extra session Of the leg
islature, after tho census is taken, L
make a new legislative appoint
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