Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-02

Crops are nearly all 'laid by" in
Pamela county.
Natchez levies a tax of$2 80 a week
on all commercial travellers.
Both the boil and army worm have
appeared in Lowndes county.
A family Of eleven persons in
Vicksburg was omitted by the census
man.
The boil and cotton worm have ap-
peared in Bolivar and Washington
counties.
An effort is being made to establish
a telegraph line from Winona to
Greenwood.
Senator George will deliver an ora
ton next fall on the life Of the late
General A. G. Brown.
Major Ethel Barksdale. of the
Clarion. is fayorably mentioned as a
candidate for governor.
Ocean Springs talks of building a
hotel big enough to accommodate six
or seven hundred guests.
Monsieur Verette, of Coffeeville,
has invented a threshihg machine, to
be worked by hand power.
Two hundred and fifty persons are
summering at the Seashore camp.
ground, neal Handsboro.
General Il. q. Walthall has pre-
scented a magnificent flag to the dem
ocrats Of Grenada county.
Meridian has increased in ten years
from 27O9 to 40l3, being 48 per cent,
the largest increase o. any town in the
state.
The Rev. DR.. Craig, Of Holly
Springs, has been called to the pas
torate Of the Presbyterian church at
Oxford.
Mr.. John Pryor, a prominent young
merchant of Pascagoula, was muir
dered by S. Godfrey, scolored, on the
22nd inst.
Last week W. H. Hart, a New
York drummer, was publicly caned
in Kosciusko, for insulting a lady on
the street.
Mississippi is entitled this year to
six scholarships at the Peabody nor-
NAL college. These will be awarded
by a competitive examination.
One of the Coahomo county census
takers found a colored woman 104
years old, and half a dozen other per-
sons over 100 years of age each.
Henry Washington (colored), who
murdered a white man named Hill, at
Mississippi Springs, four weeks ago, is
to be hung in Raymond, September 2.
Pamela Star, 3lst. A few scattering
bales OF last years crop of cotton coz
tlnue to come into market. The first
bale of the new crop will arrive in
about three weeks.
The cotton worm has appeared at
various points in central aud eastern
Mississippi, and while no damage has
been done as yet, there is a feeling of
much uneasiness among the planters.
A negro aged q, shot his sister aged
10, killing her instantly in Carroll
county, one day last week, because
she gave him some impudence. He
had previously beaten her. lie is in
Jail.
Henry Fur, Of Lincoln county,
died at the age Of ninety years, and
was buried in a coffin made for his
son twenty-five years ago. 1t having
been too small, was saved for the
father.
Oxford Eagle: Colonel Lamar's
health is improving, and at the
proper time he will take an active and
leading part in the presidential can
vass. The senator is quite sanguine
o fsuceess.
Lexington Advertiser, 20: Some
sort Of a worm has destroyed Mr..
Bealrs twelve acre millet crop. The
work OF destruction was accomplished
In a few hours. Those worms meant
business and came here hungry.
Carrollton Courier Conservative
The census returns show that there
are in this, the 4th supervisors district
Of Carroll county, eighty two persons
who are over 20 years Of age Of this
number two had reached 100 years.
A Shuqulak preacher, who was at
tending the Baptist state convention.
teiegraphed to a home brother as fol.
lows 0kolona, July l6.-The people
here can't feed us all. Send up one
dozen chickens and the same Of bis.
cults. ID. D.