Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-23
LOCAL BREyITIEs.

See fourth page for additional loca
news,
One candidate says he is on his own
hook How's that for bait2
Col. David Cross is very i'll at his resi-
dence in Cross county, Arkansas.
A contemporary says the street cars run
on time. That means, we presume, that
they run any time they please.
The street cleaning force has beer
doing good service this week. Yesterda
they were on Madison street.
Grenada has voted $4,000 stock in
the Grenada, Houston and Eastern rail
road The people voted for it almost
unanimously. ..ra
An Associated Press Telegram from
Cincinnati published in one of our morn
ing journals says the coal business is
good at reduced rates Wonder how
much of reduction il would take to
make the coal business good here2
W, L. Scott, Esq, last night delivered
an instructive and learned lecture before
the Young Mems Christian Association,
at the Rocco Hall. The subject selected
by the lecturer was Matter, though sub
ject to Change, Imperishable and Eter-
nal y A large attendance of ladies and
gentlemen was present, to enjoy the
literary treat presented by the lect urer.
An apprehension exists in the minds
of some voters that they must exhibit a
receipt for poll-tax at the ballot-box.
The new Constitution has such provi-
sion see section of Article Nv but at
the approaching election no such lew
exists TO be enforced. But it should be
generally understood that in the city
every man voting can only do so in his
own ward, and in the county every voter
must vote in his own civil district. This
is the law
"We are glad to announce says the
White River journal, of Wednesday,
that grading has commenced on the
Little Rock railroad, from this place to
the bridge site. The bridge is to span
the river about half mile above town,
and the road is to turn off from where it
now runs about quarter of mile west
of the steamboat landing. Capt. r. L.
Cobb, the engineer, has returned to our
town, and he informs us that work on
the bridge will be resumed as soon as the
stage of water will permit" -
The Pullman sleeping-car party from
Chicago leaves this afternoon for New
Orleans. Their portable hotel car will
await them at Grenada. 1t was proposed
at one time to put the car on the street
railroad track, and pull it through the
city with team of fire engine horses.
Some questions of expediency, however,
were raised, and the car was sent around
the circuit by Humboldt and Grand juno
tion-the route of nearly all through
travel When the Algoma starts out on
spring excursions in 1871 and comes
South, we hope it will pass through the
city, between Front street and the river,
drawn by an engine attached to full
train. For it is time this island of ours
had direct communication with the great
commercial systems of the country.
The C. B. Church, one of the heavy
tow-boats built by the Memphis and St.
Louis Barge Line Company, is at the
foot of Jefferson street, on her first return
trip from New Orleans. The M. j.
Wicks arrived last night at II o clock, on
her second trip down, and left this morn
ing. These boats are both the same pat
tern, and although condemned by the
underwriters of st. Louis, through the
influence of ring, have, perhaps, the
best papers of any boats on the river,
and insurance has been effected at ex-
ceedingly low rates. The company is
not dependent on st. Louis either for
business or insurance. and as this effort
to connect Memphis and st. Louis inter
ests more closely has been met not only
by Indifference, but repulse, the company,
we presume, will look to our interests
hereafter from Memphis standpoint
There is no question about the boats
securing as much freight as they can
carry, independent of any opposition St.
Louis underwriters may create. One
item of freight brought up by the Church |
from New Orleans was an installment
of seven hundred tons of railroad iron,
destined for the Little Rock and Fort
Smith railroad 1t came from Europe,
and will be sent hence to Little Rock by /
steamer. The iron can be seen at the |
foot of jefferson street, where the steamer
will lie until this evening
To the Editor of the Ledger:
We have just seen an article in the
Appeal of the 22d inst, stating that " the
old Tonerary Baptist Church has been