Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-07
Local previslss.

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Colonel Kinloch Falconer at the Pea
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Jr. Combs case will receive attention
on the 10Th inst N dD0
The Beal street cars will run until after
the Patti concert tonight 81
The street cars seem to start later on
bad mornings iike this than any other
Awful snowy, sloppy sloshy, cold,
drizzlpg weather for the Patti concert
Senator Cubbins at home with q sore
throat He expects to start on his re-
turn to Naehville tomorrow afternoon.
The young mea Of the city, at oui sug-
gestion, will soon organize cadet milf
tsry company. Hurry upl Due notice
will be given.
The Mcculloch Briguoli Opera Com
pany will appear at the Memphis Thester
next Saturday night, and that time only,
and will give the charming opera Of
Martha on that occasion. atsb~rfl
We inadvertently spoke of Ross, An
derson & Patierson's omnibus line the
other day as the City Transfer Com.
pauy." Quite mistake, but ne harm
done, it is presumed.a W
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Recent dispatches from New York
fully exonerate that champion Of Irish
independence, George Francis Train,
from having anything whatever to do
with the late reported attempt upon the
life Of Prince Arthur. 81, s
The Alabama Manual and Statistical
Register, for 1869, has come to hand. II
contains over two hundred pages of val.
liable information for immigrants, capt.
talists, politicians, manufacturers, and
others, concerning the specific and gene
raj productions and resources of the
State. The work is edited by Col. Jos.
Hodgsen, editor of the Montgomery Mail,
and will be the means Of attracting both
labor and capital to that State.
We have received copy of the Aldine
Press for the holidays of lS69-70, pub
lished by Sutton, Browne 4 Co., No. %
Liberty street, New York. 1t is pro-
fussly illustrated topographic art journal,
to be issued monthly. It's object is to be
faithful exponent of progress, literary
taste and the fine arts. Equal pains will
be taken with external appearance and
the character of matter admitted. The
price is ouly two dollars per annum;
specimen copies rolled at twenty-five
cents. gvEaWgE Gg4 W
The editor of the Knoxville Wing,
whom we characterized as a moderate
Republican not long since, we are
pleased to cay is "nothing Of the Sort
though the term might, with more pro-
priety, have been applied to one of the
publishers. But Mr.. Charlton, we happen
to remember, was an original secessionist
iona of the few in East Tennessee), was
with the late lamented Confederacy to
the last ditch, and ever since has an
wered to the name Of Rebel, though q
Conservative, and like all others who
stood fire. is friend of peace.
Last week we had some soft, pleasant
DAYS. Saturday evening the lowering
clouds began to spit forth rain and snow.
Toward morning it became oil snow, and
VA sterday morning the fsnces, trees and
bouse-tops we're white with the wintry
fleece. Last night more rain. This
morning the snow began to fall again in
hinge Aakes, which melted as fast as they
struck the ground. This state Of weather
continued the greater part of the morn
ing, though it is liable to change several
times before night. Consequently there
are not many people on the streets, and
business is restricted .,chiefy to indoor
transactions. Those who can stay within
prefer It, and those obliged to be abroad
such as hackmen, draymen, local edi-
tors street-car drivers, and other hard
working classes, End il far from agree
able, though they perform their daily toll
without a shrug of the shoulders or q
frown. while the favored classes, the
holders of opera tickets, who expect to
ride in carriage tonight, look from
their warm rooms through thick plate
glass at the snow. storm, and shrink back
with shudder at the thoughts OF BRAY
ing the weather for an instant. And
thus it is that people ever adapt
themselves to circumstances in some
degree, and yet are never entirely salts
sss. The poor envy the rich. forgetting
that a crust is often swsetsr than feast,
and the rich find their wants constantly
increasing and happiness tagging behind
The amendments to the city charter,
about to pass, provide that taxes on priv
ileges shall be paid in eash. and not IN
coupons to bonds, or in city scrip charges
the time when city taxes fall due from
January to the middle Of the year, and
uroyides that citizens Of the State, out
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