Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-23
Local BrevifIes.

Mr.. M. G. Harris, of the Napoleon
(Ark.) Nesos, is in the city.
The unpaved streets and roads leading
to the city are fearfully muddy
Mr.. John Nelson, the go-ahesd mana
ger Of the Little Rock theater, is in tn.
city.
Henry Clay Dean. it is said, is coming
to Memphis to lecture on the Bond
Swindle."
The twelve delegates to the late Radi'
cal Convention at Nashville have re-
turned.
The Democratic Executive Committee
meets tomorrow afternoon at three
o'clock at Willett's.
The matrimonial market is rather
brisk. The motto is never mind the
weather" and they don't.
Col. Tom W. Neal, editor and proprie'
tor of the Dyersburg Gazette, one of ouI
best interior exchanges, is in the city.
An important change in the firm Of
Newton Ford 4 Co. has taken place
The announcement appears elsewhere.
The Essex Boat Club ball, at the Over
ton Hotel, last night, is described by those
who attended as very elegant affair.
We regret to learn that our friend Col
s. L. Woodson is now lying dangerously
i'll, at his residence, No. 66 Madison
street.
The late cold snap played havoc with
the fences and plank sidewalks in this
vicinity. The negroes do not intend to
freeze out while there is plank left.
Capt. Foster has resigned as County
Tailor, to engsge in farming in Arkan'
sas. and Sheriff Curry has appointed Mr.
Henry Cullen, former policeman, to the
place.
Charleston railroad stock is worth
about 42c. There is considerable in
quiry in the market, owing to the i'm
preston that dividend will be declared
next April. The Company has ont
about Eve millions of stock.
If the party who found purse at the
Worsham House this morning, will re.
turn the pin, notes, receipts, etc, to Joe
Franciol, at the corner of Monroe and
Second streets, he will receive ten dol
lars. The papers are valuable.
Carlotta Patti is delighting the people
of Mobile. II is said that she will pay
Memphis q call on her return. A para
graph is going the rounds of the press to
the effect that she is to be married to the
pianist, Mr.. Ritter, who is now travelling
with her troupe.
City bonds are worth from Al to 48c,
and not many offering. Holders are
generally able to wait, and are willing to
risk the ability and willingness Of the
city to pay the coupons falling due,
which will no doubt be done in two or
three years, and thereafter with regular
ity.
The Board of Directors of the Mem
phis and Little Rock Railroad Company
have reelected the former officers as fol-
lows: R. G. Brinkley, President; ]. L.
Meigs, Chief Engineer; B. D. Williams,
Superintendent and General Agent, and
John W. Goodwin. Secretary and Trea-
surer. Arrangements have been made
to complete the road this year.
Monday night three nice young men
who sometimes "feel lonely, love, without
you" went to varieties theater to con-
template drugstore compilations and the
contrasts of tinsel and cork by gas light
They knew few things about the ways
of the world, having been as far up the
river as Cairo, and as far down as Hell
ena, and one of them, who uses "shoo,
fly" bears grease, has acquired some ex-
pertness in the use of slang phrases
known best to the sporting fraternity,
which on this occasion he threw out with
copious eloquence. 1t SO happened that
detective was on the lookout for three
distinguished men of cloth known as
confidence men. The three yosths de-
scribed, be thought, would gil the bill.
He tapped them on the shoulder and
asked them to take q walk. They hui
mored the joke, went to the stationhouse
where they were recognized, had good
laugh at somebody's expense, they
hardly knew who, and went back -