Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-03
Local Brevities.


Patti sang here before the war.
Combs, Jr., in Jail again last night.
More cotton than usual on the bluff.
Tom Allen had big house last night.
It is the County Court that meets next
Monday.
A few seats can still be had 10 the Patti
concerts, and only few.
Geo. Francis Train says that cold feet
are sufficient ground for divorce in In
diana.
Tickets will be sold singly to-day for
either of PATHS concerts at Benson's
music store. Et
Yesterday was Candlemas Day, the
occasion on which the Catholic church
blesses the candles for the year.
From soft balmy weather yesterday,
there was change last evening to
windy, sharp and disagreeable.
Mr.. walpole, Of the Goodman Star,
one of the best papers Of Central Mis-
sissippi, is in the city looking to his
business interests.
General N. B. Forrest and his engi-
neers are at Columbus, Mississippi. The
General is ready to let out the Memphis
and Selma railroad to Eutaw.
The number of emigrant tickets sold
by Mr.. T. W. Bell, agent for the Mem
phis and Charleston railroad in Knox
vile, during the past month was Ella.
Colonel James W. Coleman, Superin-
tendent CT the Western Union Telegraph
Company for Memphis, is absent on a
brief visit to his old home at Lexington.
Kentucky.
Mr.. Joseph F. Levitt, our well-known
fellow.c citizen, has returned from a trip
East. We are obliged to him for the
latest New York papers in. advance OF
| the mails.
We are under obligations to Captain
James Fentress, the able member OF the
State Constitutional Convention from
Hardeman county, for late valuable pub
lie documents.
RI. Rev. Bishop Quintard is seriously
ill at Moatevido, Alabama, and has tele-
graphed his friends in Knoxville and
Greenville that be would be unable to
| fill his appointments for this week in East
Tennessee.
Captain Mock Levi, who was shot by
two desperadoes on board the Nick
Longworth, at Gaines Landing, some
days ago, has arrived at home in Louis
Vile, and it is thought may recover from
his serious wound.
We regret to learn that the Clubhouse of
Colonel B. M. Hodges, containing twenty
bales of cotton, two miles north of Ma
rion, in Crittenden county, Arkansat,
was totally destroyed by fire, day before
yesterday. No insurance. Loss about
six thousand dollars. The fire occurred
early in the dsy, and was caused by the
ffictien of the machinery in operation.
The loss falls heavily on Colonel Hodges,
who has worked hard to regain part OF the
large fortune he owned previous to the
war.
A bill has passed the Kentucky Senate,
| and will 60 through the House, granting
] q very liberal charter to the Louisville,
Memphis and New Orleans railway. 1t
provides that the line shall strart from
Louisville with either a single or double
track and line of telegraph, and pass
through the counties of Jefferson, Har-
din, Meade, Breckenridge, Ohio, Mullen
berg, Christian, Trigg and Galloway, or
such of them as may be closer to any
point or points on the boundary line of
the States of Kentucky and Tennessee
that may be selected. Provided, how
ever, that the line of said road shall pass
through, or as near to the towns of Har-
dinsburg, in Breckenridge county, and
Hartford, in Ohio county, as may be
practicable.