Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-15
Local Rrevities.

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day night.
Colonel Bob Crockett is stopping OF
the Peabody. IN w VN
General Council meets this afternoon
at three o'clock.
City scrip is dull-smaIl lots sell as
high as 80 cents.
The steamboais brought in 2l3l bales
Of cotton yesterday.
Ex-Aldermsn Renner is down With the
smallpox at his residence.
The warmth Of the winter gives rise to
predictions Of an unhealthy summer.
Sergeant n. A. Louis, of the City Po-
lice, was yesterday presented with very
fine badge.
Colonel M. W. Cluskey, who was re-
Gently married at Louisville, is stopping
at the Peabody Hotel. ~
Tho presence of the smallpox still
causes some alarm, though we cannot
hear of the spread of the disease.
The Democratic Executive Committee
meets tomorrow, at Willett's, at 3 p. M.
to transact important business.
The longer the spring elections are
put of, the longer looks the countenances
of those who expect to be elected to office.
People are working their gardens in the
city and suburbs, and farmers are dis
playing universal activity for this sen
son of the year.
Colonel L. ]. Dupre has been detained
from his duties as Secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce by the death Of
his youngest child.
Colonel Moses White has returned
from a months sojourn at Nashville,
looking the very pict ure of health and
good spirits.
The Firemen's Ball, "Stonewall
Jackson's Monument" and Terry
Alt" are unavoidably crowded out to-
day, but will appear to morrow.
Keef, the man who stabbed Leny,
Saturday night, on fernando street, got
away yesterday. Leny is worse, and
will probably not recover.
The fremens ball last night, at the
Desoto's, was lively affair aud sue
cess. All the known and prospective
candidates were there. .e
No gaslights in the streets last night
| OF course, the moon was shining beauti
fully, as it always is by the gas company
almanac when the lamps are not lighted
A heavy thunder and rain storm oc
Cured last night, beginning ct ten OF
eleven o'clock and continuing severa
hours. Considerable hail fell also. The
air was purified, but is nearly as warn
"a before. The dust was settled.
| A fire occurred at 2 o'clock this morn
ing on the corner of Orleans and Cour
streets, almost completely destroying thu
frame grocery store of man named
Brady. Loss of stock, probably $1,000
and loss of building, near the same. The
| firemen left their festivities at the ball, il
all their good clothes, and rallied to tb'
scene and performed good service in the
drenching rain.
| The Radicals have quietly organized
| for the campaign and effected combina
tons by which they expect to secure
at least two out of the eight county Off
ces to be filled at the March election
The disaffection of few undisciplinet
Democrats is the chief ground for the
faith that is in them. But our house II
not divided against itself, as they i'm
agine. A loose board may sometimes
slide OF the root with loud rattle, blu
the house is founded on rock and j
| will stay there.
| The Richings Troupe is coming. The
well-informed theater-goer knows that
rare treat is in store. They will be her'
three nights and give one matinee. The
company is composed of the best lyric
actors on the stage, and will be sup
ported by a grand chorus of twenty-five
ladies and gentlemen. They will oper
their engagement at the Memphis
Theater Thursday evening, the Oath inst
More anon.
| A Railroad Convention sits at DuvslPi
| Bluff on the 22d instant to consider the
| WAYS and means of diYerting the KaRsa'
| City road from Memphis to Helena. Ii
view of this fact. aud the extraordinary
action of the State Convention 10 refer
| euce to merchants and their burdens
President Nelson, OF the suggestion o.
many merchants and others, calls the
Chamber of Commerce together to-mor
row afternoon. This meetiag should b'
largely attended. The subject of rail
road freight charges will also be conSid
cred.
| The following names we find regis
tered at the Peabody Hotelthis morning;
| DR.. Luke Blackburn and lady, Arkansas
| Colonel Willo Williams, Nashville; Col
B. b. Rozelle aud lady, Colonel Ed. f.
| McGehee, Colonel W. N. Brown, Missis'
sippi; ]. R. Wilmore and lady, Colonel
M w. Cluskey, Kentucky; Major John