Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-22
Local Brevities.
Cotton receipts falling Of.


Capt Sam Shock has opened his re-
gistration Office. -
Anumber of our people are going down
to New Orleans to attend Mardi Gras
next Sunday, W R ~
The Essex Bost Club ball tonight at
the 0verton.
The sidewalks were frozen and slippery
this morning.
The cotton crop is now estimated at
5000, 900 bales. or
Mr.. Cooper has succeeded Mr.. Trader
as Surveyor of Customs. Na
Dreves of horses and mules pass
through the city daily for the South.
The weather moderated considerably
yesterday evening, and this morning was
rainy. - EgNNuCu EECW
The lecture of DR.. Wi,herspoon has
been postponed on account of the in
clemency of the weather.
The Pastors Association Of this city
has agreed upon Wednesday evening Of
each week for prayer meetings. no
Rev. T. E. Bliss preached his farewell
address TO the Congregational Church,
on Union street. last Sunday.
A gentleman from Fort Pickering says
it is raining down there. Singular coin
cidence; we have had s..sprinkle in the
city. ....f av.r.,,
Messrs. Leo Wheat and Henry Farmer
are to give concert at Helena soon. We
notify the Helenians that they have eel
dom had such rare opportunity at home
to hear such 6rst-claas artists. si-ra
The grand concert of the German
Casino Gesangvereiu will take place to-
morrow evening at the Memphis Club
Hall. Some Of the best amateurs of the
city will lend their assistance, and the
occasion will bring together the musical
talent of the city.
We met an old friend from San Diego,
California, yesterday. he says that is a
growing place of fifteen thousand in
babitants and needs live newspaper,
besides the two or three slow ones al
ready established, to advocate the South
ern Pacific railroad, which will have its
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western terminus there.
| ] Mr.. VIM. Mclean, the present incum-
bent, is announced in our columns as a
candidate before the people for State and
County Tax Collector. He is an old res
ident, comparatively, and we'll known.
| he has filed the place for TWO years with
ability and fairness, and has made, per-
| haps, as few enemies and mistakes as
auy one who has held Office the same
! length of time in Shelby county.
The Merchants National Bank has re-
moved from its old quarters on Jefferson
street to the elegant building lately pur-
chased BY the President, Amos Woodruff,
ESQ, on the southwest corner of Main
and Madison streets. The other officers
are: A. J. White, Esq, Vice President
and Major John ]. Freeman, Cashier
The institution is in prosperous condi
ton, ard is worthy Of every confidence
A colored party, named johnson
,ts 5bed another in South Memphis
mon tn ago, and escaped to St. Louis
wharf, he was arrested, and officer j. N
Barre,t went for him. Friday evening
the pri soner jumped from the steamer
Clarion at Point Pleasant, swan ashore
and escap ed to the woods. The officer
procured three men and pursued him
nine miles through mud and thickets, in
the face of a snow storm. At midnight
| they found him in cabin. He is nov
| in the county Jail in Memphis. Thai
officer deserves a medal of gold.
This is George lTasbiugton's birthday
the one hundred and thirty-eighth. Il
the Father of his Country could come
| the Rip Van Wrinkle on us, how he would
open his eyesl We could give him
ride on the cars explsin the telegraph tt
| him; show him the beauties of ye new
stamp act hunt up his old nurse in va
rious parts of the country; introduce
him to his uamesake of ell ages, oondi
tons and coIors; explain the Freed
man Bureau to him tell him oil abou
Senator Revels, and the Louisiana
Georgia and South Carolina Legislatures
show him how our habeas corpus works
explain all about the late sectional cool
ness tell him what great man we have
J for President take him aside and tel
him not to ask anything about the Arl
lington property or Mount Vernon, or hi
family spoons; read him the news from
| Alaska. aud teach him to sing "Shoo
Fly" BE would be regarded as an OLE
, fogy, but as an afterpiece at matinee h
might draw we'll for one or two after
. Moons.
There will be the grsndest parade eve
!, witnessed ia Memphis next st. Patrick
I Day. The various societies which in
tend participating in the procession
= = solemnities and festivities are bus.
in their preparations for splendid turn
: ont The Literary Association, we IN
derstand, will extend Invitations to
large circle of takers and quill-drivers-
/, | araoug them, we presume, will be on