Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-21
Local Brevities.

room.
1t is still probable that the postofiice
will be removed Wednesday to the corner
Of Second and Union streets, next TO the
Opera House.
The weather has been unusually cold
for the last two or three days. Yester.
day the Thermometer was within fourteen
degrees of zero.
Captain J. @. MeManus, President Of
the Memphis and st. Louis Barge Line,
is in St. Louis, looking after the interests
of the company.
The Emmett Guards are making active
preparations to celebrate 81. Patrick
day. They drill nightly, and have ap-
piled to Governor Senter for arms.
The annual hop of the Essex Boat
Club, at the Overton Hotel, on the 22d
in IT., is topic of considerable gossip
among the select who expect to be there.
George Francis Train comes South on
the LIST of April to preach on the Fogies
of the Bible" and the "Tatler" goes
North on the lst of May to give twenty
FIVE talks on the "Sages of the Bluff
City"
The peach and plum trees in Holly
Springs and vicinity were in full bloom
previous to the late cold snap, conse.
quently the prospect is that the fruit crop
in that region, 80 abundant last year,
will be- cut short this year.
The committee appointed by the
Chamber Of Commerce to collect money
to defray the expenses Of an agent to
canvass Arkansas in behalf of the Mem
phis and Kansas City railroad will begin
to work today, and we hope will meet
liberal encouragement.
There is negro in Holly Springs,
Mississippi, whose only name is Charles
Lewis William Henry Augustus Cox,
and he refuses to be set free. He was
owned before the war by VIM. 81. Cox,
Esq, and has been sold twice since the
war, and still ignores Lincoln's emanci-
patton proclamation. He does not think
he is as good as white man; but takes
no notice of common negroes, and won't
be set free. He is deaf and dumb.
We have received a number of the
Echoes, semi-monthly little sheet,
published under the auspices of Lee
Academy, at 200 Adams street. 1t is
devoted to literature, art and science,
and filled chiefly with original matter,
written by the pupils and teachers of the
school. The number before US is highly
creditable, and we extend to the fair
conductors our most cordial welcome to
the fraternity.
The Atlanta Constitution of the 18th,
under the head of personal" says:
1--WE had the pleasure of call yester-
day from General T. B. Smith, Agent
of the Virginia and Tennessee Air Line,
running from Norfolk to Bristol, dis.
lance of over four hundred miles. Ke
tells US that General Malone, the young
and enterprising President of the road,
has succeeded in perfecting arrange
ments by which there are through freight
lines to Atlanta and Memphis. Parties
can ship goods to either of these points
on that route without trans-shipment.
General Malone will soon extend this
arrangement farther"
Messrs. Stephens and Heiskell tele-
grsphed from the Constitutional Conven-
ton Saturday as follows: 1--WE have
passed this proposition in the Constitu-
ton: The portion of merchants CAPT.
tai used in the purchase of merchandise
sold by him to non-residents, and sent
beyond the State, shall not be taxed at a
rate higher than the ad valorem tax on
property" A half losf is better than no
bread at all. Perhaps this was the best
measure our representatives could get
through. They understand the question,
which is more than can be said of ma
jority of the members. Another memo
rial has been forwarded to Nashville, and
m ay, possibly, cause reconsideration of
the subject.
An application was recently made
from the Postofice here to the Depart
ment at Washington for an additional
lettercarrier, to supply the district of
Fort Pickering with free delivery. A
reply came last week that the request
could not be granted, as all the money
appropriated for such purposes had
already been expended. The policy
seems to be, save at the "spigot and
waste at the bung-hole." Carriers have
been cut down to the meager pittsnce of
fifty dollars per month, while the ex-
penses of the White House have increased
one hundred and fifty dollars per day,
since the days of President Lincoln,
when the country was in state of war.
The tendency of the administration is to
make the poor man poorer, and force
him to make an income return. whether
he has any or not, and to make the rich
still richer at the expense of the poor.
Mrs. Lander, the we'll known "Ameri-
can R;stori," who vas here last year, is
in England. We see by the London