Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-05-12

hw, we presume, physicians are EN-
ployel TO attend upon the sick who
are prisoners In the county Jail.
We presume there must b. such q
law. as running our eyss over the
records Of the Criminal Court we
End spread thereon three bills for
medical service, which we suppose to
have been ordered TO be paid by the State.
CHANGING up this column Of accounts, We
discover that ono DR.. Carpenter has made
three visits to the jail, for which be makes
the very modest aud moderate charge Of
| fifty dollars, itemized as follows;
Dec. 23-vist to u patients. at 50 50
each ...........''..:..''.'..'..,. 80 W
Dec. A-visit TO patients. at 81 30
eaeh.....s.........s.s '......s......... 10 w
| Dec. 26-Nisit TO patients. at 81 10
each.........'''..s. .,....-..,....'.... W
Aggregate.........."........ $50 pO
And just here we would like to know
who this new disciple of Esculapius,
whose services are thus valuable to the
State, ISL Can the Taylors, Twins and
other eminent physicians post us as to
this very distinguished NJ Dr. But TO
follow up the list DIR. Laski, who is
better known than DIR. c., presents a
little bill Of $276, for similar services at
similar rates, with the single exception
that as one item he makes a charge Of
800 for his attentions 10 single patient,
from July to August 10, 1867. Then
DR.. White presents q little matter Of
$1,000, and so the bills increase as
we proceed, and this is the tune to which
the tax-ridden people of Shelby county
and the whole State have had to dance.
These are the expenses consequent upon
the luxury Of Criminal Court, under
the Brownlow dynasty. Why are the
Carpeters, Laskis and Whites, NJ. D.,
allowed 81 so piece by the gross, or half
gross, as the case happens to BET The
first item in Carpenter account-and
mark the langusge-is one visit on one
day to twelve patients, $50. Now tDelce
visits on tpelre days to one patient-$30,
might be quite the same thing, since
twelve times 81 so is precisely $50 in both
cases, only it isn't quite the same.
We are at loss to recognize the
business of a claim which bears on
its very face the evidence of charges for
service never rendered. As well might
a practitioner of medicine, on visiting
single member of family, present an
account for attentions to every member
of the same family in the house at the
time. Yet, this is precisely the princi-
pie upon which the family physi-
clans of the county Jail have operated,
as appears from their own charges
for twelve or twenty daily visits to a
prison, the average nur Der of inmates
of which, at the time in qrostion, did not
exceed sixty or seventy persons, sick and
WELL And these are the bills which the
tax-ridden people have had to foot. This
is where the money has gone. A small
item, true, and yet it is one of the many
such that have emptied the public Golfers
and filled the carpetbsgs of perigrinat
ing pettifoggers, quacks and other pro-
fessional scsllawags.
DoE'T fail to inspect the new and
c.I ..f
mohairs, Chene mohairs, mourning
goods, grenadines, just opened at Rice,
Silk & Co. s, 3O7 Main street. GA
10. o. F.-The following correspond
ence will explain itself liItit
MEMPHIS, May 0, 1868.
DEAR SIR AND BRoTHER: The under.
signed having listened to your eloquent
Grafton on the 7th inst, and knowing
that many Of our brethren were unable to
attend on account Of the inclemency of
the weather, and that they would be
highly gratifed at al opportunity to
listen to it, as well as ourselves to hear it
again; we would therefore respectfully
request you to do us the kindness to de-
liver it again, on some evening during
your staying in our city. Hoping that
you will grant our request, and kindly
name some evening, that we may prepare
our hall or church for the tame,
We remain, fraternally yours,
W. S. Bruce, JOSEPH BRUCE,
JOHN JOHNSON, J. d. DAEBuRY,
B. BINGHAM, o. f. PREsCoTT,
j. P. PREsoorT, II. D. CoNSELL,
]. NJ. LrrrLEFIELD, GEO. MELLERsH,
r. NORRIS, L. S. BURR,
I. II. MCCALL, C. A. BEEHS.
To D. G. N. NJ R Elliott, Memphis.
COMMERCIAL HorsL,(
MEMPHIS, May 9. 1858.
Messrs. W. S. Bruce, Joseph Bruce. John L.
Danbury. and others;
DEAR SIRs AND BRoTHERs: Your favor
of this instant is received. After tender
ing to you my sincere thanks for the
very complimentary manner in which
you have seen proper to speak OF my adj
dress delivered at the recent Odd Fell
lows picnic, permit me to say that
during my stay in Memphis / am subject
to the wishes of the |. o. o. T. Of the
city, and am ever ready to do anything
which in their opinion will promote the
interest of the order. ] would suggest
Thursday evening next as the most con-
venient for a REPETITION of the address.
am, fraternally yours, etc.
NJ, r. ELLIOTT.
The Grafton will be delivered at the
First Baptist Church, corner of Second
and Adams street, on Thursday evening,