Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-04-06
THE AVALANCHE GASES.
A Decision Rendered by
Judge WaldraD.
The Application for Habeas
Corpus Refused.

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contempt case, application having been
made to that official by Messrs. Gala
way and Campbell for habeas corpus;
State Of Tennessee vs.. galloway and Camp
bell. hdbeas corpus.
The defendants were imprisoned Tor
contempt. When person is imprisoned
for contempt by u court OF competent
Jurisdiction, be cannot be discharged by
another judge when brought before him
on habeas corpus. This court, there
fore, has no Jurisdiction over this case,
and can give defendants no relief.
They are remanded to Jail.
Messrs. Galloway and CampbelPs coun-
sci being 10 court, made an application
for suspension OF sentence for ten days,
in order to obtain a decisien of the Su-
preme Court
This Judge Wsldran said Ne would
grant, at the same time remarking that
he did not concede the right Of appeal.
The defendants then entered into
bonds OF $4,000 each for their appear
ance at the expiration of ten days, after
which they were permitted to retire.
1t having been generally understood
that the decision in the case was forth
coming, the courtroom was crowded by
spectators, as during the earlier days Of
the suit and the action taken by the
Judge in the premises was the occasion
of sensation very observable il not
audible.
A Row IN NEGRO DANCE HOUSE.
On Second tstreet, just iacross the alley
from the justice shop where the imma-
culate William Hunter held forth until
suppressed by our Jefferson street
cotempoarary, is located one of the
classic temples presided over by
the triune deity-Terpsichore, Bacchus
and Mars-carved in ebony. And here
about IL clock Saturday night, the wor-
shipful subjects who frequent this and
kindred resorts in the same neighborhood
illustrated their devotion to their idols in
a manner that would have been highly
creditable to Africa in his native
wilds. Some hundred or more ne
groes, bucks and wenches, had as
sembled in the dance hall alluded to,
and between dancing and tipling the
hours of early evening had been whiled
away until about midnight, when Mars,
discovering that Terpsichore andBacchus
were rather monopolizing the affair, let
slip his belligerent CANNES, and came
in for share of the sport. Some buck
in the crowd, overcharged with league
whisky, let drive his bunch of black
bones in the face Of q fancied rival, who
at the time was basking in the smiles
one of the sundry Dnah's present
The smitten mig. struck back, and in
less time than we can narrate it, the
whole crowd took sides with one party
or the other, and the fight became
general. Pistols were drawn and
brandshed, and knives with pol
shed blades flashed in the gaslight.
The darby who had opened the ball, by
getting in the first lick, rushed for the
stairs followed by the crowd. Three
shots were heard in rapid succession
by parties on the street. Then
yell and scream went up from the throats
Of female Africa, which would have been
recognized as a creditable effort in Pan
demonium. Then four shots succeeded
the three already fred. A negro
who had been shot was picked
up on the sidewalk, hurried into hack
and driven off, Another, supported by
two sable comrades, bleeding profusely
from the neck, was taken up the alley,
while in every direction the crinoline Of
fleeing wenches Auttered in the breeze
Another volley of half dozen shots,
by which no one, as We could learn,
was killed or wounded, and then Che
lights went out ia the temple, and
the last of the party left and silence
returned to the outraged neighborhood.
The names of either of the wounded
parties, or those who did the shooting, we
have been unable to ascertain. Will the
police, on duty in the vicinity at the
time, be SO kind as to tell us2
Hobbs, the extinguished deputy |
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