Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-25

but gave toMadison county an additional
Chancery and Law court because there
were 1853 cases on the Madison chancery
docket and 200 cases on the law docket,
all of which shows up tie jewel con-
sistency to be a fraud.
The Peoples Protective Union have
filed a protest with the Mayor against
employing two additional city attorneys
and turning the Office into a law school.
One City Attorney can do the business,
provided he has the necessary ability
and industry. 1t has been done hereto
fore.
John Burns (white), and Mile Burns
(black), were arrested last night for in
dulging in drunkenness and civil rights.
AT the station-house the white man,
Burns, called his black beauty by the
most ~eDdearing names and claimed her
as his wife, asserting hat the civil rights
bill protected him in so doing. Burns
is fresh from the county Jail and is out
on bond on the charge Of larceny.
Judging from the many commnnica-
tons sent to us for publication we have
a right to assume that the %orthoepic wave
has not yet lsshed itself upon our shores.
People who write for newspapers should
have a dictionary within reach and not
leave it to printers and proof-readers to
do their spelling. A badly spelled Gem
m%unication is generally cast into the
waste basket by the disguised managing
editor.
The Adams street station-house office,
and in fact the entire, establishment,
needs %renovatiug and fixing up. The
office part of the building is in a filthy
condition, without the necessary accom-
modations for doing police business. One
hundred dollars invested in wallpaper,
paint and ofice.furniture would give the
station-house q respectable and business.
like appearance like unto station-houses
in other cities.
A good many holes in the Nicolson Of
the principal thoroughfares are daily
making their presence felt. The lower
end of the plank sidewalk leading from
Court street to the river is in a danger
Gus condition. When somebody falls
there and breaks a limb, for which the
city will have to pay heavy damages,
perhaps the necessary two dollars worth
Of repairs will be squandered upon it.
The present Legislature empowered
our County Court to appoint au addi-
tional notary public for Shelby county,
the State lawmakers forgetting that the
act Of February |, 1871, empowered the
County Court of Shelby county ito elect
as many %notaries public as they chose
to elect" but the new law empowers the
County Court to elect one more than as
many as they chose to elect; all of which
is very amusing legislation.
The Brownsville States seems disposed
to inaugurate already the Legislative
campaign Of 1876. 1t intimates that
I'm Shelby county there will be a bitter
fight made to return the nine members
who voted so persistently for Andrew
Johnson tor Senator" This is news in
Memphis, where the nine have now
but few political friends. But the
Brownsville man knows all about it, o.
course.
Some enterprising individual who
owns a tentay and a few dozen arm
chairs should obtain permission from
the proper authorities and erect a com
Portable lookout on the bluff between
Madison and Court streets. Many ladies
and gentlemen who visit the bluff a
sunset or on Sundays would be willing
to pay a reasonable price for the use o
a chair from which to view at ease Che
magnificent panorama OF river, foresi
aud sky.