Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-26

lows like = floating battery or peripatetic
arsenal, ready to turn loose at a mo-
ment's notice upon robbers.
A woman's has and shawl we're found
on the river bank, near Fort Pickering,
this morning. The articles are said to
have belonged to Mrs. Kimbro, of South
Memphis, and fears are entertained that
she has committed suicide while labor
ing under depression of spirits.
The committee Of the Christian
Brothers College met at the Chamber of
Commerce yesterday afternoon, divided
the city into districts, and will proceed
at nee to canvass said districts and
solicit aid and subscriptions for the main
tenance of the College.
In another column will be found the
new law ~lessening the number Of justices
composing the Quarterly Court and pro
viding for a reduction of per diem pay
while attending said court, etc. This
will reduce the bench OF our Quarterly
Court over one.half in point of numbers
and intellect.
Complaint is made that the books and
papers in several of the new fre-proof
vaults of the courthouse are suffering
from dampness, which If not remedied
will end in moulding and destruction of
many of the records in the course Of
time. This should be attended to, as it
is easily remedied, and is a matter Of
great Importance.
At the Adams street station.house at
night you can hear prisoners singing
songs, hymns, yelling, cursing, praying,
laughing, crying, according to the emo
tons which govern the internal organi-
cation of each. 1t resembles somewhat
the poets descriptions of the Internal
regions of the ancients.
A way TO enter the Criminal Court
room from the interior of the court
house is a much needed necessity.
Every public Office and courtroom in
the building can be reached from the
interior except the Criminal Court and
the clerks Office Of the same. Will the
Chairman Of the County Court remedy
this inconvenience?
Among the appointments made by
Governor Porter, and announced in the
Nashville Banner of the 25th, is that of
Major W. d. Rhea, of this city, as Coal
Oil Inspector. This appointment comes
within the scope Of Major Rhea's regu-
lar duties, as he is Secretary of the
Underwriters Association, which repre-.
sents the great fire insurance interests of
Memphis.
The young man of the Appeal, who is
said to be contemplating a desperate
deed of matrimony, thus moralizes over
a divorce case commenced in our courts:
No condition of mortal can be half so
miserable rs that of an unloved wife"
We presume the condition Of an unloved
husband comes in and cuts some figure
in the miserable business.
Blind hand.organists now occupy the
Main street pavement at Court Square.
At night they light a lamp, not like Dio.
genes, to discover an honest man, but a
generous and sympathetic one who has
a nickel to give away. These musicians
earn from five to ten dollars per day,
but the tin cup never exhibits more than
two or three nickels at a time.
Many habitual drunkards and casual
spree chaps have discovered a way Of
Aanking the fines in the Recorders
Court by protesting penitsnce before his
honor and expressing a desire to swear
off drinking for three, six or twelve
months. The cath is administered, and
the inebriate is warned that the next
drunk will bring about a double dose Of
fines.
Since the passage of the new charter
several heavy transactions in city bonds
have taken place, many believing hat
the bonds have reached the lowest point
and hat their course will now be onward
and upward. We are not trying to
bull" the market by announcing this
fact, but merely wish to give some in
formation to the bears"
Robert McWade will commence an
engagement at the theater next Monday
night. lie will be supported by the Gill
bert Sisters and a stock company, and
will present a series of dramas and
comedies during the week. We hope
Rip Van Wrinkle will not be in the re.
p%ertoire of the company, it having been
produced here this season by Joe Jeffer-
son during an entire week and before
slim houses.
This dog tax of one dollar and a half
on males and five dollars on female
dogs, imposed by the Legislature, is a
blow struck at the sex, if not at civil
rights, which provides that no law shall
be passed by a State discriminating on
account Of race, color or previous con-
dition of servitude. Susan B. Anthony
should come to the front and be heard
from in a philippe against Tennessee
legislation.
The State courts and the United
States courts are over half a mile apart,