Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-09

slave that plays Nevertheless there
are hundreds aud thousands of peaple
interested in base ball matters, as durips
this Centennial year the game will be
regarded as a national one, a fact duly
appreciated by the professional players
who get paid as ball-slingers at SO much
per month.
To make the Court Square fountain
level aud plumb so as to cause the water
in the basins or pans to pour out all
around the rims lie no easy task when it
is considered that the iron fountain is
twenty feet in hight and weighs several
tons. At present the fountain at the top
is out of plumb half an inch, but the in
sertion Of a wedge beneath the iron struc-
ture will regulate all that. as the effect
Of the insertion of a wedge the eighth of
an inch in thickness beneath increases
at a rapid ratioaccording to the hight of
the fountain.
Why do women kiss each other on the
street when they meet2 is a spring CO.
nundrum often asked. Men shake hands
when they meet, but the women, old aud
young, while shaking hands frantically
kiss each other through wells or other
head.gear distractions. Many Of the
street salutatiohs make a report like a
pistol, and must certainly be a tiresome
labial exercise. At least so the men
think without knowisg anything about
it, yet we opine they would rot object
to be included in the custom which now
results in "a waste of sweetness on the
desert air.
A special committee Of the General
Council has been appointed to consider
the propriety Of removing the chain
gang from the public streets and putting
them to work in some building or en-.
closure outside the city limits The best
plan is 1 enter into a contract with Gen
eral Forrest, and send the chain-gang to
Presidents Island Workhouse. The best
criminal lawyers in the city are Of opin.
ion that there is no law for putting a bal
and chain on a city prisoner who is
working on the streets, and that the city
is liable for damages in such cases. The
ball and chain business is a relic Of bar
barism and should be abolished.
Tse United States Court ives not il
session this forenoon, as Judge Emmonf
was in attendance at Shelby county Cir
cult Courtroom listening to the argu
ment of counsel in the certiOrari ant
supersedeas cases of the merchants who
are resisting the levy of the Nicolsor
pavement tax on capital, which was or
dered to be made under a recent de
cision of Judge Brown Of the Fedora
Court. Judge Emmons sat on the bencI
with Circuit Judge Heiskell, who wa
hearing the case, and the courtroom
was crowded with lawyers. The case i
a very important one. as it involves
! probably, a conflict Of jurisdiction.
Three St. Louis thieves, who cam.
here following il the wake Of the 81
; Louis baseball clue, robbed a till yeI
g terday at the store Of Sherman & Co o
Front street, but they we're capture
r after a long chase by detective McCun
aud Mr.. Pryde, who assisted him Tn
. thieves, who gave their names as Georg
. Green, John Thompson and J.. W
, 0'Neal, have been passing themselve
of as professional baseball players 70
several days. but they we're spotted" b
the detectives. They committed severa
clever robberies during the past week i
this city. Two Of the men have bee
; recognized as mackerels who lived i
this city about seven years ago.