Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-13

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house and receive another sentence of
fifty dollars fine or one hundred days on
changing. Every effort will be
made to send the villain either to the
Presidents Island workhouse or the
penitentiary.
1t is now proposed that a man be de-
tailed for the purpose of waking up the
male beauties who daily bask
and snore in the sunshine while they
stretch out on the seats at Court Square.
The Recorder insists that the iron beds
at Court Square are worth five dollars to
sleepers. The public square is not a
lodging house.
At the Criminal Courtroom to day
Probate Judge Ray is engaged in hear.
ing the case of Robert and Thomas ].
Reasonover on a writ Of habeas corpus,
for the purpose Of admitting the defend
ants to bail. The Reasonovers, it will
be remembered, were arrested and in.
dicted for the killing Of Mr. Ellis, zeal
Germantown, not long since.
A couple of young negroes, armed
with slings and leaden sIugs, engaged
in s~laughtering the sparrows on Second
street, near Washington, to-day. One
of the young vagabonds was arrested by
citizens, but the other escaped. The
ordinance imposes a iue of FIVE dollars
on those who kill or catch the little
sparrows hal are now domesticated
throughout the city.
But four lamps are lighted in Court
Square at night, and these are located
far from the fountain, which is generally
shredded in darkness. The three lamps
asked for, to be placed neal and around
the fountain, should be furnished by the
city. Owing to the darkness in thu
square at night improper character
visit the place from no good motives, Blu
light will drive these characters to SOM
other place.
The baseball jargon is becoming
fashionable here just now, judging from
the number Of young men we hear dis
c%nssing flies and fouls, outs, errors, in
nings, Founders, bases, muffs, etc. 7,
be put out on q fly or a foul would be
base error to coll an inning, and cer
tsinly it would be more pleasant to tax
a bounder from the field and keep you
hand in a muff, that ia, provided the gin
wore a muff in these days and kept he
hand in it also.
Lucy Smith alias Z" Stumpy," the nj
gress who testified with Frances ThomI
son before the Congressional Invest
eating Committee with reference to thos
outrages said to have been committed o
them during the riots in 1866, was a fe
years thereafter sent to the penitentiar
by our Criminal Court for twenty yea
on a charge OF robbery from the persol
She was pardoned out or got out son,
way in a few years, and soon after thu
was arrested and sent to the p~enitential
for one year on the charge Of petit Ia
csny.
During the past few days the weathc
} may be described as rather hot but coolt
by gentle breezes; cloudy overhead, wi
abortive attempts at rain and growth
J thunder all around the armament. A
this keeps the outdoor plodder constan
ly grasping at his dollar umbrella an
enjoying the exercise Of carrying, oper
=. iEg and shutting it with the most reg
: lar irregularity. By twelve o'clock
night the atmosphere cools off so thi
gentle sleep secures permission to VIC
the eyelids Of the weary aud perspiriI
citizen who has been drinking lager q
the evening, and wonders what has ma
; him feel so hot.
, It is rumored that the ChickasG
Guards have rendered their services
scouts to engage in the Indian war
the Rosebud and Little Horn rivers,
Montana, where Major General Sittii
Bull has his army concentrated, and
he sits on the highest mountain pea
gazes across the hills and plains in scar
of more heads to scalp. The India
never scalp a bald-headed man and |
s come disguised with a shaven pate, CT
e sequently those who intend volunteer
d in the contest should let their hair grl
long so as to make a good impression
the big Indian chief, whose wigwal
| cover the hills along the tributaries
the Yellowstone. Our friend Hop JOB
d son, of the Appeal, offers to go along
d war correspondent, and we have kline
d offered to write his notes up should
o send them back, and publish them
d pamphlet form, to be called "Post-M
r tenn Remains, or Literary Scalps, TAX
on the Spot"
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