Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-13

and can't be beat. Give him a call to-
morrow aud yOu will not regret it.
In the csse of Mary:A. Tobey VS.. The
Southern Life Insurance Company, on
hearing before the United States Court,
Judge Emmous ordered a decree en-
tered assessing damages for plaintiff at
$46l7, and that execution issue for the
same, with costs; and that said judgment
be certified by the clerk to the District
Court for the District Of West Tennessee,
sitting in bankruptcy, as a valid claim
against the defendants, etc.
The Police Board, at a meeting yester-
day afternoon, discharged two night pat
rolmen for sleeping while on duty and
filed their places by the appointments
Of W. P. Paul and John McNulty. This
makes four night patrolmen who have
been discharged from the force during
the present week for sleeping on their
watch. The police rules and regulations
should be enforced strictly and firmly,
as the people pay for protection and
should have it.
Complaint has been made that some of
the police patrol force use rather rough
means to make arrests of drunken and
obstreperous men, such as beating them
over the heads with clubs, punching them
with the muzzles of their pistols and
kicking them when down. No police
man has a right to beat a prisoner over
the head with.a club or use any other
force but that amount exactly necessary
to make the arrest. The law is very
plain and strict in such matters.
Captain James Gallagher, formerly a
well known counsellor at law of this city,
but who for the past year has been EN-
gagged in mercantile business at st. Louis,
has returned to Memphis to live out the
remainder of his days. He says Mem.
phis is the best place he has ever seen,
but he knew not hat it is an old tradi-
ton here that If you once get a good
supply Of Chickasaw bluff mud on your
boots you can never shake it of, no mat
ter in what portion of the world you may
cast your lot. If you live, you will
surely return to the Bluff City.
In Spanish it is Don Pedro; in Portu
guese, Dom Pedro, but in English, will
the LEDGER newSboys, it is DIN Pedro
By the way, there is a probability of The
Brazilian Emperor coming to Memphis
as it is expected he will take a triI
down the Mississippi to its mouth o.
delta. Should he come to Memphis W.
should show him the Court Square foun
tain, the county Jail, the Bayou Gsyoso
the tin-headed City Hall building, tina
) Brazilian monkey on the corner Of Sec
ond and Jefferson, and should presen
him with a set Of paper resolutions an.
, a pocketful of Brazilian nuts.
: The iron work Of the Court squarr
fountain has been finished, and nov
nothing remains to be done but to &C
ment the lower basin and place the ston
s coping on the brick vail. The fountai
will be in full working order and read
r to be thrown open to public insrectio
by next Saturday. 1t is proposed to S,
cure Arnold's celebrated band to di
n course music at the opening celebration
4 Some local poet should also be s%electe
q to write and recite an ode upon that oC
%casion in praise of water fountains an,
Hebe, the Goddess Of Youth, who sui
mounts the fountain and pours the life
giving liquid from q pitcher into o cur
I In baseball parlance, she is a pitcher
and q Catcher" at one and the sam
time.