Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-18

0SN NsVSot 'Ohui elRht miles from the
city. Roush was indicted for commit.
ting a namsless crime Of the most re.
Voting nsture-an act known only to
the brute creation.
In the case Of Rosanna Jsmison vs..
the St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance
Company, heard here by Judge Brown.
OF the United States District Court. the
Clerk Of the Court received today the
opinion of Judge Brown in the case.
rendering a judgment in favor Of Ro-
sauna Jamison and against the insur-
ance company for the amount of the
policy, nearly enc thousand dollars.
The Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro,
while out driving, in New York, on Sat-
urday, had his carriage run into and
badly smashed by a New York jehu.
What would a Memphis hackman care
for an emperor or his carriage? In this
land Of liberty every man is a sovereign
and emperors are nothing more. As the
poet, Burns, puts it,
"A king may make q belted knight.
A Prince of Peace and all that,
But an honest man is above them ALL
A mans a man for all that"
About forty Of the Chiekassw Guards,
accompanied by a number of Memphis
bellies, will leave for Nashville on Wednes.
day next SO as to be in Nashville on
Thursday, the Goth, when the Chicks "
will compete at the prize drill With the
companies from other portions of the
State. On Thursday night a grand ball
will be given by the Nashvillisus to the
citizen eOldiery and their lady f%rienas.
1t is expected that the C~hickasaw Guards
will bring back the prize banner.
Mayor Flippin is now holding the Re-
corder's Court. He hears the facts in
each case, and when the legal boys wish
to make an argument on the legal end Of
the case, the Mayor who is supposed TO
know the law, he having been Judge Of
the Criminal Court says quietly, the
facts are before me and / am supposed to
know the law, so there is no necessity Of
making any lengthy argument" The
Mayor will hold the Recorders Court
until the Recordership imbroglio is
settled by the General Council.
A conntryman at q restaurant yester-
day asked for a morning paper, not
knowing that the evening LEDGER was
the only journal published in this city
on Mondays. The waiter handed him a
copy Of the Courier des Etats Upis, a
French weekly journal of no little merit,
published in New York. After looking
at il, and turning it over for a lew sec
onds, he remarked, "See here, boy, l
can't read the darned paper. l never
went to college and studied Dutch
Mayor Flippin messaged the General
Council last night, and in accordance
with the suggestions contained therein
the General Council passed on It's first
reading an ordinance authorizing the
Mayor to borrow from time to time the
sum of ninety thousand dollars, or sew.
enty thousand for the police and FIRE de.
partments and twenty thousand for pub.
lie improvements, and for the payment
of which the tax on merchants capital
for 1876, and the privilege tax due Jan.
uary, 1871, are set apart and pledged.
Ex-County Trustee A. Woodward and
his friends have made q proposition to
the County Court for a settlement on a
basis Of conveying the Shelby County
Fair Grounds, Of ninety-fvs acres, aud
valued at $4,000 to the county Of
Shelby, as a settlement Of all claims held
by the county against Woodward as
County Trustee, for d~efalcations. There
is lien of $4,000 on the grounds which
the county will have to assume. The
County Court on yesterday appointed a
committee composed of Esquires Miller,
Hoegel, Harrell, York end Winters, ard
also Messrs. ], c. Nicely, W, S. Bruce,
NJ. Gavin, 81. Seessel, ST., and 7. J..
Latham to consider the proposition and
make report to the County Court on
Monday, the Oath day of the present
month.