Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-20

No. 217, Knights of Honor, have re-
ceived checks in the sum of 5000
each for the families Of the late John
Ell;c.. Wm. Elliott, DR.. S. L. Raines
and DR.. John c, Rogers.
Filth and wretchedness of the city
calaboose, cleanliness and good fare at
the county Jail, says the grand jury.
The prison room at the Criminal
Court is ~deplorable, and should at
once be repaired and enlarged, say
the same authority.
Good working prisoners have nc
time kept at the county work-house on
the island, says the grand jury. Catch
a fellow willing and keep him at it.
seems to have been the plan carried
cut, according to the testimony Of
prisoners and others.
Ju Sing, a Celestial, had Wong
Foine, a brother countryman, arrested
for giving the first named a licking
this morning. They are washee peo-
pie, who do business on Jefferson
street. Wo-Yuens was on hand as a
friend to both parties.
Filth testers aud rots in back yards
and on highways all Over the city;
privy vaults are full to the brim and
the situation is anything but inviting.
When warm weather sets in perhaps
a move Will be made to clean out, and,
like last year, Just in time to get out.
The grand jury reports the county
Jail in fine order also the county
poor-house. They think the superins
tendent of the latter ought to be
hired we at higher wages, The
County Court has fixed the salary for
next year and will doubtless not in
crease it.
Barbarous and cruel treatment OF
prisoners at the Presidents Island
ork-house farm is charged on L. H.
Gillen, a british overseer there in
months gone by. The grand jury are
after him with a sharp stick. If
caught he will be apt to enjoy a few
draughts of his own medicine.
Riding prisoners on a rail, turning
them up and giving injections of tur-
pentine, beating the miserable wretches
with clubs and driving them off when
sick and disabled appears to have been
the favorite method adopted and exc
cuted by assistant keeper Gillen at the
Presidents Island work-house.
The Knights of Pythias are prepar-
ing to pay $1,000 each as benefits on
the lives of the late H. S. Reynolds
and NJ. J. S. Hansen. They have
paid the widow of O. Durk $4,000
also the heirs of Lutz, jr., $4,000
Jonathan Wood $1,000. This com.
pletes their list of benefit deaths.
The January term of the Crimina
and Circuit courts began this forenoon
The calendar of the latter will be sci
next Monday. The calendar of the
United States CouH to-day is the
United States vs.. Evans, Rainey VS.
Lonsdale & Co., United States VS.. NJ
and c. R. r., Rousseau VS.. Andrews.
Prairie schooners, full of movers
travelling eastward, are sights to be
seen now and thenpassing through our
streets. One, an East Tennessee fam
lily, disguised with Texas after a sea-
sons s%OjOurn out there, passed up
Main street yesterday, returning to
their old and worn out peanut patch.
The two youngest judges in the
United States, Judges Brown and
Hammond, occupied the United States
Court bench together this forenoon.
AT the midday hour Judge Hammond
retired to allow a hearing Of the case
of the Water Works company against
the city an action asking pay for the
water supplied.
A quiet wedding is limited at to
come off tomorrow evening, the con
tracing parties being a we'll known
young gentleman of this city, now en-
gagged in business at st. Louis, the
bride a sweet-voiced society belle.
The groom is expected to arrive in
the city to-day and returnt to st. Louis
with bis bride tomorrow night.
Excayate a tunnel and reverse the
current of Bayou Gayoso, so that il
will empty into the river below the
city, then wall up its sides and cover
it at street crossings, is the plan pro-
posed to drain the city of impurities
and supply a good sewerage channel
The cost of the scheme would be mod
crate a2d the advantages manifold.
More leading citizens are preparing
for a run to Nashville to see about the
proposed substitute for the present
city charter if the latter is repealed
The best and most familiar friend 0.
the recently printed substitute vii.
not know it after a few dozen mucI
needed amendments are made. Log.
rolling to amend has begun in earnest
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