Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-22

Court-HOuse and Police News.
-Four free dodgers at the station
house last night-a butcher and tire
laborers, two Americans and tw,
Englishmen.
Jane jackson (darky), charged b.
Henry Jones with stealing SIS from
his person, was this forenoon bound
over in the sum Of $1,000 to answer fol
her purloining proClivities, She wenI
to Jail.
The Probate Court was in session
this forenoon. The Circuit Court wa,
also in session. The proceedings all
appeared dry and unimportant, except
perhaps to a few interested litigants.
The Chancery Court was not in SEES,
sion.
The fact that App, who killed
Hacket, has been permitted to stroll
about the city, caused a lively breeze
in the Criminal Court this forenoon.
1t was commended, and with good reas-
on, that such privileges were a little
too much.
Sweeny, a gambler, working under a
merchants license, granted by the
former city government, had an in
genious swindling continuance. His
apparatus was so arranged that the
turning arrow never stopped in front
of cash prize. He raked in nickels
quite freely until brought to grief by
the police.
The Criminal Court adjourned early
this morning until Monday on account
of it being a general holiday. No
progress was made in the App case in
consequence. The attorneys for the
defense, Generals Wright and Horri-
gan, are yet to speak, and General
Turner will do the same for the prose-
cution before the Ease goes to the
jury.
Marriage licenses issued since yes.
terday were, j. NJ. Long and Miss
Lou Gray, Samuel Alfred and lula
Jane Burns, Cornelius Cicero Sigler
and Susan johnson. Susie is a col
ored lady and she will doubtless be
supremely happy in swapping of her
plain patronymic for one so classical
and heightened.
The police and fire commissioners
are now snugly quartered in their new
room at the courthouse. They have
a long table, a few chairs, mating on.
the floor and a few necessary tools in
the shape of writing material. All
authority, to be properly enforced and
appreciated, must be written down,
even though it be of the Dogberry
fashion.
/ Deeds and papers recorded by
Register Hunt since yesterday, were
as follows: Trust deeds from L, NJ.
and w. G. Baugh to Wm. West E.
Custaginno to VIM. NJ. Randolph,
trustee Augustin Dauriac to A.,
Woodruff mortgage from Shelby
county to Arbuckle & Tucker; war
ranty deed from R. F. to j. H. Ma
lone quit claim from f. Miller to
Elizabeth Hirth.
Mrs. S~pickernagle, a worthy and
poor widow, whose husband died dur
ing the late plague, leaving her a fam
lily of three small children to support,
keeps a news stand ON Poplar street.
She applied this forenoon to the au-
thOrities, saying that the new Sunday
regulations would bear especially hard
on her, as the sales that day exceed all
the rest Of the week together. Thacase
is especially hard on the applicant, as
her income is barely enough to supply
necOssaries for herself and children.
This is only one of the many instances
which the poorer citizens will undergo
by the enforcement of Sunday laws.
In the Police Court this morning.
Esquire Quigley and DR.. Porter pre-
siding, R. H. Benson, gambler, for
misdemeanor, was fined $5-not hay
ing the cash he was committed for ten
days; Morris s. Sweeny, another
sport, was fined and paid $40 for the
same oftense. They were engaged at
gaming with a sort of roulette table
on the public streets, first selling a
pencil as a blind, and then taking in
the greenhorn crowd. VIM. Thomp-
son, a prowler, was fined 81, or two
days on the force Alfred Wallace,
for fighting and james o. Dom.
drunk, ;werc discharged; Gardner,
escaped convict, and Frank Fust,
vagrant, were continued, to be exam
ined rs State cases before Esquire
Quigley.