Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-31
POLICE POINTS.

The usual quota Of Saturday night
providers were investigated to day.
There were thirty-three performers
at the Theater De Hadden to-day, and
. correspondingly large audience.
A slit in one ear and = crop in the
other was the way Henry Blanket was
marked when Will Rice got through
with him. The Court will know II
again.
Joe Neff and Mack Frank we're
found sweetly sleeping and harmoni-
ously snoring. They were taxed three
dollars a snore.
A report got out that a fellow had
lost $500 in Rosenstein's saloon, 81
Beal street, yesterday, and the propri-
etOr was arrested aud fined $40.
Tom Mailing and Tom Moses had a
fight about q debt of SIS. Mailing
nailed Moses, who also got a FIVE dol
lar fine added to his punishment.
0dell LANCASTER, a long Tyoungster,
who pulled a skiff, was himself pulled
by a policeman last night and put in
the drydock, until he could be in
spected.
Three kittenish cOlored girls, who
were playing on the street with as
many colOred young men, spent the
night in a trap at the stationhouse.
Two dollars apiece.
The clothing found on the river
bank Saturday evening has been iden-
tilted as that Of Johnnie Able, aged
fourteen, who worked at Eader's
planning mill and whose parents live
at 1896 Union street,
The Endorsement made by the
Grand Jury on Esquire Quigley's
books is as good a campaign docu-
ment as could be written. Yet such
evidence as this is not at all neces-
sary with those who know the Squire.
A dairyman named Schunke had
the driver of the No. 3 hose carriage
arrested for breaking down his wagon
while going to the fire Friday evening.
The fireman was discharged, and
Schunke himself narrowly escaped
being fined.
The darby Aft Dodson, who is
accused of ringing himself in twice
on the paymaster of the stone and
gravel company, receiving $l2 on his
own account and $l8 on account of a
fellow laborer named Reuben Jordan
was sent to Jail in default Of bail.
Louis Herman seems bent upon
making a reputation as a breaker Of
the laws. He deserves to be sent
down with the force Of pile driver.
His last offense was abusing an old
farmer who was peddling vegetables,
and his fine was 50.
The curl papers and kinks were
made to fly at a lively rate, yesterday
evening, on Jefferson street, in a fight
between Gertie Herzog, a white wo.
man, and Matte Sutton, a darby,
caused by children's fights. They
waltzed out Of court to the tune of
five dollars apiece.
In describing the manner in which
some one had pummeled her little
boy, a heavy weight cOlored female
damned the rail in front of Judge
Hadden with her fist with such force
as to loosen his upper teeth. The war
like female was fined S. for her share
III Ine IraCaS,
Tom Russ, who was arrested yeter-
day for stealing a watch from j. M.
Davis, Of Bartlett, attempted to hide
from the turnkey this morning by
s~ecreting himself in the stove. He
betrayed himself by a sneeze and was
dragged out, filled with SCOT and Gin
ders. he was sent to Jail by Esquire
Coleman.
Billy Mccoy, a member of a trades
union, boasted yesterday that he could
whip any ''scab" alive. He began
breeding scabs on the instant, and the
policeman found him covered up in
the middle of the street with a shower
of stones. Sam Wilson, who was the
only one Of his nine pursuers caught,
was fined S..