Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-25
POLICE POINTS.

last night.
A couple Of fast drivers were fined,
and paid a dollar each.
you will have to 60 to other
shed" mean the Criminal Court.
A couple Of citizens we're given ten
days further time to repair their side
walks.
W. T. Donaldson will have a hear
ing day after tomorrow for carrying
concealed weapons.
Only six dollars in cash was col
lected to day. Four persons who we're
fined all paid and nobody was sent be-
low.
1t is always a difficult matter for the
policeman to decide upon whom to
serve a notice to repair a sidewalk in
front of a church.
Captain Webb says his neighbor-
hood was SO unusually quiet last night
he couldn't sleep sound. That center
shot Of Saturday night did all this.
Officer Mcfarland tells about an
old wood sawyer on his beat who has
twenty-five children, eighteen of whom
are living, and all under the parental
roof.
A row in the neighborhood of the
saloon Of Coleman Thomas on
DeSoto, near Madison, led to his ar
rest, but as the r~oysterers were not
traced to his house, he was dis
charged.
The case of Alf Ross, the negro
accused Of assaulting old man
Genochio on the boulevard, yesterday.
was laid over until Thursday. He
expects to prove an alibi.
The police have been instructed to
sec that every n is supplied with a
garbage box of the regulation pattern.
1t will not be necessary to have ones
name on it in blue and gold.
Six hundred house connections with
the sewers have been ordered by the
sanitary police within the last four
months, and all complied with; conse-
quently that number of vaults have
been filed, and the atmosphere is so
much purer.
The little negro girl, Dee Lipscomb,
whom, it is alleged, was outraged by
her cousin, has disappeared. AS she
was threatened with all sorts Of con-
sequences if she appeared to give
evidence, this is net at all surprising.
The case was set for yesterday, but has
been continued indefinitely.
A half fool darby, named Reuben
Dunn, who has a mania for stealing
agricultural Implements, engaged to
cut the grass from the grounds Of a
gentleman in South Memphis, this
morning, and ran off with the scythe,
which, when found, he was trying to
sell to Gabay. A cell in the Jail is his
portion.
A female, who claimed to be a doc
tor, begged leave of President Had
den yesterday to peddle her medicines
without license. He was about to
argue the point, when she pulled three
bottles on him with a tapeworm pre-
served in alcohol in each and he
wilted. zee forth in peace" he said,
II give up"
What will you have, Sistren?" quer.
ried the Judge after Court adjourned,
Of a woman who stood in front Of the
rail. II cum fer perfection, Yerroner,"
said the sable sister. "Then you
have sailed into the right harbor.
Here you stand on the broad Hgis Of
the American Constitution, and every
Gap Of the pennon of liberty shall
sting your prosecutors in the face.
Pull the cork and pour out your
woes" And abe poured.
A peddler named Henry Brown
agreed to leave the city yesterday, if
he was excused for being drunk. This
morning he appeared and asked for "a
hours more, in which to regulate his
affairs. What is your business? II
am the agent" said the man in an
awful voice, "for the Great American
Magical Tragical Lightning Salve."
He succeeded in striking the judge
dumb and taking silence for consent,
denarted.