Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-09-27
4 HARROW EscAPE.
Too Much Tender : Heartedness
Causes Our Noted President to
Closely Crowd the Hour for
Opening Court.
Roscoe COnklIDg Tearing Down
main street at q Reckless
speed-A Little Sidewalk
Talk.

Judge David Park MADDEN narrowly
escaped being late this morning in open.
ing up his fine factory on Adams street
He came II across his black mare, and It.
colt would stop to reinvigorate its system
so often that the Judge, who himself il
full of the milk of human kindness, coult
not refuse, so that time melted away Will
such rapidity that HIS Honor went down
Main street on q gAllop that looked lik,
reckless driving. He managed to get be
hind his desk just in time to see Hedricl
going through his daily task Of winding
up and setting an eight-day clock. H,
removed his tall duster and was about t
put it on the reporters desk when he saw
the morning newspaper man CONT
in and very sagely ordered an
officer to take the garment down stairs
and lock itup in the safe.
"Hedrick, show us what progress you're
making in vocal culture. l hear you're
taking from one Of the Mendelssohn
crowd now and we want to see how you
are getting along"
The Balif cut himself loose for a ro-
busto effort but the sad fact was apparent
that no change had been effected.
I'm begin this morning by saying that
| want the sidewalk on the north side Of
Marshall avenue from Madison to Union
put in good order, and from the intersec-
tion at Union out to the Hospital we
must have the path fixed up. l don't pro-
pose TO have our medical students fall and
sustain injuries that will compel
them to amputate their W limbs.
You officers must try to encourage people
to improve their property generally,
otherwise wen have this looking like
Chicago or New York the first thing You
know. If l had as mnch dust as there is
on the streets now l could buy Wander
bilt out and start an orphan asylum in
every State in the Union remarked His
Honor, while he felt anxiously around his
for some tobacco he had left on
the desk yesterday, and which had been
removed by one Of the barristers.
John Conway, the blind man who
holds out a tin dipper for pennies on the
Main street side of Court Square and also
on Main street and Center alley. was
called up to explain away a charge
of being drunk and disorderly. The
old man got tired of being
kept'in continued darkness, 50 he hoisted
in so much beer that he Imagined he could
see almost anything, ard was having a
high old time, when officer Koran hap
pened along and started to take Mr.. Con-
way in. Mr.. O. did not agree, however,
and resisted with such vigor that the Off
GERS shins have not as much skin on this
morning as they did before coming in
contact with Mr.. Conway's boots. "Ah.
] see, / see,' said the Judge, "this is a
plain case of being blind drunk. Now,
Mr.. Conway, in consideration of youI
inirmity, I'll let you go this time, but
don't get on hat kind Of blind again.
You can co. This SO pleased Mr.. Con.
way, that he called on a whole calendar
of saints to bless HIS Honor, after which
he was steered out to his customary seat.
The prosecution failed to appear in the
case of Walter Mead, charged with va.
grancy, so he was discharged.
Z. P. McNealy, a specialized individual,
was drunk and disorderly last night and
made himself obnoxious in a Main street
saloon. He wanted to leave the city i'm.
~mediately, but was fined SO. The Judge
subsequently allowed him to go to his
hotel in order to get his luggage and hunt
up some money,
The case of James Connell, charged
with violating the sidewalk ordinance,
was continued Ave days. A similar case
of p. Friedlander was also continued five
days.
Directions were given to the police to
hunt up Samuel Hunt and compel him tC
make proper sewer connections.
Charles Auerforth, G. A. hurry and
Q. A. Turney were charged with trespass-
ing in a building on Main street, between
jackson and Commerce, owned by Mrs.
Burns, and erected by a contractor named
Chamberlin. The question was strictly
technical, and as there is a difference oil
opinion between Mrs. Burns and the con-
tractor, it is highly probable the whole
matter will be discussed in the upper
Courts, so Judge Hadden discharged the
men and told them not to enter the house
again until the matter was settled. Squire
Winters instructed one Of his clients 10 20
right along and work in the house, for
which advice the Court fined him $40
but subsequently RENTED the same.