Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-21
DOUGHTY DAVID
DOWNS THE DRUNKs AND DIsoRDERLIEs II
HIS UsUA HAPPY STYLE.

DOWNS THE DRINKS N RDERLI IN
HIS USUAL HAPPY STYLE.
Haywood Bowman, colored, was adjudsed
q $40 warrant.
Thomas Dolau, white, was charged S. for
assault and battery.
Jim Murray, colored, wen! 10 sleep on his
hack, which cost him &.
Denicy RumIey, white, forfeited a IS note
by failing 10 sppear in court.
Charley Mosby, colored, was the anthor of
So worth OF disorderly conduct Saturday
night.
Mike Hall, colored, cursed an officer, and
| thus opened an account with the city TO the
amount OF So.
Jim Monasco, white, paid 81 for swearing
out a warrant and then failing to appear to
prosecute the party.
Eli Eurns, colored, got drunk, and slapped
a colored sister In the fee, perpstrating a IS
insult to the city's dignity.
William Murray aud Jim Green, both
white, were fined 81 each for enjoying an
economical nap in an empty freight car.
Jim Glasgow and George Allen, two col
ored hoodlums, were assessed 81 each for
indulging in the great Americas privilege Of
fighting.
q NCIl SlCFCI WhltC Infb WhCh
sober, but a lunatic when drunk, got himself
in the latter condition Saturday, for which
he was taxed IS.
Wesley Watkins, a superlative case Of
drunk and disorderly, will wrestle with a SO
contract, which will test his sobering.up
qualities 10 their utmost tension.
"Sallie Wolf, here you are again, and
charged with being drunk and djsorjerly
and strest-walking. Pve done all L could
for you but all for no good. In slap it to
you s. worth"
Charles Faut, colored, got full Of railroad
juice Saturday night, and assaulted a sick
niger with a knife, an ak and a pistol, down
at the camp just south of the corporation
limite, for which he WAS put under $500
bonds to answer in the Criminal Court.
A neighborhood quarrel, bsguu ON Shelby
street, wound up in the Police Court b; the
discharge of Mrs. young" with a warning
from his honor tnat he was cognizsnt of a
good deal Of disorderly conduct from that
source, which would be dealt with severely
il not discontinued.
Peter johnson, white, charged with being
drunk and disorderly and whipping his wife,
was fined $40. Peter threatened his wife
with all sorts of violence if she didn't leave,
and when she went TO get an officer to make
| uln ICuhVC AAn5Cl4 JIG allCu u uOOIb auu
began demolishing the furniture.
Sam Johnsing, colored, got drunk and took
the occasion to reconstruct his family. He
| whaled his child until the cry Of murder W IS
raised, and when the eff Ger went to arrest
him he endeavored TO curse him out of his
boots. 1t took three men to subdue Sam,
which amusement be enjoyed for the low
| price CT s..
Allie Caldwells boy stepped on a sore toe
belonging to Annie Pugh's little girl, about
which a "cussing-match" was INDUCED 10 be-
tween Allie and Annie. Annie confined her
remarks 10 Allie, while Allie applied her
epithels 10 Annie, Aunie's mother and the
entire race, breed and generation, ami got
that much ahead of Annie, for which she
had to pay s..
john Cusick, white, looking the picture Of
misery and despair, with a well-trained hog
pital whine, was up, charged with vsgrancy.
As be monotoned ms tale, be happened to
when the Court suddenly cut short his story,
ordering him to "git out O. this town just as
quick as the Lord will let you-pass on"
and John wabbled out.
George w. Sperry, white, was charged SO
for whipping his wife, the Court declaring
that men CAM marry women and then beat
'sm to death in this country. After court
adjourned, Mrs. Sperry and her four-year-old
daughter plead with tears for the release of
their protector. "He was good and kind to
them when sober" The Court could not re-
sist the appeal, but took occasion to deliver
q temperance lecture to Sperry, as he dis
missed the fine.
"Here is St. Peter, charged with disorderly
and exposing his person. Come up here, ST.
Peter; I've read about you al Sunday school.n
His name appeared on the Register" as John
ST. Peters, and it was in evidence that he got
drunk, undressed himself and cut up all
manner of didoes IN his back porch in full
view of his neighbors on the opposite side of
the street, under the brilliant glare of the
full moon OF Saturday night. The Court
estimated that he had enjoyed about rs
worth Of IN.
"Well, / attended service at DIR. jays
church on Carolina street, Sunday night, and
was delighted with the good order prevail
ing in that neighborhood. But then there
was one thing l saw which / here take occa-
zion to condemn. In passing over the bayou
bridge, / cav ten or fifteen men sitting on the
railing of the bridge on either side, seeming
ly looking for somebody to kill. lie against
the law to loaf around bridges that way, and
fret thing you know you'll kill somebody
sure enough, and then Pill get you. You
must keep away from them bridges"
Haywood johnson, colored, one Of the
Carolina street gang, was up for participating
in q row down there Saturday night. Hay
woods left ear was in pickle on account Of
trying TO catch the whiz of a brick thrown by
old George Brown-caichiDg The whiz and
the brick, too. Old George related the story
of the row, in which he played the part Of
the victim of q terrible conspiracy on &C
count of testimony he had given in a pre-.
vious case. All the boodlums Of the Tenth
Ward thirst for old Georges gore, while old
George thirsteth only for all the whisky his
] hide can contain. Haywood johnson was