Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-30
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POLICE POINTS.

Five fellows were arrested yester.
day for doing nothing. They we're
Migrants.
Most of the plain DRINKS caught it
for 50 tO>Gay. THE tariff s too low, "
the Judge says.
Margaret Garfield, a decrepid old
old gray haired woman, was sent to
the poorhouse.
George Owen plead not guilty. He
was only locked out. Get home
early" said His Honor, "Two-o-o dol
lars"
The Judge ordered court open hall
an hour earlier tomorrow than usual,
as four lawyers are to be tried for
keeninG their Office in an unsanitary
condition.
Shelby Morton had two story PTS
tol yesterday and got two story SEN
tence to day. Fifty dollars for the
city and sent to Jail 10 undergo a
course Of sprouts.
Monroe Miller, a prowler, gave a
good excuse. The officer admitted he
did not look quite so much like a
chicken thief as he did by moonlight,
and he was discharged.
Forty three cases were tried in as
many minutes this morning, and
S62,5O in cash taken in-nearly dol
lar and half minute. But then
Amos Gould, member of the South>
ern end Of the Gould family, was in
court.
Two hotel serving girls were found
promenading the streets at one O'clock
Sunday morning with two fast young
men, all under the influence of liquor,
laughing, crying, and yelling by tarns.
Thew we're fined s. each to- day, and
paid it,
A passenger named j. B. Sanders
dropI ed dime in street car last
Saturday evening and it caught. He
explained to the driver, who ''couldn' t
see it, aud threatened arrest. In the
melee a window pane was broken, and
| to-day s. 8 j was paid by Sanders.
| Jacob Iiycps was tiled for being
| drunk for the third time during the
II. lie promised to brace UP and
leave leave if ors. ~. AsI beard tBat
twice before, salo - iloD9t' ho,; bus
mean it this time" don 'ei'eNe
you-$2," sentenced the Judge.
81 see a crowd playin' ball in the
surbulbs yestiddy," said His High
mightiuess to-day, land they had the
cheek to ask me to take round. |
did not play, but just brung EN- into
court an I'll knock EN- out. Bet | II
score all the innings and no fouls
either"
Pleas Small, who was struck in the
head with shovel by Lizzie Clark, is
in a precautions condition. He was
taken home Saturday on the recon.
mendation of his physician and lizzie
was ordered rearrested. She will be
confined until the result of Small 8
injuries can be known.
Judge Hadden has been pelted with
habeas cOrpusses, plastered with
"swashyraries," struck by citations
and generally overwhelmed and be,
fuddled by writs of error and super
cedeas until he is certain that he is in
the most fearful despair, and has
thrown the laws and ordinances tothe
ragman. I'm o goin' to ran this
here koort 'cordin to common sense"
he said to-day.
Bill Greenlawlkicked dog yester-
day but he didn't know it was loaded,
He might as we'll have kicked a Russ
sian dynamite bomb. The owner Of
the dog, female, hit him over the
head three times with broomstick
before the dog had ground out the
first howl, broke two bricks on his
back, and finally fred him into the
gutter, worse wreck than the Gar is
likely to be on coronation day. Bill
came up smiling to-day, however, and
in good time for 20 days on the gang.