Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-17
DOING n DOCKET.
THE EVEN HANDED DISPENSED OF JUSTIC
AND HIS MORNINGS WORK.

THE EvEN.HANDED DISPENSER OF JUSTICE
AM HIS MORNINGS YORK.
Ouly So a6d 1872 days work.
The docke: con; aimed some interesting
casas
John Brown was fined IS for assault and
battery.
Jim Clarke, white, was taxed g for a
plain drunk.
Nearly a dozen citiz 'us were given five
days longer in which 10 co np!eie their W
connections.
VIM. Edwards, an Industrious citizgn who
makes an article fer the cleaning OF grease
from clotbing, was hauled up yesterday and
required 10 quit busine.s or take out = SIS
license. The profits of the business do no:
justifs the investment, and Mr.. Edwards
must devise s1me other way of disposirg CT
his manufactures Than by retail, except at
hls place of business.
Gus Witt, colored, WIS found in pos
session of a caddy of tobacco, for which be
could give no other account than that he
'ound II on tie corner OF Pontotoc ard NJ in
street,. 1t could not be established that
Gus got the tobacco in any other way, and h.
was allowed to 60, but warned that hereafter
when be found anything, from a cambria
needle 10 a section OF the cave in Lookout;
I bt hluSl CDOA L I " tHt III
house, go hat the owner can get it.
]. +. Foster, the white man who was dis.
| charged Wednesday morning by Judge Had
den on account Of the failure of those chag-
ing him wi b stealing cattle TO come up and
prosecute, was Immediately resrrested at the
instigstion of the parties, who had been iC-
FORMED that Foster WIS al Osceola, Ark, ADD
came here to get a requisi;iou f.om the Gov
error OF Tennessee to have him arrested
there. There seems TO have been a w.ll-laid
scheme TO deceive bis rrts cu,ors 60 as to Sc
cure his release from prison.
Cid man Isham Dean, colored, was ar
raigned on complaint OF snother colored man
named Peter Armstrong, who charged "con
nubial trespass." Pete and his wife had a
'spute which resulted in separation. Sac
went to cd man 1sham, a friend Of the fam
lily, and secured a room, upon which Peters
iealousiss were aroused TO the extent that he
set a trap TO find out something. The pans
were poorly laid, inasmucl as what thew saw
WAS not sufi sient TO convict, especially in
face of the established fact that old Ishsm,
sside from his advanced age, is physically
incapable of trespsss of the character
charged. The case was discharged.
"Dr." c. A. Pey,on, a colored vendor of 20
called medicine, was up charged with being
disorderly and using abusive language tc-
W2r0 MS WIG, DelWetu WnOm q mtOQllU&
mother-in-law had sprung up a difference and
caused q separation OF several monlhs. The
evidence did not Sustain The charges, and the
ChesteI6eldian dispenser Of al!-heaiing
salv. was dismissed from the presence Of
this august Court (the j1ke is on the ae-
~jectise). The "Dr." figured in the courts
here several years sgo, ard barely es-
capped a term of years in the State prism for
cohabitation with a white woman. The wife,
who was present yesterday morning, as we'll
as the mother-in-Iaw, would readily p .ss for
white wlmen.
Charles r cha-ds, a young white mau,
who claim. TO be in the employ oil the South
ern News Company, is in an unenviable posi-
tioD in connection with a diamond studded
b. .astpin claimed BY 7. J. Bonnsr, a colorsd
map, who rooms at No. 444 Main street (the
Harbert block). 1t was in evidence thst
Richards vent into BJnner's apartments
while The latter was asleep. TO comb his
head, and from that moment the pin
was missed from Bouner's scarf. He
afterward visited his inamorats, Mis- Ethe
Madden, and urged her 10 go pawn
it for him, and she might retain hall
that could be realized on it. She declined,
not wishing to have anything 10 do with a
transaction that might involve her in trouble.
Richards defense was that he found the pin
in Court Square. He was fined S25 and
bound over 10 the Criminal Court OIL q bond
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