Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-06-02

ed that the woman had abused his mother shame,
fully, aud he had logged her for it, rare in
stance OF fia devotion, and one worthy of being
treasured in these degenerate days. As the
| Mayor inclined to the opinion, however, that the
law afforded redress for all such cases. and as Mr.
Mckinney had thought pi oper to exercise in his
own person the functions of Judge, Jury and Elk
cutioner, he determined to send the case before
the Grand Jury, and held Mr.. Mex to bail to
| appear and answer.
AN OPPONENT OF LIGHr.-Mrs. Bridget Far.
rem, being dear lover of light and ventilation,
conceived the idea Of supplying both to her dom-
Gil, situated on 18th street, between Cary street
and the river, by causing an additional window
to be cut in the house. 1t so happened, howev-
en- that the new window commanded full view
OF an adjoining lot, 10 the occupancy of a free
fellow named Dick Bayly. He therefore bitter
" opposed the movement, expostulaed earnestly
with Madam Bridget but finding her memorable,
resorted to other means to prevent the insertion
OF the obnoxious window. He made furious
assault upon the unofending window sill, and
roundly abused and threatened Mrs. Farren. For
this, she obtained warrant of arrest and Bayly
was taken into custody Monday afternoon by the
| officers He appeared before the Mayor Tues-
| day, when Madam Bridget made known her
| grievances. The Mayor thereupon ordered the
officers to take the recusant to the Valley, and
administer to him sound nogging.
| ~ A few months since, gentleman styling
| himself Dr. Dioclesian Lewis, arrived in this
| city, and during sojourn of several weeks de
lvered course of free lectures upon the subject
| OF Health. We did not hear the learned lee j.
| turer ourselves, and are therefore Incompetent to
the expression of any opinion as to this merits or
dement's. His conduct, however, we under
| stand, was regarded as somewhat unprofessionaI
| by portion of the faculty. aud drew forth one
| or two curt criticisms through the public press.
| Those criticisms ELECTED an offensive reioinder
| from DR.. Lewis, which led to one or two uusat-
isfactory calls upon that gentleman, as we learn,
and finally to an assault in the streets, on Tues
day morning last. The reader will remember
that the Doctor was arraigned before the Mayor
Tuesday upon the charge of selling "merchan-
dze,' &c. Ia this city without license; he will
likewise remember that after the Mayor had de-
| termined to send the case before the Hustin gs
Court, Dr. Lewis lodged complaint against DIR.
P. c. Cocoa of this city, fol- assault and battery
Yesterday Dr. Gooch appeared before the Mayor,
| in obedience to summons, and asked that the
investigation might be postponed until to-day, to
enable him to procure the attendance of witness
es The request was granted.
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STEALING RAGs-Edward Bloom err appeared
at the Mayors Court Tuesday for the purpose of
prosecuting negro man who gave his name as
Edmund, for petit arcency Mr.. B. stated that
on Monday last he left his shop, which is stua-
ted in the Valley, for the purpose of attending
to some business. The negro was MT the shop