The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-11-21
LOCAL MATTHR0.

NnIGHBoRtY SSrTLnMENr.-FoF oomD
months past portion Of the peiGhbors - 80
market street, between Main and tankiis, havs
been In coDtinual nrmentation, end n os1ss -
thrown into the heap Al Iens, haiss 49,. u.~
on. ~thnut having the desired sfeet. Like enu-
tertsed cancer, the nnamationhns k-su sIiavsS ~
short time. only to burst forth With grsAsnr fsry
Yesterday morning Isaac A. Rice, the leading asr
10 these domestic comedies. made his sppsareooe
before the Mayor to answer the charge Of 6epcete-
Ing nuisance at the back gate Of T. HeisSnan.
and score or more Of witnesses were called ups1
10 testify for compisinant and defendant. xics
and freshman live side by side. an alley ssA i've
brick wallis separating them.and - they have esos
measured their strength before Madam Justice In
libel suit, in which Rice came on ssconl bess hs
has not been content to rest quietly under thss d.
A. We have said, the summons against ths %
cused was for depositing nuisance at & Hslsh-
mans gate, and the principal witness for the city
was solomon fleishman, who testified that On The
morning OF the occurrence, he stspped inte has
sther's back yard, about half past O'Clock, And
looking through hole in the gate. Rice IN the
very act OF committing she offence.
kiee denied the charge, and called young nas,
named Meredith, to prove his innocencs.
Meredith testified that he was ct Ries's store
that morning by 5o'clock IL then being daylight,
and rsnainsd in the back room with Rice until 10
o'clock, during the whole Of which time Rice never
left the room.
Believing that the witness was ~piling 1t sa ~
thick" the Mayor reminded him that Il vss not
daylight at O'Clock, and then called oficer Seal
who testified that he Rice In his yard bsswsan
and o'clock.
Finding his position considerably weakened,
Rice next called a young man named Wyatt, vhe
swore that be was in the alley at Rices back gate
at halfpast O'Clock, that he then saw the nsis-
snce. which was three feur feet from Rleish-
mans gate, and that Rice had not then opened his
store
Officer Seal and FlcishmaE deposed that the nuis-
ance was within four inches Of the gate, and thus
settled that point.
Strsuse, Gensburg, and one two ether Wit
nesses, close neighbors to Rice. testified that the
deiendant. Notwithstanding the fact that he had
been bound over to keep the peace, was contins-
ally nterrupting and insulting or the other Of
them, aud that he had made his brsgs that he had
joined fre company merely to get his brother
members TO aid him in Furnishing his neighbors.-
They also asserted that Meredith, Wyatt and some
/ other man, were continually In or about Rioss
store that they frequently offered insults 10 them,
and that they bad heard Wyatt declare hs esuld
whip every Jew in the row. [Jerusaismi il this
be true, what giant Jack must bell
when the witnesses aud defendant bad conclu-
ded their statements, the Mayor remarked that he
did not believe word that Mersdsth and Wyatt
had said, and should therefore nne Rice f1o and
report the bail bond now held on him 40 forssitsd.
lie Intended, il possible, to put end TO the fusd
which had been in existence several months, II
there was power in the law to do it, and thus prs-
serve the peace Of the neighborhood In which the
parties resided. lie also talked Of holding to ball
the Witnesses OF the defence, but finally dstsrmin-
cd to let them 20 this time.