Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-02-19
CLEVELAND, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10. 1863
LOCAL MATTERS.
[FrOm Last EVENINGS Edition.

Police CoURT.-A few unimportant
cases were all that came up before the Court
this morning. A case of uninteresting in
toxicatiOn, Insignificant petit larceny, and
contemplate assault and battery, comprised
the docket. We have concluded net to pub
lish such cases. We can't afford to advertise
man for nothing but a senseless drunk,
stealing peck of coal, or blacking some
body's eye. The laws of compensation are
not satisfied. Stupid virtue may be endured,
but dull vice is snbjeet only for contempt
At the present high prices of paper and
printing material, the increased expense of
living, taxes, &C., we have determined to ad-
vertise no rogues or seoundreIs whose rogue
~ and seoundreIism do not furnish an equiv
aIent in the items way. If their transactions
don't come up to the commercial standard we
shall not publish them, unless they pay US
ten cents line in advance There are in
this city set of petty thieves, idiotic sots
and pitiful combatives, who have been gra-
tuitOusly advertised by the press for years,
and never rendered the slightest equivalent
HencefoTth they must pay.
We have drawn up the following scale of
prices as standard or guage in the elabora-
tiOn of police items, which we submit tr our
cOtemporaries:
LARCENY. larceny, which affords a
single interesting feature, entities the thief
to having his name given. Grand larceny
renders biography of the thief justi6able,
and if burglary is added to it, we will cheer
fully append any little incidents that have
occurred in his family, such as a brotbershot
while breaking into honse, an uncle hung
for numbering man that he had robbed, &C.
ISTouoATIoE.-The more demonstratively
aud cOmbatively drunk man gets the more
space viii we give him in our police report.
Should he demOlish grocery, we viii give
his middle name in full. Should he break
the head of the grocery keeper, knock down
half dozen policemen, and destroy the
quiet and repOse Of the entire neighborhood,
he is welcome to draw upon us for four
squares. "Dead drunk" can't have line.
ASSAULT AND BATTERY.-Barely shaking
fist under mans nose merits no attention,
and our police reporter is required not to mo-
tice it, unless it is his own nose, in which
case he is to knock the assauiter down, plead
guilty, pay his fine, and be charged dollar
at the counting room for haYing his name
suppressed. If the reporter gets licked, he
win be Immediately discharged. Assaults
with intent to kill frequently Justify biog-
raphies of the parties of the first and second
part, (the man who intended to kill, and the
man who didn't intend to let him, J as well as
a history of the circumstances which led to
the assault. Short sketches of the police
men who made the arrest are proper whore
resistance is made.
MURDER.-The reporter is unlimited in his
space whom he gets hold of a. frst-class mur-
der. We don't know but that a knowledge of
tL;s -Aay hara ~n>--osV OIIOOgI asV sV4lIN ~
murder, as cunning dodge to get great
quantity of newspaper advertising, gratis.
We cannot always prevent impositiOns.
AcKNowLEDGEMENT.-W take this op-