Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-14
COsrmTssIONER's COURT.

Monday Mornings E.eVee-A Grand
TurnOUt-Drunks "PhRney" and
PIaIn-AssRults, Provocative Eau-
guage, ct Id est. .... ..
Monday mornings docket at the Police
Judges is ever an interesting salmagundi
of interest. Hasty readers seldom dream
how many broken hearts and heads, how
many shattered hopes and portmonaies,
how many "s9tt black eyes and ginger blue"
broken noses, and how much love, wine
and fighting is contained in the one record
of a police docket. But this is not to the
point, the court begins "Of with your
hats" We land-lubbers and pay atten-
ton while the gintleman from over the
"says" tries ye. .r.E
The first order given by the Police Cap
tain was, Wm. G. Jones we'll we did see
Jones, and Commissioner Sparkling saw
Jones, and Jones paid three dollars for a
combination of drunkenness, assault and
battery; but that matters little now to
Jones. ......s GA.
Enter Ann Rabbitt-Rabbitt, Rabbit =
Oh, how that name sends thrill through
our reportorial pencil 1t is 80 suggestive
of green fields, and sylvan shades, and
hawthorn bushes, and blackberry patches,
and all that sort of thing. By the way,
Anna has just returned from ruralizlng.
Yes she has. Her jolly old soul sought not
the rocks where pillows rolled, but "pita-
patted" for a punch Ia Robinson, did up
with ice and fxin's in the latest agony.
She returned to the city, procured the de-
siderdtlnn, took too much-tOok 30 much
in fact that everything looked lonely
went TO the market place, was 80 much
pleased with its appearance that she retired
on the stall, with her chignon under head
and her proboscis pointed to the stars, which
are the ''poetry of heaven" and concluded
to lodge for the evening, until, horrible dtcta,
a wandering NJ. z. came by and took her,
alas like the many that have gone before.
She went up for 500"
Bill Robinson and Harvey johnson, two
ebon-hued sports, paid S. each, for roplng
a green-horn in a mysterious game OF
"keerds." Ha...
Jos. Blum, ~ L. Jacobus and r. d.
Blum, for a rather mixed affair of assault
and battery, are 10 be continued ia our
next.
w. II. Williams, for selling goods by
sample, had a sample of Nashville law
melted out to him ia the shape of $50 and
cOsts. . a.-.
Maggie Seats, for keeping house of bad
repute, subscribed $50.
Michael Walsh and John TAFT hard
"tater," for inelegant exposition Of their
anatomical proportions, made up purse
Of $40 between them. .#f. .ssa
Mrs. hooper, for abusive and obscene
and exceedingly vulgar talk, calculated to
provoke pause in the peace, gave i've
dollar bill. t
Henry Gibson and Jeemes T. Gheens,
the latter a near relation TO "Brewn Jeansb
were up for assault, etc. The former paid
s., while the latter is continued.
Jas Fitzgerald, for assanlting Mrs. FitE-
gerald, (by far his better halt, or else she's
| e sorry specimen,) continued.
Another gentleman, for "gOing for" an
other gentleman, has his trial again this
morning.
Charles Werner, for peddling butchers
meat during market hours, was LET of with
Il IS contribution. .....
Mike Gleason, a constant reader of
GiedsOn's Literary Companion, got some OF
those Observation-Disclosures stories in his head,
and imagined himself hero combating
with some Quixotic giant, which halluci-
nation cost Mrs. Gleason = severe beating
and Mr.. Gleason $50.
Jno. Dawson, for assauit on Capt Dan.
Casey, published some time aiDce, paid $50.
Capt. FlagleF, same charge, discharged.
A few other minor cases, aud the court
adjourned to meet again, perhaps. r