The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-11

MAYORS COURT-ALDERMAN fEEBLES
SYSTEMATICALLY MORNING.
phrey Palmer (negro) was arraigned for
stealing mule valued at $3.50. His case
was continued until Friday.
Christopher Kinsley and Charles Kins-
ley, charged with assault and battery, were
discharged. ~ aa@.ts
Lizzie Edwards (one-armed, impudent
negro wench), charged with stealing skirt
and chemise from Jane White, was given
quarters in the Valley Inn for thirty days.
Jim Williams (negro) charged with hav-
ing stolen axe in his possession, was sent
on. EszNe.He E"
John Robinson (negro), charged with
having stolen chickens in his possession,
was sent on.
Mary Brown and Dolly Many (negroes)
were fined one dollar each for fighting.
Johanna Sullivan was arraigned for abu-
sing Ella Lyons, and Bridget Lyons was
arraigned for assaulting and beating Jo-
hanna Sullivan. Some of the neighbors
said they were very much disturbed by
Mrs. Lyons. Mrs. Lyons said "That's
not so, sir !; On shure and they're batin and
disturbin o. me all the time. And this man
and his wife, and his five childers, and his
daughters, and he too, and all iv 'em, too,
sir, makes business of batin and abusin
me and my childers, and sometimes they
does awful"
Yere Honor" rejoined the man, " that
woman all the time bes saying scandalizin
the neighborhood, sir and shure am a
paceable man and doesn't be maxim fuss at
all, SIR" E@
"Oh, yere Honor, an never heard sich
scandalizin lies as those in me life, sir.
Shoot up there now, and don't be tellin
sich stories here.' /"
Alderman /" Here, now that will do.
Go home and, Mrs. Lyons, don't be abusing
this man." e. r.z
Mrs. L. ''That's so, sir; but he mustn't
be abusin' me, or else my tongue won
kana still ;, Ere,lnt 0ra1eS-.
Elizabeth Hobson, charged with stealing
ten dollars from Albert Tucker, was
discharged.
Charles Britton, charged with striking
Mary Sampson in the market, was ar
raigned. Mary said she bought something
from Britton in the market, and he gave
her bad note. She know'd he knew he was
dcin' wrong, becase his continent displayed
so forcibly. When she gave him de money
back he gave her good money, and at the
same time slapped her over. He was fined
two dollars and fifty cents. Britton refused
to pay the fine, and was fined twenty dol
lars for contempt. This was RENTED upon
the young mans apologizing. ;,
James Jones, charged with being drunk
and disorderly and resisting the police, was
fined ten dollars, and required to give Sc
curity.
Joseph Thomas (negro) was arraigned for
unlawfully assaulting and abusing jane
Jarret. AS the case was called, some dozen
or more ebos stepped up, and, ranging
themselves in semi circle around the ac-
cused party and the witnesses, gazed on in
anxious silence, their black and woolly
heads presenting pretty much the appear
ance of the bottom range Of pile Of black
thirty-two- FOUNDER solid shot. Just within
this dark circle were several ebony females.
Two of these held in their arms. infantlle
picaninnies, who occasionally chirped their
appreciation of the scene. .1sz
Jane Barrett, the principal witness, came
up, bearing herself as true Amazon, with
broken broomstick, and rearing back,
threw her arms out, and exclaimed /" Jo-
sepn lnomaS came uoHu ~ NY Ioon yes-
terday and hallooed out, he did, "Ooooh,
yes, you - ole hag; 0ooh, yes, you sas
your Miss Martha Ann, did you 2 Oooh,
yes, you. You don'tknow how to behave
yourself, you - black ole hag, YOU" After
uttering these complimentary phrases, and
several others, he gave Jane to understand
that he was gwine TO hit her, and, according
to James account, he gave her Lick on
her head with the broomstick, Of which she
held the remnant. Other witnesses, how
ever, swore that Jane was "continerly
raisin INSTRUMENT" and was a nuisance
to the neighborhood. Jane was fined two
dollars, as well as John, and the whole
| party cleared the courtroom.
The case of Severn Robinson (negro,
charged with swindling an old darky out o
dollar with the California string-game
| was continued until to-day.