National Republican., 1874-07-03
POLICE COURT SKETCHES.
Yesterdays DoINGS AT THE CHAM
RER OF JUSTICE.

Yesterdays DOINGS AT THE CHAM
BER OF JUSTICE.
Budd TAYLOR is The name Of peculiar fel-
low who occupiei standing room in the dock
Yesterday. Budd was a bad boy. He was one
of the kind who were continually coming q
truant trick on the schoolmaster by stealing
away at recess, and making for the woods or
swinging poles or cherry trees, or something OF
that sort, and after lettering around all day
would slide in the door of his psternals resi-
deuce and tell pitiful story of how the teacher
kept him after school for Just nothing at all.
That is the kind Of hoy Budd was when an
u-chfn, and that is the kind Of q chap he is
now, only little more so. AS the twig is bent
so the tree inclines, but the twtg wasn't bent
enough in this instance. If 1t had been Budd
Taylor would never have had the imPudenee
and right down small meanness TO intercept
Sophia Ware in dirty, dingy alley and, be-
cause she elevated her stubby little nose and
looked cross-eved at him, knock her down with
q stick Of wood, which, under straitened cir
cumstances, would have done for railroad
sleeper, and then stood by and cursed her
friends because they were anxious to get her
in the house and have her head put together
again with needles and cUurt-plasteT. Boys
who will run away from school and 20 in swim
ming. and steal cherries, and kill innocent cats,
and stab the gentle but uneasy flies with pins
will surely 20 to jail or Congress, aud as Judge
Smell thought the country could stand the jail
best. he sent him there in default of bail or the
payment Of $50 fine.
CATHARIEE ACRERs
lives in a neat little cottage situated III by
street. where the silence is rarely ever dis
turbed by the hustle and EOise of business, and
right near by is the home of Maggie Lee.
Heretofore thev have made it a practice and a
,,Ft . hair huf 1inrr and
ing brick bats and hot water and the like at
each other in the back yard. But yesterday
they unfortunately met in the front yard OF
MagCie's home, (On business relating to some
thing Hbelous that Maggie had said,) and
their bodily temperatures jumped from warm
up to boiling before they had passed three
words on q side; and then Maggie remarked
that she could whip and would whip Catharine
next week some time, if she felt well and didn't
have anv company, and so forth. To which
Catharine replied that she felt just like being
whipped, but she didn't notice any person
around who looked like accomplishing it; at
the same time reaching gently forth she twined
her right hand in the locks OF very mad
woman. whose children were in the front door
yelling "mother, come home," and whose
feelings weren't ready for fighting. While
they we're rolling about the yard trying TO get
each other down, and make her stay there,
Mary Gordon came rushing in like reserve
corps on retreatfng forces, and gathering up
that part of CaIharine's person which was
not already occupied by Maggie, she hurled
her suddenly length-and -end-wise, which closed
the contest amid the deafening yells and shrieks
of the children. who had sent up dance and
CIV of murder the moment the fight began.
AL1QUoR CASE AND A LEGAL POINT.
William P. O'Conner, charged with selling
LIQUOR without license. Mr.. J. R. O'Connel,
counsel for defendant, moved TO quash, on the
ground that the person signing the information
IN. II. Millcr) in the case has no standing in
court: also that the act organizing the Police
Court provides that all informations filed on
behalf of the District of Columbia in said court
shall be filed in the name of the attorney for
the District of Columbia, and no such office
now exists by law, having been abolished by
act of Congress approved June 20, 1874; then
the defendant demands a trial by jury. The
court overruled the motion, remarking that so
far as the act of Congress affected the officers
Of the Police Court, it had no more effect than
o stroke of lightning in Virginia would have
upon any object in the District. Testimony
was taken, and the defendant fined $lO5. An
appeal was taken and bonds given.