Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-21
CRIMINAL NOTES.

Fines to the amount of SIS were imposed
in Outings Temple OF Justice yesterday.
The citywoTk-house had upon its regis
ter yesterday the names of % individuals,
of which number eleven were white.
The examination of Fox and Burch, in
the Federal Court, on the charge Of passing
counterfeit money, resulted in their being
committed for trial.
Dan Greer, cOlored, when committed ia
Jail yesterday, on the charge of stealing
hogs, attempted to palm himself of as a
cousin of Turner Greer, now confined in
that establishment on the charge Of muir
der, but the latter wouldn't recognize the
relationship. Turner says his cousins all
raise their own pork.
5Galloway to the front once more. Judge
Baxter dismissed the case last week, when
Galloway's cOlOred lawyer tried TO secure
his release from the city work-house upon
taking the pauper's oath, on the ground
that notice had not been duly served on
the City Recorder, by whose order Gallo
way was in the work house. Yesterday
that official was served with 4 notice warn
ing him that the case would again be taken
before Judge Baxter at noon to-day, on a
writ Of ceritorari and supersedeaS. When
will we hear the last of Galloway? 4
Solomon Louis, entirely ignoring the re-
peated warnings Of this paper with regard
to the offense of regrating the market, and
needing not the experiences of the hun
dreds of others who have attempted that
game, which experiences have been written
up for these columns by young man who
sits on one dictionary and rests his feet on
another, has went and gone and done it.
At least the testimony ELECTED in the pO-
lice court yesterday morning would force
one to that conclusion, his Honor being
sufficiently convinced of the fact as to i'm
pose a fine of S25 upon Mr.. Louis,
They say Joe Price is a Fakir, a bum
mer, a three card monte man. He was be-
fore the police court yesterday on the charge
of being a vagrant, but as the court thought
this would be an excellent opportunity to
rid Nashville of the presence Of a citizen
of whom she has no particular reason to
feel proud, offered to dismiss the case if he
would Jump the town at once. Then Mr..
Price grew facetious and made funny re-
mark to the court about getting his shoes
half soled before starting, whereupon he
was fined $40 for contempt. Yesterday
the form of Mr.. Price may have been dis
tinguished among the twenty members of
the "involuntary street force" engaged in
the Gay street improvement.
That we'll known colored legal luminary,
W. II. Morse, was to have had Caleb Law
renee, cOlored, released from the city work.
house yesterday, but somehow he failed to
make connections. The case was to have
been heard by Judge Baxter, at 3 o'clock,
and Judge Duling was notified TO be on
hand and present his objections to law
rence's release, ON his taking the paupers
oath; but, when he went to the Circuit
Court room, at the hour indicated, he found
the apartment vacant, and the Judge gone
home. Lawrence was committed to the
wOrk-house Nov. Z, on fine of $50, $40 Of
which sum was on the charge of vagrancy,
and the half hundred for having assaulted
Maria Saunders.